Konrad von Degenfeld

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Konrad von Degenfeld († October 10, 1600 in Geradstetten ) was the landlord of Eybach . Its unhappy end found its way into the folk song collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn under the title Die Nachtwandler .

Life

He was a son of the Stuttgart court master Christoph von Degenfeld (1535–1604) and Barbara von Stammheim. While his brother Johann Christoph I von Degenfeld (1563–1613) expanded the second family seat in Neuhaus , which his father had acquired , Konrad stayed at the previous seat in Eybach. With the brothers, the family split into the Degenfeld-Neuhaus and Degenfeld-Eybach lines , the later Degenfeld-Schonburg line . He married Margarethe von Zyllnhardt, through whose inheritance the Degenfeld family came into possession of the Dürnau manor .

Ernst August Sörgel reports in detail about its end in his General Chronicle . As a result, Konrad had been drinking in Geradstetten with the Schorndorfer Obervogt Jakob von Validlingen. As a result of a war injury, VALLINGEN had the habit of becoming unpredictable in drink and affect. Knowing full well about this ailment, Validlingen took a bedroom alone and did not take a sword there either. Later that night, however, young Degenfeld moved into the same bedroom and at night startled his roommate, sleepwalking. The latter believed he was seeing a ghost, so he grabbed Degenfeld's side gun and knocked him down with it. Validlingen was beheaded four days after the act on personal order from Duke Friedrich I on the market square in Waiblingen .

The act found its way into numerous chronicles and was described in lyrical form under the title Die Nachtwandler in the folk song collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn .

An epitaph for Conrad von Degenfeld was once located in the Catholic parish church of the Assumption of Mary in Eybach.

family

The marriage with Margarethe von Zyllnhardt , the daughter of Wolff von Zyllnhardt zu Dürnau, had four sons, three of whom reached adulthood.

  • Konrad († before 1608)
  • Christoph Wilhelm († 1624)
  • Christoph Wolfgang († 1631)
  • Christoph Martin (1599-1653)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ So in most chronicles. On the other hand, on the epitaph in Eybach, October 9 is mentioned as the day of death.
  2. ↑ Ernst August Sörgel : General Chronicle , Gera 1804, p. 464/465.
  3. ↑ Patriotic Archives for Germany , Vol. 9, Mannheim and Leipzig 1788, p. 294/95.
  4. ↑ Description of the Oberamt Schorndorf , Stuttgart 1851, p. 137.
  5. ↑ http://www.inschriften.net/landkreis-goeppingen/inschrift/nr/di041-0367.html#content
personal data
SURNAME Degenfeld, Konrad von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mr. zu Eybach
DATE OF BIRTH after 1535
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1600
Place of death Geradstetten