Friedrich von Zollern (Prior)

Coat of arms of the Counts of Zollern

Friedrich von Zollern (* around 1316 ; † August 1, 1407 ) was Prior of the Order of St. John of Germany from 1392 to 1398.

life and career

Friedrich von Zollern was born around / after 1316 as the son of Count Friedrich von Zollern, known as Ostertag, from the Swabian line of the (Hohen-) Zollern . On July 3, 1327 Friedrich von Zollern received the right to a canon position in Augsburg. He studied in Bologna from 1341 to 1343 and became canon in Augsburg in 1346. A few years later he gave up his canon and entered the Order of St. John under Grand Master Dieudonné de Gozon (term of office: 1346 to 1353). He probably spent the following years in Rhodes and did not return to Germany until 1361. In the division of the parental inheritance among his brothers Friedrich von Zollern called Schwarzgraf and Friedrich von Zollern called Strasbourg in 1362, Count Friedrich von Zollern, our brother the sant iohanser, is also mentioned.

As early as 1361 Friedrich von Zollern (the Johanniter) had received the two commander Rohrdorf and Dätzingen , which he was in charge of until 1384. From 1368 to 1369 he was also commander in Bubikon . In 1371 he switched to the Kommende in Villingen , which he kept until 1395. In 1371 and 1372 he was also commander in Hemmendorf . In 1382 he was one of the signatories of the Heimbach settlement , with which the Brandenburg Ballei of the Order of St. John received extensive autonomy from the order's headquarters. As early as 1392 he was governor of the prior in Germany.

In 1396, almost 80 years old, he took part in the campaign of the then Hungarian-Croatian king and later German king and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire Sigismund and a predominantly Franco-Burgundian crusader army against the Ottomans in the Balkans. After the heavy defeat of the Christian army in the battle of Nicopolis on 25/26. In September 1396 he covered the retreat of the rest of the army with King Sigismund and the Johanniter Grand Master Philibert de Naillac across the Danube down to the Black Sea and into the Mediterranean. In 1398 he resigned from the office of prior of Germany. He is said to have been involved in a campaign to Asia Minor and the conquest of the Bodrum fortress (formerly Halicarnassus) in 1405 . Here the Order of St. John built the fortress of St. Peter, which he was able to hold until the conquest of Rhodes. Friedrich von Zollern died in Rhodes on August 1, 1407, at the age of 90.

literature

Veronika Feller-Vest: Bubikon. In: Bernard Andenmatten (arrangement), Petra Zimmer and Patrick Braun (ed.): Helvetia Sacra, 4th department, volume 7, part 1 Die Johanniter , pp. 135–163, Schwabe Verlag, Basel, 2006, p. 152 / 53.
Walter G. Rödel: The German (grand) priors. In: Bernard Andenmatten (arrangement), Petra Zimmer and Patrick Braun (ed.): Helvetia Sacra, 4th department, volume 7, part 1 Die Johanniter , pp. 51–76, Schwabe Verlag, Basel, 2006, p. 66 .
Rudolf Frhr. von Stillfried , Traugott Märcker (ed.): Monumenta Zollerana. Document book of the House of Hohenzollern. Vol. 1. Berlin, 1852

Individual evidence

↑ Stillfried, Monumenta Zollerana, vol. 1, p. 150, document CCLXXXIX (= 289) online at Google Books
↑ ^a ^b Stillfried, Monumenta Zollerana, Vol. 1, p. 200, CCCXL certificate (= 340) Online at Google Books
↑ Stillfried, Monumenta Zollerana, Vol. 1, p. 244, Certificate CCCLXXX (= 380) Online at Google Books

annotation

↑ Unfortunately, part of the biography of this Friedrich von Zollern described by Veronika Feller-Vest is incorrect. According to the document No. 289 in Monumenta Zolleriana, which she also referenced, there were three Friedrich brothers, sons of the above Friedrich called Ostertag, one of whom was the ruling Count (later called Black Count), the second canon in Strasbourg (later called the Strasbourg) , and the third brother was canon in Augsburg (who later became Johanniter). To further complicate matters, the fact that her caretaker was also called Friedrich von Zollern and that there were other people named Friedrich in other lines of the Zollern period contributed to the further complication.

personal data
SURNAME	Zollern, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Zollern, Friedrich Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	prior
DATE OF BIRTH	14th Century
DATE OF DEATH	August 1, 1407
Place of death	Rhodes

[Stillfried-289-1] Stillfried, Monumenta Zollerana, vol. 1, p. 150, document CCLXXXIX (= 289) online at Google Books

[Stillfried-340-3] Stillfried, Monumenta Zollerana, Vol. 1, p. 200, CCCXL certificate (= 340) Online at Google Books

[Stillfried-380-4] Stillfried, Monumenta Zollerana, Vol. 1, p. 244, Certificate CCCLXXX (= 380) Online at Google Books

[2] Unfortunately, part of the biography of this Friedrich von Zollern described by Veronika Feller-Vest is incorrect. According to the document No. 289 in Monumenta Zolleriana, which she also referenced, there were three Friedrich brothers, sons of the above Friedrich called Ostertag, one of whom was the ruling Count (later called Black Count), the second canon in Strasbourg (later called the Strasbourg) , and the third brother was canon in Augsburg (who later became Johanniter). To further complicate matters, the fact that her caretaker was also called Friedrich von Zollern and that there were other people named Friedrich in other lines of the Zollern period contributed to the further complication.