Weiprecht of Gemmingen (1608–1680)

Weiprecht von Gemmingen (born October 21, 1608 in Oppenheim ; † March 21, 1680 at Hornberg Castle ) was the landlord of Hornberg Castle, in Treschklingen , Rappenau , Babstadt , Michelfeld and Wolfskehlen and Burgmann zu Oppenheim. He was also a knight's councilor in the knight canton of Kraichgau and from 1654 until shortly before his death he was a knight captain of the knight canton of Odenwald .

Life

He was one of the sons of Reinhard the Scholar (1576-1635) from his first marriage to Anastasia von Helmstatt (1579-1614). He received his upbringing after his mother's death from Pastor Weinmann in Brackenheim , whom he and his brothers followed to the Paedagogium illustrious in Stuttgart . Together with his brother Wolfgang (1610–1658) he studied in Tübingen and Leyden . His studies included geology , astronomy and fortification art, and he also learned Italian, French and Spanish. After graduating, he devoted himself to various trips, but then returned to his sick father. He then joined the regiment of Count von Zyllnhardt and then worked for Count Kraft von Hohenlohe, the governor-general of the Swabian and Franconian knight circles. After the Battle of Nördlingen in 1634 he left the military to take care of the preservation of his goods , which had been battered by the Thirty Years' War . After the death of his father in 1635, from whom he inherited the Hornberg, he was elected to the knight's council of the knight canton Kraichgau and the knight canton Odenwald, from 1654 he headed the canton Odenwald as captain. In 1675 he was able to increase his property, which had been plundered by many, to include Rappenau mit Treschklingen, which he inherited from Eberhard von Gemmingen (1628–1675).

He suffered a stroke in 1678 and died two years later at Hornberg Castle . He was buried in the church of Neckarzimmern .

His property was initially administered jointly by the sons Erpho (1641–1688), Weiprecht (1642–1702), Uriel (1644–1707) and Reinhard (1645–1707), then shared in 1688. Hornberg came to Erpho, who died that same year. Weiprecht received the property in Oppenheim and Wolfskehl, Uriel received Rappenau, Reinhard Treschklingen.

family

Weiprecht von Gemmingen was first married from 1639 to Anna Benedicta von Gemmingen-Fürfeld († November 2, 1647), her second marriage from 1649 to Catharina von Hohenfeld († January 16, 1665) and her third marriage to Sabina von Wollmarshausen.

• Erpho (1641–1688) ⚭ Maria Rosamunde von Liebenstein
• Weiprecht (1642–1702), acquired property in Fränkisch-Crumbach through marriage and founded an older line there that became extinct after a few generations
• Uriel (1644–1707), landlord in Rappenau
• Reinhard (1645–1707), landlord of Hornberg ⚭ Maria Elisabetha von Neipperg (1652–1722)
• Eberhard (1647-1648)
• Ludwig Friedrich (* / † 1650)
• Clara Anastasia (1651–1732) ⚭ Georg Friedrich von Schmidberg, she became court master of Princess Hedwig Sophie of Denmark

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Emil Künzel: The Barons of Gemmingen (-Hornberg) in Bad Rappenau , in: Bad Rappenauer Heimatbote 8 , 1996, p. 8.
2. ↑ Leopold Nedopil: German Adelsproben from the Deutscher Ordens-Central-Archive, Volume 1, 1868, p. 288.
3. ↑ Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden, Section 126 No. 564 (January 21, 1665, letter from Weiprecht von Gemmingen to his brother-in-law Achaz von Hohenfeld)

literature

• Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family Chronicle of the Barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, pp. 254-256.
• Anne and Helmut Schüßler: Treschklingen - From the knightly Kraichgaudorf to the district of Bad Rappenau. City of Bad Rappenau, Bad Rappenau 2004, ISBN 3-936866-02-3 , p. 46.
• Walter von Hueck: Lineage of the Barons von Gemmingen , Limburg an der Lahn 1966