Weiprecht II of Helmstatt

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Coat of arms of the Lords of Helmstatt
Grave slab Weiprechts II von Helmstatt at the Church of the Dead in Neckarbischofsheim

Weiprecht II von Helmstatt (* 1369 - † April 25, 1421 ; also: Weiprecht the boy or Wiprecht von Helmstatt ) was a Palatine councilor and governor in the Oberamt Bretten . He came from the imperial knighthood family of the Lords of Helmstatt and founded the Oberöwisheim branch of the Lords of Helmstatt.

family

Weiprecht II was the son of Weiprecht I von Helmstatt († December 5, 1408) and Anna von Neipperg († 1415). He was married to Elisabeth von Handschuhsheim († 1430), the daughter of Heinrich von Handschuhsheim and Gela von Sachsenhausen. From this connection came seven children: Heinrich, Dompropst zu Speyer , Raban († 14 May 1436), cathedral singer or Dompropst zu Speyer as well as canons of Mainz and Trier , Weiprecht († 24 August 1445), Vogt in the Oberamt Heidelberg , married with Anna von Hirschhorn, niece of the Speyer canon Konrad von Hirschhorn († 1413). In addition, Gertrud, married to Hans Hofwart von Kirchheim , Anna, first married to Konrad von Frankenstein and secondly to Hans Nothaft, as well as another daughter who was married to Peter von Flersheim and another daughter, married to Burkhard von Gebsattel .

The brother of Weiprecht II, Raban von Helmstatt († 1439), was Bishop of Speyer from 1399 and Archbishop of Trier from 1430 ; thus also one of the three spiritual electors of the Holy Roman Empire .

Life

Weiprecht II von Helmstatt was Komtur of the Teutonic Order , he followed his father into the office of bailiff in Bretten around 1392 and from 1409 had high jurisdiction in Oberöwisheim and in 1420 bailiff in Oppenheim . Weiprecht II was Chancellor King Ruprechts of the Palatinate and acted as one of the seven arbitrators in the division of the country among his sons. The successor Elector Ludwig III. he accompanied to the Council of Constance .

Death and remembrance

Weiprecht II found his final resting place in the Church of the Dead at Neckarbischofsheim, which his parents set up as a family burial place . The magazine for the history of the Upper Rhine , Volume XXIV (1872) quotes the Gothic inscription of the grave slab preserved there in the article The graves of the nobles of Helmstatt in the Todtenkirche zu Neckarbischofsheim :

“ Anno domini 1421 ipso the beati Marci evangelist obiit strenuus miles dominus Wipertus de Helmstat, cuius anima requiescat in pace. amen "

His son, the cathedral singer Raban von Helmstatt, donated an annual memorial at Speyer Cathedral for his father in 1434, which is recorded in the younger Seelbuch of the cathedral monastery under the date of death.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical website on Anna von Hirschhorn and her husband
personal data
SURNAME Helmstatt, Weiprecht II of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weiprecht the boy; Helmstatt, Wiprecht from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Imperial Knight and Chancellor
DATE OF BIRTH 1369
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1421