Veit zu Pappenheim

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Veit zu Pappenheim (born June 16, 1535 in Schwindegg ; † June 18, 1600 in Wildbad near Wemding ) was Imperial Hereditary Marshal in the Holy Roman Empire .

Life

Reichsherbmarschall Veit zu Pappenheim was born in Schwindegg near Dorfen in Upper Bavaria. His father was Ulrich Marschall zu Pappenheim († 1539) from the Treuchtlinger line of the Pappenheim family . His mother was Anna von Fraunhofen, heiress of the Schwindegg estate and a direct descendant of the famous minstrel Oswald von Wolkenstein . Veit had five sisters and three brothers: Anna, Sibylla, Maria Jacobe (also Maria Jakoba), Salome and Catharina, as well as his older brothers, who all remained unmarried, Georg, who was in imperial service, Florian and Sebastian, Canon of Eichstätt .

As the youngest son, Veit was not entitled to rule Treuchtlingen or Schwindegg, so he tried his luck abroad, like many other sons born afterwards from noble families. A stay in Turin and four years in Spain at the court of King Philip, to whom he came through the mediation of the Electors of Mainz and Trier, is guaranteed. Around 1552 he returned to his homeland and entered the ducal Bavarian service . On a court list from 1552 he appears as hereditary marshal among those nobles who had to present the duke with a certain number of horses.

After the death of his brother Georg in the spring of 1553 in Regensburg , Veit was able to inherit the Schwindegg rule, one of Bavaria's most important court brands . This secured him economically and in 1556 he married the young widow Regina von Kreuth zu Strass. She came from the local nobility of Palatinate-Neuburg and was a Protestant . The marriage with Regina outgrown six children: Anna Maria (* February 2, 1557), Ursula Maria (* December 30, 1558), Georg Ulrich (* July 16, 1561), Maria and Maria Sophia (* July 10, 1562) and Veit (born August 13, 1568). They all died very young. Veit tried to compensate for this misfortune by accepting several foster children.

Veit himself had already officially become a Lutheran the year before, after the "legalization" by the Augsburg Imperial and Religious Peace in 1555 , which presumably succeeded the Elector of Saxony, who had already converted.

Due to the fatal riding accident of his childless cousin Hans Georg zu Pappenheim-Treuchtlingen in 1568, Veit was able to increase his property by half the market and half the castle in Treuchtlingen . He bought the other half of the inheritance from his cousins, Hans Georg's three sisters, for 28,000 guilders . Veit himself is likely to have had economic talent. B. was able to grant the Duke of Bavaria, Wilhelm V , a loan of 10,000 guilders, and his brother Ferdinand the sum of 6,000 guilders. In the empire itself there was a longer period of peace due to the Augsburg religious peace, which favored the expansion of the Treuchtlingen castle and rule by Veit. Nevertheless, he had to sell the Bavarian Hofmark Schwindegg in 1591 to the knight Sebastian von Haunsperg , which was probably due to the fact that Protestants were no longer tolerated in Catholic Bavaria according to the Augsburg Peace " Cuius regio, eius religio ".

Regina died on March 26, 1592, but despite his age of almost 58 years, Veit decided to marry again and in 1593 brought home Maria Salome von Preysing-Kopfsburg , who was forty years younger than her , a Catholic who was guaranteed free religious practice in the marriage contract. Veit zu Pappenheim thus married into one of the oldest and most respected families in the Duchy of Bavaria. They were the inheritance gifts of Upper and Lower Bavaria and the gifts of the Diocese of Freising .

Veits's second marriage had five children: the well-known imperial general in the Thirty Years War , Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim (1594–1632); Anna Benigna (1596–1678), Maria Magdalena (1597–1632), Philipp Ludwig (1598–1615) and Maria Gertraud (1599–1675).

Already in poor health - the reason for this is unknown - Veit went to the nearby Wildbad near Wemding in the spring of 1600 , where he died on June 18, 1600.

literature

  • Hans Schwackenhofer: The Reichserbmarschalls, counts and gentlemen from and to Pappenheim . Walter E. Keller, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-934145-12-4 .
  • Barbara Stadler: Pappenheim and the time of the Thirty Years War. Gemsberg-Verlag, Winterthur 1991, ISBN 3-85701-091-6 .
  • M. Johann Alexander Döderlein: Historical news of the very old high-priced house of the imperial and the realm marshals of Palatine, and the married and dermahligen realm hereditary marshals, lords and counts of Pappenheim, etc. Johann Jacob Enderes, Hoch-Fürstl. privil. Book dealer, 1739, p. 317–324 ( full text in Google Book Search).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Barbara Stadler: Pappenheim and the time of the Thirty Years' War . Winterthur 1991, p. 22 f.
  2. ↑ Hans Schwackenhofer: The Reichserbmarschalls, Counts and Lords from and to Pappenheim: on the history of a Reichsministerial family . Keller, Treuchtlingen, Berlin 2002. (p. 173)
  3. ↑ a b Hans Schwackenhofer: The Reichserbmarschalls, Counts and Lords from and to Pappenheim: on the history of a Reichsministerial family . Keller, Treuchtlingen, Berlin 2002. (p. 174)
  4. ↑ Barbara Stadler: Pappenheim and the time of the Thirty Years War . Winterthur 1991, p. 20.
  5. ↑ Hans Schwackenhofer: The Reichserbmarschalls, Counts and Lords from and to Pappenheim: on the history of a Reichsministerial family . Keller, Treuchtlingen, Berlin 2002, p. 175.
personal data
SURNAME Pappenheim, Veit too
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Reichserbmarschall
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1535
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwindegg
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1600
Place of death Wildbad near Wemding