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(3) Christof Weiditz (i)
(b Freiburg im Breisgau, c. 1500; d Augsburg, 1559). Medallist, sculptor and goldsmith, son of (1) Hanz Weiditz (i). From 1523 to 1525 he worked in Strasbourg, from 1525 to 1526 in Swabia (Ulm, Öttingen), and from 1526 to 1529 in Augsburg. In 1529 he travelled to Spain in the retinue of Emperor Charles V, then to the Imperial Diet in Augsburg. In 1530–1 he accompanied the Imperial court to the Rhineland and Low Countries. In 1532 he returned through Nuremberg and Regensburg to Augsburg, where he stayed for a time. After an initial refusal he was admitted to the sculptors’ guild, although his work as a goldsmith provoked guild protests. He probably journeyed to Saxony in 1537 and 1539, and, if the English costumes in his Trachtenbuch (Nuremberg, Ger. Nmus., MS. Hs. Nr. 22474) are his work, he may also have spent some time in England.
Part of the Weiditz family
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