Heinrich I of Plauen

This article is about the Burgrave of Meissen. For the Vogt of Plauen see Heinrich I. (Plauen) .

Heinrich von Plauen († December 28, 1446 in Eger ) was Lord of Plauen (as Heinrich X. ), royal court judge and burgrave of Meißen (as Heinrich I. von Plauen ).

Life

He was a son of Henry IX. von Plauen and Irmgard von Orlamünde . His sister was Anna , Abbess in Quedlinburg.

Heinrich was appointed court judge by the German King Sigismund around 1413 . In 1415 he is said to have voted against the burning of Jan Hus at the Council of Constance . In 1426 Heinrich was enfeoffed by King Sigismund with the Burgrave of Meissen. However, since the Saxon Elector Friedrich refused access to the property, he never actually performed this office. In 1439 the new German King Albrecht II settled the dispute by persuading Heinrich to resign from the office and the possessions connected with it, but he was allowed to continue to use the title and remained Prince of the Reich . He also got the rule of Plauen back.

In 1440 Heinrich offered the German royal crown to the Brandenburg Elector Albrecht Achilles on behalf of the Bohemian King , and in 1443 he was a member of an embassy to the German King Friedrich III. , which negotiated the modalities for the installation of Ladislaus as King of Bohemia.

Heinrich was also a senior judicial officer in Eger, where he probably died on December 28, 1446.

Marriages and offspring

Heinrich was married to

• Margarete von Dahme. children
  • Margarete von Plauen

• Katharina von Sternberg. children
  • Heinrich II , Burgrave of Meissen († around 1484)

• Anna von Sternberg

literature

• Michael Urban: The Burgraves of Meißen from a plausible family in Bohemia. In: Communications from the Association for the History of Germans in Bohemia. Volume 44, 1906, ZDB -ID 516634-2 , pp. 210-219, here pp. 211f.
• Luděk Březina: The Governor of Lower Lusatia between royal power and estates (1490–1620). A servant of two masters? Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2017. p. 65