Konrad Rehlinger the Elder

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Konrad Rehlinger , also Konrad Rehlinger the Elder Ä., (* 1470 in Augsburg ; † January 22, 1553 or 1556 ibid) was a German patrician and wholesale merchant.

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Origin and relationship

The widely ramified Rehlinger family belonged to the oldest Augsburg patriciate, the seven "old families" . Since the 14th century it has maintained its seat in the city government. Konrad Rehlinger was the youngest child and the only son of the couple Markus or Marx (* 1429; † 1476 or 1496) and Anna Rehlinger, née Ehe (1436–1500). Markus Rehlinger's parents were Konrad Rehlinger (1398–1472) and his wife Dorothea, née Wilprecht (1405–1445). Anna Ehe came from the marriage of Thomas (born August 25, 1407 in Augsburg; † May 27, 1486 ibid) and Ursula Früh, née Erdwein (1408–1481). At the time of Konrad Rehlinger's birth, his four older sisters Elisabeth, Anna, Felicitas and Afra were already living in his parents' household.

Konrad's eldest sister Elisabeth was born in Augsburg around 1455/58. She married Hans Honold (* 1438 in Augsburg), to whom she had seven children: Anna (* 1470/72), Sebastian (1473–1546), Hans (* 1475 in Augsburg; † 1540 ibid), Sabina (* 1482; † January 27, 1514), Lukas (* 1485), Peter (* 1491; † January 31, 1537) and Magdalena (* 1494; † May 23, 1559). The death dates of Elisabeth and Hans Honold, as well as some of their children, are not known. Anna Honold (1520–1552), a daughter of Peter Honold, was married to Christoph Welser (1517–1593), a son of Bartholomäus V. Welser (1484–1561).

The second oldest Anna Rehlinger (1459-1495) was married to Alexius Ridler (* 1453; † after 1499/1500). Konrad's third sister Felicitas (* 1462) married Thomas Grander (* 1459; † February 27, 1500). Both sisters had no offspring that reached adulthood.

The youngest sister Afra Rehlinger (* 1467; † June 13, 1536) married Andreas Grander (1460–1531), the younger brother of her brother-in-law Thomas Grander. Afra and Andreas Grander were the parents of three daughters:

  • Anna Grander (* 1485 in Augsburg; † March 9, 1544 ibid) was married to Andreas Rehm (* 1479 in Augsburg; † June 14, 1537 ibid). Both became the parents of five daughters and four sons, all of whom their parents survived.
  • Felicitas Grander (1493–1537) became the wife of Bartholomäus V. Welser (1484–1561). The Welsers had 12 children, including Bartholomäus VI. Welser (1512–1546) and Christoph Welser (1517–1593).
  • Magdalena Grander (* 1494; † December 16, 1571) married Christoph I. Pfister (* 1492 in Augsburg; † May 10, 1560). Their only child was Christoph II. Pfister, born in 1518, who married Regina Mann, born in 1520. The death dates of the couple Christoph II. And Regina Pfister are not known.

Marriages and children

On January 11 or November 11, 1503 Konrad Rehlinger married his first wife Barbara Walther (* December 4, 1475 in Augsburg; † April 6, 1515 ibid), daughter of Hans Walther (1447–1511) and his wife Margaretha, née Langenmantel (1450-1487). There were eight children from this marriage. The painter Bernhard Strigel from Memmingen created the group portrait of Konrad Rehlinger the Elder and his children in 1517 .

Konrad Rehlinger the Elder Ä. and his children (1517), by Bernhard Strigel (Alte Pinakothek, Munich)
  • Marx (Markus) Rehlinger (1505–1532), married to Apollonia Pfister (* 1510; † March 16, 1570) since February 27, 1526, with whom he had two daughters.
  • Konrad Rehlinger the Younger (1507–1552) married Barbara Wieland. The couple had three children (Georg, Magdalena and Konrad). Konrad the Younger was supposed to continue his father's trading company together with his brother Hieronymus, but died before him.
  • Sabina Rehlinger (1508–1532) was married to Ulrich Welser (born September 22, 1497 in Augsburg; † December 30, 1575 ibid) on May 13, 1527. Both are the parents of Sabina Welser (* 1532; † December 1, 1598 in Memmingen).
  • Veronika Rehlinger (1509–1579) married Leonhard Imhof on September 22, 1528.
  • Magdalena Rehlinger (* 1510 in Augsburg; † 1545 or 13 May 1547 there) married Christoph von Stetten on 22 April 1532 (* 20 May 1506 in Augsburg; † 22 July 1556 there).
  • Hieronymus Rehlinger the Elder (* 1511; † March 10, 1581) was councilor in Augsburg. On May 16, 1536, he married Katharina (Apollonia) Haintzel (* 1515; † June 25, 1562), with whom he had the following six children: Marx, Wilhelm, Hieronymus the Younger (* 1538; † March 29, 1581), Markus (* 1539 in Augsburg; † March 28, 1601), David (* 1540; † April 27, 1571) and Konrad (* 1544; † December 24, 1570). By marrying the daughter of the wealthy businessman Peter Haintzel (born January 19, 1475 - March 29, 1524) from the Augsburg Bartholomäus-Welser Society , Hieronymus the Elder was able to increase his fortune considerably. He conducted his business dealings primarily with companies and merchants from Antwerp , Venice , Frankfurt and Gdansk . In addition, Jerome the Elder maintained business relationships with France. He invested much of his money in real estate. After the death of his father, he continued his business.
  • Apollonia Rehlinger (* 1511/15 in Augsburg; † December 31, 1594 ibid) was married to Christoph Manlich (* 1512 in Augsburg; † March 27, 1574 ibid) on May 16, 1536.
  • David Rehlinger (1515–1548) married Barbara Manlich on October 20, 1544 (* 1520; † October 1, 1586 in Augsburg).

On February 18, 1526 Konrad Rehlinger married his second wife Sibylla Fugger , née Artzt (1480–1546), widow of his long-term business partner and friend Jakob Fugger (1459–1525). This marriage remained childless. It is not certain whether Konrad Rehlinger had a sexual relationship with his future wife during Jakob Fugger's lifetime. Possibly these allegations were only defamations by Raymund Fugger , who in 1526 led a bitter inheritance dispute with Sibylla Fugger.

Life

In 1503 the three merchants Konrad Rehlinger, Hans Honold and Endress Grander († 1531) founded a trading company that was called Granders and had its main office in Venice, from where Grander, Honold and Rehlinger with spices, damask , brocade , and metals and woolen fabrics.

The trading company participated in the Reichenstein gold mining ( Bergreichenstein and Unterreichenstein ) and the Saxon mining, little is known about other individual businesses. As early as 1508, Konrad Rehlinger rented the Fondaco dei Tedeschi , the branch of German merchants in Venice, as a partner in the Endress Grander trade association . In 1520, Rehlinger bought a papal annuity for his four underage sons, which cost 1,000 ducats and was paid 14 percent from the Tolfa ala mines . Associated with this was the transfer of the title "Cavaliere de S. Pietro" .

After the last contract of the trading company expired in 1530 and Endress Grander died the following year, Konrad Rehlinger was able to set up his own trading company with a branch in Antwerp as a result of his enormous financial business profits. In 1535 he took over a large part of Kuxen at the Idrian mercury and cinnabar mining .

Konrad Rehlinger the Elder was a strictly imperial-minded merchant who supported Emperor Maximilian I and King Ferdinand I with loans. Like many of his contemporaries, since the introduction of the Reformation he found himself in a conflict of conscience between his Lutheran convictions and his continued loyalty to the emperor.

From 1521 to 1522 Rehlinger officiated as sealer of the Augsburg city administration. In the years from 1526 to 1538 he held the office of the city's collector. After the end of the Schmalkaldic War in 1546/47 and the repeal of the Augsburg guild constitution, Konrad Rehlinger was appointed to one of the five secret councilors of the "new regiment" in 1548 . There are various records about the date of his death, either he died on January 22, 1553 or in 1556 in Augsburg. His trading company was taken over by his son Hieronymus Rehlinger (1511–1581).

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SURNAME Rehlinger, Konrad the Elder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rehlinger, Konrad; Rehlinger, Konrad the Elder Ä.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German patrician and merchant
DATE OF BIRTH 1470
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1553 or January 22, 1556
Place of death augsburg