Anna von Veldenz

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Ideal portrait of Countess Anna von Veldenz, Julius Zimmermann (1824–1906), oil on canvas, Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Gravestone remnants, Meisenheim Castle Church
State coat of arms of the Kingdom of Bavaria with a blue Veldenzer lion

Anna von Veldenz (* around 1390; † November 18, 1439 in Wachenheim ) was a countess of the second generation of the Counts of Veldenz . She became the ancestor of the Wittelsbach line Palatinate-Zweibrücken and the Bavarian royal family.

meaning

Anna was a descendant of Count Georg I († 1347) and the heir to his great-grandson Friedrich III. , the last Count of Veldenz from the Geroldseck family . Her mother was Margarethe von Nassau-Saarbrücken . Anna's uncle Johann von Veldenz († 1434) served as abbot of the Weissenburg monastery in Alsace .

She had been married to Count Palatine Stefan von Pfalz-Simmern-Zweibrücken since 1409 , whereby the County of Veldenz came to the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken . Anna also brought half of the rights over the undivided county of Sponheim into the marriage, which had fallen to the Counts of Veldenz in 1437; This was predicted by Count Johann V von Sponheim in the Sponheim Treaty (1425) :

(...) Whatever the fact that our cousins ​​mentioned above or they were both departed by our life for death, which God would take a long time, so is our cousin of Marggrau because of his oldest son, and because of our cousin Graff Friderich von Feldentz vnsers Hern Hertzog Steffen eldest son sin grandson eyner vnd not from any tribe, (...)

So her eldest son Friedrich I got the share in Sponheim and his brother Ludwig I got the actual county of Veldenz. Countess Anna made the Veldenzer lion part of the state coat of arms in the Kingdom of Bavaria when her descendants rose to become Bavarian kings in the early 19th century.

Anna died at the Wachtenburg , in Wachenheim in the Vorderpfalz , where she often stayed. She was buried in the previous building of today's Meisenheim Castle Church, which was destroyed in 1461 . A part of her grave slab was found there in 1988 and placed on the south wall of the nave.

ancestors

Descent of Countess Anna von Veldenz
Great grandparents

Count Heinrich II. Von Veldenz († 1378)
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Countess Agnes von Sponheim-Kreuznach (†?)

Count Johann III. von Sponheim-Starkenburg († 1398)
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Countess Mechtild von der Pfalz († 1375)

Count Gerlach I of Nassau († 1361)
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Landgravine Agnes of Hesse († 1332)

Count Johann II of Saarbrücken († 1381)
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Countess Ghislette von Bar (†?)

Grandparents

Count Heinrich III. von Veldenz († 1389)
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Countess Loretta von Sponheim-Starkenburg (†?)

Count Johann I von Nassau-Weilburg († 1371)
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Countess Johanna von Saarbrücken († 1381)

parents

Count Friedrich III. von Veldenz († 1444)
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Countess Margarethe von Nassau-Saarbrücken († 1427)

Countess Anna von Veldenz

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Georg Lehmann : Complete history of the Duchy of Zweibrücken and its princes , Munich, 1867, p. 86; (Digital scan)
  2. ↑ Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal. bayer. Rheinkreises , Volume 2, p. 507, Speyer, 1836; (Digital scan)
personal data
SURNAME Anna von Veldenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Countess of the second generation of the Counts of Veldenz and by marriage Countess Palatine von Simmern-Zweibrücken
DATE OF BIRTH around 1390
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1439
Place of death Guard home