Henry III. (Sayn)

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Tomb of Count Heinrich III. von Sayn in Sayn Abbey Church (reproduction)

Henry III. Graf von Sayn (* around 1185 , † 1. January 1247 in Blankenberg ), because of its enormous height of the Great called owner was several counties and Vogt important Rhenish pins and one of the most powerful dynasties in the Middle and Lower Rhine. The minstrel Reinmar von Hagenau celebrates his qualities as a hunter, ruler and host. With his death, the Counts of Sayner died out of the male line.

Life

Around 1215 he married through the mediation of Pope Innocent III. Mechthild von Landsberg , only daughter of Dietrich von Landsberg and Jutta Landgräfin von Thuringia . Mechthild brought her maternal inheritance, which included the property of the Thuringian landgraves on the Middle Rhine, into the marriage. Mechthild together donated Count Heinrich numerous monasteries, including in 1215 the monastery Sion in Cologne , in 1227 the monastery Marienstatt in Hachenburg , 1235, the Cistercian - Convent Drolshagen , 1231 the Franciscans - and later Franciscans monastery Seligenthal and near Bonn - presumably - the German gentlemen coming Ramersdorf .

The couple lived in the castles Blankenberg an der Sieg , Löwenburg im Siebengebirge and Sayn . Count Heinrich was considered a friend of poets and singers; the minstrel Reinmar von Zweter praised him as a mild patron of the traveling singers and as a biderben host who can gesture well . There was a trusting relationship between the great theologian and doctor of the church Albertus Magnus and the count couple. Mechthild later appointed Albert as arbitrator for her extensive donations.

In fulfillment of Henry's last will donated Countess Mechthild after his death in 1247, the Cistercian monastery Herchenhainer and 1247 in the district of the truce of Blankenberg the monastery Zissendorf .

He died childless on New Year's Eve 1246/47. The oak grave figure, which is now in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg , is one of the most important German grave figures of the 13th century. A replica of the grave figure is in the former Premonstratensian monastery of Maria Himmelfahrt and Johannes Evangelista in Sayn. The Saynic inheritance fell to his sisters Adelheid, their first marriage to Count Gottfried III. von Sponheim-Starkenburg married, and Agnes, the wife of Count Heinrichs von Blieskastel. The new Counts of Sayn from the House of Sponheim divided the county in 1294 among the brothers Johann, who received Sayn, and Engelbert, who took over the Marienburg in Vallendar . The older line ruled in Sayn, Hachenburg and Altenkirchen , until they too died out in the male line with Count Heinrich IV of Sayn in 1606.

The unsuccessful heretic trial of the inquisitor Konrad von Marburg against Count Heinrich III gained fame in 1233.

literature

  • Hellmuth Gensicke : Landesgeschichte des Westerwaldes , 3rd edition (unchanged reprint). Historical commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1958/1999. ISBN 3-922244-80-7
  • Erich Vierbuchen: Count Heinrich III. the great von Sayn . In: Life pictures of the Altenkirchen district . Local history association for the Altenkirchen district, Altenkirchen 1975.
  • Thomas Bohn : Countess Mechthild von Sayn (1200 / 03–1285). A study on Rhenish history and culture. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2002, ISBN 3-412-10901-0 ( Rheinisches Archiv 140), (also: Trier, Univ., Diss., 1996).
  • Joachim J. Halbekann: The older counts of Sayn . Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-930221-01-2

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Remarks

  1. ↑ cit. after Erich Vierbuchen.
  2. ↑ The girl, who was born shortly after Heinrich's death, died shortly after birth; see. E. Four-beech.
personal data
SURNAME Henry III.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henry III. Count of Sayn; Henry the Great
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Owner of several counties and Vogt of Rhenish monasteries
DATE OF BIRTH around 1193
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1247
Place of death City of Blankenberg