Elisabeth von Rieneck

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Grave slab of Elisabeth von Rieneck in Arnsburg monastery. In the upper shield the Hanauer rafters, in the lower the Rieneck beams.

Elisabeth von Rieneck (* around 1260; † around 1300) was the daughter of Count Ludwig III. from Rieneck .

In the dispute between the Archbishops of Mainz and the Counts of Rieneck over power in the western Spessart , Reinhard I. von Hanau stood on the side of the archbishops. The long-lasting conflict ended in 1271 with a victory for the Archbishop of Mainz, Werner von Eppstein . Part of the peace agreement was that Elisabeth, with a rich trousseau , to which the town of Steinau an der Straße belonged, and under her estate (!), Was married to Reinhard I's eldest son, Ulrich I. However, since the family of the groom's mother, Adelheid von Munzenberg , was “only” a ministerial family , it seems to have been a condition that this “flaw” regarding Ulrich I's equality was initially removed. On October 25, 1273, King Rudolf I raised Adelheid to the nobility . On October 2nd, 1272, Elisabeth and Ulrich were engaged to be married. At that time, both were still children or adolescents, because the wedding was not supposed to take place for six years. The biographical data differ from one another in the various references. The dowry of Countess Elisabeth strengthened the position of the Hanau lordship considerably. The exact extent of this cannot be determined - documents on this have been lost.

Joint children of Elisabeth and Ulrich were:

  1. Ulrich II of Hanau (* approx. 1280/1288, † 1346)
  2. Adelheid († before 1325), married to Konrad von Weinsberg
  3. Konrad, benefactor of the Fulda monastery (mentioned in 1343)

Elisabeth was buried in the Arnsburg monastery , the family grave of the von Hanau family. The grave slab is 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 Geschichtsblätter. Vol. 34). Hanau History Association, Hanau 1996, ISBN 3-9801933-6-5 .
  • Otto Gärtner: The Arnsburg Monastery in the Wetterau. Its history - its buildings. = Arnsburg Monastery. Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 1989, ISBN 3-7845-4050-3 .
  • Theodor Ruf: The Counts of Rieneck. Genealogy and territorial formation (= Mainfränkische Studien. Vol. 32, ISSN  1612-4286 = Writings of the History and Museum Association Lohr a. Main. Volume 18). Friends of Mainfränkischer Kunst und Geschichte, Würzburg 1984 (at the same time: Würzburg, university, dissertation, 1983).
  • Theodor Ruf: Hanau and Rieneck. About the changeable relationship between two neighboring noble families in the Middle Ages. In: New magazine for Hanau history. Vol. 8, No. 6, 1986, ZDB -ID 535233-2 , pp. 300-311.
  • Reinhard Suchier : Genealogy of the Hanauer count house . In: Festschrift of the Hanau History Association for its 50th anniversary celebration on August 27, 1894. Heydt, Hanau 1894.
  • 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. Increased edition. Self-published, Hanau 1919 (Unchanged reprint. Peters, Hanau 1978, ISBN 3-87627-243-2 ).

proof

  1. ↑ Call: Hanau and Rieneck. 1986, p. 304.
  2. ^ Reputation: The Counts of Rieneck. 1984, pp. 59f.
  3. ^ Gardeners: The Arnsburg Monastery in the Wetterau. 1989, p. 10
  4. ↑ Elisabeth von Hanau, born von Rieneck, 14th century, Arnsburg. Grave monuments in Hesse until 1650 (as of December 14, 2011). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on September 2, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Elisabeth von Rieneck
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Countess von Rieneck and wife of the Lord von Hanau
DATE OF BIRTH around 1260
DATE OF DEATH around 1300