SICKINGEN, FRANZ VON

fränts fən zĭˈkĭngən, 1481–1523, German knight. Placed under the ban of the Holy Roman Empire because of his profitable forays along the Rhine, he served King Francis I of France and then made peace with Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, whose service he entered. His presence with an army near Frankfurt helped insure the election (1519) of Maximilian's grandson, Charles V, as Holy Roman emperor. Influenced by Ulrich von Hutten, Sickingen aided persecuted reformers like Johann Reuchlin and Martin Luther. He led (1522) the knights of SW Germany in a war, sometimes called the Knights' War, against the ecclesiastical princes, aiming at the secularization of ecclesiastical lands. Unsuccessfully laying siege to Trier, he was again put under the imperial ban and was besieged at his castle of Landstuhl by the princes of Trier, Hesse, and the Palatinate. Forced to capitulate, he died of his wounds. His defeat symbolized the end of the power of German knighthood. He appears, much romanticized, in Goethe's drama Götz von Berlichingen and in Wilhelm Hauff's novel Lichtenstein.

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Goethe and Schubert: The Unseen Bond
Book by Kenneth S. Whitton; Amadeus Press, 1999
Subjects: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von--1749-1832, Music And Literature, Schubert, Franz--1797-1828--Songs, Songs With Piano--19th Century--History And Criticism, Songs, German--19th Century--History And Criticism
...1-57467-050-6 1. Schubert, Franz, 1797- 1828. Songs...Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749- 1832. 3...The Goethe Lieder of Franz Schubert...Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Schubert...Geheimes Secret . Franz Schuberts handwritten...Dusseldorf. Charlotte von Stein 1742-1827...
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Reformers in the Wings: From Geiler Von Kaysersberg to Theodore Beza
Book by David C. Steinmetz; Oxford University Press, 2001
Subjects: Reformation--Biography
...led to a breach between the two men, are so significant that Franz Hildebrandt in his book on Melanchthon raised the question whether...Heidelberg, though he did compose a poem in memory of Geiler von Kaysersberg, who died in 1510. In 1512 Melanchthon transferred...
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Goethe's Major Plays
Book by Ronald Peacock; Manchester University Press, 1959
Subjects: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von--1749-1832--Criticism And Interpretation
...and captured, and imprisoned at Heilbronn. There he is brought to trial, during which, however, his friend Franz von Sickingen intervenes effectively with troops and helps him to escape. For a time he remains quietly in his castle, but...
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Paradigms of Political Change--Luther, Frederick II, and Bismarck: The GDR on Its Way to German Unity
Book by Jan Herman Brinks; Marquette University Press, 2001
Subjects: Bismarck, Otto--Feurst Von--1815-1898, Church And State--Germany (East), Communism And Culture--Germany (East), Frederick--Ii--King Of Prussia--1712-1786, Germany (East)--Cultural Policy, Germany (East)--Historiography, Luther, Martin--1483-1546, Nationalism--Germany (East), Political Culture--Germany (East)
...political nature; first, that of the lower nobility under Franz von Sickingen 1523 , then the great Peasants' War, 1525 The Lutheran...demonstrate this. In his article The period of Herrn von Schweitzer in the proletarian workers' movement Bebel...
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The Life of Goethe - Vol. 3
Book by Albert Bielschowsky, William A. Cooper; G. P. Putnams Sons, 1912
Subjects: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von--1749-1832--Biography
...view of style, and Dr. Franz Leppmann of Berlin lent...I.--MARIANNE VON WILLEMER 1...death of his father, Franz became the owner of the...statesman and art-collector von Birkenstock, was amiable...Privy Councillor Herr von Goethe, the greatest...
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Of Scholars, Knights, and Table Manners: Recent German Scholarship
Journal article by Eckhard Bernstein; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 50, 1997
Subjects: Garber, Klaus--Bibliography, Intellectual life--Bibliography, Kuester, Hildegard--Bibliography, Scholzen, Reinhard--Bibliography, Umbach, Silke--Bibliography, Wismann, Heinz--Bibliography
...is a biography of a political figure of that time. Franz von Sickingen may not be a household word in the Anglo-Saxon world...the unpalatable study of the knight by Ernst Kilb, Franz von Sickingen. Das Reich als Schicksal, who interpreted Sickingen...
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Gifts for Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna
Journal article by Alexander Nagel; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 79, 1997
Subjects: Art criticism, Michelangelo (Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni) (1475-1564), Religion, Visual artists
...Reformation. In 1522, for example, Luthers protector Franz von Sickingen acknowledged that church images were all too often...expense that went into them would not be in vain.91 Sickingens cultivated and accommodating sense of decorum was...
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Henry B. Wonham. Playing the Races: Ethnic Caricature and American Literary Realism
Journal article by Kiyohiko Murayama; African American Review, Vol. 41, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Playing the Races: Ethnic Caricature and American Literary Realism (Book)--Book reviews
...time of Marx and Engels, who pointed it out in their well-known letters to Ferdinand Lassalle concerning his drama Franz von Sickingen. In exploring the historical situation in which anomalous ethnic types appeared within works by American realists...


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Burning Words: A History Play
Magazine article by Peter Wortsman; Cross Currents, Vol. 56, Fall 2006
Subjects: Burning Words: A History Play (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Historical drama--Criticism and interpretation, Wortsman, Peter--Works
...the Dominicans. Pfefferkorn declares war on Reuchlin from the steps of the Cathedral. A menacing mob gathers. Sir Franz von Sickingen, a former student of Reuchlins, leads an assault on the Dominican priory, while the ghetto of Regensburg is sacked...


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Sickingen, Franz Von
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SICKINGEN, FRANZ VON frants f n zi king n, 1481 1523...Roman emperor. Influenced by Ulrich von Hutten , Sickingen aided persecuted reformers like Johann...romanticized, in Goethes drama Gotz von Berlichingen and in Wilhelm Hauffs...
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Oecolampadius, Johannes
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...at Altmunster. Martin Luthers teachings won his interest, and in 1522 he acted as chaplain among reformers under Franz von Sickingen at Ebernburg and then returned to Basel to devote himself to the work of the Reformation. He agreed with the views...
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Swabian League
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Duke Ulrich I from Wurttemberg . The league played a leading role in putting down the knights revolt led by Franz von Sickingen , and it helped defeat the peasants in the Peasants War . The dissolution (1534) of the league resulted from...
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Germany
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...unsuccessful attempt of the Imperial Knights under Franz von Sickingen to secularize ecclesiastical domains. Continued unrest...strength in the Reichstag, Bruning and his successors, Franz von Papen and Kurt von Schleicher , failed in their...
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Charles V , Holy Roman Emperor
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...social struggles. The rebellion (1522 23) of Franz von Sickingen was followed by the more serious Peasants...1926, repr. 1972); see also biographies by G. von Schwarzenfeld (tr. 1957) and O. von Hapsburg (tr. 1970...
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