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