He and his children might form the missing links in some of the suggested lineage conjunctions between forefather “Mostel b’ Josef Schaffhausen mi Nürnberg” and his further known descendants.
[NB: his birth may be in or after 1531, the year of his grandfather Moshe’s death — JG]
>1559 earlier he had been staying in Brackenheim [a town situated in the Stuttgart Region, 15 km SW from Heilbronn]
>1559 Frankfurt (ET ®27, Gw 1559-27.IX): “nennt Moses v. Brackenheim, sohn d. 1559 oder 58 gestorben Isak z Einhorn — der anschd. z Beerdigg ss. Vaters in Frft war” (he came from Brackenheim to Frankfurt and was at the funeral of his father).
>1559 Frankfurt (ET ®27, CR) In that same year a report of a “Frevelklage zwischen Mosche, Juden von Brackenheim und Lev, Juden von Dornburg. Zeuge is Abraham neben d. Hecht und seine Frau Fromet” [Dornberg is at 5 km NW of Bielefeld]
1560 Frankfurt — he is mentioned “Moises Jude von Aschaffenburg” in several protocols and documents concerning the claims he with some of his brothers did file against Johann Bucher, Götz zum Spiegel and Gottschalk und Mosche zum schwarzen Ring [NB: the last two were brothers of Blum z Einhorn, the second spouse of their father Isaac] — also in 1561 and 1562 the claims are reported being still not fully paid off.
>1561/62 Petershagen — he “Schutzverwandten Moises Juden” is strongly backed up in his claims through three letters to the Frankfurt Council by his client and patron the (Arch)bishop of Minden, Bremen and Verden, Georg von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (b.1494, d.1566)
>1562 Petershagen — a remarkable letter in hebrew italics, from him and his wife and daughter to their family in Frankfurt was intercepted in Minden by the governing authorities ®48; so the this letter has never reached his family in Frankfurt, but was put away in thet own-archives — NB: this ‘Minden-Letter’ is an unique and important archival find giving a noteworthy insight in his private and commercial situation — and also genealogically, giving cause for drastic revisions and adjustments of earlier (proposed) lineages of the first Goldschmidt generations [cf]
>1563 Minden — his relative (“Vetter”) is the frequently mentioned as “Moises Jude der Junger”, who had been imprisoned in 1562/63, then went bankrupt and died before March 1565.
1566 Minden — seemingly Moyse/Meissis [in this matter strangely spelled as “Meister”] is sent to Vienna by the town Council as representative/messenger to the imperial administation of Maximilian II.

his children [derived from the context of the ”Minden-letter” ®48 — their stage of life and whereabouts in 1562, with deduction of thier age]:
# NN, (b. abt 1545) a married daughter staying in or near Petershagen
# Mele (b. abt 1550) with a proposed marriage candidate still staying with her parents in Petershagen
# Josef (b. abt 1551) “lerning”, while staying with his teacher reb Lipman in Verden
# Lev (b. abt 1553) “lerning”, staying with Moyse’s uncle NN, his teacher in Frankfurt >>
# Hirts (b. abt 1556) can’t write yet, also staying with Moyse’s uncle NN, his teacher in Frankfurt
# ? still another, younger son might be 0ne “Isaak” who later has been living in Petershagen, between 1671 and was at the end of the 16th century (1599 april 3) mentioned without patronym or surname [cf ®48 p.276, note 7, referring to 2 archive documents] — if this Isaak was Moyse’s son indeed, he must have been born after the death of his Grandfather Isaak Achaffenburg in 1559.

# “meinem Onkel” who in Moyse ’s letter referred to as the teacher of his young children in Frankfurt — Who of the elder familymembers living in 1562 in Frankfurt might be this Uncle? — it must be a brother-in law of Moyse’s father Isaac Goldschmidt Aschaffenburg z Einhorn — or maybe an uncle of Moyse’s wife, about whose identity is no detailed info — Possibles to be considered are:
>(a) Jossel b’ David z goldenen Schwan, the husband of Isaac’s younger stepsister Shprintz b’ Mostel. Known under his wife’s surname Goldschmidt he was a highly esteemed merchant, later falling into fatal disfavour. But his misfortune had not yet commenced in 1562 [cf his record].
>(b) Jacob b’ Maier segal mi Minden zu Blume, no family of Isaac, but maybe an uncle of Moyse’s wife. He was well respected as the “Vormund” (Guardian or Custodian) of several children of early deceased parents [cf his record]; also of Moyse’s youngest stepbrother Merdche/Mordechai, who had become an orphan when shortly after the death of Isaac also his mother Blum had died in 1560.
> NB: Blum’s brothers are no “possibles”, as they were in sharp conlict with Moyse and his brothers about the heritage.

>After 1566 there is no more info about Moyse Petershagen and all his family members afore-mentioned, exept his son Lev — cf>>

NB: In some genealogies this Moyse Petershagen is by now regarded as the missing link in the lineage between forefather “Mostel b’ Josef Schaffhausen mi Nürnberg” and several of his descendants, in particular the Jewish residents of Witzenhausen mentioned on the “Schutzjude” Lists since 1618: “Schmull”, “Liebman oder Lev” and “Benedikt” [all in varying spellings] — According to a Genealogic version (cf on the Geni website) Moyse Peterhagen’s son “Lev” (b. ca 1553) is considered to be the same person as the afore-mentioned “Liebman oder Lev”, who then would be the father of “Benedikt” and a brother of “Schmull”. This direct link seems rather improbable. More plausible would be a lineage with the insertion of an extra generation, via another son of Moyse, e.g. “Josef” (b. ca 1551, mentioned in the letter). But just as plausible (and uncertain) are several totally different lineage conjunctions — for instance along Moyse’s brother Baruch b’ Isaac, or Moyse’s uncle Josef b’ Mostel, or even via Moyse’s aunt Shprintz b’ Mostel — [cf the records of those familymemebers]

further work-out in due time