Balthasar von Hanau-Munzenberg

Balthasar von Hanau-Münzenberg ( June 29, 1508 ; † December 9, 1534 , in Hanau ) was a later son of Count Reinhard IV. Von Hanau-Münzenberg (1473-1512) and Countess Katharina von Schwarzburg-Blankenburg († 1514 ).

Pedigree of Count Balthasar von Hanau-Munzenberg
Great grandparents	Reinhard III. von Hanau (* 1412; † 1452) ∞ Margarethe von Pfalz-Mosbach (* 1432; † 1457)	Johann IV of Nassau-Dillenburg (* 1410; † 1475) ∞ Marie von Loon-Heinsberg (* 1424; † 1502)	Heinrich XXVI. von Schwarzburg -Blankenburg (* 1418; † 1488) ∞ Elisabeth von Kleve (* 1420; † 1488)	Bruno VIII. Von Querfurt (* 1426; † 1496) ∞ Elisabeth von Mansfeld († 1482)
Grandparents	Philipp I von Hanau-Münzenberg (* 1449; † 1500) ∞ Adriana von Nassau-Dillenburg (* 1449; † 1477)		Günther XXXVIII. von Schwarzburg-Blankenburg (* 1450; † 1484) ∞ Katharina von Querfurt († 1521)
parents	Reinhard IV von Hanau-Münzenberg (* 1473; † 1512) ∞ Katharina von Schwarzburg-Blankenburg (* 1470; † 1514)
Balthazar

For the family cf. Main article: Hanau (noble family)

Balthasar wasn't married. From 1529 he worked as a co-guardian for his nephew, Count Philip III. von Hanau-Münzenberg , whose father died early. In the spirit of his brother, he continued work on the Hanau city fortifications , which were supplemented by a fastening ring according to the latest technical standards of the Renaissance .

Balthasar also died early, as did many male members of the von Hanau-Münzenberg family . He was buried in the choir of the Marienkirche in Hanau. A half-length portrait of him in stone adorned a Hanau city gate until it was demolished in the 18th century. The portrait came into the possession of the Hanau History Association and was destroyed in the bombing raid on the city of Hanau on March 19, 1945. Only drawings have been preserved.

literature

• Reinhard Dietrich: The state constitution in Hanau. The position of the lords and counts in Hanau-Münzenberg based on the archival sources . Hanauer Geschichtsverein, Hanau 1996, ISBN 3-9801933-6-5 , ( Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 34).
• Eckhard Meise : Bernhard Hundeshagen - no monument protection in Hanau in the early 19th century . In: New Magazine for Hanau History 2006, ZDB -ID 535233-2 , pp. 3-61.
• Reinhard Suchier : Genealogy of the Hanauer count house . In: Reinhard Suchier (Hrsg.): Festschrift of the Hanauer Geschichtsverein on its fiftieth anniversary celebration on August 27, 1894 . Heydt, Hanau 1894, pp. 7-23.
• Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau city and country. Cultural history and chronicle of a Franconian weatherwave city and former county. With special consideration of the older time . 3rd increased edition. Self-published, Hanau 1919, (also: Unchanged reprint. Peters, Hanau 1978, ISBN 3-87627-243-2 ).

References

1. ↑ Meise, p. 49