Berthold VII.

Seal of Count Berthold VII von Henneberg-Schleusingen in 1315

Berthold VII the Wise (* 1272 in Schleusingen ; † April 13, 1340 there ) was the ruling Count of Henneberg -Schleusingen from 1284 to 1340 .

He was the son of Berthold V. († 1284) and (?) Sophie von Schwarzburg († 1279), daughter of Günther VII. Von Schwarzburg . The Roman-German king and later Emperor Henry VII. Raised him on 25 July 1310 the Diet of Frankfurt in the kingdom prince stood . A year earlier, Heinrich had pledged the imperial city of Schweinfurt to him and granted the right to the imperial castle there. In 1312, through a marriage policy (marriage of his son Heinrich VIII. With Jutta von Brandenburg) he acquired back the maintenance of Coburg for the Henneberg house, which practically doubled his domain.

Berthold was one of the most influential advisers to Emperor Ludwig IV. From 1323 to 1330 he was the guardian of Ludwig the Brandenburger , the eldest son of Emperor Ludwig IV from his first marriage to Beatrix von Schlesien-Schweidnitz , and governor of the Mark Brandenburg .

progeny

From his marriage to Adelheid von Hessen (1268-1317), daughter of Landgrave Heinrich I von Hessen , he had the following children in 1284 :

• Henry VIII († September 10, 1347) ∞ Jutta von Brandenburg
• Johann I (1289–2 May 1359) ∞ Elisabeth von Leuchtenberg
• Berthold, Knight of the Order of St. John , Commander in Kühndorf
• Ludwig, Canon in Magdeburg
• Elisabeth von Henneberg (* before 1318, † December 6, 1377) ∞ Johann II , burgrave of Nuremberg

A second marriage with Anna († 1323), daughter of Count Konrad von Hohenlohe , remained childless.

literature

• Wilhelm Füsslein: Berthold VII. Count von Henneberg. A contribution to the history of the empire in the 14th century , exp. Reprint from 1905, Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna, 1983.
• Georg Rummel: Bertold VII. The Wise, Count von Henneberg: 1284 - 1340. (Dissertation, Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg, 1903) Becker, Würzburg, 1904
• Johann Adolph Schultes : Diplomatic History of the Count's House of Henneberg, Second Part. Hanisch, Hildburghausen, 1791, pp. 11-56
• Georg Brückner :  Bertold VII., Count of Henneberg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 522 f.
• Wolfgang Huschke:  Bertold VII., Count of Henneberg-Schleusingen. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 155 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Janis Witowski: Loyalty and turning away. The Counts of Henneberg and their political relations with Ludwig the Bavarian . In: Journal for Thuringian History . tape 70 . Neustadt ad Aisch 2016, ISBN 978-3-87707-090-1 , p. 31-46 .