Sybilla von Ebersberg

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Sybilla von Ebersberg called von Weyhers (* 1578 in Gersfeld ; † 1622) was a daughter of Otto Heinrich von Ebersberg from the knight family of those von Ebersberg called von Weyhers (1553-1608).

Sybilla von Ebersberg was probably born in 1578 as the second daughter of Ott-Heinrich and his second wife Magdalena Truchsässin von Wetzhausen . Her older sister Amalia Barbara married Otto Heinrich von Bastheim in 1596 .

She herself married Balthasar Philipp von Mörle (called Böhm zu Uerzell ) on February 27, 1604 . A morning gift of 500 guilders as well as a marriage fee and a counter-gift of 2000 guilders each were agreed. In 1621 after the death of her father, she and the daughter of her sister, who had died earlier, each received 16,000 guilders. An estate near Trappstadt went to the husbands while all fiefdoms remained in the family of those at Ebersberg. Sybilla's marriage remained without male descendants and she died in 1622 at the age of 44.

She became famous when the Vienna auction house Dorotheum offered a painting by an unknown woman in 1987 , on which the silver lily, still to be found in the coat of arms of the municipality of Ebersburg, could be recognized on a blue background in the family coat of arms . The woman in the bust was identified as Sybilla. It shows the noblewoman as a splendidly clad bride with a millstone collar in 1604. The community then bought the painting with the money collected after an appeal for donations. Today, alarmed, it is exhibited in the wedding and meeting room of the municipality of Ebersburg.

literature

  • Fritz Luckhard : An Ebersberg wedding before the Thirty Years' War in Fuldaer Geschichtsverein: Fuldaer Geschichtsblätter , Verlag Parzeller, 1956, p. 113-135 ( available online )
  • Michael Mott : Sybilla von Ebersberg oo von Mörle / beautiful woman from rebellious Rhön knights; in: “Fulda Heads” or “People of Our Homeland” Volume II, Parzellers Buchverlag Fulda, 2011; ISBN 978-3-7900-0442-7 ; Pp. 285-289.

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personal data
SURNAME Ebersberg, Sybilla von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mörle, Sybilla von; Ebersberg called von Weyhers, Sybilla von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Daughter of Ottheinrich von Ebersberg
DATE OF BIRTH 1578
PLACE OF BIRTH Gersfeld
DATE OF DEATH 1622