Elisabeth von Hanau († 1475)

Elisabeth von Hanau (* around 1395; † May 25, 1475 ) was a daughter of Ulrich V von Hanau and Countess Elisabeth von Ziegenhain .

family

Pedigree of Elisabeth von Hanau
Great grandparents	Ulrich III. von Hanau (* ca. 1310 - † 1369/70) ∞ Adelheid von Nassau († 1344)	Count Eberhard von Wertheim († 1373) ∞ Countess Katharina von Hohenzollern († 1369)	Count Gottfried VII von Ziegenhain (* before 1360; † 1394) ∞ Agnes von Falkenstein († 1380)	Duke Ernst I of Braunschweig-Göttingen (* 1305; † 1367) ∞ Landgravine Elisabeth of Hesse († 1390)
Grandparents	Ulrich IV. Von Hanau (* 1330/40; † 1380) ∞ Countess Elisabeth von Wertheim (* 1347; † 1378)		Count Gottfried VIII von Ziegenhain (* 1360; † 1394) ∞ Duchess Agnes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Göttingen († 1416)
parents	Ulrich V. von Hanau (* 1370; † 1419) ∞ Countess Elisabeth von Ziegenhain (* 1375; † 1431)
Elisabeth

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

She married Albrecht I. Hohenlohe-Weikersheim von Hohenlohe in 1413 . From this marriage emerged:

1. Kraft V. (* 1429 - † March 31, 1472)
2. Georg (* 1417; † 1470)
3. Albrecht II († 1490)
4. Elisabeth († December 24, 1488), married twice, namely with
   1. Ludwig V of Lichtenberg
   2. Hugo XIII. von Montfort -Rotenfels-Langenargen († October 16, 1491)
5. Anna († September 8, 1440), nun in Klarenthal Monastery , also buried there
6. Adelheid, 1426 nun, presumably also in Klarenthal Abbey
7. Agneta, 1426 nun, presumably also in Klarenthal Abbey

Elisabeth von Hanau died on May 25, 1475 and was buried in the Gnadental monastery.

meaning

Ziegenhainer inheritance

Through her marriage to Albrecht I von Hohenlohe, Elisabeth von Hanau strengthened the family relationship between the Hohenlohe and Ziegenhain houses and the Hohenlohe inheritance claim to the county of Ziegenhain. This was originally created because her aunt Agnes von Ziegenhain († 1399), a sister of her mother, had married Kraft V. von Hohenlohe-Weikersheim .

In 1450 the last Count of Ziegenhain, Johann II , died without a male heir. The county of Ziegenhain had been a fiefdom of the Landgraviate of Hesse since 1437 . The Landgrave of Hesse therefore declared it to have fallen back as a Hessian fiefdom and occupied it militarily. The Hohenlohe family , on the other hand, asserted inheritance claims, which it also derived from Elisabeth von Hanau. It was the Hohenlohern, from Emperor Friedrich III. to be mortgaged with Ziegenhain as an imperial fief. The inheritance dispute lasted until 1495, led to legal and armed conflicts, but ended with the victory of Hesse: Ziegenhain remained with the Landgraviate of Hesse. Albrecht I, Elisabeth and their heirs retained the title of count, which had only come to the Hohenlohe family through the Ziegenhainer inheritance, and continued to use the six-pointed Ziegenhainer star in their coat of arms.

Lichtenberg inheritance

Elisabeth was Anna's grandmother through the first marriage of her daughter of the same name to Ludwig V. von Lichtenberg, who in turn was the parents of Anna von Lichtenberg (* 1442; † 1474). On September 3, 1458 Anna married Count Philipp I, the elder, of Hanau-Babenhausen . In 1480 Philipp I inherited, through her, for the children of their uncle, who died childless and the last male member of the von Lichtenberg family, Jakob von Lichtenberg , together with their sister, who was married to Count Simon Wecker von Zweibrücken-Bitsch , ever half of the dominion of Lichtenberg, which is mostly in Alsace . This territorial gain turned the until then modest county of Hanau-Babenhausen into a respectable territory, which in future bore the name of Grafschaft Hanau-Lichtenberg .

literature

• Barbara Susanne Schöner, The Legal Status of Women in the House of Hohenlohe , Diss. 1963.
• 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.
• Gerhard Taddey , "How the Hohenlohe Counts Were", in: Contributions to regional studies. Regular supplement to the state gazette for Baden-Württemberg . No. 5 (1976), pp. 1-9.
• Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau Stadt und Land , 3rd edition, Hanau 1919, ND 1978.