Richwin von Weitershausen

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Richwin von Weitershausen or Wittershausen (* around 1465 in Central Hesse ; † 1512/24 probably at the Bromberg Castle or in Kürnbach ) was a landgrave of Hesse and ducal Württemberg forester .

Life

Richwin von Weitershausen came from the lower aristocratic family Weitershausen , which had its origins in Weitershausen near Marburg in Hesse . Family members asked vassals of the Hersfeld Abbey - an original ziegenhainischen , from 1432 landgräflich Hessian bailiwick - were ziegenhainische country Assen and Hessian Ministeriale .

Origin from Central Hesse

Johann III. (Henne) von Weitershausen († 1424/58), Richwin's grandfather, was administrator in 1377, from 1398 magistrate in Blankenstein and from 1410 magistrate in Königsberg near Gießen. In 1423 he became pledge holder of Burg Frauenberg and the village of Wittelsberg for 800 guilders, which he paid to Landgrave Ludwig I of Hesse . He was married to Grete († after 1424), a daughter of the knight Gerhard von Seelbach († after 1381), and had the sons Kraft II. († 1474/90) and Wigand II. His daughter Christine († 1481) was with Parakeet von Berlepsch (* 1436; † 1470) married.

Wigand II von Weitershausen († 1484/90), Richwin's father, is attested in 1469 as bailiff of the Kaufungen Abbey . In 1479 he accompanied the landgrave in taking possession of the County of Katzenelnbogen . Wigand II was with a low nobility NN. Cockroach - probably Cockroach zu Staufenberg  - married and had sons Johann IV. († 1490/1501) and Richwin. Katherine von Weitershausen († after 1526), ​​an ancestor of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , was Richwin's sister; around 1486 she married Konrad Grebe († 1501/22) from Marburg, mayor of Ebsdorf (1489) and Frauenberg-Wittelsberg (1492, 1500), and became the mother of the Kirtorf pastor Hedderich Grebbe († after 1526) and the rent master Heinrich ( Henritze) Grebe († 1547/48) in Elnhausen .

Relocation to the Kirbachtal

In 1488, Richwin von Wittershusen signed a letter of rejection from the Württemberg nobles to Count Eberhard VI. of Württemberg , because it besieged and damaged the Kirchheim convent, thereby breaking the Frankfurt Land Peace from the Reichstag in 1486.

Richwin, his brother Johann IV. And their cousin Wigand III. von Weitershausen († 1496/1522) received in 1490, after the death of Wigand II von Weitershausen, from Landgrave Wilhelm III. from Hesse a pension of 5½ Mark Marburg currency from the Blankenstein court as a man and castle loan and a pension of 2½ Mark from the city of Gießen as a castle loan. At the turn of the year 1491/92 Richwin was in Württemberg and stayed in Stuttgart among other places ; from there he rode back to Hesse with the Lichtenberg magistrate Gernand V. von Schwalbach († around 1499).

Richwin married Agathe von Utzlingen ( Itzlingen ), daughter of Hans von Utzlingen († 1506/11) and Margarethe Vogt von Rieneck . A sister († 1526) of hers was married to Tristan (Tristram) Truchseß von Waldeck († 1553), who is referred to in 1496 as the brother-in-law of Hans von Utzlingen and in 1522 as the brother-in-law of Richwin's son Ulrich. In 1498 Richwin entered the service of the newly appointed, eleven-year-old Duke Ulrich von Württemberg for 50 gold florins as a servant at the court with two or three horses . In 1499 he was widowed and had an underage son: Ulrich von Weitershausen or Wittershausen called Richwin (* around 1495; † 1560), who became the ducal forester of Württemberg.

Richwin von Wyterßhusen took part in the Landshut War of Succession in 1504 with a formal "rejection" ( feud letter ) to Philipp von der Pfalz as a helper in the feud between Duke Ulrich von Württemberg, who was on the side of Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria , against the Palatine Electors.

Bromberg Castle, Kiesersche forest map , 1683

Forester on the Stromberg

Richwein von Wittershausen, forester at Stromberg , and his predecessor Bartholomäus (Barthel) Lutz († after 1520) were in 1508 in a trial before the Brackenheim city ​​court among the mediators of a "forest dispute" between the communities of Niederhofen and Kleingartach . In 1511 Richwin von Weitershausen is mentioned as a Hessian and in 1512 as a Württemberg forester on the Stromberg; the forest behind the Sternenfels castle was a condominium of the Hessian county Katzenelnbogen and the Duchy of Württemberg . In 1511 he owned the Württemberg fiefdom of Bromberg Castle as the successor to Hans von Utzlingen . The daughter Margaretha von Weitershausen (1511–1549), who was married to Reinhart von Stammheim (1509–1546), a son of Wolf von Stammheim († 1541), came from another marriage of Richwin, perhaps with a sister or cousin of his first wife ) and Magdalene von Wehingen († 1526).

literature

  • Christoph von Rommel: Overview of the noblest Hessian vassals, country people and knight families. v. Weitershausen . In: History of Hessen , Vol. I. Friedrich Perthes, Kassel 1835, p. 448f ( Google Books )
  • Eberhard Emil von Georgii-Georgenau (arrangement): Fürstlich Württembergisch servant book from IX. until the XIX. Century . C. F. Simon, Stuttgart 1877, pp. 357, 512 and 538 ( digitized version of the University and State Library Düsseldorf)
  • Alfred Klemm: Heraldic Research . In: Württembergische Vierteljahrshefte für Landesgeschichte 7 (1885), pp. 108–113, esp. Pp. 110–112 ( Google Books ; limited preview)
  • Walther Pfeilsticker (edit.): New Württembergisches Dienerbuch , Vol. IJ G. Cotta Nachf., Stuttgart 1974, p. 1560
  • Anneliese Seeliger-Zeiss (arrangement): The inscriptions of the greater Karlsruhe district . (German inscriptions. Heidelberg Row 7). Druckmüller, Munich 1981

Web links

  • Anneliese Seeliger-Zeiss, Hans Ulrich Schäfer: Grave slab of Hans von Utzlingen ; German inscriptions online 25, Ludwigsburg district, No. 206 ( online at www.inschriften.net)
  • Anneliese Seeliger-Zeiss, Hans Ulrich Schäfer: Grave monument of the abbess Maria Elisabeth von Weitershausen ; German inscriptions online 25, Ludwigsburg district, No. 389 ( online at www.inschriften.net)

Remarks

  1. ↑ Married to Bede Groppe von Bellersheim († after 1454), probably granddaughter or great-niece of Richwin von Bellersheim. His son Wigand III. von Weitershausen († 1496/1522) was Heinrich III's master chef in 1474, 1484 and 1490 . of Hessen .
  2. ↑ 1488 wealthy in Hilsbach , 1489 as successor to Volker Utzlinger († around 1489) of Landgrave Wilhelm III. enfeoffed by Hesse with rights in Michelfeld and Eichtersheim , Vogt zu Neuenbürg , 1470 married I. to Katharina von Rechberg, widow of Otto I von Hirschhorn († 1468), married II. to Margarethe Voit von Rieneck, widowed von Thurn ( Thumb von Neuburg ?).
  3. ↑ Tomb of N. von Itzlingen in the Martinskirche in Altburg .
  4. ↑ Presumably from the family of the Lutze von Ehingen, since about 1479, still in 1490 Count of Württemberg forester on the Stromberg, in 1486 received the Sternenfels castle as an official residence for 10 years, in 1496 and 1501 as forester in Stuttgart, 1498 Vogt zu Brackenheim, 1502, 1504 Vogt of Herrenalb.
  5. ↑ Son of Hans von Stammheim († 1495) and his second wife Ursula Lämlin von Talheim.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Christoph von Rommel: Overview of the most distinguished Hessian vassals, country estates and knight families. v. Weitershausen . In: History of Hessen , Vol. I. Friedrich Perthes, Kassel 1835, pp. 448f.
  2. ↑ a b c A document dated January 4, 1490; Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt (holdings E 14 G Lehnwesen, Lehenbuch Wilhelms III., In No. 2/1); Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (holdings of documents 14 Hessisch Aktivlehen, v. Weitershausen, 8 Blangstein, No. 14194–14197) Regest of the Landgraves of Hesse online No. 7675. Regest of the Landgraves of Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). names knight † Gerhard von Seelbach, then † Johann (III.) von Weitershausen (his son-in-law), then Johann's (III.) sons † Wigand (II.) and † Kraft (II.) as the feudal bearer of a pension from the Blankenstein court .). In 1490 the fiefdom became Wigand's II sons, the brothers Johann (IV). and Richwin, and their cousin Wigand (III.) von Weitershausen.
  3. ↑ a b c Cf. Carl Knetsch: Goethe's Ahnen . Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1908, p. 76f ( digitized version of the University and State Library Düsseldorf); Albrecht Eckhardt (arrangement): The Upper Hessian monasteries. Regesten und Urkunden , Vol. II. (Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse and Waldeck 9th Monastery Archives. Regesten und Urkunden 4). Elwert, Marburg 1967, No. 527, p. 242.
  4. ↑ See document of June 13, 1452; Regesta of the Landgraves of Hesse online No. 9816. Regest of the Landgraves of Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  5. ↑ a b document dated June 17, 1522; Marburg University Archives (holdings of 91 documents from the Kugelherren in Marburg, no. 270); see. Albrecht Eckhardt (arrangement): The Upper Hessian monasteries. Regesten und Urkunden , Vol. II. (Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse and Waldeck 9th Monastery Archives. Regesten und Urkunden 4). Elwert, Marburg 1967, No. 527, p. 236.
  6. ↑ See Wilhelm Lindenstruth: The dispute over the Busecker valley . In: Mitteilungen des Oberhessischen Geschichtsverein NF 19 (1911) pp. 67–238, esp. P. 104, note 1 ( Google Books ; limited preview).
  7. ↑ The ancestral coat of arms "Schaben" can be found on the tomb of Richwin's granddaughter Maria Agatha von Weitershausen († 1602), married to Bernhard III since 1563. von Sternfels (* around 1545; † 1598) zu Kürnbach, in the Michaelskirche zu Kürnbach and - perhaps depending on it - in an ancestral list written after 1589 of his daughter Margaretha von Weitershausen (1511–1549) and his granddaughter Barbara von Stammheim (1543– 1606), married to Christoph von Degenfeld , in the family archive of Degenfeld-Schonburg in Eybach .
  8. ↑ a b c Cf. Alfred Klemm: Heraldische Forschungen . In: Württembergische Vierteljahrshefte für Landesgeschichte 7 (1885), pp. 108–113, esp. Pp. 110–112; Georg Schiefer: Province of Starkenburg. Former Wimpfen district . (Art monuments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse). Arnold Bergsträßer, Darmstadt 1898, p. 313f ( digitized in the Internet Archive); Anneliese Seeliger-Zeiss (arrangement): The inscriptions of the greater Karlsruhe district . (German inscriptions. Heidelberg Row 7). Druckmüller, Munich 1981, p. 160.
  9. ↑ a b Cf. Carl Knetsch: Goethe's Ahnen . Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1908, p. 76f; slightly different (daughter of Kraft von Weitershausen) Carl Knetsch: Pedigree of Johann Wolfgang Goethe . Leipzig 1932 ( PDF ; 141.05 kB).
  10. ↑ a b c Lawsuit of the Kugelherren against Wolf von Breidenbach, December 11, 1525, and the trial of Katherine Grebe, b. von Weitershausen against Father and Convent in the Fraterhaus zum Löwenbach (Kugelherren) in Marburg, 1526; Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (inventory 257 Samthofgericht Marburg, No. G 177); see. Albrecht Eckhardt (arrangement): The Upper Hessian monasteries. Regesten und Urkunden , Vol. II. (Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse and Waldeck 9th Monastery Archives. Regesten und Urkunden 4). Elwert, Marburg 1967, No. 527, p. 243; see. No. 525, note 3, p. 242f.
  11. ↑ See rejection letter from several gentlemen and from the nobility Gr. Eberharden sent to the disciples , February 9, 1488. In: Christian Friedrich Sattler: History of the Duchy of Würtenberg under the government of the Graven , Bd. III. Georg Heinrich Reiss, Tübingen 1768, Beylagen, p. 179f ( Google Books ).
  12. ↑ Cf. Regest of the Landgraves of Hesse online No. 4879. Regest of the Landgraves of Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  13. ↑ Cf. Eberhard Lohmann: Die Herrschaft Hirschhorn. Studies on the rulership of a knight family . (Sources and research on Hessian history 66). Historical Commission Darmstadt, Marburg 1986, p. 411f; Imperial Court of Justice (F 1345); Alexander Brunotte, Raimund J. Weber (edit.): Files of the Reich Chamber Court in the main state archive Stuttgart EG. Inventory of holdings C 3 . (Publications of the State Archives Administration Baden-Württemberg 46/2). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1995, p. 375.
  14. ↑ See Hellmut J. Gebauer: Altburg, Alzenberg. Oberriedt, Speßhardt, Spindlershof, Weltenschwann . (Calw - History of a City). Stadtarchiv, Calw 2010, pp. 21 and 71. Perhaps this is Hans von Utzlingen the Elder. J., 1526 also Vogt zu Neuenbürg.
  15. ↑ Certificate of August 15, 1498; Baden-Württemberg State Archives, Stuttgart Main State Archives (holdings A 602 Württembergische Regesten, No. 821 = WR 821).
  16. ↑ Cf. Friedrich von Weech: The drawing book anno 1504. The preparations of the Electoral Palatinate for the War of the Bavarian Succession . In: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 26 (1874), pp. 137–264, esp. P. 255.
  17. ↑ Document dated June 6, 1508, read there: "Wittenshausen"; Baden-Württemberg State Archives, Stuttgart Main State Archives (A 329 L Brackenheim W and G, Bü 164).
  18. ↑ Cf. Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt (inventory E 1 K Relationships with Foreign States, No. 561/1).
  19. ↑ Cf. Eberhard Emil von Georgii-Georgenau (arrangement): Fürstlich Württembergisch servant book from IX. until the XIX. Century . C. F. Simon, Stuttgart 1877, pp. 357, 512 and 538.
  20. ↑ Cf. Eduard Becker: History of the condominium in Kürnbach to 1598. A contribution to the history of the condominium system . In: Archive for Hessian History and Archeology NF 4 (1907), pp. 1–154 ( digitized in the Internet Archive); ders .: The fall of the Sternfels fief at Kürnbach on Hesse . In: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 59 (1905), pp. 389-421 ( Google Books ; limited preview).
  21. ↑ Damian Hartard von und zu Hattstein : The Highness of the Teutschen Reichs-Adels , Bd. III. Johann Martin Göbhardt, Bamberg 1740, p. 132, mentions “N. von Nenningen “as a wife ( Google Books ); differently Alfred Klemm: Heraldic research . In: Württembergische Vierteljahrshefte für Landesgeschichte 7 (1885), pp. 108–113, esp. P. 110.
  22. ↑ Also the pedigree of Margaretha von Stammheim, born after the death of his first wife. von Weitershausen contains the coats of arms "Itzlingen" and "Voit von Rieneck" (smoothed: "Faut von Reinmuth").
personal data
SURNAME Weitershausen, Richwin from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wittershausen, Richwein von; Wyterßhusen, Richwin from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Landgrave Hessian and ducal Württemberg forest master
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: around 1465
PLACE OF BIRTH Central Hesse
DATE OF DEATH between 1512 and 1524
Place of death unsure: Bromberg Castle or Kürnbach