Florian Geyer
A member of the old Franconian noble family von Grumbach (a branch of the Wolfskeel Uradel family), he was born in Rimpar near Würzburg, and having passed some time at the court of the Hohenzollern margrave Casimir of Bayreuth, fought alongside the princes during the German Peasants' War in 1524 and 1525.
In the aftermath of the Battle of Frankenhausen, the peasant leader Florian Geyer was one of the last survivors of Thomas Müntzer's army. During the night of 9 June 1525, he was contacted in Würzburg by two servants of his brother-in-law Wilhelm von Grumbach (reportedly including Christoph Kretzen of the Grumbach-Zobel affair below), who had the stated intention of helping him rekindle the rebellion. While travelling together, they stabbed Geyer to death in the Gramschatz Forest near Grumbach's hometown.
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