Wolfgang III Chamberlain of Worms

Wolfgang III Chamberlain of Worms

• Wolfgang III was the second son of Johann XVII's Kämmerer of Worms, which is mentioned from 1390 and fell at the Battle of Bulgnéville on 2 July 1431. Her mother was Anna, daughter of Hans and Guitgin von Helmstatt, who died on June 10, 1466 and was buried in Oppenheim.
• Wolfgang III Chamberlain of Worms, named by Dalberg [Note 1], (September 4, 1426-September 20, 1476), was the court marshal of the Elector Frederick I. From the Palatinate.
• Wolf III. Chamberlain of Worms , named by Dalberg , (1426, 1476) was Hofmarschall of the Palatine Elector Friedrich I. , called the Siegreich, who ruled from 1451 to 1476.
• Wolf III, married Gertrud von Greiffenclau to Vollrad (1502), daughter of Friedrich von Greiffenclau to Vollrad (1401-1462), who became a widower Franciscan , with whom he fathered eleven children. One of these children, Johann von Dalberg , acted as Bishop of Worms and Chancellor of the University of Heidelberg , whose brother Friedrich von Dalberg (1459-1506) was mayor, the brother Wolfgang von Dalberg (1473-1522) official in Oppenheim . Through her daughter Anna Pleikard of Gemmingen became the couple's sister- in-law. [2] The daughters Apollonia, [3] Guda, [4] Margaretha and Gertrudis [5] lived as nuns in the monastery of Marienberg at Boppard , Apollonia acted as abbess . [6]
• In 1452 Wolf von Dalberg moved with King Friedrich III, Holy Roman Emperor to Rome , where for the last time a Roman-German emperor was crowned by a pope, at the time Nikolaus V. Wolf II must have received the knightly strike on the Tiberbrücke .
• This event was recalled at every imperial crown. The imperial herald shouted at every coronation: "Is there no Dalberg there?", Whereupon the Dalberg of the newly crowned Emperor received the knighthood as the first Reichsritter. In Dačice Castle in the Czech Republic there is a large oil painting that paints this event of knighthood on the Tiberbrücke.
• He was Burgmann and mayor in Oppenheim , from 1459 Kurpfälzischer Hofmarschall. On a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, he visited his brother-in-law Friedrich von Greiffenclau, in the Franciscan monastery on the island of Daksa near Dubrovnik .
• Wolf III of Dalberg and his wife are buried in the Katharinenkirche at Oppenheim , where their epitaphs have been preserved.
• Ritter Hanns von Dalberg (d. 1531), lord of the Kropsburg and in St. Martin ( Palatinate ) , with a magnificent tomb in the Martinskirche there, was his nephew.

Spouse

• Wolfgang III married in 1444[ed 3] Gertrude von Greiffenclau to Vollrad (died August 10 1502],buried in St. Catherine's Church in Oppenheim), daughter of Friedrich von Greiffenclau to full bike (1401 – 1462).

Children

• Dieter V (1456 or 1457 - 28 April 1467 in Herrnsheim. At his death, he stayed in Herrnsheim and was buried in the church of St . Peter.
• Wolfgang IV (July 27, 1454-1473) remained unmarried.
• Johann XX. (14 August 1455-27 July 1503 in Heidelberg) was Bishop of Worms from 1482 to1503 and became Chancellor of the Kurpfalz in 1482.
• Frederick VI of Dalberg (February 10, 1459-November 12, 1506; buried in St. Catherine's Church in Oppenheim) was the mayor of the city. He married Catherine in 1480,daughter of Dieter von Gemmingen and Anna of Venningen. She died on February 19, 1507.
• Margareta (died 1521) was a nun at the Marienberg Monastery in Boppard.
• Guda, named since 1464; † 1518[8] was a priory of the monastery of Maria Himmelskron in Hochheim (now Worms) in 1494 to 1506 and later in the monastery of Marienberg in Boppard.
• Dieter VI (1488-February 9, 1530) was given the same name as his older, previously deceased brother of the same name. He married Anna, daughter of Hans and Gertrud von Helmstatt (died 28 August 1528), who was also buried in Wallhausen. Gertrud (died April 7, 1520) was a nun at the Marienberg Monastery in Boppard. [10]
• Wolfgang VI of Dalberg (1473-January 25, 1522) was given the same name as his older, previously deceased brother of the same name. He was a Kurpfälz official in Oppenheim and married Agnes, daughter of Swicker and Margareta of Sickingen. Wolfgang was buried in Oppenheim.
• Barbara, mentioned 1504, nun
• Anna (1458-November 81503 [13])married Pleikard of Gemmingen before 14 September 1477 (died 21 October 1515). Both were buried in Gemmingen . Their grave plates are preserved there.
• Élisabeth Married Hermann von Handschuhsheim.

History

Wolfgang III was the king's castle man and from 1459 Kurpfälz court marshal. He was also mayor of Oppenheim several times, in 1462, 1468 and 1474.

In 1452, Wolfgang III accompanied with eight horses the Romtrain of King Frederick III, who was crowned emperor there by Pope Nicholas V.

He made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, a not uncommon enterprise in thelate Middle Ages. On the way he visited his father-in-law, Friedrich von Greiffenclau, in the Franciscan monastery on the island of Daksa near Dubrovnik.

References & Sources

• Ludwig Lenhart : Dalberg, of (Chamberlain of Worms called Dalberg). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 488 ( digitalisat ).
• Website of the Battle of Bulgnéville, with mention of the Dalberger as a fallen
• Genealogical website for daughter Anna
• Website for Apollonia from Dalberg
• Website for Guda von Dalberg
• Website of Gertrudis von Dalberg
• Johann Christian von Stramberg : Memorable and useful Rheinischer Antiquarius, part 2, volume 16, p. 177, Koblenz, 1869
• Siegrid Düll: The Inscriptions of the City of Oppenheim , p. 47, Reichert Verlag, 1984, ISBN 3882261943
• Website of the tombs in the Katharinenkirche, Unterpunkt 5
• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_II.