Friedrich IV. (Moers)

Friedrich IV. Von Moers in the register of arms and statutes of the Order of the Golden Fleece (The Hague, KB, 76 E 10, fol. 51r)

Friedrich IV. Von Moers in the book of arms of the Order of the Golden Fleece (Paris, BNF Arsenal 4790, fol. 143)

Coat of arms of Frederick IV of Moers, quartered from the coats of arms of Moers and Saar Werden

Friedrich IV. Von Moers (in the literature partly counted as Friedrich III., * Around 1380; † July 11, 1448 ) was Count von Saar Werden from 1399 to 1418 , governor in the Duchy of Luxembourg and the County of Chiny from 1408 and from 1418 up to his death Count von Moers . His life falls at the time of the greatest development of power in the family.

Life

Friedrich's year of birth is certainly after 1376, the year of his parents' marriage contract, and before 1392. He was first mentioned in a document in 1392, but was still a minor at that time.

He was the eldest son of Count Friedrich III. von Moers (sometimes counted as Friedrich II in the literature) and the Walburga von Saar Werden. His brothers include Dietrich II von Moers , who was Archbishop of Cologne from 1414 to 1463 , Heinrich II von Moers , from 1425 to 1450 Bishop of Munster , and Walram von Moers , who was Bishop of Utrecht in 1434 and Bishop of 1450 Munster was chosen.

Friedrich was born by the family and his maternal uncle, Archbishop of Cologne Friedrich III. von Saar werden , selected to be the successor in the county of Saar Werden, which in 1397 by the death of Count Heinrich III. was done. Half of the county was his mother's inheritance, the claim to the other half was bought from Hildegard, his mother's sister. The Archbishop gave him the amount (a total of 10,000 guilders, 8,000 of which for the purchase and 2000 guilders in cash) for his marriage to Engelberta von der Mark. Friedrich was able to enforce his claim in a feud against the bishop of Metz de Coucy , who had declared the Metz fiefs to be settled and Friedrich refused to grant them. Only the successor Konrad Bayer von Boppard enfeoffed Friedrich on July 1, 1418 with the Metz fief.

On May 12, 1417, his father constituted a family affide by a testamentary disposition (paternal disposition) 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 pass to the next older brother after his death. Under no circumstances should the county of Moers von Kleve "be recognized or received by Lehn." 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, who was provost of Sankt Kunibert in Cologne and resigned in 1418, married and founded the Saar Werden line, which existed until the 16th century.

The inheritance contract with his brother Johann of October 23, 1418 stipulated that Friedrich should call himself "Count of Moers and Saar Werden" in the future, Johann should call himself "Count of Saar Werden and Moers". In this way, ownership and mutual claims were documented. Friedrich was supposed to have the coat of arms of Moers and von Saar Werden squared , as he had done before. The two inheritance contracts of October 23, 1418 contain different information about the new coat of arms of Johann.

The eldest son of Ludwig IV von Lichtenberg (1396–1434), Jakob von Lichtenberg (1416–1480), and Friedrich's daughter, Walpurgis, were engaged to each other as children. When Ludwig IV resigned in 1429 after two serious political defeats in favor of his two sons, he transferred the reign for his rule to Friedrich IV von Saar werden-Moers. He led the reign until 1436.

Friedrich entered the service of the Duke of Burgundy and was employed by him in diplomatic missions that extended across Europe. On November 30, 1431 he was appointed Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece by Duke Philip the Good at the 1st Chapter in Lille (Diploma No. 26). In 1439 he was captain of the Duchy of Luxembourg , which at that time was still formally owned by Elisabeth von Görlitz as a pledger, and over which the Burgundian Duke Philip had argued for years until he was able to take over the government in Luxembourg in 1443.

Friedrich IV. Von Moers died on July 11, 1448 and was buried in Sankt Pantaleon in Cologne .

family

Friedrich was married to Engelberta von der Mark, a daughter of Adolf III. von der Mark , Count von Kleve , and Margareta von Jülich, who outlived him by ten years († Cologne December 7, 1458). He had five children with her:

Vincenz († 1499), canon in Cologne until 1437, then Count von Moers; ⚭ Anna von Pfalz-Simmern-Zweibrücken
Walburgis († 1459), wife of Baer and Lathum; ⚭ 1. Count Jakob von Lichtenberg , ⚭ 2. Wilhelm von Egmond (1412–1483)
Margareta († 1453), ⚭ Gerhard von Loen , Herr zu Jülich , Count of Blankenheim ( Spanheimer )
Johanna († 1461), ⚭ Jakob I. Graf von Horn († 1488) ( Haus Horn )
Klara († 1459/61), 1448/58 Abbess of Sankt Quirin in Neuss

literature

Hans-Walter Herrmann : History of the County of Saar Werden up to 1527. 2 volumes, Saarbrücken 1957–1962, also dissertation, Saarbrücken 1959

Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 .

Raphael de Smedt (ed.): Les chevaliers de l'ordre de la Toison d'or au XVe siècle. Notices bio-bibliographiques. (Kieler workpieces, D 3). 2nd, improved edition. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-631-36017-7 , pp. 57-60, no. 25.

Walter Janssen: Moers, Gf.en v .. In: Lexikon des Mittelalters , Volume VI, 2003, column 714

Detlev Schwennicke : European Family Tables , Volume 29, 2013, Plate 94

Web links

Commons : Friedrich IV. Von Moers - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

^ Herrmann, Saar Werden, Vol. 1, p. 269, Certificate No. 690 of April 14, 1402
↑ Herrmann, Saar Werden, Vol. 1, p. 326, Certificate No. 874 of July 1, 1418
↑ ^a ^b Herrmann, Saar Werden, vol. 1, p. 327ff., Documents no.877 and no.878, both from October 23, 1418
^ Fritz Eyer: The territory of the Lords of Lichtenberg 1202-1480. Investigations into the property, the rule and the politics of domestic power of a noble family from the Upper Rhine . In: Writings of the Erwin von Steinbach Foundation . 2nd edition, unchanged in the text, by an introduction extended reprint of the Strasbourg edition, Rhenus-Verlag, 1938. Volume 10 . Pfaehler, Bad Neustadt an der Saale 1985, ISBN 3-922923-31-3 , p. 33 (268 pages).

predecessor	Office	successor
Friedrich III.	Count of Moers 1418–1448	Vincenz

personal data
SURNAME	Friedrich IV.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Friedrich von Mörs; Friedrich von Mörß
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Count of Moers
DATE OF BIRTH	between 1376 and 1392
DATE OF DEATH	July 11, 1448

[1] Herrmann, Saar Werden, Vol. 1, p. 269, Certificate No. 690 of April 14, 1402

[2] Herrmann, Saar Werden, Vol. 1, p. 326, Certificate No. 874 of July 1, 1418

[ReferenceA-3] Herrmann, Saar Werden, vol. 1, p. 327ff., Documents no.877 and no.878, both from October 23, 1418

[4] Fritz Eyer: The territory of the Lords of Lichtenberg 1202-1480. Investigations into the property, the rule and the politics of domestic power of a noble family from the Upper Rhine . In: Writings of the Erwin von Steinbach Foundation . 2nd edition, unchanged in the text, by an introduction extended reprint of the Strasbourg edition, Rhenus-Verlag, 1938. Volume 10 . Pfaehler, Bad Neustadt an der Saale 1985, ISBN 3-922923-31-3 , p. 33 (268 pages).