Otto von Gemmingen (1475–1558)

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Otto von Gemmingen (* 1475 ; † 1558 ), also Otto the Younger and Ott , was Obermarschall of Duke Ulrich of Württemberg and Oberhofmeister of the Duchess, Obervogt of Baden in Ettlingen and Rittmeister in Hungary.

Life

He was the older son of Bernhard von Gemmingen and Anna Truchsessin von Buchishausen from the Steinegg line of the barons of Gemmingen . To distinguish himself from his uncle Otto of the same name († 1517), from whose daughters he and his brother Dietrich VIII acquired property in the Enz district, he is also called Otto the Younger or Ott . In 1519 Otto and Dietrich divided their property, Otto got Heimsheim and Mühlhausen , while Dietrich got Steinegg and Tiefenbronn .

He entered the clergy as a canon at St. Alban's in Mainz at a young age , but then gave up his canon and embarked on a military career. Emperor Charles V made him a knight of the empire in 1508 . In 1513 he was at the meeting of the knighthood in Göppingen.

By 1516 at the latest, he was part of the retinue of Duke Ulrich of Württemberg , whom he accompanied into exile in Mömpelgard , where Otto kept the accounts of the ducal household. In 1519 he assisted Ulrich in the defense of Hohenasperg , later he opened Ulrich Heimsheim as a starting point for his failed recapture of his territories. In 1523 there was a falling out between Otto and Ulrich, whereupon Otto entered Baden services. In 1529 he was Vogt in Ettlingen and, as Rittmeister, became captain of the Baden auxiliary troops that supported Ferdinand I in Hungary in the fight against the Turks.

There are different reports about Otto's further work after the Treaty of Kaaden and Duke Ulrich's return in 1534. In any case, he remained an Old Believer during the Reformation and also opposed the Württemberg state reformation of 1534 in Heinsheim.According to the family chronicler Stocker , he is said to have worked as the Duke's Obermarschall and Oberhofmeister of the Duchess, according to other sources, not least because of questions of faith to a lifelong enmity between Otto and Duke Ulrich, who imprisoned Otto in 1542 with 13 months imprisonment on the Hohenneuffen .

His tomb in the church of St. Maria Magdalena in Tiefenbronn is one of the most important tombs of that church.

family

He was married to Maria Güß von Güßenberg. He is the progenitor of the 2nd branch ( Mühlhausen ) of Gemmingen-Steinegg , which his son Hans Dietrich continued.

Progeny:

  • Hans Jakob (1512–1543), Canon in Speyer, buried there
  • Hans Georg (1515–1535), died as an imperial soldier and was buried near Marseille
  • Hans Dietrich (1516–1566) ⚭ Magdalena Mundpratt von Spiegelberg († 1566)
  • Hans Christoph († 1537), also died in military service in France
  • Hans Otto (* 1519), died young
  • Agnes ⚭ Balthasar von giltlingen († 1563), the couple's grave monument in the parish church of Berneck
  • Hugo Dietrich

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ So in Stocker 1895. Wißgrill / Odelga 1797, however, refer to him as the prince-bishop of Würzburg court master, which is rather unlikely due to his long service for Württemberg and Baden.
  2. ↑ So in Stocker 1895 and in the Heimatbuch Tiefenbronn 1990. Wißgrill / Odelga 1797 write against it that he was Vogt in Eltingen.
  3. ↑ Stocker 1895, p. 338.
  4. ↑ Lindner 1990, p. 39.
  5. ↑ Only in Wißgrill / Odelga 1797, not in Stocker 1895.

literature

  • Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family chronicle of the barons of Gemmingen. Heidelberg 1895, pp. 338/339.
  • Franz Karl Wißgrill, Karl von Odelga: scene of the rural Lower Austrian nobility. Volume 3, Vienna 1797, p. 245 ( Google Books )
  • Hubert Lindner: The book of Tiefenbronn with its districts Lehningen, Mühlhausen and Tiefenbronn. Tiefenbronn 1990.
personal data
SURNAME Gemmingen, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gemmingen, Otto the Younger from; Gemmingen, Ott from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Württemberg Obermarschall and Oberhofmeister, Obervogt Baden in Ettlingen
DATE OF BIRTH 1475
DATE OF DEATH 1558