Philipp Riedesel zu Camberg
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Philipp Riedesel zu Camberg (* around 1550; † March 13, 1598 ) was Grand Bailli of the Order of St. John from 1587 to 1594 and Grand Prior of Germany from 1594 to 1598. He also presided over some of the members of the Order of St. John. In 1594 he was also Imperial General of the Danube Fleet.
Life and career
Philipp Riedesel zu Camberg was born around 1550 as the son of Henrich Riedesel zu Camberg and Catherine von Sebolt. He came from a noble family in Hesse, which is divided into several branches. The narrative coat of arms of the Riedesel shows a black donkey with green stuff ( Ried ) in its mouth on a golden background.
On November 13, 1563 he entered the Order of St. John in Malta and rose quickly. From 1571 to 1583 he was commander in Frankfurt am Main (based in Rüdigheim ), from 1571 to 1574 commander in the Kommenden Hohenrain and Reiden (both Switzerland). From 1577 to 1587 was Kommendator in Kleinerdlingen , 1578 Kommendator in Villingen . From 1579 he held the office of receptor in Upper Germany. On February 18, 1587 he was appointed titular prior of Hungary, and on March 20, 1587 he was appointed Grand Bailli. In addition he received the commander of the Order of St. John in Rottweil as well as the commander of Affaltrach and Schwäbisch Hall , and de Kommenden Hemmendorf (near Rottenburg am Neckar ) and Rexingen (near Horb), in 1593 he became a member of the imperial court war council , and in 1594 he was appointed by Archduke Matthias in the name of Emperor Rudolf II as general of the imperial Danube fleet in the great Turkish war . During the siege of Raab, however, he lost most of his fleet. On May 25, 1594, he was appointed Grand Prior of the Johanniter of Germany, and as lord of the Heitersheim rulership, he was also Prince of the Empire. As Grand Prior, he was also commander of the Coming Bubikon . He died on March 13, 1598 and was buried in the now-defunct St. John's Church in Freiburg im Breisgau.
literature
- Robert L. Dauber: Johanniter-Maltese knight under imperial flags. Herbert Weishaupt Verlag, Gnas, 2007 ISBN 978-3-7059-0261-9
- Georg Helwich : Genealogia of the birth lines of the old noble family of the Riedesel from Camburg. Frankfurt, 1631, p. 11. ( Online )
- Johann Maximilian Humbracht, Georg Helwich, Georg F. von Greifenclau zu Vollraths: The highest adornment of Teutsch-Land, and the excellence of the Teutsche nobility, presented in the Reichs-Freyen Rhenish knights, also out of the same descended and adjoining generations, so sworn to high stiffers , or 150 years ago Praiseworthy Knights were incorporated, Stamm-Taffeln and Wapen. Franckfurt am Mayn, 1707, p. 114 online at the MDZ
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 7, Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1867, pages 500–502. ( Digitized version )
- Walter G. Rödel: The German (grand) priors. In: Bernard Andenmatten (arrangement), Petra Zimmer and Patrick Braun (ed.): Helvetia Sacra, 4th department, volume 7, part 1 Die Johanniter , pp. 51–76, Schwabe Verlag, Basel, 2006, p. 66 .
- Vladimir von Schnurbein: The efforts of the House of Habsburg to settle knight orders when building the military border. Working Group Military and Society in the Early Modern Age, November 2008, pp. 36–52.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Winfried Hecht: On the emigration from Rottweil in the late Reichsstadt to the southeast. In: Yearbook for German and Eastern European Folklore, Volume 56, 2015, p. 179 online in the Google book search
- ↑ Appointment of Grand Prior Philipp Riedesel von Camberg by Archduke Matthias in the name of Emperor Rudolf II as general in the Turkish War
- ↑ s. Blog by Prof. Heinz A. Linner The Danube Flotilla in the 17th century ; accessed on February 16, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Riedesel zu Camberg, Philipp |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Grand Prior of the German Order of St. John |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 16th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 1598 |