Friedrich III. (Leiningen)

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Coat of arms of the Leininger family

Friedrich III. von Leiningen († 1287 ), who after the acquisition of the Lorraine Dagsburg also Friedrich III. von Leiningen-Dagsburg , carried the title of Count von Leiningen from 1237 until his death.

family

Friedrich III. was the older son of Count Friedrich II. († 1237), the progenitor of the second lineage of Counts in Leiningen and his wife Agnes von Eberstein , sister of Count Eberhard IV. von Eberstein and cousin of St. Hedwig . His brother Berthold von Leiningen officiated as Bishop of Bamberg , another brother, Heinrich von Leiningen , was Bishop of Speyer , which office her uncle Konrad von Eberstein held before ; the great uncle Poppo von Meran was also bishop of Bamberg.

After the father died in 1237, the Speyer bishop Konrad V von Eberstein divided the Leiningen county between Friedrich III. and his brother Emich IV. , who founded the Landecker line. The Leiningen coat of arms with the three eagles appears for the first time on the seal of the certificate of division.

In 1245 at the latest, Friedrich married Countess Adelheid von Kyburg , cousin of King Rudolf I of Habsburg , niece of the Metz bishop Jakob von Lothringen and granddaughter of Duke Friedrich II. Of Lorraine . The only descendants were Friedrich IV and Konrad, who was mentioned only once in a document in 1281 as a witness.

Reign

The family castle Altleiningen became the common property of the two brothers, but since Friedrich III. did not want to live in it with his brother Emich IV, he built Neuleiningen Castle not far from it from 1238 to 1241 . He probably also founded the Battenberg Castle opposite . During his reign, the dispute with Limburg Abbey over the building of the Hardenburg ended in 1249 .

Friedrich III. was able to significantly expand the domain and the rights of the Leininger. The bishop of Strasbourg initially refused the count the fief of the Lorraine county of Dagsburg, including the castle of the same name, to which he claimed after an inheritance. Only when Emperor Friedrich II campaigned in favor of the Leininger was the fiefdom transferred to the Leininger in 1241. In 1242 Friedrich von Kurköln acquired the fiefdom of the Bailiwick of Guntersblum .

In 1254 the Count joined the Rhenish League of Cities ; however, his brother Emich fought on the other side. A comparison ended the differences between the two siblings in 1256.

His relative, King Rudolf I of Habsburg enfeoffed Friedrich III. 1274 with Lindelbrunn Castle and in 1275 transferred the office of bailiff in Speyergau and the protection of the Otterberg Abbey to him . In 1277 Friedrich was a royal district judge. 1278 he was Pfalzgraf Ludwig II. As Burgmann in Alzey used and 1281 King Rudolf appointed him viscount in Hagenau .

Count Friedrich seems to have made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land as early as 1271 , since on September 6th of that year the Dominican Father Johannes, Archbishop of Tire , gave him various relics for the Höningen monastery in the Worms diocese and the admirers of the Sanctuaries or the benefactors of the monastery, subject to the consent of the local bishop, granted an indulgence .

Friedrich died in 1287 and was buried in Höningen . The year of his wife's death is not known.

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 - splendor - decline. Grünstadt 1983, pp. 16-17

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Genealogical website about the wife
  2. ^ Franz Xaver Glasschröder : Documents on the Palatinate Church History in the Middle Ages , Munich, 1903, page 201, document regist No. 481
personal data
SURNAME Friedrich III.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedrich III. von Leiningen (full name); Friedrich III. from Leiningen-Dagsburg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Leiningen
DATE OF BIRTH 12th century or 13th century
DATE OF DEATH 1287