Zeiskam (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the noble family von Zeiskam
Grave slab of Elisabeth Brendel von Homburg , mother of the Archbishop of Mainz Sebastian von Heusenstamm , with ancestral coat of arms from Zeiskam (bottom right); former Patershausen Monastery

The Lords of Zeiskam (also Zaiskam ) were a German noble family that named themselves after the Palatinate village of Zeiskam .

Family history

The family is first mentioned in a document in 960 as Junker Rudolf von Zeiskam, in Dammheim near Landau , with whom the Speyer bishop exchanged a vineyard. It belonged to the environment of the Speyer bishops and the Palatinate electors . In 1232 the knight Heinrich von Zeiskam owned the fourth part of the Rhine crossing at Ketsch , in 1236 Arnold von Zeiskam documented it as a witness in a legal act of the bishopric of Speyer, and in 1250 the brothers Hugo and Kuno von Zeiskam appear in Dammheim as feudal men of Rudolf von Fleckenstein . A Kuno von Zeiskam officiated in 1359 as provost of the Augustinian canons monastery in Hördt .

In 1368 Rudolf von Zeiskam was recorded as a chamber judge from Elector Ruprecht I of the Electorate of the Palatinate , in 1392 as in the service of the Speyer bishop, in 1394 and 1395 as an episcopal castle man on the Kestenburg and in 1396 as one of the executors of Bishop Nikolaus von Wiesbaden's will . When the German King and Elector Ruprecht III of the Palatinate . 1401–1402 undertook an expedition to Italy, he appointed Rudolf von Zeiskam as advisor to Prince Elector Ludwig, who remained in his homeland . When he married the English Princess Blanca , the nobles were sent together with the Palatine court master Johann XI. Chamberlain of Worms († 1415) and cathedral dean Nikolaus Burgmann , to receive the dowry , in 1402 at the royal court there.

Coat of arms of the noble family von Zeiskam on the epitaph of Wilhelm von Löwenstein († 1579), parish church St. Ulrich, Deidesheim

Simon von Zeiskam, probably a brother of Rudolf, served from 1388 to 1392 as bailiff of the Speyer Monastery on the Kestenburg; Heinrich von Zeiskam the old was there in 1391 the bishop's court master and castle man. He received 1408 from Elector or King Ruprecht III. The village and castle of Böchingen became a fiefdom, which the family kept until they died out. In Böchingen there are still several coat of arms tombstones of the Lords of Zeiskam at today's Protestant church. Later Heinrich von Zeiskam was in the service of Count Johann V von Sponheim , from whom he was appointed administrator of Elmstein Castle in 1427 . On the occasion of a long trip in 1429 he appointed him, along with some other nobles, to be the administrator of his county. Simon von Zeiskam acted as bishop of Rietburg in 1440 , Wilhelm von Zeiskam in 1518 as the same in Jockgrim . Another Simon von Zeiskam received a fiefdom from the Speyer bishop in 1472. Neuwindstein Castle in Alsace, as the son-in-law of Count Ludwig von Lichtenberg, had owned the Wasenburg castle there since 1453 . A Rudolf von Zeiskam sat in 1471 as a Nassau bailiff at Frankenstein Castle .

Johann von Venningen († 1432), court master of the Electoral Palatinate, married Margarete von Zeiskam. Their sons together were Johann V. von Venningen († 1478), 1458 to 1478 Bishop of Basel and Jost von Venningen († 1455), German Master of the Teutonic Order . Elisabeth von Zeiskam had married Hans von Helmstatt († 1476), the brother of the Electoral Palatinate Bailiff Weiprecht III. von Helmstatt († 1478) and nephew of the Speyer bishop Raban von Helmstatt († 1439). The grave slab of Elisabeth Brendel von Homburg († 1508), mother of Archbishop of Mainz Sebastian von Heusenstamm , with the ancestral coat of arms of those of Zeiskam is located in the former Patershausen monastery . The Zeiskam coat of arms refers to her grandmother from this family.

Heinrich von Zeiskam († 1562) acted as Episcopal Speyer court master and assessor (judge) at the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer. He was married to Magdalena von Dalberg, daughter of Wolfgang VI. from Dalberg . Heinrich's sister Agnes married Friedrich von Löwenstein and their son Wilhelm von Löwenstein († 1579) was bailiff of the Bishop of Speyer in Deidesheim . His artistically valuable gravestone has been preserved at the local parish church of St. Ulrich , which also has a coat of arms of the Lords of Zeiskam.

Another brother of Heinrich and Agnes is Werner von Zeiskam, 1550–1554 Palatinate-Zweibrückischer Hofmeister and governor in Zweibrücken , 1559 Oberamtmann in Meisenheim . His grandson Wolf Christoph von Zeiskam lived in Dürkheim and died in 1604 as the last male offspring of the family.

The ancestral castle was on Kirchberg , today's place in front of the Catholic Church of Zeiskam, and its remains were still there until 1830. At that time they were demolished in order to build the Catholic schoolhouse. The castle built by the family in Böchingen still exists.

coat of arms

Three horizontal silver bars in a blue shield; Helmet ornament with two wings in the same design and colors, helmet covers blue-silver.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Super User: Chronicle. In: dammheim.com. April 3, 2050, accessed October 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Website on the grave monument of Johann von Dalberg in Oppenheim
  3. ↑ Arnd Reitemeier : Foreign policy in the late Middle Ages: the diplomatic relations between the Empire and England 1377-1422 , Schöningh Verlag, 1999, p. 240, ISBN 3506720430 ; (Detail scan)
  4. ↑ Local history - Böchingen. In: boechingen.de. January 1, 1970. Retrieved October 7, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Wasenburg website
  6. ↑ Website on the history of Burg Frankenstein (last section)
  7. ↑ Website for the grave plate
  8. ↑ See: Stammliste of the von Dalberg family .
  9. ↑ Philipp Gärtner: The family of the knights of Zeiskam , in: Mitteilungen des Historisches Verein der Pfalz , Volume 5, 1875, p. 136; (Digital scan)
  10. ↑ Website for the cath. Zeiskam church with mention of the noble residence