| Ancestors of Daniel Rakes the End, Amen! |
| Generation No. 21 1277952. Georg* Spengler, born Abt. 1150 in (probably) Wurzberg, Bavaria; died 1190 in Antioch, Turkey. He married 1277953. Unknown. 1277953. Unknown, born Abt. 1154 in Winsbach, Bavaria. Notes for Georg* Spengler: The first of the family of Spengler who achieved fame was George Spengler, Cupbearer to the Prince-Bishop of the ecclesiastical principality of W�rtzburg, Godfey of Piesenburg, who was also Chancellor to the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. This Bishop and his Cupbearer accompanied the Emperor on his crusade to the Holy Land. The Emperor was drowned 1190 in the Syrian River, Calycadnus, while trying to urge his horse across the stream. His camp was then immediately removed to Antioch, where he was provisionally buried. The Bishop and his Cupbearer died soon afterwards. They were carried off by that dreadful scourge, the plague, which afflicted the crusaders, and were buried in the Church of St. Peter at Antioch. Of those who the Emperor had brought across the Bosphorus, not a tenth, it is said, reached Antioch. The earliest known arms were "Gules, a beaker argent on a trimount or" or in more understandable terms "A red shield emblazoned with a silver beaker resting on three golden hills." The beaker, or covered cup, emblematized the office of Cupbearer held by Georg Spengler in the service of the Bishop of W�rtzburg, 1189. The arms shown in the scrapbook are from a later time, probably after 1300, and show an augmented shield and crest within which the original is still present. Note that the book gives the spelling of his name as George while a more likely spelling for that time and place is Georg. More About Georg* Spengler: Burial: St. Peter's Church, Antioch, Turkey Child of Georg* Spengler and Unknown is: 638976 i. Georg* Spengler, born Bet. 1172 - 1190 in Winsbach, Margravate of Winsbach, Germany; married ? Redlinger. |