Disibodenberg contract
The Disibodenberg Treaty was a contract in the Wittelsbach house , which was signed on February 21, 1541 between Pfalz-Simmern and Pfalz-Zweibrücken as presumptive heirs of the Electoral Palatinate and the electoral dignity . He was the first of several contracts within this family, in which the succession and inheritance were regulated. The Disibodenberg Monastery served the negotiating parties as a consultancy center. Kurpfalz itself and the other agnates were initially not informed of the content of the contract.
Involved
The negotiators were Johann for the Pfalz-Simmern line and Ruprecht as guardian Wolfgang for the Pfalz-Zweibrücken line . The Chancellor of Two Bridges, Jakob Schorr von Hasel , played a key role in drawing up the treaties . He was first a land clerk, later chancellor and secret secretary.
The conclusion of a contract had become necessary because the extinction of the Palatinate line of the Wittelsbach family was in sight. The marriages of Ludwig V , Friedrich II. And Ottheinrich , who belonged to the Heidelberg branch of the Wittelsbach family, had remained childless. The house contract of Pavia of 1329 determined for the house of the Wittelsbachers that, according to the primogeniture, only a male heir of the house could become a successor. This fact was also mentioned in the will of Alexander , Wolfgang's grandfather.
Content of the contract
Both lines, Pfalz-Simmern and Pfalz-Zweibrücken, should try to keep the cure for themselves with the combined strength of the spa line. The contract regulated the planned division of the Palatinate possessions. Pfalz-Simmern, as the older line, was to receive the cure, Pfalz-Zweibrücken for compensation, the rest to be divided in half. Only two years later, in 1543, with the birth of Georg Johann, the branch of the Veldenz family began and with Pfalz-Veldenz another line of the Wittelsbach family appeared as potential inheritors. Georg Johann later argued that from that moment the Zweibrücken branch split into two and thus Pfalz-Zweibrücken and Pfalz-Veldenz were each entitled to a quarter of Ottheinrich's inheritance.
On October 3, 1543, another, the so-called Marburg Treaty , was decided and another ten years later, in 1553, the Heidelberg Succession Treaty became necessary. The Kurlinie died out in 1559. Friedrich von Pfalz-Simmern received the electoral dignity, Wolfgang von Pfalz-Zweibrücken received the Principality of Pfalz-Neuburg , the so-called Young Palatinate , that had been created a generation earlier . Georg Johann von Pfalz-Veldenz received the county of Lützelstein .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Theodor Julius Ney: Schorr, Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 384-386.
- ↑ Hans Becker, Klothilde Haselmaier, Marianne Groh: Der Geistkircherhof, Die "Geiskerch". A historical review - a centenary - a 65th anniversary - a reunion ( memento of the original from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Chronology of the Geistkircherhof , in: Saarpfalz. Sheets for history and folklore , 2000/4, Ed .: Saarpfalz-Kreis, Homburg 2000, p. 22f.
- ^ Paul Kittel: George Jean par la grâce de dieu comte palatin du rhin, duc de bavière, comte de Veldenz et de la Petite-Pierre, fondateur de Phalsbourg . In: Les Cahiers Lorrains , N ° 4, 2002, pp. 340–368, here p. 349
