While I was working out some of the matrilinear connections in the network of the Upper Sponheim Lutheran clergy families, I discovered a new n-times great grandmother called Anna Dorothea Arnoldi who comes from a clan based at Traben that has produced at least ten protestant theologians in the County alone according to the list drawn up by Oskar Penningroth in Monatshefte 1933, p315. I think there are more especially among the more successful descendants who naturally moved away from the area in the pursuit of academic careers. And I haven't even looked at the daughters yet, I think there are a few matrilines to be drawn as well (Penningroth only listed the male line descendants, so only carriers of the family name Arnoldi).
According to Penningroth, the name originates with a weaver called Arnold who died before 1559, so we'll call him generation 1. Penningroth then skips three generations down, only revealing the names of his great-grandsons who wisely sent their sons to study theology at university.
Familysearch fills the gap to an extent, so we have in generation 2 another weaver called Arnold, who died after 1586.
In generation 3 we have Hans Mathies Arnoldi, who was a church master and church censor, so already involved with the church but not educated at University, hence not on Penningroth's radar. Hans Mathies married Magdalena of unknown origin and became the ancestor of lots of theologians through two of his sons:
4.1 Peter Arnoldi (by this time the father's name Arnolds has stabilised as a family name obviously used in the Latin version Arnoldi in church records). He married Margaretha Walrabs.
4.2 Theis Arnoldi born 1612 There's a suspicious gap in the birth years of the six children listed in familysearch, so he may be eg from a different mother. Penningroth says that he was a merchant and also a grandson of the weaver Arnold.
In generation 5 we have
5.1. Johann Justus Arnoldi, Rektor of the Lateinschule at Trarbach;
5.2. Johann Conrad Arnoldi son of 4.1. Peter. Ancestor of our Weiss people, see his CV below;
5.3. Johannes Arnoldi, son of 4.2 Theis.
In generation 6 things start to escalate, as two sons of Johann Justus and three of Johann Conrad follow the call. In the same order as in Penningroth's list (4-8) we have
6.1. Johann Conrad Arnoldi II, shown in the portrait below, who was Rektor of the Lateinschule for 20 years and went on to have a spectacular career after that, see his Wikipedia entry.
6.2. Johann Peter Arnoldi, son of 5.1. Johann Justus
6.3. Johann Philipp Arnoldi, son of 5.2. Johann Conrad I.
6.4. Georg Daniel Arnoldi, son of 5.2. Johann Conrad I.
6.5. Johann Friedrich Arnoldi, son of 5.2. Johann Conrad I. These three are brothers to our ancestor Anna Dorothea Arnoldi and thus uncles to Dorothea Elisabetha Hammes who went on to marry Philipp Nicolaus Ebner (the younger of our two teachers at the Lateinschule Trarbach).
In Generation 7 - as 6.1 Johann Conrad II is now a famous professor at Gießen, his children are leaving the little towns of Traben and Trarbach behind and are moving outside the remit of Penningroth's research. Although he does mention
7.1. Theodor Elias Arnoldi, vicar of Odernheim. Wikipedia is more interested in his brother
7.2. Ernst Christoph Arnoldi, a law professor at Gießen.
His son 8.1. Johann Ludwig Ferdinand Arnoldi (1737-1783) studied theology but ended up becoming a pioneering special needs teacher (compare and contrast with Friedrich Kauer born a century later - both are related to my great-grandmother Helene Kauer).
Meanwhile the lineage of local clergymen staying within the confines of the Upper County of Sponheim continues thanks to 6.5. Johann Friedrich Arnoldi, whose eponymous son
7.3. Johann Friedrich Arnoldi II became the vicar of Goedenroth and was helped there by his son and Adjunctus
8.2. Johann Karl Arnoldi who became the vicar of Nohfelden and later in Brombach, where he retired in 1825.
Biographies:
Johann Conrad Arnoldi I
He was born in Traben and baptised there 24.8.1628.
Matriculated at the University of Strasbourg 25.2.1645.
From 1651 to 1654 he was the vicar of Bergen near Kirn.
From 1654 to 1670 he was Diakon at Enkirch.
From 1670 until his death (1711) he was the vicar of Traben
He married Anna Maria Kemmenah on 12.8.1651. They had ten children, including three sons who went on to become clergymen, see 6.3. - 6.5. above.
Their daughter Anna Dorothea, whose daughter Anna Dorothea Hammes went on to marry Johann Jacob Ebner, was born in 1656
Anna Maria Kemmenah died in September 1690 at age 58.
On 14.8.1691 Johann Conrad married Anna Margaretha Liernur, daughter of the vicar Johann Tilemann Liernur. She died December 1695 aged 58.
On 14.8.1696 he married Maria Margaretha Nees, widow of his colleague Johann Jeremias Honsdorf from Meckenbach.
Johann Conrad Arnoldi died in 1711 and was buried in Traben on the 13.6. of that year.
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