Metz of Gemmingen († 1485)

Metz von Gemmingen († 1485 ) was an early member of the tribe A (Guttenberg) of the barons of Gemmingen . Born into a branch of the family wealthy in the Kraichgau at that time , she came to further property in the Wetterau through her marriage to the Friedberg burgrave Eberhard Wais von Fauerbach . As a wealthy aristocratic widow, she was able to set up several extensive foundations and in 1470, together with her brother Hans, received the town of Eppingen as a pledge from the margraves of Baden.

Life

Metz (also Metze , Metza , Mezza ) was a daughter of Dietrich von Gemmingen († 1414) from his second marriage to Els von Frankenstein in 1391. She married Eberhard Wais von Fauerbach, the Friedberg burgrave. In 1449 she accompanied her husband in the occupation of the Rockenberg and Oppershofen estates of the Lords of Eppstein , where she fell from her horse due to the clumsiness of a servant. In 1462 she was widowed and handed over the property in Rockenberg and Oppershofen to the pastor and altarist of the parish church in Friedberg Castle . After her husband's death, she probably lived in Gemmingen , where she set up a large foundation to commemorate her husband and deceased members of her family. She and her brother Hans der Reiche († 1490) received the town of Eppingen as a pledge from the Margraves of Baden in 1470 , where the siblings donated the chapel on Ottilienberg in 1473 . In 1483 there were disputes between her and Albrecht Wais von Fauerbach, because she had sold Sturmfels Castle and a farm in Carben from Wais's property . The sale was canceled by Count Palatine Philipp . She died in 1485 and was buried in Eppingen.

literature

• Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family Chronicle of the Barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, pp. 45–47.