Friedrich II of Brehna and Wettin

Friedrich II of Brehna and Wettin († October 16, 1221 in Akkon ) was Count of Brehna and Wettin .

biography

Count Friedrich II of Brehna and Wettin was the son of Friedrich I of Brehna and Hedwig of Böhmen-Jamnitz. Together with his brother Otto I. von Brehna , he ruled the county of Brehna from 1203 to 1221. Their mother together they donated Brehna as a widow's residence. They also donated the Augustinian convent in Brehna in 1201 , construction of which began on August 14, 1201. When his brother Otto I died in 1203, Friedrich II took over the management of the County of Brehna.

The by the sudden death of Henry VI. The Staufer-Welf throne dispute that was triggered led Count Otto I and Friedrich II von Brehna to the side of King Philip of Swabia . In 1203 there were disputes between the warring parties, which also affected the Brehna area. The Bohemian King Ottokar I Přemysl and Landgrave Hermann I of Thuringia , who had switched to the Guelph side, oppressed the cities of Halle and Magdeburg with their troops in 1203 and devastated Brehna and Wettin. Otto I and his cousin, Count Ulrich I von Wettin , were able to beat their opponents in the battles near Landsberg and Zörbig . Otto I and Friedrich II were present in Halle when King Philip of Swabia issued a letter of protection to Petersberg Monastery on January 22, 1202 . Otto I died on December 23, 1203. He was buried in the Brehna monastery. The County of Brehna was now administered by Friedrich II alone.

Friedrich II stayed at the royal court several times. B. 1204, when King Philip certified the Magdeburg Archbishop Ludolf von Kroppenstedt the right “to collect the taxes to be paid to the Reich in the election of the new bishops and thus to pay off any debts of their predecessors” and on May 20th he was staying in Eger when King Philip issued a certificate for the Teutonic Order . He was present when Margrave Dietrich I of Meißen founded the Eisenberg Monastery in 1212 and the St. Thomas Monastery in Leipzig in 1213 . Together with the Archbishop of Magdeburg Albrecht I von Käfernburg and the Merseburg Bishop Eckehard on July 20, 1216, he arbitrated a dispute that had broken out between Margrave Dietrich the distressed and the city of Leipzig.

Since 1206 Friedrich II was the guardian of the underage Count Heinrich III. from Wettin. With his death at the age of 12 the line of the Counts of Wettin expired, whereby the county fell to the House of Brehna .

On October 6, 1220 his wife Judith died, with whom he had four children. In 1221 he joined the Fifth Crusade , went to see Emperor Frederick II at his court in Taranto and joined the Knights Templar in the Holy Land . He died of an illness on October 16, 1221 in Acre .

Marriage and offspring

From his marriage to Judith († October 6, 1220), daughter of Friedrich von Ziegenhain , he had the following children:

1. Count Otto II of Brehna and Wettin († 1234)
2. Count Dietrich I. von Brehna and Wettin († 1267)
3. Lukardis, nun in the Brehna monastery
4. Son unknown

literature

• Karl August Eckhardt : Genealogical finds for general history. German Law Institute-Verlag Witzenhausen, 1963. Pages 164–190.
• Stefan Pätzold: The early Wettins. Noble family and house tradition up to 1221. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna 1997. Pages 43,68,110,127,129,132,142,149,162,170,196,210,294,332,334,343,345.
• Otto Posse : The Wettins. Genealogy of the Wettin House. Zentralantiquariat Leipzig, 1994. Plate 3, page 46.
• Hilmar Schwarz: The Wettins of the Middle Ages and their importance for Thuringia. Kranichborn Verlag, Leipzig 1994. Page 166.
• Detlev Schwennicke : European family tables. New series Volume I. 1. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1998. Plate 151.
• Andreas Thiele: Narrative genealogical family tables on European history. Volume I, Part 1. RG Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993. Plate 183.

Web links

• www.genealogie-mittelalter.de