Pleickhard von Helmstatt
Pleickhard von Helmstatt (* March 20, 1571 ; † 1636 in Metz ) was Lord of Hingsingen and genealogist . He succeeded his father as Marshal of the Electoral Palatinate , was deputy to Elector Friedrich IV in 1608 and knighted by Emperor Matthias in 1612 . Through his marriages to Walpurga von Neipperg and Anna Margareta von Liebenstein, he founded the Hingsinger branch of the von Helmstatt family .
Life
Pleickhard was the second son of the Electoral Palatinate Obermarschall and Councilor Johann Philipp von Helmstatt († 1594) from his first marriage to Agnes Landschadin († 1580), daughter of Pleickhard's Landschad von Steinach . He studied in Heidelberg, where he and his older brother Johann Weiprecht were matriculated on August 15, 1588. He later joined the Palatinate court service. In August 1600 he accompanied Elector Friedrich IV. As sub-marshal to a princely christening of children in Kassel and on August 29th and 30th, he and his master visited Friedberg Castle in Wetterau, where he inscribed "Plus penser que dire" as his motto. .
In the election and coronation of Emperor Matthias zu Frankfurt in 1612, he carried the sword before Count Palatine Johann II and was knighted by the Emperor. In the same year he was with the Palatinate embassy in England to initiate the marriage of Frederick V with Elisabeth Stuart. In 1619 he was appointed General Commissioner for the Army by the Protestant estates and accompanied the Winter King to Prague as Chief Marshal. In a document from 1620 he is dubbed Herr zu Heinsingen, the King. Majesty in Böheimb Secret advice and cammer, also the Hochlöbl. Union General-Commissarius, Colonel and Knight.
In 1622 he fought in the battle of Wimpfen as colonel of the Margrave Georg Friedrich von Baden against the Catholic troops under Tilly . After the defeat he entered the service of Württemberg, where he was appointed to Michaelis in 1622 Landhofmeister and Privy Councilor, on August 27, 1625 Obervogt zu Marbach . When the Swedes were masters of the Bergstrasse in 1633 , he received many fiefs from them; after their expulsion in 1634 he lost everything again. From 1633 until the Swedes withdrew from the Neckar Valley in 1634, he was lord of Rothenberg , which he had received as Swedish war booty. Also Hirschhorn , of which he, after the death of his son Friedrich Hirschhorn had taken possession of the last of his race in 1632 with the help of Sweden, he had in 1634 to the Elector Anselm Casimir issue of Mainz. He died in Metz in 1636 and was buried with his second wife in the family crypt in Neckarbischofsheim in 1663 .
family
Pleickhard concluded his first marriage in 1600 with Waldburga von Neipperg († March 16, 1604), daughter of Philip von Neipperg and Elisabeth Göler von Ravensburg. In his second marriage in 1607 he took Anna Margareta von Liebenstein as his wife, daughter of Albrechts von Liebenstein and Margareta von Rosenberg.
plant
Pleickhard left behind a thick, handwritten anthology with over a hundred family tables of southern German noble families. The manuscript is kept in the Darmstadt University and State Library.
literature
- Adolf Schmidt: Pleickhards von Helmstatt family trees of southern German noble families. Around 1612. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine , Volume 70, Karlsruhe 1916, pp. 53-64. On-line
Web links
- Pleickhard von Helmstatt: Family trees of southern German noble families . Around 1612. Supplements from the 17th and 18th centuries. University and State Library Darmstadt. Hs-1970 Online
supporting documents
- ^ Gustav Toepke (Ed.): The register of the University of Heidelberg (2nd part): From 1554 - 1662; with an appendix included: 1. Matricula univ. 1663 - 1668 ... - Heidelberg, 1886, p. 140
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Helmstatt, Pleickhard von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Herr von Hingsingen and genealogist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1571 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1636 |
| Place of death | Metz |