Eberhard III. from Breuberg

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Eberhard III. von Breuberg (* around 1285; † April 19, 1323 ) was governor in the Wetterau .

Grave slabs of Eberhard III. von Breuberg, his wife Mechthild (née Waldeck) and their son Gerlach von Breuberg in Breuberg Castle .

Life

Eberhard came from the Odenwald aristocratic family, the Charme von Breuberg, and was the son of Landvogts Gerlach von Breuberg , whom he inherited in 1306 in his possession and offices. In addition to the rulership of Breuberg in the Odenwald in 1239, the family had acquired an additional property and interest focus in the Büdingen and Wetterau area through marriage , and Eberhard succeeded three members of his house ( Konrad II , Gerlach and Arrois ) as governor of the Wetterau. He held this office under three kings and emperors, first under Albrecht I , then under Henry VII and finally under Ludwig IV.

Eberhard von Breuberg was one of the princes and nobles whom Ludwig IV bound to himself before he was elected king in 1314 and who subsequently served him faithfully. Ludwig commissioned him to protect the city of Frankfurt and its privileges, and in 1317 confirmed to Eberhard that he was enfeoffing the town of Gründau and the Saalhof in Frankfurt am Main with all the associated fishing and shipping rights.

family

Eberhard was married to Mechthild von Waldeck (* around 1287, † after 1340), daughter of Count Otto I von Waldeck (* 1262, † 1305) and Sofie von Hessen (* around 1264, † after 1331), daughter of the Landgrave Heinrich I of Hesse . In 1317 King Ludwig IV allowed him to assign 1000 Marks to his wife Mechthild to the Gründau court and other imperial fiefs as widows' pension.

The couple's only son, Gerlach, died early. Eberhard's daughters and heiresses were Elisabeth, married to Count Rudolf IV of Wertheim (1306-1355) since 1321 , and Lukardis (Lutgard) (* before 1317, † after 1365), married since 1328 to Gottfried V. von Eppstein . As early as 1324, Prince Abbot Heinrich VI confirmed. von Fulda transferring the Fulda fiefdom, which had fallen back through Eberhard's death, to his widow Mechthild and her daughters Elisabeth and Lukardis as well as Count Rudolf von Wertheim as Elisabeth's husband and her male descendants. In 1330, Emperor Ludwig IV also formally enfeoffed the two heiresses with the imperial fiefs of their father.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Residences Commission of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen
  2. ↑ a b Website of the Niedergründau community
  3. ^ Störmer, Wilhelm, City and Office Homburg / Main in the political calculation of the Wittelsbacher, the Luxemburger and the Wertheimer, in: Homburg am Main. 1200 years of Hohenburg. 880 years of Kallmuth viticulture. 550 years city of Homburg, publisher Markt Triefenstein (Würzburg 1981), page 37.
  4. ↑ Staatsarchiv Wertheim, Finding aid for the G-Rep. 1g: Fulda passive loan

literature

  • Fred Schwind : The Landvogtei in the Wetterau. Studies on the rule and politics of the Hohenstaufen and late medieval kings. NG Elwert, Marburg, 1972
  • Wolfgang Bläsing: Gerlach von Breuberg - A study on the relationship between royalty and noble freedom after the Interregnum. In: Contributions to the exploration of the Odenwald and its peripheral landscapes III; Breuberg-Bund, 1980, ISBN 978-3-922903-00-0 . Pp. 1-52

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personal data
SURNAME Eberhard III. from Breuberg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Governor of the Wetterau
DATE OF BIRTH around 1285
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1323