Konrad von Gemmingen

Konrad von Gemmingen († 1463 ) was an early representative of the barons of Gemmingen . He was Vogt of the Oberamt Bretten and Ganerbe in Aries . His brothers Diether V. and Hans der Reiche founded the Steinegg and Guttenberg lines that still exist today within the family. The family line founded by Konrad died out again in the male line with his sons.

Life

Grave slab for Konrad von Gemmingen († 1463) and his son Dieter (Dietrich) in Gemmingen

He was a son of Dietrich von Gemmingen († 1414) and Els von Sachsenheim († around 1389). He was married to Margaret of Weingarten, from her first marriage to Reinhard Hofwarth of Kirchheim a quarter of ganerbschaft of rams brought into the marriage. In 1415 he and his brother received the father's fief . In 1422 he was with other family members among the helpers of Bishop Raban von Speyer against the city of Speyer. In 1425 he concluded a division agreement with his brother Hans and his nephew Diether . In contracts he is mentioned from 1428 to 1455. In 1439 he arbitrated the feud between his nephew Dieter and the Count of Württemberg, for which he himself was installed in the nephew's Heimsheim fiefdom, which he returned to the nephew the following year. In 1440, as Vogt in Bretten, he sealed the handover of Weinsberg to the Palatinate. In 1444 he received Damme as a fief.

family

Konrad was married to Margarethe von Weingarten († 1464). Both are buried in Gemmingen .

Progeny:

• Wendel († 1468)
• Dietrich († 1482), left two daughters

literature

• Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family Chronicle of the Barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, p. 47f., 312.