Weiprecht I. von Helmstatt
Weiprecht I. von Helmstatt (* 1343 ; † December 5, 1408 ; also: Wiprecht the old ) was Palatine councilor and governor in the Oberamt Bretten . He came from the imperial knighthood family of the Lords of Helmstatt and founded a Weiprecht tribe of the Bischofsheimer line of the family.
family
Weiprecht was the son of Raban von Helmstadt († March 11, 1343) and Adelheid Rüdt von Collenberg . Since 1360 he was married to Anna von Neipperg († 1415), daughter of Reinhard von Neipperg and Mechthild von Gemmingen. From this marriage there were eight children: Conrad († January 6, 1392), Canon of Speyer , Raban (* around 1362 - † November 4, 1439), Bishop of Speyer and Archbishop of Trier , Weiprecht (* 1369; † 1421), Eberhard († 24 August 1404), Reinhard the Elder († 16 November 1399), Hans († 1422) Reinhard the boy († 17 July 1404), and a daughter, with Gerhard Schenck and Mr. Erbach was married .
Life
Weiprecht had together with his brother Raban III. the feudal lordship over Bischofsheim and Helmstadt and from 1368 over three quarters of Obergimpern and Untergimpern . He acquired the sole fiefdom of Bischofsheim from his brother on June 24, 1378. On April 20, 1380 he acquired from Count Rudolf III. von Hohenberg also had a partial feudal right over Flinsbach and in the same year became feudal lord over Gondelsheim .
As an influential councilor from the Palatinate, he was a financier and close confidante of Count Palatine Ruprecht III. , who became King of the Holy Roman Empire in 1400 and in 1401 as an adviser to his son and Imperial Administrator Ludwig III. certain.
The Bischofsheim line of the Lords of Helmstatt was continued by the following sons: Reinhard the Elder ( Ast Bischofsheim ), Weiprecht II and Hans I ( Ast Oberöwisheim-Hochhausen and Ast Grumbach ).
In the Neckarbischofsheim Church of the Dead there is an epitaph for Weiprecht I von Helmstatt. The large grave monument in Gothic style reflects the importance of the deceased.
literature
- Peter Beisel: The old parish church of St. Johann ("Totenkirche") in Neckarbischofsheim. A gem in the northern Kraichgau . In: Kraichgau. Contributions to landscape and local research , volume 20. Heimatverein Kraichgau , Eppingen 2007, ISBN 3-921214-35-1 , pp. 155–161.
- Otto Beuttenmüller : The bailiffs in the Oberamt Bretten . In: Brettener Jahrbuch , Volume 5, 1972/73, pp. 89-96.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Helmstatt, Weiprecht I. von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Helmstatt, Wiprecht I. von; Wiprecht the old man |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Imperial Knight and Vogt |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1343 |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 5, 1408 |