Konrad X. Landschad von Steinach

Epitaph of the couple (bronze coat of arms broken), Neustadt collegiate church , vestibule

Konrad X. Landschad von Steinach († February 14, 1417 , buried in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ) came from the medieval aristocratic family of the Landschad von Steinach , which had its ancestral seat in Steinach am Neckar.

family

Konrad the X. was the son of Konrad IX. († 1377), Palatine vicarage in Neustadt an der Haardt , with his second wife Margarethe von Hirschhorn . Konrad X. was married to Else von Fleckenstein († 1413), with whom he had no male offspring. His inheritance fell to his daughters. The daughter Elisabeth married Schweikhardt VII. Von Sickingen († 1417), chief steward of King Ruprecht and grandfather of Schweickhardt VIII. Von Sickingen († 1505), who was the father of the famous Franz von Sickingen .

Life

Konrad the X. was highly regarded by the Count Palatine and made financial transactions with him. By Ruprecht von der Pfalz , German king from 1400 to 1410, Konrad was appointed Vogt of Trifels and a royal councilor. In the oldest statutes of the Society with the Donkey from 1414, he appears as one of the sealers with the name Contz Landschad .

According to a document dated December 29, 1414, Konrad donated a benefice for the Marien Altar in the Marien Chapel in Frauenweiler , which has belonged to Wiesloch since 1526 . During the Reformation the church and its benefices went under.

In their will of June 29, 1404, the couple bequeathed 300 guilders to Neustadt Abbey . Konrad's parents were also buried in the church.

literature

Hans Dieter Henschel: Konrad Landschad von Steinach donated a benefice for the Marien Altar in the Marien Chapel in Frauenweiler in 1414 . In: Kraichgau. Contributions to landscape and local research , volume 17, 2002, pp. 107–115.
Silke Burkhardt: Famous grave monuments in the Neustadt collegiate church , Historischer Verein der Pfalz , Neustadt district group, 1984, p. 50

Individual evidence

^ Johann Evang Kirnbauer von Erzstätt: The coats of arms of the nobility in Lower Austria , part 2, volume 26 of: Johann Siebmacher's great coat of arms book , new edition, Verlag Bauer & Raspe, 1983, p. 140; (Detail scan)

personal data
SURNAME	Konrad X. Landschad von Steinach
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH	14th Century
DATE OF DEATH	February 14, 1417

[1] Johann Evang Kirnbauer von Erzstätt: The coats of arms of the nobility in Lower Austria , part 2, volume 26 of: Johann Siebmacher's great coat of arms book , new edition, Verlag Bauer & Raspe, 1983, p. 140; (Detail scan)