Reinhard von Gemmingen († 1483)

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Reinhard von Gemmingen († 1483 ) came from the family of the lords of Gemmingen from their early tribe B (Hornberg). He came away empty-handed when Eberhard the deaf was divided up, as he had first entered the clergy. However, he then switched to the Palatinate military service, was temporarily enfeoffed with part of Gemmingen and later claimed property in Gosheim and a house in Heidelberg .

Life

Reinhard was a younger son of Eberhard the Tauben († 1479) and Barbara von Neipperg. In 1452 he was canon at St. Alban near Mainz . When his older brothers Hans (1431–1487) and Eberhard († 1501) married around 1455 and 1457, respectively, the father promised that the remaining five brothers would enter the clergy. The paternal inheritance should go to the sons Hans and Eberhard to secure their families. Reinhard accompanied the Speyr bishop Siegfried III in 1459 . von Venningen at his meeting with Margrave Karl I , but left the clergy again and entered the Palatinate military service, in which his father and brother Hans had made great contributions at that time. Together with the Father and with his brother Hans was Reinhard 1471 before castle Wachenheim , while brother Eberhard now court and chamber master at Pfalzgraf Frederick I was.

When his father divided up the property, Reinhard came away empty-handed. The father had only kept a small part of the property for himself and had thus got himself into economic difficulties, which led to lengthy negotiations between father and sons. In 1473 Reinhard received a share in Gemmingen , namely the front high house in the castle as well as the cattle house on the outer bridge in the forecourt and the unclaimed farmstead adjacent to it as a Speyrian fiefdom from Bishop Matthias von Rammung and thus entered into the fiefdom of his father. In 1475 he sued his brother Hans for demolition and consumption. In 1476 his brother Eberhard achieved that Reinhard lost the Speyrian fiefdom in Gemmingen and Eberhard was enfeoffed with it instead. In the same year the Speyer Jew Videl sued Reinhard von Gemmingen before the court court in Rottweil , whereupon the imperial court judge Johann von Sulz pronounced the ostracism against Reinhard.

In 1479, Count Palatine Philipp ordered that the property should be divided equally among the brothers. The inheritance disputes continued after the father's death. Reinhard demanded that his brother Hans bring the goods in Gosheim that Hans der Pfalz had made into a fiefdom back into Reinhard's own possession. In addition, Reinhard claimed a house in Heidelberg that Hans had expanded and that was part of his property because of the construction costs. In 1481 Count Palatine Philip reached a settlement between the brothers. Reinhard died a little later, however, in the summer of 1483 at the latest, since in August 1483 four guarantors before Count Palatine Philipp asked for a guarantee for the deceased Reinhard to be canceled. Reinhard's brother Eberhard sold half of the fishing water from Kochertürn in 1493 in order to settle Reinhard's remaining debts.

family

He was married to Anna von Waldenfels, who in 1500 was still childless in Aries . The couple had no offspring.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Year of death and dates of the life path according to Stocker 1895, who explains on the basis of a guarantee that Reinhard was dead in September 1483 and also has a lot to report. In Biedermann 1751, however, Reinhard's life dates are incorrectly reproduced. According to Biedermann, he did not resign from the clergy until 1500, married his wife Anna von Wallenfels and died in 1502 without children.
  2. ↑ Moriz von Rauch (ed.): Document book of the city of Heilbronn 2 (= Württembergische Geschichtsquellen 15), Stuttgart 1913, p. 110, no. 1140.
personal data
SURNAME Gemmingen, Reinhard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canon in Mainz, later in the Palatinate service
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 1483