Philipp von Gemmingen, called Grünewald

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Philipp von Gemmingen, called Grünewald († around 1520, † 1544 or 1549) was an imperial knight with property and rights in Gemmingen . He was the last male descendant of the Velscher line of the Barons of Gemmingen and was considered a wonderful adventurer.

Life

He came from the Gemmingen family line of Velscher and was a son of Wilhelm von Gemmingen († 1523) and Barbara von Rinderbach († 1561). The father was shot at Landstuhl at a relatively young age in 1523, and the mother then married the local gentleman Vollmar Lämlin from Horkheim . After the early death of his uncle Eberhard († around 1532), his uncle Hans († 1552 ) claimed fiefdoms for himself and the then underage Philipp Eberhard . Since Hans had no male descendants, the fiefs, which included a "house" in Gemmingen and other estates, were given to Philip in 1536 alone. In the context of the previous enfeoffments, the “house” is probably one of the Gemming castles, most likely the lower castle built by the Velschers and still in existence today .

He got his nickname Grünewald because he had once impulsively left his studies without a coat, hat or rifle and stated that he wanted to “go through the green forest”. Reinhard the Scholar describes him as a strange adventurer, about whom many Eulenspiegel antics would have been told. The Gemminger pastor David Pistorius , who started a family chronicle around 1600, reports that Philipp led a feud against the Count of Hohenlohe and the Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and, together with Wolf Oeffner, who was involved in many feuds, caused a lot of damage to his opponents .

There are different details about the year of his death. He is said to have died either in 1544 among the foot soldiers of the imperial troops or in 1549. He was married to Ursula Leiningerin von Leinburg, who remarried to Wilhelm VIII von Angelach-Angelach zu Streichenberg in 1550 . Philip's marriage remained childless, and with him the hope of the Velscher's offspring died out . His aged uncle Hans, who died soon after him, handed over the Württemberg fiefs, which the family line had had, to Wolf von Gemmingen († 1555) from the Gemmingen-Guttenberg line in 1551 .

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SURNAME Gemmingen, Philipp von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Philipp von Gemmingen, called Grünewald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Imperial knight with property in Gemmingen
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1544 or 1549