Schwickart the younger of Sickingen

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Schwickart the Younger from Sickingen († August 4, 1478 ), also written Schweikart, Schweickart or Swicker, was since 1459 bailiff of the Palatinate office of Bretten .

family

Schwickart was the son of Schwickart VI. von Sickingen († before 1468) and Elisabeth Landschad von Steinach . He was married to Anna Spet von Zwiefalten , daughter of Albrecht Spet von Zwiefalten and Klara von Ehestetten . The son Konrad comes from this marriage, Vogt zu Bretten from 1504 to 1508.

Life

Schwickart von Sickingen came from an old noble family from Kraichgau . His duties as bailiff are handed down in a document : He should grant legal protection to all citizens and residents of the bailiff. For merchants, pilgrims and travelers, he should give free escort on the escort roads and only accept voluntary gifts. As a service salary he received 150 guilders and the use of ten acres of meadows, an herb garden, wood and a small tithe .

literature

  • Otto Beuttenmüller : The bailiffs in the Oberamt Bretten . In: Brettener Jahrbuch , Volume 5, 1972/73, pp. 89-96.
  • Bernd Breitkopf: The old districts and their heads of office. The emergence of the districts and offices in what is today the district of Karlsruhe - biographies of the senior officials and district administrators from 1803 to 1997. Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 1997, ISBN 3-929366-48-7 , p. 21.
personal data
SURNAME Schwickart the younger of Sickingen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Welding card; Schweickart; Swicker from Sickingen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bailiff of the Electoral Palatinate Office Bretten
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1478