Heinrich Ludwig von Hanau-Munzenberg

Heinrich Ludwig von Hanau-Münzenberg (* May 7, 1609 ; † July 11 / July 21, 1632 near Maastricht ) was a later son of Count Philipp Ludwig II of Hanau-Münzenberg (* 1576; † 1612) and the Princess Katharina Belgica (* 1578; † 1648), a daughter of Wilhelm I of Orange-Nassau , the silent one.

Life

Despite his short life span, Heinrich Ludwig had an eventful life shaped by the events of the Thirty Years' War .

At the age of six he - son of a convinced Reformed count - received his first religious ordination and tonsure on April 26, 1615 . Only three days later he became the owner of a Protestant canon office at St. Petri Cathedral in Bremen . There is no further evidence of this canon office. At that time, a canon position in Bremen was a coveted sinecure for subsequent sons of the nobility because of the income . The Hanau House had contact with Bremen through the reformer Christoph Pezel (* 1539; † 1604). Heinrich Ludwig's father, Count Philipp Ludwig II, had met him during his time there. However, Christoph Pezel, most recently Superintendent of Bremen, had died more than ten years by the time Heinrich Ludwig was appointed.

Together with his brother, Count Jakob Johann von Hanau-Münzenberg , he received the Steinheim office from King Gustav II Adolf in 1631 , which he had confiscated as spoils of war , as a reward for his support for the goals of the Swedish king. On December 30, 1631, Count Heinrich Ludwig entered the Dutch military and became a colonel in the Noordhollandse Regiment . A little more than six months later, he fell on July 11/21, 1632 during the siege and conquest of Maastricht by Friedrich Heinrich von Oranien-Nassau , governor of the Netherlands, an uncle of Heinrich Ludwig.

ancestors

Pedigree of Count Heinrich Ludwig von Hanau-Münzenberg
Great grandparents	Philip III von Hanau-Münzenberg (* 1526; † 1561) ∞ Helena von Pfalz-Simmern (* 1532; † 1579)	Philip IV of Waldeck (*; †) ∞ Jutta von Isenburg († 1564)	Wilhelm von Nassau-Dillenburg (* 1487; † 1559) ∞ Juliana zu Stolberg (*; †)	Louis III de Bourbon, duc de Montpensier (* 1513; † 1582) ∞ Jacqueline de Longwy Countess of Bar du Seine (* 1538; † 1561)
Grandparents	Philipp Ludwig I of Hanau-Münzenberg (* 1553; † 1580) ∞ Magdalena von Waldeck (* 1558; † 1599)		Wilhelm I of Orange-Nassau , the silent (* 1533; † 1584) 3. ∞ Charlotte von Bourbon-Montpensier (* 1546; † 1582)
parents	Philipp Ludwig II of Hanau-Münzenberg (* 1576; † 1612) ∞ Katharina Belgica of Orange-Nassau (* 1578; † 1648)
Heinrich Ludwig

For the family cf. Main article: Hanau (noble family)

literature

Fr. W. Cuno: Philipp Ludwig II., Count of Hanau and Rieneck, Lord of Munzenberg. A picture of a regent drawn from archival and other sources for our time , Prague 1896.
AWE Dek: Count Johann the Middle of Nassau-Siegen and his 25 children . Rijswijk 1962.
Reinhard Dietrich : The state constitution in the Hanauischen ( Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 34 ), Hanau 1996. ISBN 3-9801933-6-5
Hans Erich Feine: The occupation of the imperial bishoprics from the Peace of Westphalia to the secularization 1648-1803 = canon law treatise 97/98. Stuttgart 1921.
Johann Jacob Moser : Teutsches Staatsrecht , Part 11, Chapters 29 - 34 [: Of the evangelical imperial estates]. 1737ff.
Viktor Stork: The execution of the Edict of Restitution of 1629 in the Archdiocese of Bremen . In: Journal of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony . Hanover 1906, p. 212ff and 1907, p. 39ff.
Reinhard Suchier : Genealogy of the Hanauer count house . In: Festschrift of the Hanau History Association for its 50th anniversary celebration on August 27, 1894 . Hanau 1894.
Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau Stadt und Land , 3rd edition, Hanau 1919, ND 1978.

Individual evidence

↑ At his birth there is an archival inventory in the Hessian State Archive in Marburg : 81. Government Hanau, A 33,2.
^ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, OIa inventory from April 26, 1615
^ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, OIa holdings from April 29, 1615
^ Information from the Lower Saxony State Archives in Stade .
↑ See: Margarete Hinterreicher: Georg Christian von Hessen-Homburg (1626–1677). Officer, diplomat and regent in the decades after the Thirty Years War. In: Sources and research on Hessian history. 58. Darmstadt 1985, pp. 20ff.
^ Günter Rauch: Two educational trips in old Europe. From the travel diary of Count Philipp Ludwig II of Hanau-Munzenberg 1593/94 . Hanau 1997, p. 6.
^ Richard Wille: Hanau in the Thirty Years' War. Alberti, Hanau 1886, p. 91, 593f.
↑ Dek, p. 29.

personal data
SURNAME	Hanau-Munzenberg, Heinrich Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH	May 7, 1609
DATE OF DEATH	July 21, 1632
Place of death	Maastricht

[1] At his birth there is an archival inventory in the Hessian State Archive in Marburg : 81. Government Hanau, A 33,2.

[2] Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, OIa inventory from April 26, 1615

[3] Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, OIa holdings from April 29, 1615

[4] Information from the Lower Saxony State Archives in Stade .

[5] See: Margarete Hinterreicher: Georg Christian von Hessen-Homburg (1626–1677). Officer, diplomat and regent in the decades after the Thirty Years War. In: Sources and research on Hessian history. 58. Darmstadt 1985, pp. 20ff.

[6] Günter Rauch: Two educational trips in old Europe. From the travel diary of Count Philipp Ludwig II of Hanau-Munzenberg 1593/94 . Hanau 1997, p. 6.

[7] Richard Wille: Hanau in the Thirty Years' War. Alberti, Hanau 1886, p. 91, 593f.

[8] Dek, p. 29.