Heinrich I. (Plauen)

Heinrich I († after March 7, 1303 / last documented mention) was Vogt of Plauen .

parents

In 1238, Heinrich (IV.) The Middle, Vogt of Weida, who had held the title of Vogt of Gera and Plauen since 1237, and his wife Jutta von Straßberg separated . Heinrich the Middle entered the Teutonic Order , died after February 7, 1249 and was buried in the Cronschwitz Monastery. After the separation, Jutta von Straßberg founded the Cronschwitz Monastery, became a prioress and died there after May 1, 1268.

The Heritage

The two older sons who were first mentioned in a document on December 16, 1238 took over the inheritance. Heinrich the Old, later referred to as the Elder, inherited the Vogtei Plauen with Auerbach and Pausa and became the founder of the line of the Bailiffs of Plauen . His younger brother inherited the bailiwick of Gera and the care Reichenfels and became the founder of the line of bailiffs of Gera .

The seat of the bailiffs of Plauen had been their own castle since the beginning of the 13th century, the remains of which are in today's Hradschin, while the representative of the Count of Everstein , the sovereign, in Gau Dobena or Dobnagau , sat in the castle next to the parish church , consecrated in 1122 . The remains of this castle can be found in today's malt house.

When her uncle Heinrich (V) the Younger, Vogt von Greiz, died childless around 1240, the area was divided up. Heinrich I the Elder, Vogt von Plauen, received Greiz with Reichenbach and Werdau . Mühltroff and Tanna fell to Heinrich (I) the Younger, Vogt of Gera.

Division of the country in 1244

Coat of arms of the bailiffs of Weida

When the territory of the bailiffs was divided around 1244, the three bailiwicks Weida, Gera and Plauen were finally created.

In a document from that year, which involved an exchange of goods with the Teutonic Order, Heinrich the Elder spoke of "civitas mea" (my citizenship) and that he wanted to enlarge Plauen. Obviously in this connection Heinrich was the first of the bailiffs to use a real seal with a lion, like the Count Palatine near Rhine.

Heinrich's banner, like that of the Count Palatinate, was held in the imperial colors black and gold and provided with a lion rising to the right, whose tongue was knocked out red and whose weapons (claws) were also red. The lion also wore a red crown.

On September 1, 1254, Margrave Heinrich the Illustrious in Grimma concluded an alliance of protection and defiance with all the bailiffs. Apparently he had bigger plans in the empire at this time, as his son Albrecht was married to a sister of the recently deceased King Konrad IV and daughter of the emperor Friedrich II, who died in 1250 .

In his first marriage Heinrich I was married to an Adelheid von Lobdaburg zu Leuchtenburg (first documented mention in 1253) and in his second marriage to a Countess von Everstein. The two sons Heinrich II , Vogt von Plauen, called der Böhme (documented from 1275 to April 23, 1302) and Heinrich Ruthenus (documented from March 29, 1276 to November 4, 1292) obviously come from this marriage .

From Vogt to sovereign

On May 25, 1278, the previous sovereign, Count Konrad von Everstein from Lower Saxony, came to Plauen personally and assigned the town of Plauen and the Gau Dobena to his brother-in-law Heinrich I. Heinrich obviously remained in a loose feudal association with the Count of Everstein. From this time on he probably had his own coins minted.

When Count Rudolf von Habsburg became King of Germany in 1273, he recaptured the Egerland, which was conquered by King Ottokar II of Bohemia in 1265 , in favor of the empire. In 1281 Heinrich I received the markets of Asch in Egerland and Selb from the empire as a pledge. In 1288 King Rudolf gave him the fiefdoms in the Egerland after Albert von Neipperg's death . Heinrich acquired Ronneburg and Schmölln from the Weida bailiffs .

On May 6, 1290, the bailiffs of Plauen were present at the land peace brokered by King Rudolf between the Wettin landgrave Albrecht of Thuringia and his nephew Friedrich Tuta in Erfurt. At the end of 1290, Rudolf redeemed the Pleißner Land from the Wettins and appointed Heinrich I as imperial and district judge in the Pleißner Land.

Due to the good relations with the Wettin brothers Friedrich dem Freidigen and Diezmann both appointed him as chairman in April 1293 to settle their dispute.

In the disputes between King Adolf of Nassau and the Wettins , the bailiffs had sided with the king. Here, on December 15, 1294, in the royal army camp near Borna, the bailiffs and Count Palatine Rudolf near Rhine and the Duke in Bavaria had a dispute over the banner . Obviously with the mediation of the king, the Count Palatinate enfeoffed Heinrich I and his son (here only Heinrich der Böhme can be meant) as well as the two other Vogt lines (Weida and Gera) with his banner, as Heinrich had been using it for a long time. Heinrich I, who was repeatedly to be found with the royal troops, received the Hirschberg Castle (Saale) from him as a pledge when the king stayed in Freiberg, Wettin on March 20, 1296 .

In the meantime, Heinrich's second wife had died and his third marriage was to Kunigunde, Countess von Lützelstein. She is mentioned in a document until January 18, 1300 and must have died shortly before April 23, 1302. On April 23, Heinrich I, his son Heinrich II, the Bohemian and his grandson Heinrich III signed. a certificate.

Shortly afterwards, Heinrich II must also have died, because in the document of August 24, 1302, in which the Cronschwitz monastery was confirmed the purchase of goods in the village of Daßlitz north of Greiz, only Heinrich I and his two grandchildren Heinrich III . , called von Seeberg, because of his wife Margarethe von Seeberg, of whom only her death date February 20, 1332 is known, and Heinrich II. Reuss .

The last written mention of Heinrich I is from March 7, 1303, shortly afterwards he must have died.

See also

• Reuss family list
• ( House Reuss )

literature

• Berthold Schmidt : The Russians. Genealogy of the entire Reuss family older and younger line as well as the extinct Vogtslinien zu Weida, Gera and Plauen and the Burgraves of Meißen from the House of Plauen. Weber, Schleiz 1903.
• Berthold Schmidt : History of the Reussland. Half volume 1–2. Kanitz, Gera 1923-1927.
• Werner Querfeld: Greiz. History of a city. Mediatect-Verlag, Greiz 1995.
• Alfred Thoss: The history of the city of Greiz. From the beginning to the end of the 17th century. With special consideration of legal, constitutional and economic developments. 2nd Edition. Weisser Stein, Greiz 1991, ISBN 3-928681-01-X .