Wipert von Finsterlohe

Coat of arms of the noble von Finsterlohe family

Wipert von Finsterlohe († August 5, 1503 in Speyer ) was a canon in the prince-bishops of Speyer and Würzburg , whose epitaph has been preserved in the Speyer Cathedral .

origin

He came from the old Franconian noble family of the Lords of Finsterlohe (also Finsterloh or Vinsterloh), which named itself after its ancestral seat Burg Finsterlohr and was already based in Laudenbach near Weikersheim at that time .

Life

Epitaph in the crypt of the Speyer Cathedral

Epitaph inscription

Wipert von Finsterlohe was born as the son of Peter the Younger von Finsterlohe and his wife Anna geb. Sable from Giebelstadt . He came from Laudenbach because he enrolled at the University of Erfurt in 1471 as "Wibertus Vensterloh de Laudenbach" . In 1475 he was domicellar at the Würzburg cathedral monastery , and since 1501 cathedral chapter and cantor .

Finsterlohe first appeared as a canon in Speyer in 1478 and was accepted into the cathedral chapter on July 26, 1482 . He was part of the deputation that brought a gift from the Speyer clergy to the cardinal legate Raimund Peraudi on February 15, 1502 .

Death and remembrance

Wipert von Finsterlohe died on August 5th, 1503 and was buried in the Speyer Cathedral, where a sandstone epitaph was dedicated to him, which is now in the southern cathedral crypt. The canon is depicted on it (face cut off), and the stone also bears the family coat of arms. The inscription reads: "Anno domini 1503 the Oswald obiit venerabilis dominus Wypertus de Finsterlohe canonicus et cantor Herbipolensis ecclesiae" . Finsterlohe donated a memorial for himself in the cathedral and left 200 guilders, of which a mount of olives was to be built near the cathedral. A year after his death, the cathedral chapter made the appropriate decision and commissioned the monument. It was created from 1505 by the sculptor Hans Seyfer from Heilbronn , south of the cathedral and still exists (damaged) today.

literature

Konrad von Busch and Franz Xaver Glasschröder : choir rules and the younger sea book of the old Speyer cathedral chapter. Volume 1, Speyer 1923, pp. 379-380

Individual evidence

↑ Website on the history of Finsterlohr
^ Albert Schwartzenberger: Der Oelberg zu Speyer: A contribution to art history , Speyer 1866, pp. 10-11; (Digital scan)

personal data
SURNAME	Finsterlohe, Wipert from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Finsterlohe, Wypertus de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German nobleman and canon
DATE OF BIRTH	15th century
DATE OF DEATH	August 5, 1503
Place of death	Speyer

[1] Website on the history of Finsterlohr

[2] Albert Schwartzenberger: Der Oelberg zu Speyer: A contribution to art history , Speyer 1866, pp. 10-11; (Digital scan)