Hans Konrad Thumb of Neuburg († March 25, 1555) was Württemberg's Erbmarschall. Edit LifeQualtext
He was the son of the Erbmarschalls Konrad Thumb of Neuburg (1465-1525) and came to the court of Duke Ulrich of Württemberg at a young age, but later he had his residence at Stettenfels Castle near Heilbronn. He married 1513 Margaret of Adelsheim († 1528). Even after Duke Ulrich murdered Hans von Hutten, the man of his sister Ursula Thumb of Neuburg, in 1515, Hans Konrad and his father Konrad were loyal to the duke. In the expulsion of Ulrich from Wuerttemberg in 1519 he followed this to Mömpelgard and was later on the ducal order in Switzerland, in order to acquire troops there for Ulrich's reconquest of Wurttemberg. After a dispute with a secretary of the Duke, Hans Konrad was transferred to Austrian service. In the peasant war in 1525, he solidified with the insurgent peasants and thereby saved the parental property from destruction. In the midst of the uprisings he inherited the rule of Stettenfels with Gruppenbach as well as Stetten in the Remstal and Aichelberg, in March 1525, on the death of his father in March 1525, besides the Wurtmarische Erbmarschallenamt. He sold the rule of Stettenfels to Wolf Philipp von Hürnheim in 1527, but retained the original hereditary lords' office. In 1529 he was admitted to the Swabian League. From 1530 he promoted the Reformation in Köngen and Stetten. After the return of Duke Ulrich in 1534 he had a high position within the Wuerttemberg government. In 1541 a break with Duke Ulrich took place, which accused Hans Konrad of the sympathy for his son, the later duke Christoph. Hans Konrad lost the Erbmarschallenamt and stood in the Schmalkaldian war on the side of the Emperor. He died in 1555 and was buried in the church of the Kings. He had his last residence on the castle Hammetweil near Neckartenzlingen, which had been acquired in 1542, and which up to the present remained in the family possession of the Thumb of Neuburg.
The marriage with Margaret of Adelsheim resulted in a son and three daughters. His son Konrad was once again reunited with the Erbmarschallenamt in 1553. Edit source text Standard data (person): GND: 117360139 (PICA, AKS) | VIAF: 54923850 Wikipedia People Search
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