Friedrich III. from Hertingshausen

Friedrich III. von Hertingshausen († 1422 ) was a Hessian knight.

Friedrich, from the North Hessian family of those von Hertingshausen , was a member of both the Knight League of Falcons, founded in 1385, and of the Knight League of Bengler, founded in 1391 as a successor . He was best known for the fact that in 1400, together with Count Heinrich VII. Von Waldeck and the knight Kunzmann von Falkenberg and others, he accepted the candidate for the German royal crown, Duke Friedrich von Braunschweig, undesired by the Archbishop of Mainz , Johann II. Lüneburg , slain. Duke Friedrich had been proposed at the prince's day of Frankfurt at the end of May 1400 as anti-king to Wenceslaus of Luxembourg . Since Archbishop Johann II preferred to see his own candidate Ruprecht von der Pfalz on the throne, all parties left in disagreement. On his way home on June 5, 1400, Duke Friedrich was attacked by Heinrich von Waldeck and his cronies near Fritzlar , near the present-day village of Kleinenglis , and slain in battle. The so-called Kaiserkreuz von Kleinenglis, made of sandstone, has stood at the murder site since the 15th century .

Friedrich von Hertingshausen is sometimes associated with Hertingshausen in the Wohratal , because, as is well known, he fought several times in this area for pay. However, it is more likely to be assigned to the village of Hertingshausen near Kassel , today part of the city of Baunatal . Less likely, but not to be ruled out, is a connection with today's Hertingshausen desert near Züschen in the Schwalm-Eder district .

literature

• Georg Landau : The Hessian knight castles and their owners . Second volume. Luckhard, Kassel 1833, p. 221–231 ( online in Google Book Search).

Web links

• History of the Kaiserkreuz von Kleinenglis