Friedrich III. (Moers)

Coat of arms of the Counts of Moers

Friedrich III. von Moers (partly counted as Friedrich II in the literature) († 1417 or 1418 ) was Count von Moers from 1373 until his death . The marriage with Walburga von Saar Werden, agreed in 1376, established relationships with the County of Saar Werden, and as a result, the County of Saar Werden came to the Moers family in 1399.

Life

Friedrich was the son of Count Dietrich IV von Moers and his wife Elisabeth von Zuilen, heiress of Baër. After the death of his father in 1372, who had held the title of count for 17 years since 1356, he succeeded him in 1373 and ruled for 45 years.

At the very beginning of his term he received in 1373 three privileges by Emperor Charles IV. , The village Creyfeld ( Krefeld ) to make a market town to keep then two annual fairs in Krefeld and a mint coins in Friemersheim for the knight Johann von Moers. However, the coinage privilege was not used until 1405. With Count Adolf von Kleve († 1394) there were always disputes as to whether the county of Moers was not, as before, a fiefdom of Kleve .

On September 10, 1376, he was married to Walburga von Saar Werden, daughter of Johann II von Saar Werden and his wife Klara von Vinstingen . The marriage came about at the instigation of Walburga's brother Friedrich III. from Saar to come about. As Archbishop of Cologne, he wanted to personally bind the Count of Moers to himself and reduce the influence of Adolf von Kleve, his arch enemy, on the Lower Rhine. When his brother-in-law Heinrich III. von Saar Werden died in 1397 without heirs, Friedrich's eldest son of the same name was given to his maternal uncle, Archbishop of Cologne Friedrich III. von Saar werden, selected to succeed him in the county of Saar Werden, which he took over in 1399. Half of the county belonged to his mother as heir, the claim to the other half was bought from Hildegard, his mother's sister.

Friedrich's government falls at the time of the greatest development of power in the family, benefiting from the ongoing alliance with his brother-in-law, the wealthy and influential Archbishop of Cologne. After his death in 1414 Friedrich was able to experience that his own son Dietrich was elected Archbishop of Cologne.

On May 12, 1417, Friedrich constituted a family affide by a will (paternal disposition) in order to prevent future quarrels between his sons. The inheritance of each son was determined. Friedrich, as the elder, was to receive the county of Moers and the previous county of Saar to be handed over to his younger brother Johann. The land of a son who died without male descendants was to fall to the next older brother after his death. Under no circumstances should the county of Moers von Kleve "be recognized or received as a fief." Meanwhile, the second son Dietrich had been chosen as the successor of his uncle as Archbishop of Cologne, the two youngest sons were sent spiritual and bishop's seats, the daughters should be married appropriately . After the death of Friedrich III. (between May 12, 1417 and October 23, 1418) Frederick IV took over the county of Moers in accordance with the decree and handed over the county of Saar Werden to his younger brother Johann.

progeny

From the marriage with Walburga (also Walpurgis) von Saar Werden the following descendants arose after 1376:

Sons

• Friedrich († July 11, 1448), who continued the line of Moers as Friedrich IV. (In some literature counted as Friedrich III.)
• Johann († July 2, 1431), who founded the Moers-Saar Werden line (as Johann I)
• Dietrich († February 14, 1463), Archbishop of Cologne (as Dietrich II.) And Bishop of Paderborn (as Dietrich III.)
• Heinrich († June 2, 1450), Bishop of Münster and Osnabrück , as Heinrich II. Von Moers
• Walram († October 3, 1456), Bishop of Utrecht and Münster, as Walram von Moers

Daughters

• Anna, married to Count Nikolaus II of Tecklenburg before 1400
• Elisabeth, married to Bernhard VI in 1403 . Lord to the lip
• Walburgis, the youngest daughter, married to Johann III in 1406. Mr. von Heinsberg

literature

• Hermann Altgelt : History of the Counts and Lords of Moers. Bötticher, Düsseldorf 1845.
• Theodor Joseph Lacomblet : Document book for the history of the Lower Rhine or the Archbishopric of Cöln, the principalities of Jülich and Berg, Geldern, Meurs, Cleve and Mark, and the imperial monasteries of Elten, Essen and Werden. Fourth and last volume. Schaub'sche Buchhandlung, Düsseldorf 1858. In it: Genealogy of the Counts of Mörs, pp. XXII – XXV.
• Carl Hirschberg: History of the county of Moers. Steiger, Moers 1904.
• Leopold Henrichs: History of the County of Moers up to 1625. Kaltenmeier & Verhuven, Hüls-Crefeld 1914.
• Hans-Walter Herrmann : History of the County of Saar Werden up to 1527. 2 volumes, Saarbrücken 1957–1962, also dissertation, Saarbrücken 1959.
• Otto Ottsen : History of the city of Moers. Volume 1, 1950. Reprint: Steiger, Moers 1977, ISBN 3-921564-06-9 .
• Margret Wensky (Ed.): Moers. The history of the city from the early days to the present. Volume 1. Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-412-04600-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Altgelt 1845, pp. 20-27
2. ↑ ^{a b} Altgelt 1845, p. 22
3. ^ Herrmann, Saar Werden, Volume 1, p. 269, Regest No. 690 of April 14, 1402
4. ↑ Herrmann, Saar Werden, Volume 1, p. 327ff., Regesten No. 877 and No. 878, both from October 23, 1418.
5. ↑ Altgelt 1845, p. 24

predecessor	Office	successor
Dietrich IV.	Count of Moers 1372-1417 / 18	Friedrich IV.