Beppler, Johannes 1502

1585 - 1662  (77 years)

• Name	Beppler, Johannes
  Suffix	1502
  Born	1585	Kinzenbach, Hessen, Germany
  Gender	Male
  Misc	1628	Nassau , Germany   [1]
  	Johannes (miller at Kintzenbach) and his brother Johannes Otto (miller at Dorlar) wrote
  	Dear highly-born nobleborn, mighty, highly and wellborn count, dear gentleman, We are your servants in duty bound, obedient, most humble in your service. Your Grace, we would like to address you in all humility, that we have been suffering for many years because of having to quarter your troops, and beyond that, having to quarter the passing soldiers. That we are completely devastated and exhausted. The mills of your grace are always ruined destroyed and devastated, battered - that we have had to save our wife and children often by escape. Yes, such a shame and such misery can hardly be explained. And there is no end of this. Because we have to deliver or contribute every week, together with other people of the village, a portion of our belongings and our store. We have to give it to the quartered cavalry. And we won't be able to continue like this in the future. And in addition to these contributions, there are even more demands. Especially because the quartermaster wants to have, on a weekly basis, from each of us, a portion from the mill and a portion from our possessions and such contributions shall be given from Your Grace's mills. We are not able to fulfill this because we already suffer hardship due to the other contributions. Also the mill can't bear such weekly demands from us, it can't take them any longer. Also, without the wherewithall to suffer twice. Here comes the humble request to your grace that there be proclaimed a general edict, that we should be liberated from such severe demands on Your Grace's own mills, liberated. Also because we have already many expenses from reconstructing the ruined smashed and abandoned mills in order to bringing them back into working condition. So they will work again. And here something must happen, to bring justice. And we remain your grace's humble servants. Gleiberg, 23 January 1628, your grace, your humble millers, Johannes Bepler of Kinzenbach Johannes Otto Bepler of Dorlar Kinzenbach house #99 "Schreinersch" Behind the town hall #3 Where are
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  Died	9 Oct 1662	Kinzenbach, Hessen, Germany
  Person ID	I18202	Peplers and Peplows | 1502 Descendents of Johannes Beppler of Kinzenbach
  Last Modified	22 Feb 2016

  
  

  Father	Beppler, Adam 1502,   b. 1560, Kinzenbach, Hessen, Germany ,   d. 1603  (Age 43 years)
  Mother	Catharina
  Family ID	F6237	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anna Catharina,   b. 1585,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	6 Apr 1607	Kinzenbach, Hessen, Germany   [2, 3]
  Children	1. Pepler, Anna Judith 1502,   b. Abt 1620, Kinzenbach, Hessen, Germany ,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Beppler, Adam 1502,   b. 1621, Kinzenbach, Hessen, Germany ,   d. 1685, Kinzenbach, Hessen, Germany  (Age 64 years)   3. Bepler, Hans Otto 1502,   b. 1620, Kinzenbach, Hessen, Germany ,   d. 5 Sep 1675, Kinzenbach, Hessen, Germany  (Age 55 years)   4. Beppler, Johann Konrad 1502,   b. Feb 1610, Kinzenbach, Hessen, Germany ,   d. 19 Jul 1669, Heuchelheim, Hessen, Germany  (Age ~ 59 years)   5. Beppler, Wilhelm 1502,   b. 1615, Kinzenbach, Hessen, Germany ,   d. Yes, date unknown   6. Bepler, Johann Ludwig 1502,   b. 1618, Kinzenbach, Hessen, Germany ,   d. 1688, Rodheim-Bieber, Hessen, Germany  (Age 70 years)   7. Beppler, Anna Catharina 1502,   b. 1630, Kinzenbach, Hessen, Germany ,   d. Unknown   8. Beppler, Conrad 1502,   b. 1625, Kinzenbach, Hessen, Germany ,   d. 1677, Kinzenbach, Hessen, Germany  (Age 52 years)
  Last Modified	6 May 2023
  Family ID	F6236	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Born - 1585 - Kinzenbach, Hessen, Germany Married - 6 Apr 1607 - Kinzenbach, Hessen, Germany Misc - Johannes (miller at Kintzenbach) and his brother Johannes Otto (miller at Dorlar) wrote - 1628 - Nassau , Germany Died - 9 Oct 1662 - Kinzenbach, Hessen, Germany  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S272] Website, http://www.squidoo.com/peppler-family[6/26/2012 7:37:49 AM]. The 1628 letter from "The Undersigned Millers" to the Count of Nassau This was sent to me by Emmi Odenwald. The translation is directly below. The millers' letter of 1628, translated. Ruth von Bernuth, Assistant professor of Early modern German Literature and Culture at UNC-Chapel Hill, is in my Yiddish class and was kind enough to translate this letter for me over the phone! Before we get to the letter, here are some of her observations; 1. The millers probably went to their pastor and asked him to write this letter for them. It is in the Baroque German style - that's like early high german, but the convoluted rhetoric, the use of three synonyms and/or repeating each thought three times is characteristic of the Baroque style whichbecame very popular in the early 17th century. 2. Millers were considered outsiders - not really a part of farm society. "You can't control a miller. You had two sacks of corn when you went to the mill, they give you back two sacks of flour, but who can really tell how much they took for themselves? Millers were regarded as untruthful people. So, because they already have such a bad community image, they would not be complaining unless they had a really good reason..." 3. This letter was written in the middle of the 30-Year War, which devastated the German countryside. There were villages existing before that war that are completely gone, they were wiped out and couldn't start again. The countryside was full of soldiers: French, Swedish, the different German factions - it was the battleground for all kins of troops. The French people didn't suffer as much because all the troops went into Germany. The Swedish stayed for a century. Millers were particularly vulnerable because the mills were located outside the village, where they couldn't be protected, and the millers couldn't protect themselves - they had no right to carry a sword because they weren't nobles. 4. The Count to whom they were writing probably couldn't help them. [S487] German trees fom Jane Peppler, Kinzenbach tree. [S500] Email from Katharina Kopsch, 25 July 2015.