Georg Johann I (Palatinate-Veldenz)

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Georg Johann I (Pfalz-Veldenz).

Georg Johann I von Pfalz-Veldenz , also called Georg Hans ("Jerrihans") or the shrewd (born April 11, 1543 , † April 8, 1592 in Lützelstein ) was Count Palatine of Palatinate-Veldenz .

Life

Georg Johann was the son of Ruprecht von Pfalz-Veldenz (1506–1544) and his wife Ursula, Wild and Rhine Countess von Dhaun (1515–1601). In the Marburg Treaty of October 3, 1543, Georg Johann was assured of his successor in Veldenz, Lauterecken, Remigiusberg and Lützelstein.

After the death of his father in 1544, his cousin, Duke Wolfgang von Pfalz-Zweibrücken (1526–1569) and his mother Ursula, became his guardians, after Ursula's remarriage, Wolfgang was alone. In 1552, Wolfgang acquired the "Remigiusland" for Georg Johann with the abandoned provost of St. Remigius around Kusel and Altenglan for 8,500 guilders from the Saint-Remi Abbey in Reims . The Veldenzer had previously exercised the bailiwick over the area.

In 1553, Wolfgang achieved in the Heidelberg succession treaty, which regulated the mutual inheritance claims of all Wittelsbach lines, that Pfalz-Veldenz was expanded to include the county of Lützelstein , half of the Guttenberg rule and two thirds of the Alsenz rule .

From 1557 to 1558, the 14-year-old Georg Johann took the position of princely rector of Heidelberg University . He then traveled to Germany, Poland and Sweden and married a Swedish princess in Stockholm in 1562, who brought paraphernalia (personal property of the bride) of 300,000 guilders into the marriage.

In the Augsburg farewell on May 27, 1566, Georg Johann was able to redeem some promises from the succession treaty of 1553. He claimed a quarter from the legacy of Elector Ottheinrich . In 1563/1567 he got the County of Lützelstein, half of the Guttenberg rule and two thirds of the Alsenz rule . He took his seat at Lützelstein Castle . From Lützelstein he made contact with French Huguenots and Duke Franz von Alençon , so that in 1564 he became a pensioner of the French crown. However, France had no use for the troops recruited by Georg Johann, which is why he made them available to England and the Netherlands.

In 1568 Georg Johann called for the founding of the city of Pfalzburg , for which he received city rights from Emperor Maximilian on September 27, 1570 . Georg Johann dreamed of the city as a traffic and trade center and place of religious tolerance. He pursued many fantastic plans (such as wanting to become a Reichsadmiral or a canal project), which above all cost money. In 1583, for example, he had to give the Einarzhausen office with the newly built city of Pfalzburg to Duke Karl III for 400,000 guilders . pledge of Lorraine . The heavily indebted Georg Hans could no longer redeem the city and the office; so they fell to the Duchy of Lorraine after the repurchase period on October 1, 1590 . When he died, he left an enormous debt of 300,000 guilders and his widow had to move in with relatives in order to be able to pay off the debts from the proceeds of her Wittum . Georg Johann and his wife were buried in the church in Lützelstein.

After his death, the areas were divided among his sons: Georg Gustav (1564–1634) received the office of Veldenz , the office of Lauterecken and the Michelsburg on the Remigiusberg and Johann August (1575-1611) the county of Lützelstein. The youngest son, Georg Johann II (1586–1654), initially received an annuity; after Johann August died in 1611 without heirs, his inheritance fell to him.

Marriage and offspring

Remigiusberg, crypt of the church, coffin of the Countess Palatine Anna Maria of Sweden († 1610)
Memorial stone in the provost church of St. Remigius , Remigiusberg , for the Wittelsbachers of the Pfalz-Veldenz line buried here , a. a. also for Anna Maria of Sweden

Georg Johann I married Anna Maria (1545–1610), daughter of King Gustav I Wasa of Sweden in 1562 . The following children emerged from this first of several connections between the Wittelsbacher and Wasa houses :

⚭ 1. 1586 Princess Elisabeth of Württemberg (1548–1591)
⚭ 2. 1601 Countess Palatine Maria Elisabeth von Zweibrücken (1581–1637)
⚭ 1589 Duke Reichard of Pfalz-Simmern (1521–1598)
⚭ 1585 Duke Ludwig of Württemberg (1554–1593)
  • Johanna Elisabeth (1573–1601)
  • Johann August (1575–1611), Count Palatine of Lützelstein
⚭ 1599 Princess Anna Elisabeth of the Palatinate (1549–1609)
  • Ludwig Philipp (1577–1601), Count Palatine von Guttenberg
  • Marie Anna (* / † 1579)
  • Katharina Ursula (1582–1595)
  • Georg Johann II. (1586–1654), Count Palatine of Guttenberg and Lützelstein
⚭ 1613 Countess Palatine Susanne von Sulzbach (1591–1667)

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SURNAME Georg Johann I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Georg Hans; George the Shrewd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count Palatine of Veldenz
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1543
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1592
Place of death Lützelstein