Heinrich IV. (Ortenburg)

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Portrait of Heinrich IV on the cover plate of his tumba in the Ortenburg chapel , which was probably not made until around 1430.

Heinrich IV. (* 14th century; † April 8, 1395 ) was the son of Count Heinrich III. von Ortenburg and Sophie von Henneberg . As their only child, he is considered the ancestral holder of the Bavarian noble family of Ortenburgers . After the death of his father in 1345 he became the counting count of Ortenburg .

Live and act

Heinrich IV appears for the first time in a document in 1340 together with his father. To distinguish it, he is referred to as Henry the Younger.

Count Heinrich IV seems to have maintained good relations with the county's neighbors, so he witnessed the Schärding Peace Treaty in 1369 , when Duke Stefan the Elder of Lower Bavaria, Duke Albrecht I of Bavaria-Straubing-Holland and Duke Stephan the Younger of Bavaria , as well as Friedrich von Bayern-Landshut and Johann II. Von Bayern-Munich renounce Tyrol in favor of the Dukes of Austria after years of struggle .

After the death of his father-in-law Count Alram IV von Hals in 1331, Heinrich was involved in major inheritance disputes over the Hals property, which was repeated and strengthened again after the death of Count Johann von Hals in 1348. This led to a conflict with Johann's son Leopold von Hals. After an arbitration decision by Burggraf Johann von Nürnberg , from the house of Zollern , and Landgrave Johann von Leuchtenberg in 1350, Leopold was obliged to pay out 2000 pounds Regensburg pfennigs to the count. Since he could not do this, he had to cede Heinrich the dominions and festivals in Haarbach , Leonsberg, Gangkofen , Geisenhausen , Baumgarten and Tann .

After Leopold's death in 1375 and the associated extinction of the Counts of Hals, Heinrich hoped for a rich inheritance and the acquisition of all Hals' possessions. But Landgrave Johann von Leuchtenberg was against it, who claimed to have been an heir to the property himself. Thanks to his relationships with the ducal house, he obtained that he was enfeoffed with the goods and the county.

Heinrich, Agnes and their sons tried to get a hearing from Duke Friedrich von Bayern-Landshut. So it came about that the landgrave had to cede half of the possessions, but not to the Ortenburgers, but to the Bavarian duke. In 1379 Johann von Leuchtenberg left part of the property to the Counts of Ortenburg in order to settle the inheritance dispute that had lasted for years.

However, Heinrich did not keep these possessions for long. Between 1378 and 1386 he sold most of the properties to the Bavarian dukes. Among other things, the village of Sandbach on the Danube was sold in 1385 . With that, the County of Ortenburg lost direct access to the Danube and was now completely enclosed by the Duchy of Bavaria and the Diocese of Passau!

At 8. April 1395 Henry IV. Died, he was in the Passauer Sixtus Chapel buried. After his death there was a split in ownership in the Ortenburg house. Three lines were created with seats on the various palaces and castles of the counts. His eldest son Alram I got the castle and goods around Dorfbach bei Ortenburg, Georg I the castle Neu-Ortenburg and the goods belonging to it and Etzel I got the ancestral castle Alt-Ortenburg and the market Ortenburg .

The Heinrichstor at Tambach Castle near Coburg .

The Heinrichstor at Tambach Castle, built in 1910, is named after Count Heinrich IV . Above the gate is a slightly modified replica of the cover plate of his high grave in the Sixtus Chapel in Passau.

progeny

Heinrich was married to Agnes von Hals . The following children were born from this marriage:

  • Erasmus
  • Alram I. Graf von Ortenburg , († 1411), ∞ NN von Chamerau, ∞ Barbara von Rottau († 1388), ∞ Anna
  • Hadwig († 1394), ∞ Thesaurus I. von Fraunhofen
  • Georg I, Count of Neu-Ortenburg († March 4, 1422), ∞ Siguna von Buchberg
  • Johann I Canon of Passau and papal chaplain († 1396)
  • Etzel I, Count of Ortenburg († May 17, 1446)

literature

  • Friedrich Hausmann : The Counts of Ortenburg and their male ancestors, the Spanheimers in Carinthia, Saxony and Bavaria, as well as their subsidiary lines , published in: Ostbairische Grenzmarken - Passauer Jahrbuch für Geschichte, Kunst und Volkskunde, No. 36, Passau 1994 (p. 9 -62).
  • Friedrich Hausmann: Archives of the Counts of Ortenburg. Documents of the family and county of Ortenburg (in Tambach and Munich) Volume 1: 1142–1400 (= Bavarian archive inventories 42), Neustadt an der Aisch 1984.
  • Eberhard Graf zu Ortenburg-Tambach: History of the imperial, ducal and counts 'entire house of Ortenburg - Part 2: The counts' house in Bavaria. , Vilshofen 1932.
  • Carl Mehrmann: History of the Evangelical Lutheran community of Ortenburg in Lower Bavaria - memorandum for the anniversary celebration of the 300th anniversary of the introduction of the Reformation there on October 17 and 18, 1863 , Landshut 1863 ( digitized version ).
  • Johann Ferdinand von Huschberg : History of the ducal and countial general house of Ortenburg: edited from the sources , Sulzbach 1828 ( digitized ).

Web links

Commons : Heinrich IV von Ortenburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Emil Wulzinger: Historical-topographical-statistical description of the district office Eggenfelden and the surrounding area, or the location, nature and previous condition of the Ysengau, Rotach and Quinzingau, together with the historical description of all the churches, palaces, castles and localities located in them an overview of the still flourishing and extinct families of the ancient Rottgau . Regensburg: Coppenrath, 1878. - XIX, 320 p. Former Rottau Palace with Mattau (p. 214) and index (p. 279)
predecessor Office successor
Henry III. Count of Ortenburg
1346–1395 		George I.
personal data
SURNAME Henry IV.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ancestor of the Counts of Ortenburg, Count of Ortenburg
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1395
Place of death Ortenburg