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Subject: Joachim LIEBHARD
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:16:13 -0800

Hello and all that greetings thing,

Now I don't know very much about this character and so I am hoping that some will jump right in and expand the yarn. Oh and yes, mention is to made of some of his friends, which I may or may not tell you about. Well most of you already know Jocks friends.

Joachim was born April 20 1500 in Bamberg, Germany. Nice young fellow, for a Catholic. Now we have all come across a name change which just makes our research all that much harder. Good luck if this man is in your genealogy.

While he was born LIEBHARD he used the name CAMERARIUS. And you thought just a slight spelling change was dificult to follow.

As an aside, the name actually refers to a position within the then Church, that being a chamberlain to the Bishop. Now to really cause consternation, Joachim called himself KAMMERMEISTER. Yes folks from LIEBHARD to KAMMERMEISTER.

He initially taught Greek at Nurmeberg until around 1530 when he and his friend MELANCHTHON went off to a meeting in Augsburg where some true thinking theolgians and scholars were discussing just how things might be sorted out. We end up with the Confession of Augsburg. For those who are interested it is well worth studying as it lines up several things in the reformation nicely.

1541 and we now find Joachim in downtown Leipzig where he remained for most of his life. Sometime in 1535 or 36 he write to a friend of his in Frank (Francis DE VALOIS), who happened to be King at the time, well he beacme King in 1515 but that is another story.

Anywho.. Jock and Frank have a bit of a chat about how it would be nice if both the Catholics and the new Protestants could meld their religious difficulties and just be nice to each other. That was of only minor success.

Later he tried the same deal with Max. Oh you don't know Max ? Well Max was born Maximilian II, one of the HABSBURG tribe. Max was sympathetic in some way privately to the Protestants but his public position was that he would not allow them to go messing about with the locals. Perhaps he didn't want the locals to be heading off to religious meetings instead of working ?

Privately, Max did do some really good things for the future. Things such as allowing the Protestant nobles to worship whoever they liked and even gave consent for Catholic priests to marry.

So back to Joachim.

As was mentioned he played a very important part in the reformation, particularly in Germany and was influential on his good friend Phil.

Oh dear you don't know Phil either ?

Well for now lets just call him Phillip MELANCHTHON, and we need to know about him as he probably played an even greater role in the Reformation and things Protestant than you think. He was, at times, a friend of LUTHER, so there is a hint.

And so the end came for one Joachim LIEBHARD on April 17th, 1574. Yet another of the unsung heroes of the Huguenot / Walloon / Protestant / Catholic reformation.

Kind Regards,
Peter Leroy

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