"In his suit against the Constofel zum Hohensteg (1514-1523), Philips Hagen challenged the society's right to admit to and exclude from their social functions as they pleased, a liberty closely connected with the independence of the corporation from interference in its internal affairs. Philips was the grandson of Frantz Hagen, a wealthy merchant of Strasbourg and veteran of the Burgundian wars, who was ennobled by Frederick III in 1478. Neither Frantz, nor his son, also Frantz, nor Philips could gain entry to a Constofel.
On 5 July 1514, Philips Hagen appeared uninvited at a dance in the hall Zum Hohensteg, where, after the second dance, four prominent members persuaded him that his health would be better served by immediate departure. Depart he did, after some hot words, and promptly brought suit against the society for damage to his honor (Ehrenverletzung) and for refusal to acknowledge an imperial patent of nobility. The Constofel won the case before the court of first instance.
The Constofeln certainly had no valid legal argument against Hagen's claim to be noble. Besides his family's patent, Hagen stressed the fact that his father had lived nobly for thirty years and "also through his whole life was regarded and honored as a nobleman". His wife, Barbara von Falkenstein, was a noblewoman, and one of his female relatives, Magdalena Hagen, married successively a Bock von Erlenburg and a Böcklin - families whose noble status was unchallengeable. So good were the Hagen claims that, after the suit was finished, Philips's son, Marx Hagen, joined a Constofel and served in the senate as a patrician. The Hagen had just as honorable a status and just as good a set of credentials as the Wurmser, who were also Briefadel of very recent creation and had entered the patriciate without much difficulty."
Hij is getrouwd met Barbara von Falkenstein.
Ze zijn in de kerk getrouwd voor 1503.Bron 3
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