Wolfgang von Pappenheim

Epitaph by Wolfgang von Pappenheim in the collegiate church in Bad Grönenbach

Epitaph of Margareta von Roth in the collegiate church in Bad Grönenbach. Wife of Wolfgang von Pappenheim

Wolfgang von Pappenheim († 1558 at Kalden Castle near Altusried ) was imperial councilor and from 1539 Reichsherbmarschall from the von Pappenheim family .

Life

Wolfgang von Pappenheim was the son of Wilhelm I von Pappenheim and his wife Magdalena von Rechberg . He was married to Margareta von Roth († 1555). From 1539 he was the eldest of the entire von Pappenheim family and in the same year received the fiefdom from Elector Johann Friedrich I of Saxony as eldest. In 1541 he received from Elector Johann Friedrich I the promise that the road from Nuremberg to Augsburg should run via Pappenheim . He was in the service of Emperor Charles V for 16 years and took part in the Reichstag in Augsburg in 1548 . He owned the Rotenstein , Kalden and Polsingen castles . From 1554, Wolfgang von Pappenheim lived at Kalden Castle, where he also died in 1558.

The epitaphs of Wolfgang and Margareta are both placed in the collegiate church of St. Philipp and Jakob in Bad Grönenbach .

progeny

Conrad von Pappenheim (* 1534; † July 30, 1603), died in captivity in Tübingen

∞ Catharina von Lamberg (* 1541; † 1599)

Wolfgang II. Von Pappenheim (* November 27, 1535 - † March 6, 1585)

∞ Magdalena von Pappenheim († June 24, 1602)

William III. von Pappenheim († 1550), died at the imperial court in Vienna in 1550 (other sources according to 1590) without descendants and was buried in the Michaelerkirche in Vienna
Christopher III. von Pappenheim (born March 21, 1538 - † January 13, 1569), died fighting for the Huguenots in France
Philipp von Pappenheim (* 1542, † 1619), he led the Reformation in Grönebach a

∞ Ursula von Ellerbach

∞ Anna von Winneberg and Beilstein (* 1570; † September 30, 1635)

Magdalena von Pappenheim ∞ Bernhard von Ellerbach († before 1570)
Veronica von Pappenheim ∞ Ferdinand von Freyberg - Justingen

literature

Hans Schwackenhofer: The Reichserbmarschalls, counts and gentlemen from and to Pappenheim . Walter E. Keller, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-934145-12-4 , pp. 158-159 .
M. Johann Alexander Döderlein: Historical news of the very old high-priced house of the imperial and the realm marshals of Palatine, and the married and dermahligen realm hereditary marshals, lords and counts of Pappenheim, etc. Johann Jacob Enderes, Hoch-Fürstl. privil. Book dealer, 1739, p. 232–236 ( full text in Google Book Search).

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Pappenheim, Wolfgang von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pappenheim, Wolfgang I. von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	imperial council from the noble family von Pappenheim
DATE OF BIRTH	15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH	1558
Place of death	at Altusried