Pleikard von Gemmingen († 1515)

Pleikard von Gemmingen (* around 1440 in Fürfeld ; † October 21, 1515 in Gemmingen ) was a canon in the Wimpfen monastery . He left the clergy and ensured the continuation of the Gemmingen-Guttenberg line of the barons of Gemmingen .

Life

Grave slab of Pleikard (Plycker) von Gemmingen († 1515) in the castle garden in Gemmingen

Pleikard von Gemmingen was a son of Hans' the Rich († 1490), the progenitor of the Gemmingen-Guttenberg line , and Katharina Landschad von Steinach . He was a canon in Wimpfen Abbey. Since his brothers Dieter, Hans and Philipp had died young without male descendants, he left the clergy, started a family and succeeded his father. In 1478 he married Anna Kämmerer von Worms called von Dalberg (1458–1503), daughter of the Electoral Palatinate Court Marshal Wolfgang III. Chamberlain of Worms , called von Dalberg († 1476) and his wife Gertrud von Greiffenclau zu Vollrads († 1502). Anna von Dalberg was the sister of the famous Bishop of Worms and Chancellor of the Palatinate, Johann XX. von Dalberg and his brothers Friedrich VI. von Dalberg (1459–1506), mayor and Wolfgang VI. von Dalberg (1473–1522), Electoral Palatinate bailiff in Oppenheim .

In 1478 Pleikard participated in the re-establishment of the knightly society with the donkey . In 1483 he was enfeoffed with the purchased Bonfeld from the diocese of Worms . In 1484 he took part in the tournament of the knight society in Stuttgart. From 1483 to 1487 Pleikard was named as an assessor at the Heidelberg court . 1486 he was selected by Maximilian I in Aachen for Knights defeated. In 1487 he took part in the tournament in Worms. After the death of his father in 1490, Pleikard inherited his property at Guttenberg Castle , in the Gemmingen and Hüffenhardt spots and in other places, a large part of it as a Worms and Württemberg fief. Although Pleikard did not have a fiefdom from the Palatinate, he ensured good relations with the Heidelberg court. In 1486 he had fought in the service of Count Palatine Philipps , and also in the Landshut War of Succession he was on the side of the Palatinate . In 1490 the last chapter meeting of the knight and tournament society took place; among the twelve members present was Pleikard von Gemmingen.

For the Gemmingen parish church, Pleikard had a new vestibule built, in the vault of which the alliance coat of arms Gemmingen-Kämmerer von Worms is located. In addition to the main altar in the choir of the church there were six side altars in 1496, five on both sides of the nave and one in the side chapel newly built by Pleikard. Six chaplains employed at the same time are mentioned in 1496. The cathedral chapter in Speyer called the pastor and the early mass chaplain . Pleikard was able to give two altar donations , the clergy for the remaining altars were appointed by the donors or their descendants from other lines of the family. In 1497 King Pleikard granted high jurisdiction in Hüffenhardt and, together with other Ganerbe , in Gemmingen. In 1512, Pleikard donated the Gemminger Prädikon . In 1513, Bernhard Griebler was named there as the preacher, who later also served as the pastor and came into conflict with the Speyr cathedral chapter because of his Reformation sermon.

Pleikard von Gemmingen died in 1515. He was buried in the Gemminger Church, the old burial place of the family. His simple grave slab stands today at the Gemmingen lower castle . When Pleikard died, the daughter Gertrud, who was married to Dieter von Handschuhsheim , and the four sons Dietrich , Wolf , Philipp and Hans were still alive from his children . Hans died around 1549 as Canon of Worms. The three other sons acquired Fürfeld in 1516 , shared their paternal inheritance in 1518 and became major supporters of the Reformation in the 1520s.

family

Grave slab of Anna von Dalberg († 1503) in the Gemminger palace garden

From 1478 he was married to Anna Kämmerer von Worms, called von Dalberg (1458-1503). Her grave slab is also preserved in the Gemmingen palace garden.

Progeny:

• Gertrud († 1524) ∞ Dieter von Handschuhsheim
• Anna († 1504) ∞ Hans von Wolfskehl
• Pleikard, fallen in Flanders
• Reinhard, fallen in Flanders
• Hans, Canon in Worms
• Dietrich († 1526) ∞ Ursula von Nippenburg
• Georg († 1503)
• Philipp († 1544) ∞ Agnes Marshal von Ostheim
• Wolf († 1555) ∞ Anna Marschalk von Ostheim (around 1500–1569)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Genealogical page on the wife
2. ↑ Adolf von Oechelhäuser [ed.]: The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden (Volume 8.1): The art monuments of the districts of Sinsheim, Eppingen and Wiesloch (Heidelberg district) , Tübingen 1909, p. 169.
3. ↑ Adolf von Oechelhäuser [Ed.]: The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden (Volume 8.1): The art monuments of the districts of Sinsheim, Eppingen and Wiesloch (Heidelberg district) , Tübingen 1909, p. 180.
4. ↑ Grave monuments in the collegiate church in Oppenheim, cf. Rott: Sources and research on Southwest German and Swiss art history in the XV. and XVI. Century , Vol. 3, Stuttgart 1938, p. 34, note 5.

literature

• Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family Chronicle of the Barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, pp. 53-55.
• Gerhard Kiesow: Of knights and preachers. The Lords of Gemmingen and the Reformation in Kraichgau. Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 1997, ISBN 3-929366-57-6 .
• Fürfeld. From the past and present of the former imperial knighthood town . City of Bad Rappenau, Bad Rappenau 2001, ISBN 3-929295-77-6 .
• Walter von Hueck: lineage of the family of the barons of Gemmingen. Reprint from the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility Volume 37 (Freiherrliche Häuser A, Volume VI). CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1966.