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meet Conon the contrarian Among the inlaws of Conrad von der Rosen, who came from Strasbourg to settle in Winterburg in the Hunsrück area, we find the vicar and church inspector Johann Conon who gets a lot of praise in texts relating to the von der Rosen family history and also in the Monatshefte, but is vilified in a history of the town of Trarbach. So let's get to the bottom of that: * * * **Johann Conon** He was born around 1542 in Reichenbach (Vogtland). He studied theology in Rostock and Strasbourg, spent two years as an assistant priest in Mundolsheim, Alsace, then became the court priest of the Counts of Winneburg in Beilstein (Mosel). From 1572 to 1575 he was the Diakon (assistant priest) of Trarbach, serving under the very popular priest Heinrich Henning who was the first protestant vicar of that town, which at the time had between 1000 and 1200 residents and was the adminstrative capital of the Hintere Grafschaft Sponheim (Upper County of Sponheim). The town was in principle Lutheran but it appears that some people including Henning had Calvinist inclinations. (Note that Calvinism wasn't recognised in the Augsburg settlement of 1555.) Diakon Conon together with an unnamed Diakon of neighbouring Enkirch wrote a letter of complaint about those Calvinist tendencies to the authorities in Zweibrücken, resulting in the removal of both Henning and the vicar of Enkirch, Heinrich Gallus in 1574. Reporting the events in the book _Trarbach in alter Zeit_ , dating from 1909, author Ernst Schütz creates the impression that Conon acted maliciously against a universally popular parish priest, which at the next "Visitation" from the authorities led to the good people of Trarbach denouncing Conon for all sorts of misdemeanors, such as playing cards and running up debts in the local inns. Apparently he was also fond of hunting and fishing, and a good businessman. As a result of the "troubles in Trarbach" as other sources put it, Conon was moved to a smaller town, Dill, where he became vicar, so it isn't exactly a punishment as he moved to a higher rank in the clergy albeit in a smaller parish. He stayed there for a year, 1575-76. As if to prove that the authorities were really on his side in the troubles he faced, he was then made the court preacher of Birkenfeld and inspector of the districts of Allenbach, Birkenfeld and Herrstein, a role which he fulfilled until 1602 (not sure what happened then?). Mentions of his name in the Monatshefte mostly refer to his official actions as an inspector, such as installing or removing clergymen in various positions around the area, or commenting on their merits, so he appears to have been carrying out his duties as he should. (Although I also recall seeing a statement from someone who was disappointed after following Conon's recruitment recommendation.) Birkenfeld in an engraving after Merian. Source: Wikipedia On 18.12.1600 he held the _Leichenpredigt_ (funeral sermon, a tradition going back to Martin Luther) for Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld in Meisenheim, which has also been published in print. (The count's main claim to fame, I just learned, is that he is the ancestor of the future kings of Bavaria.) Around 1573 he married Anna Gräf (Croef). Their children include: Ursula, who in 1602 married Georg Christmann Nesselius, who from 1600 to 1602 was the schoolmaster and Diakon at Birkenfeld serving under Conon, see his CV below. Their daughter Elisabeth married Johann Conrad von der Rosen, the son of the Strasbourg goldsmith. After Elisabeth died, he married her sister Ursula (blog entry on their descendants coming soon). Hans Konrad 1577, died the same year Margaretha 1578 died 1579 Petrus 1579 Sara 1581 Johannes 1583 died 1602 Christina 1585 Karl 1587 died 1602 Dorothea 1588 Friedrich 1590 * * * And while we're here, I'll add a short bio of his son-in-law, the priest Christian Nesselius, about whom we don't know quite as much. In fact, I have come across an amazing number of such cases where the clergyman's daughter marries another clergyman, often carried on across several generations, like we have in the Weiß Chronicles as well. One could describe this as matrilinear, as the daughter of the Pfarrersfrau (vicar's wife) becomes a Pfarrersfrau again. So in the Weiss Chronicles we have Elisabeth Hammers - Catharina Elisabeth Ebner - Maria Elisabetha Weiß. Which makes sense as this role came with a whole host of social obligations as well and the daughters could be trained for it from an early age. Church historians like Friedrich Back and O. Penningroth are good at pointing out these connections. Watch out for a separate entry on this phenomenon coming soon. Anyhow, here comes Conon's daughter and her husband: * * * **Georg Christmann Nesselius** Born in Speyer From 1600 to 1602 was the schoolmaster and Diakon at Birkenfeld serving under Conon. in 1602 married Ursula Conon, daughter of Johann Conon, his boss. Their daughter Elisabeth Nesselius was born 1606 Winningen 1603-1616 he was Diakon (assistant priest) in Winningen. In these years he had to temporarily take on the tasks of the vicar on two occasions when the position was vacant, but each time he failed to get promoted to get the job permanently. From 1606 to 1607 he had was the acting vicar after Johannes Porta was dismissed. Petrus Merkator, the vicar of Gödenroth was then moved into the position. Merkator died of the plague (which had also killed four of his children within a fortnight) on 28.10.1611. Although the members of the parish supported Nesselius as the permanent replacement, Konrad Greulach was installed in the post in 1613. Protests only subsided when Nesselius became vicar of Winterburg in 1614. Greulach also died of the plague, in 1623. In 1628 Elisabeth Nesselius married Johann Conrad von der Rosen, the son of the Strasbourg goldsmith. On 10.6.1633 he is no longer alive as his daughter Ursula marries Andreas Quinckh from Kreuznach. * * * > Long story short: Conon the contrarian becomes a respectable inspector and his daughter marries his deputy. PS More treasures from the Trarbach book to follow next week. Oh, and a potted history of the town is also in the pipeline. * * * Confused about who is who? - see my new name index for all things family history.

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Shroud of Turin, claimed to be Jesus' burial cloth, contaminated with carrot and red coral DNA An analysis of samples taken from the Shroud of Turin, the cloth thought by some to have been wrapped around Jesus, reveals a rich tapestry of animal and plant DNA. But what does it mean?

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lives of the Caesars Among all the Renaissance humanists and Reformation clerics who followed the fashion of translating their family names into Latin or Greek, some were luckier than others. I think the too blatantly obvious cases like Mercator or Piscator fell out of fashion pretty swiftly. Then there are the too difficult Greek names like Arthopoeus. I guess Caesar is a good middle way as it is memorable and not too trivial. There's also a justification in that the German word and name Kaiser is derived from Caesar, so rather than translating to a posh language, you could say they just reverted their name to its original version. Anyhow, among the multiple clergymen that have popped up in the ancestry of Anna Katharina Andrae, there are also a few called Caesar, and I just can't resist the temptation to write their biographies under the title you see above. * * * **Valentin Konstantin Caesar** (No. 70 in Anna Katharina Andrae's family tree) Born in Suhl, County Henneberg (today Thuringia) 1585 vicar of Sien (Kr. Birkenfeld) 1593-98 vicar of Enkirch (Monatshefte 1914, 321-355) In 1597 he was reported to be not strong enough for this tiring position, so he moved to become: 1598-1600 vicar of Dill Married Sara, no further details of her are known. Their only known child was Catharina Caesar, who married Heinrich Orth (* ca. 1561 at Kirn, + … 1612/15, Braunsberg, see V-30 in the Orth genealogy). He was Amtmann in Merxheim and the son of the second Lutheran vicar of Kirn, Johann Balthasar Orth (IV-43). **Martin Caesar** the vicar of Traben (1585-98), may have been Konstantin's brother or a close relative, as both were born in Suhl, according to the Enkirch article. From 1586-1595, he was the vicar of Traben (the third since the Reformation). In his account of the parish of Traben 1560-1620 (Monatshefte 1917, 3-32), Friedrich Back doesn't say much about his tenure, but has several pages about how his successor Wenzeslaus Fend, vicar from 1595-1598, quarrelled both with him and with schoolmaster Musculus. Part of the problem was that Fend alleged that Martin Caesar was intimate with his maid. It is not clear at all why Caesar was still present at Traben during that period (in a different text, Back claimed he was moved to a place called Franken in the Eifel in 1595). The quarrels became so bad that the intervention of a single church inspector wasn't sufficient to call the vicar to order. In addition to Inspector Jacoby from Trarbach, the Duke also sent Inspector Johann Conon (his CV is coming up next week as it happens) to Traben to sort things out. Eventually, Fend was moved to Allenbach (Hunsrück). In 1599 Martin Caesar was vicar of Irmenach. * * * **Sixtus Caesar** (140.) According to Penningroth, Sixtus Caesar, vicar of Demmingen and Salzungen, is "probably" father to Konstantin Caesar and possibly also to Martin who were both born in Thuringia. I found a Caesar family history where this Sixtus appears as many times great grand uncle, so I'll just adopt him as No. 140. and translate their biography: He was born ca. 1522 In 1537 he enrolled as student at Wittenberg. In 1542 he graduated as a magister, then became parson at Wersternach. After the death of his father in 1543 he looks after his mother and younger siblings. Further positions: 1543 parson at Finningen 1545/46 Planverweser (sounds like a planning admin role) in Löpsingen Diakon in Nördlingen (that is the town that was famously built into the crater a meteorite left 15 million years ago, which kind of provided a degree of natural fortification) 1548 After the Augsburg Interim he moves to Thuringia 1549-1552 vicar at Salzungen Also enrolles at the University of Jena since 1549. 1553/54 Lauffen (Neckar) 1554/55 Kürnbach then Finningen 1558 good report from a visitation at Finningen. 1561 Demmingen 1566 appointed to a positin at the palace of Count Wolfgang of Zweibrücken/Pfalz, possibly in parallel to the position at Demmingen. 1578 celebrates 18 years as vicar of Demmingen, aged 56 1584 presumed to have died as the position is filled anew. Merian view of Nördlingen. Source: Wikipedia Von Martin Zeiller - Scan eines Original Buchs, Gemeinfrei, **Johannes Keyser** (280.) (listed as father of Sixtus and earliest ancestor in this Caesar family tree). Also listed on Gedbas. born around 1480 in Nördlingen. He served first as a Catholic then as a Protestant priest in Harburg / Ries. Married Barbara NN. They have at least ten children. 1518-25 Frühmesser in Harburg (this is a very Catholic thing, with a foundation set up to fund a priest reading the mass before everybody else goes to work) 9.8.1524 Son David Caesar born at Harburg. For the other 9 children there are only estimated birth years (interestingly, one site claims that eight of them were born in 1524). 1525-43 vicar in Harburg and Großsorheim, court preacher for the count Carl Wolfgang of Oettingen at Harburg. 1535 also listed as an assistant preacher in the town of in Nördlingen. From 1538 Kapellan in the Frühmesshaus Großsorsheim. Died 1543. * * * > Long story short: A whole dynasty of clergymen. Unfortunately, not very much is known about the wives of those Caesars! However, in other parts of this network of clergymen I am currentlly unravelling the connections are very much matrilinear, will blog about those separately. What I find absolutely mindboggling is the fact that this is the third lineage that leads us to a protestant priest of the first hour, taking office with the Reformation. Johannes Keyser joins Peter Siegel, the first vicar of Kirn, and Johannes Andreae of Schönbach (the elder). (Oh, and coming up, one Diakon who made himself very unpopular by triggering the removal of a first-hour Lutheran vicar for Calvinist tendencies.) Overall, including the Andreae lineage and the Caesars as possible/plausible ancestors, I now have 14 clergymen in the family tree. Of those, 13 are (possible) ancestors of the five Kauer sisters. One (Peter Siegel) is from their mother's side, the remaining dozen connects via the people mentioned in the Weiß Chronicles, so they are all ancestors of the teacher Christoph Gottlieb Weiß, the father of their paternal grandmother. There may be a couple more hiding in the bushes. Plus quite a few more among the many-times-great uncles (such as David and Martin Caesar, above). * * * Confused about who is who? - see my new name index for all things family history.

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Who Was Lydia in the Bible? Her Story and Role Lydia in the Bible, her story in Acts 16, a seller of purple cloth, the early church in Philippi, and what her faith and actions teach us today.

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