Veit Werner von Zimmer

Veit Werner Freiherr von Zimmer (born June 15, 1479 in Meßkirch ; † April 25, 1499 in Sulz am Neckar ) was a member of the family of the Lords of Zimmer .

Veit Werner is the oldest brother of Johannes Werner the Elder. J. , Gottfried Werner and Wilhelm Werner von Zimmer and Froben's uncle Christoph von Zimmer , the author of the Zimmer Chronicle . Because of his early death, he is mostly not noticed in this constellation, but his importance lies in the fact that he initiated the recovery of the Zimmerische property in the course of the Werdenberg feud with the recapture of Oberndorf .

Life

In the course of the Werdenberg feud from 1487, his father Johannes Werner d. Ä. because of the fine imposed on him outlawry his possessions. Before the imperial court in Rottweil , on the Tuesday before the birth of the Virgin Mary (September 8th) 1487, the latter transferred his two lords of Messkirch and Oberndorf to his four sons and four daughters. Since they were not yet of age, they could not enforce their rights.

The two eldest sons, Veit Werner and Johannes Werner, were sent to the court of Elector Philipp Pfalzgraf bei Rhein in Heidelberg.

After the death of his father, Veit Werner refused to continue to forego the claims of his ancestors. With the backing of his patrons from the Palatinate, as well as Eberhards in the beard of Württemberg and the city of Rottweil, he recaptured Oberndorf on December 5, 1496.

He hoped that Maximilian I would confirm the fiefdoms associated with Oberndorf. But this was too clear a breach of the Eternal Peace that had just been proclaimed .

At the Reichstag in Lindau on February 7, 1497, Maximilian I pronounced another ban against Veit Werner and the city of Rottweil. Nevertheless, Maximilian I tried to find a diplomatic solution to the conflict, consciously playing for time.

The visits to various arbitration days, at the Reichstag and at court strained Veit Werner's financial possibilities. He felt humiliated because he could no longer finance his stay at the imperial court out of his own pocket. He had to pump money to Duke Georg the rich of Bavaria-Landshut.

Maximilian I finally gave in. He put Eitel Friedrich II. Von Hohenzollern and Wolf von Fürstenberg up to a final arbitration award as a sequester in the Messkirch rule and Werdenberg handed over the rule two months later. The ban against Veit Werner was lifted, but with the requirement to stay away from the Werdenbergers. This could have ended the Werdenberg feud.

But the young hot spur couldn't curb his thirst for revenge. Veit Werner wanted to attack Haug von Werdenberg on his way to an arbitration day. Haug von Werdenberg did not ride himself because of a sudden illness, so that when the attack occurred, Haug's nephew was only able to save himself with difficulty. Some of the companions were killed or drowned while fleeing in the Danube.

As expected, further arbitral awards were not very room-friendly. The argument had weakened Veit Werner physically. On the way to take part in the Swiss War, he collapsed from exhaustion near Sulz and died a day later, on April 25, 1499.

The symptoms described by the Zimmerische Chronik indicate a physical weakening accompanying depression and an associated increased susceptibility to infection, but the chronicle also expresses the suspicion that Veit Werner might have been poisoned.

literature

• Otto Franklin: The free lords and counts of rooms. Contributions to the legal history according to the Zimmerische Chronik . Mohr, Freiburg and Tübingen 1884.
• Beat Rudolf Jenny: Count Froben Christoph von Zimmer. Historian, narrator, sovereign. A contribution to the history of humanism in Swabia . Thorbecke, Lindau, Konstanz 1959.
• Gerhard Wolf: From the Chronicle to the World Book. Sense and claim of southwest German house chronicles at the end of the Middle Ages . de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 2002. ISBN 3-11-016805-7 . meeting
• Erica Bastress-Dukehart: The Zimmer chronicle. Nobility, memory, and self-representation in sixteenth century Germany . Ashgate, Aldershot [et al. a.] 2002, ISBN 0-7546-0342-3 . meeting