Emich IX.
Emich IX. from Leiningen-Hardenburg ; Earlier count Emich VIII. (*?; † February 18, 1535 ), was a regionally important Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg .
biography
Origin and family
Emich IX. was born as the son of Count Emich VIII von Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg († 1495) and his wife Anna von Apremont . His older sisters Beatrix and Anna both became Benedictines in 1482 in the Marienberg zu Boppard monastery .
Life
Count Emich IX married around 1470. with Agnes von Eppstein-Münzenberg († 1533), daughter of Count Gottfried XII. von Eppstein-Münzenberg and his wife Walpurga von Salm .
With the death of his father in 1495, he took office. After some disputes, smaller parts of the County of Leiningen-Dachsburg-Hardenburg fell to the younger brothers Hesso and Friedrich in 1501. Hesso became lord of Apremont and Friedrich inherited Ormes .
In 1495 Emich IX appears. and his brothers on a list of participants in the Diet of Worms . There the establishment of the Reich Chamber Court was decided and an eternal peace was sworn. Count Emich IX. was belligerent and determined. Despite the peace, he quickly became involved in numerous feuds with neighboring territories. Because the Electoral Palatinate had already refused fiefs to his father, there was also a tense relationship with this state. Looking ahead, the Leininger had his headquarters in Hardenburg strengthened and expanded. He also rebuilt Emichsburg, which had been destroyed in 1460, in Kleinbockenheim in 1502 .
As 1504, the Landshut War of Succession broke out and Elector Philip of the Palatinate with the imperial ban was proved to Emich IX rose. immediately against him. He crossed the Electoral Palatinate with Landgrave Wilhelm II of Hesse and left a trail of devastation , especially on Bergstrasse . The historian Johann Georg Lehmann quotes in Volume 3 of the documented history of the castles and mountain palaces in the former districts, counties and lordships of the Bavarian Palatinate , from Bernhard Hertzog's “Chronicon Alsatiae” from 1592: “(He) allowed himself to be unplayed through his vengeance Seduce cruelty; only smoking debris marked his train and boundless misery was his entourage, so on this occasion he acquired the not honorable designation of a fire chief who knew no pity for the poor and afflicted. "
No sooner had Count Emich IX. devastated the Palatinate , he also attacked the Limburg monastery , with whose abbot Machar Wais von Fauerbach († 1509) he also led disputes, which is why he placed himself under the protection of the Electoral Palatinate. At the end of August 1504, he set fire to the then 500-year-old monastery and willfully burned it down. In order to cause the greatest possible damage, the fire was maintained artificially for 12 days. The facility was never rebuilt and has remained in ruins to this day. The destruction happened despite the fact that the Leiningen people had been the convent's guardians from ancient times and also owned their family graves there.
In 1506 and 1507 preliminary comparisons were made with Limburg Abbey and the Electoral Palatinate. During this time (1504-08) Count Emich IX built a new burial chapel of his family because of the destroyed family burial on the Limburg, built on the southeast side aisle of the Dürkheim Castle Church . It is a late Gothic building with two gables, a saddle roof and ribbed vault, which is spatially connected to the church. It has existed to the present day and several Gothic tombstones and Renaissance epitaphs belonging to the family have been preserved inside . In 1926, when the crypt was opened, the remains of a total of 9 people buried here were found. In 1509 the Leininger took the charitable foundation of the Dürkheim citizen Valentin Ostertag († 1507) under his protection.
Emperor Maximilian I declared King Ludwig XII in 1512 . of France the war. It was a question of fighting within the Holy League against the expansionist policy of France. Despite strict imperial prohibitions, Count Emich IX. the French king immediately offered his support and recruited many followers in the empire. The emperor imposed the imperial ban on the Leininger, who is also still with Ludwig XII. and got into a completely confused situation.
The county was occupied and Emich IX. could neither live with his family nor enter the Reich territory. He stayed as an exile in Ormes and other places, but also tried to gain Swiss citizenship, which he was denied. After many hardships and lengthy negotiations, the emperor lifted the figure eight in 1518, which allowed the Leininger to return home. The county was in dire straits as a result of his troubled living conditions. Probably for this reason he granted his sons Emich X. and Engelhard co-government in 1519 and he retired to Dagsburg . There he attacked Metz merchants in 1523 and imprisoned them in the castle. Kaiser Karl V asked Emich to be released. When he refused this, the emperor again imposed the imperial ban on him, from which he was only exempted in 1525 after many humiliations and considerable compensation.
children
In 1529 the sons Emich X., Engelhard, Ludwig, Christoph and Hans Heinrich came together in Hardenburg and discussed the rescue of the County of Leiningen-Hardenburg, which their father had brought to the brink of ruin. They vowed that only the eldest of them should marry and that all others should remain single so that the country would be undivided and consolidated again. They kept this contract faithfully and the father withdrew almost completely from government affairs.
The daughter Barbara became a nun in 1522 in Marienberg zu Boppard monastery . Her sisters Margareta and Apollonia also went to the monastery. Apollonia lived as a canoness with the name Scholastika in the Reichsstift Elten , Margareta in the Stift St. Ursula in Cologne . The son Engelhard von Leiningen (1499–1553) was canon in Trier . The only married daughter was Katharina († 1585), who married Count Philip II of Nassau-Saarbrücken († 1554) and then with Johann Jakob I von Eberstein († 1574).
death
In 1533 the wife Agnes died. von Eppstein-Münzenberg and was buried in the new burial chapel in Dürkheim. Count Emich IX. followed her in 1535 and found his last rest at his wife's side. Both grave slabs are preserved in the castle church Bad Dürkheim , that of the count bears the simple saying: "Dem Gott genad" (May God be gracious).
Others
In Hauenstein near the Falkenburg there is the Katharinenkapelle, which is believed to have been donated to atonement by the co-owner of the castle, Count Emich IX., On the occasion of his release from imperial ban.
literature
- Johann Georg Lehmann : Documented history of the castles and mountain palaces in the former districts, counties and lordships of the Bavarian Palatinate , Volume 3, pages 189-217, Kaiserslautern, 1863
- Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal. Bayer. Rhine circle. Volume 2 ( Frankenthal Court District ), Speyer 1838, page 484; (Digital scan)
- Heinrich Conrad: Leiningen, Geschichte einer Grafenhauses , Bad Dürkheim district, 2000, pages 51–56, ISBN 3-00-006579-2
Web links
- Leiningen, Emich IX. Count of. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Genealogical page to Emich IX. from Leiningen
Individual evidence
- ^ Illustrated website for the Gothic parish church of Ormes
- ^ Karl Geib: The sagas and stories of the Rhineland , Mannheim, 1836, page 51; (Digital scan)
- ^ Franz Xaver Remling : Documented history of the former abbeys and monasteries in what is now Rhine Bavaria , Volume 1, Neustadt an der Haardt, 1836, pp. 135-139; (Digital scan)
- ^ Website of the diocese of Speyer on the Katharinenkapelle Hauenstein ( Memento from March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Emich IX. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Emich IX. from Leiningen-Dachsburg-Hardenburg (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Count of Leiningen-Hardenburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 18, 1535 |