From: "Mike Summerer" Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 Subject: Re: [PFALZ] BROSCHART/BROSCHARD, Wallonens (> Franz von Sickingen 1481-1523) was a military leader in the early >Reformation > The Thirty Years War ended in 1648 I am very interested in the above comment. In a printed genealogy of early GROSSARTH ancestors there is this sentence: "Johann Nikolaus Großarth wurde 1704 von Franz Friedrich von Sickingen seines Amtes als Schultheiß zu Feil bei [unknown] entsetzt weil er als Katholik mit einer luth. Frau verheiratet war und seine Kinder in Glauben ihrer Mutter erziehen ließ. Er wanderte aus und fand auf dem Disibodenberger Hof im protestantischen Herzogtum Pfalz-Zweibrücken eine neue Heimat." This was translated to: "Franz Friedrich von Sickingen dismissed Johann Nikolaus Grossarth from his position of mayor of Feil in 1704 because, he as a catholic, married a Protestant woman and raised their children in her religion. He moved away to the Disibodenberger Hof [near Odernheim am Glan in der Pfalz] where he found a new home in the Protestant Dukedom of Pfalz-Zweibrücken." Could this be a descendant of the Franz von Sickingen (1481-1523) mentioned above? Is there a published genealogy of his family? I am also trying to locate the town of Feil mentioned in the paragraph about Johann Nikolaus Grossarth. There are two in Meyers lexicon: one which is only a few km from Odernheim and a had Lutheran church so it does not seen to fit the other, in Kr. Erstein in Elsass, is a Wlr = Weiler = a very small village. This is certainly a Catholic area, although I did find some evangelische listings in the FHC for this area. Would a "Weiler" have a Schultheiß? How would I find more information about a "Franz Friedrich von Sickingen" who would have been alive in 1704 and had control of a place named Feil? Thanks for any suggestions for where to look, Karen Grossart