Adelheid von Munzenberg

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Adelheid von Münzenberg († around 1291) was a daughter of Ulrich I von Hagen-Münzenberg . Your year of birth is not known, the year of your death can be deduced from documentary records.

Munzenberg Castle

marriage and family

Around 1243/1245 Adelheid von Münzenberg married Reinhard I. (* approx. 1225; first mentioned: 1243; † September 20, 1281), Lord von Hanau , the progenitor of the Lords and Counts of Hanau . She brought the Babenhausen office , the Bachgau and half of the Umstadt office with her as marriage goods .

From this marriage emerged:

  1. Ulrich I.
  2. Reinhard (mentioned between 1292 and 1299)
  3. Adelheid, abbess of the Patershausen monastery (before 1281)
  4. Isengard , married to Gerhard von Weilnau after 1265 , died before 1281

Elevation of rank

Since the Hagen-Munzenberg family was "only" a ministerial family , there seems to have been doubts about Adelheid's equality . In any case, her son Ulrich later had the king confirm the status of the “ noble free ” for himself and his mother .

Munzenberg inheritance

Adelheid's only brother was Ulrich II von Munzenberg . He united the rich Munzenberg legacy in one hand. However, Adelheid had six sisters:

When Ulrich II von Hagen-Münzenberg died in 1255 without descendants entitled to inheritance, the rich inheritance fell to his six secular sisters who remained. A first inheritance dispute took three years. This Munzenberg legacy was a fundamental event for the territorial development of the Wetterau and the Rhine-Main area in the High Middle Ages , which significantly shaped the territorial structure of this area for the next centuries.

The legacy consisted of the rule Münzenberg , the "county" Assenheim and the rule Hagen ( Hain in Dreieich ) and several smaller possessions and rights.

The inheritance was essentially ideally divided into six parts and administered jointly by the heirs as a condominium . Each of the sisters received a sixth. In the following years, Count Philipp I von Falkenstein bought all of the inheritance - except for the Hanauer - so that Falkenstein now owned 5/6 and Hanau 1/6 of the inheritance. In the course of time there were further inheritance divisions and purchases - in principle, however, this community of heirs remained until the mediatization of the nobility in Napoleonic times, the Munzenberg Castle as private property until the 1930s. For details, see: Munzenberg Inheritance .

death

Adelheid is said to have died around 1291. It was last mentioned in a document on January 3, 1290.

literature

  • Heinrich Dannenbauer : Basics of the medieval world. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1958, pp. 329–353 (350 f.) (Chapter royal family and ministerial. )
  • Reinhard Dietrich : The state constitution in Hanau. Hanauer Geschichtsverein, Hanau 1996, ISBN 3-9801933-6-5 (Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 34)
  • Günter Rauch: History of Hanau . Vol. 1: From the beginnings to the death of Count Philipp Ludwig II of Hanau-Münzenberg (1612) . Hanau 2016. ISBN 978-3-86314-320-6
  • Reinhard Suchier : Genealogy of the Hanauer count house . In: Festschrift of the Hanau History Association for its 50th anniversary celebration on August 27, 1894 . Hanau 1894.
  • Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau city and country. 3. Edition. Hanau 1919 (reprint 1978)

Footnotes

  1. ^ Uta Löwenstein: County Hanau . In: Knights, Counts and Princes - Secular Dominions in the Hessian Area approx. 900–1806 = Handbook of Hessian History 3 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 63. Marburg 2014. ISBN 978-3-942225-17-5 , p. 196 -230 (205).
  2. ^ Rauch: History of Hanau , p. 156.
  3. ^ Rauch: History of Hanau , p. 156.
  4. ^ Suchier, p. 8
personal data
SURNAME Munzenberg, Adelheid von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adelheid von Hagen-Munzenberg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wife of Mr. von Hanau
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH around 1291