Alexander L Wolfhardt

ALEXANDER WOLFHARDT, (No. 1, page 1324) the great-grandfather of Anna Katharina Wolfhardt Schwab, was born about 1556, the eldest son of Michael Wolfhardt and Agnes Hunn. He was deacon in Cannstatt in 1579, pastor in Struempfelbach 1583, deacon in Nuertingen 1585, prelate and abbot in Alpirsbach in the Black Forest in 1609, where he died the 22 August 1622. He married at St. Georgen, 7 December 1579, ELEANORE RENZ, the daughter of HEINRICH RENZ (Renz family, page 1318) and MARIA GRAETER. In 1599 Heinrich Renz and his wife retired from his work as abbot of the monastery of St. Georgen to the home of their daughter, Eleanore, and son-in-law, Alexander Wolfhardt, in Nuertingen, where Heinrich Renz died in 1601. His wife was living with the Wolfhardts in the monastery at Alpirsbach when she died in 1620