Wolf Dietrich von Gemmingen (1550–1601)
Wolf Dietrich von Gemmingen (* 1550 ; † September 18, 1601 ) was the prince-bishop's councilor , court master and caretaker at Kupferburg as well as margrave Baden-Durlach's councilor and lieutenant colonel . He was in command of the Upper Baden occupation .
Life
He was a son of Dietrich IX. von Gemmingen (1517–1586) and Lia von Schellenberg († 1564). As a soldier he was initially in the service of Otto von Eberstein in the Netherlands, in 1588 as a captain in the service of Margrave Ernst Friedrich , then lieutenant colonel and governor of Baden. He was in command of the Upper Baden occupation . Margrave Ernst Friedrich awarded him the Order of the Blue Band . He later became court master of his brother, the Eichstätter Prince-Bishop Johann Konrad von Gemmingen and caretaker to Kupferburg. He died in 1601 while hunting with the margrave.
His tomb is preserved in the church of St. Maria Magdalena in Tiefenbronn .
family
He was married to Ursula von Neuneck (1560–1626).
Progeny:
- Karl Dietrich (1583–1629) ⚭ Maria Crescentia von Neuhausen († 1621), Susanna von Stotzingen
- Christoph (1584–1594)
- Bernhard (1585–1591), canon in Eichstätt
- Maria Anna (* 1588) ⚭ Karl von Freyberg zu Haldenwang
- Katharina (* / † 1591)
- Johann Konrad (1593–1627) ⚭ Margaretha Anna von Stein
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stocker (1895) writes “Kupferburg”, on the gravestone also quoted by Stocker it says “Kuppenburg”.
literature
- Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family Chronicle of the Barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, p. 330/331. online at the Heidelberg University Library
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| SURNAME | Gemmingen, Wolf Dietrich von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt, court master, Baden-Durlach councilor and lieutenant colonel, commander in the occupation of Upper Baden |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1550 |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 18, 1601 |