Philipp von Gemmingen (1601–1638)

Philipp von Gemmingen (* 1601 in Rappenau ; † 1638 ) was the landlord in Rappenau and Treschklingen . He fought on the Protestant side at the beginning of the Thirty Years War , which is why his fiefs were withdrawn from the emperor in 1630 .

Life

He was the eldest son of Eberhard von Gemmingen and Anna Katharina von Rodenstein and was born soon after they moved into the moated castle Rappenau . His tutor was the future court preacher in Stuttgart, Johann Valentin Andreae . After the early death of his parents in 1611, he and his two brothers Melchior-Reinhard and Hans Sigmund were initially under the tutelage of their uncle Hans Wilhelm von Gemmingen , after whose death in 1615 the father's second brother, Reinhard "the scholar" from Gemmingen , was the guardian.

He studied in Tübingen and in the Thirty Years' War, which had begun in 1619, fell at the hands of recruits near Amberg , through whom he came to the Protestant Union Army as an ensign . In 1621 he fought against Bavarian troops under Ernst von Mansfeld near Waidhaus . In the course of 1621 his release was approved so that he could return to Rappenau, where he married Ursula Barbara von Warnstädt in 1622. He took up his residence in Treschklingen. In 1626 he received the fiefdom letter from Duke Johann Friedrich of Württemberg about the family property.

In 1630 the emperor withdrew the Rappenau fief from him because he had supported the Protestant side at the beginning of the war. When protests and petitions remained ineffective, Philipp entered the service of Prince Bernhard von Weimar and marched with his army against Bavarian-Austrian and Spanish troops on the Upper Rhine, where he fell in 1638 at the age of 37.

His wife and their son Eberhard first fled to Fürfeld and later to Menzingen . Son Eberhard soon came into the care of French Field Marshal Ludwig von Schmidberg .

Philip's younger brothers were also in military service. Melchior Reinhard von Gemmingen (1603–1635) studied in Strasbourg and was in the service of the Baden-Durlach margrave Georg Friedrich , later he came with a Saxon-Lauenburg regiment from Upper Austria via Silesia and Pomerania to Rügen. At the request of his uncle Reinhard “the scholar”, he accepted the youngest brother Hans Sigmund into his company. Hans Sigmund fell, Melchior-Reinhard died of the plague in 1635. Philip's son Eberhard was the only descendant of the Rappenau family line when his father died. After the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, he received the Rappenau and Treschklingen goods back.

literature

• Emil Künzel: The barons of Gemmingen (Hornberg) in Bad Rappenau , in: Bad Rappenauer Heimatbote 8 , 1996, p. 7f.
• Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family Chronicle of the Barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, pp. 250-253.