Ueber das Leben und die Verdienste Johann von Dalbergs

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Wolfgang was knighted in Rome in 1446. Although several other persons of higher rank were present to be knighted, this honor was granted to him before all others. This is based on an imperial Freyheit privilege or freedom that this family received. He married Gertraud Greifenclau von Vollrath, daughter of Friedrich Greifenclau von Vollrath and Adelheit von Langenau, in the year 1444. (7) She was the equally fortunate mother who saw her well-bred son shine for a long time in his dignity as Bishop in Worms, which must have caused her not only honor but also joy. Johann von Dalberg was thus born to these parents, of whom the father died in 1476 and the mother only in 1502.

See Burckhard, original Latin: "Commentarius de linguae latinae fatis in Germania" Commentary on the Fates of the Latin Language in Germany, Part II, page 264. Riegger, original Latin: "amoenitates litterariae Friburgenses" Literary Delights of Freiburg, page 313. In the additions, the dedication by Wimpheling to the same appears in full.

(7) Humpracht correctly notes this year in Die höchste Zierde Deutschlands The Highest Ornament of Germany and the excellence of the German nobility on the 32nd genealogical table. However, on the 15th table, it is incorrect where it says 1446, for his father was already married when he was knighted in Rome, and the son himself was born in 1445.

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