Meinhard von Schönberg

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Tomb in the parish church of St. Peter, Bacharach

Meinhard von Schönberg (born April 26, 1530 , † April 22, 1596 at Schönburg Castle ) was an Electoral Palatinate field marshal and bailiff of Bacharach .

family

Meinhard, born on April 26, 1530, was one of six children from the second marriage of Friedrich von Schönburg auf Wesel and Elisabeth von Langeln. The seat of the family was the Schönburg in neighboring Oberwesel .

He was married to Dorothea Riedesel zu Bellersheim († March 25, 1610). The couple had the following children:

  • Heinrich Dieter († 1622), bailiff of Bacharach, governor of Mannheim, burgrave of Starkenburg, ⚭ Elisabeth Ketteler von Nesselrode
  • Johann Friedrich (around 1578–1605), killed in Hungary
  • Georg Wolff († 1618)
  • Hans Meinhard von Schönberg (1582–1616)
  • Johann Otto († 1659), bailiff of Bacharach inherited Schönburg Palace in 1596, ⚭ Juliane Eleonore von Gleißenthal
  • Anna Dorothea Elisabeth († 1609), ⚭ Hans Velten von Wildberg, bailiff of Hildesheim; ⚭ 1603 Johann Schweickard von Sickingen zu Ebernburg

Life

He fought in 1552 in the campaign for Emperor Charles V in Metz and Philip II in 1557 in St. Quentin . Although he was a Protestant, he made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem with Jakob Wurmser and Count Albrecht von Löwenstein in 1561 , where he was made Knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher . After his return he became Vogt of Heidelberg . He then fought as a cavalry captain of the Palatinate in the army of Reichard von Pfalz-Simmern in Hungary and in 1568 as court marshal of the Palatinate. In 1569 he led a contingent of 28 Fähnlein riders and 22 Fähnlein Landsknechten to France as a marshal from Zweibrücken . There he fought with his cousins ​​Dietrich (Dietz) and Kasper in the Montecontur . After his return he became a bailiff in Bacharach. In 1576 he led electoral Palatinate troops under Johann Kasimir von Pfalz-Simmern to support the Huguenots in the Fifth Huguenot War in France.

He died on April 22, 1596 at Schönburg Castle in Oberwesel . His tombstone is in St. Peter in Bacharach. The tuff stone epitaph of Meinhard von Schönberg auf Wesel frames a fitting medallion with the coat of arms of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher.

literature

  • H. Malten: Latest world studies. Brönner, Frankfurt am Main 1844, volume 3, p. 304. ( digitized version )
  • Friedrich Bülau: Secret stories and enigmatic people. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1850, Volume 2, pp. 110, 112. ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Susanne Kern: The inscriptions of the Protestant parish church of St. Peter in Bacharach. (PDF; 680 kB), Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, 2008, p. 22 (A)
  2. ^ Wilhelm Arnold Günther : Codex diplomaticus Rheno-Mosellanus. Documents of the XVI. XVII. and XVIII. Century. Volume 5, p. 69. digitized
  3. ↑ Inscriptions from St. Peter, p. 12  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.regionalgeschichte.net  
  4. ↑ Susanne Kern: The inscriptions of the Protestant parish church St. Peter in Bacharach (PDF; 680 kB), Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, 2008, page 11
personal data
SURNAME Schönberg, Meinhard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meinhard vom Schomberg; Schönberg, Meinhard Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Field Marshal of the Electorate of the Palatinate and bailiff of Bacharach
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1530
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1596
Place of death Schönburg Castle