Friedrich II. (Leiningen)

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Friedrich II. Von Leiningen , previously Count Friedrich von Saarbrücken († 1237 ), was a born Count of Saarbrücken , was determined to be the heir of the County of Leiningen and from then on called himself Count Friedrich II. Von Leiningen .

biography

Origin and family

Friedrich was born as a later son of Count Simon II of Saarbrücken and his wife Liutgard or Lucarde von Leiningen († after 1239), daughter of Count Emich III. from Leiningen. His brothers were Count Simon III. of Saarbrücken († 1235/40) and the Worms bishop Heinrich II of Saarbrücken († 1234). Agnes, the sister of her grandfather Simon I of Saarbrücken , had married Duke Friedrich II of Swabia as the second wife , whereby she became the stepmother of Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa and the mother of his half-brother Konrad . Therefore, there was an extremely good relationship with the Staufer sex .

Life

The mother Luitgard or Lucarde was the sister of Friedrich I , the last male offspring of the Counts of Leiningen. He died around 1220 and had previously designated his nephew Friedrich von Saarbrücken, his sister's son, as heir.

Oldest known representation of the Hardenburg (around 1580)

Before his appointment as heir, the noble Count Friedrich von Saarbrücken called himself . Declared his designated successor, he built himself a residence (before 1212) near the County of Leiningen, the Hardenburg , which still exists as a ruin. It lay on the floor of the Limburg monastery , whose guardian was his uncle Friedrich I. von Leiningen. However, this covered the illegal construction of the complex on someone else's property, which led to disputes with the abbey, which were only settled in 1290. Since the Hardenburg was built, Friedrich von Saarbrücken has also referred to himself as Herr von Hardenburg .

After Friedrich I von Leiningen died around 1220, the Saarbrücken nephew became the line of succession and was now called Count Friedrich II von Leiningen. He thus became the founder of the second (younger) house of the Counts of Leiningen.

Politically, Count Friedrich II was involved with King Heinrich VII in 1234/35 in the rebellion against his father, Emperor Friedrich II , and tried unsuccessfully to conquer Worms , who was loyal to the emperor, but ultimately submitted to the emperor and thus ensured the continued existence of his dynasty . He had a close friendship with his brother, Heinrich II of Saarbrücken .

Frederick II is regarded as the author of the Minnelied in the Codex Manesse .

Count Friedrich II. Von Leiningen died in 1237 and was buried in the family crypt of the Höningen monastery .

Marriage and offspring

During the uncle's lifetime, Friedrich II married Agnes von Eberstein (daughter of Count Eberhard III von Eberstein), a sister of Speyer Bishop Konrad von Eberstein and cousin of St. Hedwig and Queen Gertrud of Hungary , their daughter who is St. Elisabeth of Thuringia . Eberhard IV von Eberstein , another brother of the bride, owned the Stauf rule in the northern Palatinate , which he had received from his maternal inheritance from the Andechser family , and was the founder of the Rosenthal nunnery there in 1241 .

The couple had at least 9 children, including 7 sons. The most important are: Friedrich III. von Leiningen († 1287), who became the main successor and built Neuleiningen Castle around 1240 , Emich IV. von Leiningen († 1281), founder of the city of Landau in the Palatinate , Berthold von Leiningen († 1285), Bishop of Bamberg and Heinrich von Leiningen , Bishop of Speyer († 1272).

The eldest son was called Simon von Leiningen, but died early (around 1234) and without descendants. His wife Gertrud, from the Dagsburg family, had died before him in 1225, after five years of marriage. As the heir to Count Albert II of Dagsburg, she brought the county of Dagsburg into the marriage, which was initially transferred to her husband, but then to his brother Friedrich III. fell. From this time on he and his descendants called themselves Counts of Leiningen-Dagsburg .

Two other sons were Walram and Eberhard. Walram worked as provost of the cathedral in Worms and provost of St. Guido in Speyer . He had landed in Abenheim received, which he 1284, "to his and his parents' soul consolation" , the monastery Ottersberg bequeathed. Eberhard died as a Dominican in Worms in 1231 and was buried in their monastery cemetery at his own request. His uncle, Bishop Heinrich von Saarbrücken, had the nephew exhumed and buried appropriately in the cathedral cemetery. The order then complained in Rome, whereupon the Pope decreed that the last will of the deceased had to be taken into account, and he was buried again in the Dominican cemetery.

A daughter named Kunigunde had married the nobleman Werner IV von Bolanden . Her son Friedrich von Bolanden also served as Bishop of Speyer from 1272 to 1302. A valuable codex has been preserved from her granddaughter Anna von Bolanden († 1320), Cistercian in the Kirschgarten monastery in Worms .

literature

  • Johann Georg Lehmann : Documented history of the castles and mountain palaces of the Bavarian Palatinate . Volume III: Documented history of the Counts' House of Leiningen-Hartenburg and Westerburg . Kaiserslautern 1857 (reprinted by Pirmasens 1969).
  • Hans Heiberger: The Counts of Leiningen-Westerburg, origin - gloss - decline , Kiliandruck Verlag, Grünstadt 1983, ISBN 3-924386-00-5 , pp. 14-16
  • Heinrich Conrad: Leiningen, Geschichte einer Grafenhauses , Bad Dürkheim district, 2000, pages 51–56, ISBN 3-00-006579-2

Web links

Wikisource: Friedrich von Leiningen  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website on Hardenburg with mention of Friedrich II. As builder ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Heinrich Conrad: Leiningen, history of a count house , Bad Dürkheim district, 2000, page 56, ISBN 3-00-006579-2
  3. ↑ http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz50002.html - Leiningen, Friedrich II.
  4. ↑ https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Friedrich_von_Leiningen
  5. ↑ ibid, page 55
  6. ^ Franz Xaver Remling : History of the Bishops of Speyer , Volume 1, Page 520, Mainz, Verlag Kirchheim and Schott, 1852; Scan from the source
personal data
SURNAME Friedrich II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedrich II of Leiningen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Leiningen, born Count of Saarbrücken
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1237