Wolf of Homburg

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Bronze epitaph of the knight Wolf von Homburg in the Minster of Our Lady in Radolfzell. Work of the Ulm gunsmith Hans Algaier . Wolf von Homburg was the last of his tribe, which is why his coat of arms, two black stag poles on a gold background, is depicted overturned.
Honburg coat of arms (bottom center) in the Ingeram Codex

Wolf von Homburg (incorrectly or, according to the old spelling, von Honburg ), (* before 1524 ; † October 22, 1566 ) was a nobleman and knight from the Homburg family in Hegau and based on the ancestral castle Homburg . The Homburgers also owned Staufen Castle and probably also at Homburg Castle near Liptingen . Wolf von Homburg was Vogt of Engen and Tuttlingen .

In 1565 Wolf von Homburg sold his rule to his son-in-law Hans Konrad von Bodman . He himself died a year later in Radolfzell, with no descendants entitled to inherit, where a bronze epitaph in Radolfzeller Münster still commemorates him. Wolf von Homburg is mentioned (for 1524) in the chronicle of Andreas Lettsch . Together with the city council of Schaffhausen and the knight Walter von Laubenberg , he is mentioned as a mediator of the peasant uprisings in the Landgraviate of Stühlingen ; No results were obtained.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see photo (from a book from 1877)
personal data
SURNAME Homburg, Wolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Honburg, Wolf von (misspelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Knight
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1566