Philipp von Ingelheim

Philipp von Ingelheim († July 2, 1431 near Bulgnéville ) was a German knight from Ingelheim . He fell during an aid operation by Count Palatine Ludwig III. for René d'Anjou in the War of the Lorraine Succession on July 2, 1431 near Bulgnéville. His figurative epitaph in the castle church in Ingelheim is of outstanding quality among the late medieval epitaphs there.

Life

Philipp came from the noble family of those von Ingelheim . He was the son of the knight of the same name, Philipp von Ingelheim, who was named as Burgrave of Leyen and Schultheiss of Ingelheim in 1341 .

His wife Mia Werberg von Lindenfels came from an influential noble family on the right bank of the Rhine. She and her son Hans von Ingelheim are also represented in the castle church with outstanding epitaphs.

Circumstances of death

Philip died in the fighting for the Lorraine inheritance between the Duke of Bar, René of Provence and Anjou , and Count Antoine of Vaudémont . A superbly crafted epitaph in the castle church in Ingelheim reminds of Philip's death .

Inheritance battles of the nobility

The possession of Bar and Pont-à-Mousson had come to Cardinal Ludwig von Bar, Bishop of Verdun, and was to go to his nephew René of Provence and Anjou. For Lorraine , which was in endless dispute with Bar, there could not have been a happier round. This regulation opposed the brother's son, Count Antoine von Vaudémont, who did not recognize the female line of succession. After the death of Charles of Lorraine, he feuded young René, invaded Bar and established himself in southern Lorraine. Count Palatine Ludwig III. near the Rhine sent several hundred Palatine knights to help Duke René, including Philipp von Ingelheim.

Battle of Bulgnéville

On July 2, 1431 there was a battle near Bulgnéville . At the urging of Count Robert III. of Saarbrücken-Commercy and against the advice of his troop leader Barbazan, Duke René began a hasty attack against entrenched positions of the Burgundians, who received the attacking Lorraine with a hail of arrows and cannon shots. As a result, the battle was lost for René despite the numerical superiority. 1700 to 2500 men are said to have died, almost all of them on the Lorraine side. Among them were numerous Palatine knights such as Philipp von Ingelheim. The troop leader Barbazan also fell. René went into captivity, from which he was only freed in 1437 by paying a large ransom.

Medieval lament for the dead

Philipp von Ingelheim's death and that of the other German knights from the houses of Dalberg , Handschuchsheim and Montfort , who were said to have knightly virtue and honor , were sung about by the Mainz poet Bernkopf (alias Frauenzucht ).

But I want to raise
my senses
vil knights and servants are first,
I hear that in the land of san,
and I do not want to be furious

vil knights and
servants ligent dead, slain and shot,
no matter what need!
so you can see some wenglin red overflowing
with trees

[…]

The more he must ruwen me
that von Dalberg the frume
a noble knight virtuous,
got part of the sin himelrich!
he was a flower of the ern.

Her Heinrich do von Horschersheim
het praise and praise acquired,
he argues in knightly wat;
he stays on the whale stat
with his baner died.

Her Philipps do von Ingelheim
I must complain about the damage,
he has virtue and
he is arguing in a chivalrous way
of which I still want to tell.

He argues like a hero
I want to sing about here:
From Montfort noble Friderich
he furt sin prank even chivalrous
that you could hear them sounding

[...]

In the 25th and last stanza the singer regrets the unfortunate march to Lorraine, as it would certainly have been more honorable for the knights to take up the field against the Hussites .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hartmut Geißler: The Mainz minstrel Bernkopf / Bärnkopf about the Battle of Bulgnéville 1431. Historischer Verein Ingelheim e. V., accessed on August 13, 2012
2. ^ Rochus von Liliencron : The historical folk songs of the Germans from the 13th to the 16th century. Vogel, Leipzig 1865, pp. 328–332 ( full text in the Google book search).

literature

• A. Hall guard: The death of the knight Philipp von Ingelheim on July 2, 1431 in the song of a master singer. In: BIG 9, 1958, pp. 145-146

Web links

• Hartmut Geißler: The battle of Bulgnéville on July 2, 1431, in which Philipp von Ingelheim fell, and its historical background. Retrieved August 13, 2012.