Veit I. Truchseß of Pommersfelden

Detail from the window of the Bishop of Bamberg in St. Sebald in Nuremberg

Prince-Bishop's coat of arms

Veit I. Truchseß von Pommersfelden († September 7, 1503 ) was Prince-Bishop of the Bamberg Monastery from 1501 until his death in 1503 .

Veit I. Truchseß von Pommersfelden in the family context

Veit I. Truchseß von Pommersfelden comes from the Franconian noble family Truchseß von Pommersfelden (see also list of Franconian knight families ). The eponymous place Pommersfelden is a municipality in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg . The original court office of Steward has over time become an integral part in the name.

Lorenz Truchseß von Pommersfelden (1473–1543), cathedral dean of Mainz , a contemporary of the much older Veit I , also comes from the family .

Biographical data

Veit I. Truchseß von Pommersfelden was ordained Prince-Bishop in 1501 by Eichstätt Prince-Bishop Gabriel von Eyb . At the time of Veit's appointment as Prince-Bishop, Alexander VI. Pope. His reign only lasted a few years. The tomb is a work by Peter Vischer .

coat of arms

The Prince-Bishop's coat of arms is quartered. Fields two and three take up the family coat of arms of the Truchseß von Pommersfelden. At Siebmacher these are a blue lion with a gold crown on a silver background. Two horizontal red bars are placed over the motif . The other two fields show the black lion for Bamberg, covered with a silver sloping bar on a gold background.

Web links

• Description of the coat of arms of the Prince-Bishop's multiple coat of arms
• Table with the life data of the Bamberg bishops ( MS Word ; 148 kB; accessed September 2011)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ hausarbeiten.de
2. ^ Karl Sitzmann : Artists and artisans in Eastern Franconia (= Die Plassenburg. 12, ZDB -ID 504385-2 ). Friends of Plassenburg, Kulmbach 1957, p. 159.

predecessor	Office	successor
Henry III. Great from Trockau	Prince Bishop of Bamberg 1501 - 1503	George II Marshal of Ebnet