Heinrich II of Sponheim-Bolanden
Heinrich II. Von Sponheim-Bolanden (* around 1330, † 1393 ) was a regionally significant count from the ancient noble family of the Sponheimer and owner of the dominion of Kirchheim and Stauf .
Origin and family
His grandfather Heinrich I von Sponheim-Bolanden, son of Count Simon I von Sponheim-Kreuznach , had married Kunigunde von Bolanden and founded her own family line, since his wife, from the Bolander property, was responsible for most of the Kirchheim (= Kirchheimbolanden) rule. inherited. The branch of the family was called Sponheim-Bolanden , more often Sponheim-Bolanden-Dannenfels , but sometimes just wrongly just Bolanden-Dannenfels .
Heinrich II was born as the son of Count Philipp von Sponheim-Bolanden and his wife Lisa (Elisabeth) von Katzenelnbogen , daughter of Count Diether VI. and granddaughter of Diether V. von Katzenelnbogen . In 1350 he married Adelheid von Katzenelnbogen († 1397), daughter of Count Johann II († 1357), whose grave slab has been preserved in the Eberbach monastery .
Only daughter Elisabeth von Sponheim-Bolanden († 1381) emerged from the marriage. She married Kraft IV. Von Hohenlohe-Weikersheim († 1399).
Through their daughter Anna von Hohenlohe († 1410) and her husband Philipp I von Nassau-Saarbrücken-Weilburg , the entire Sponheim-Bolander family property finally fell to the Nassau House , which owned it until the end of the feudal period.
Life
Heinrich II's parents lived at Tannenfels Castle near Dannenfels , where most of the children also grew up. There the father, Count Philipp von Sponheim-Bolanden, had set up his residence and had the village granted town charter in 1331.
After the father's death (1337/38) Heinrich II. And his brother Johann III ruled. their little country together from Dannenfels. After the marriage of Count Heinrich II in 1350, his brother Johann III renounced. 1354 on his inheritance.
Heinrich II. Von Sponheim-Bolanden applied for town charter for his village Kirchheim, today's Kirchheimbolanden . These were granted by Emperor Charles IV on February 1, 1368, including permission to fortify the place. The count moved his domicile there, expanded an existing, small castle complex and thus established the up-and-coming development of the later residential and today's district town. The keep of this castle is said to be the “powder” or “prison tower” that has been preserved and later served as part of the city fortifications.
In 1370, Heinrich II handed over the hermit chapel, consecrated to St. Jakobus , located on the summit of the Donnersberg , to the order of the Pauline Hermits, along with the lands and associated buildings, in order to found the St. Jakob monastery . This had already been a plan of his father Philipp von Sponheim-Bolanden. In 1371 he donated all the properties mentioned to this monastery as a piece of equipment for himself, his wife Adelheid, and for all her ancestors and descendants, with two perpetual masses as seasons .
In 1378 and 1388 Heinrich II., From the childless Count Eberhard von Zweibrücken , acquired the lordship and castle of Stauf in two halves .
Count Heinrich II von Sponheim-Bolanden died in 1393, his wife in 1397. Both were buried in the family crypt of their new residential church St. Remigius , Kirchheimbolanden (today Evangelical St. Peter's Church ). The checkerboard pattern in Kirchheimbolanden's coat of arms is taken from his coat of arms (in the wrong tincture).
literature
- Hans Döhn: Kirchheimbolanden: The history of the city , Stadtverwaltung Kirchheimbolanden, 1968 and 1993, pp. 81–93.
Web links
- Sponheim, Heinrich Graf von. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hohenlohe, Kraft IV. Herr von. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ Nassau, Anna Countess of. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ Historical website on Tannenfels Castle and the Sponheim-Bolanden family ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Alfons Hoffmann: St. Jakob Monastery on the Donnersberg , Pilger-Verlag, Speyer, 1958, pp. 29–32.
- ^ Johann Georg Lehmann : Documented history of the castles and mountain palaces in the former districts, counties and lordships of the Bavarian Palatinate , Volume 4. pp. 18-23, Kaiserslautern, 1860
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heinrich II of Sponheim-Bolanden |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heinrich II of Sponheim-Bolanden-Dannenfels |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Count from the House of Sponheim, monastery founder, founder of the town of Kirchheimbolanden |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1330 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1393 |