Heinrich V of Plauen
Heinrich V von Plauen (born October 9, 1533 in Engelhaus ( Andělská Hora ); † December 24, 1568 in Hof , buried in the mountain church in Schleiz ) was Burgrave of Meissen and Lord of Plauen and Voigtsberg.
Life
Heinrich V was the older of the two sons of Burgrave Heinrich IV of Plauen from his marriage to Countess Margareta von Salm and Neuburg (1517–1573).
When his father died, Heinrich V was not yet of legal age. Therefore, about a month after his death, King Ferdinand of Bohemia promised to protect him and his younger brother against the Russians. Henry IV had left his sons not only extensive estates, but also disputes with the Russians and high debts. New ones were added through further trials against the Russians.
After Henry V came of age, he first ruled for himself and his underage brother Heinrich VI. von Plauen ; later they ruled together.
Heinrich had married Dorothea Katharina (1538–1604) from the house of the Franconian Hohenzollern family on August 25, 1555 . She was a daughter of the Ansbach Margrave Georg the Pious (1484–1543) and his third wife Aemilia of Saxony (1516–1591). The four sons of this marriage, all of whom were named Heinrich, each died shortly after birth.
As early as 1556, the brothers lost the Frankish offices of Hof and Schauenstein, which their father had conquered in the Margrave War against the outlawed Margrave Albrecht Alcibiades of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, to an imperial sequester through an imperial arbitration . After the death of Albrecht Alcibiade, the extinction of this line and the union of the Margraviate of Ansbach and Kulmbach to form the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Bayreuth , the young Margrave Georg Friedrich of Brandenburg-Bayreuth , brother of Heinrich's wife, received these offices.
In May 1559, the rulers of Plauen and Voigtsberg and the office of Schöneck were pledged to Elector August of Saxony . With the judgment of Vienna on September 28, 1560, the brothers lost the Greiz rule to the Reussians on January 1, 1561 and half of the Gera and Schleiz reigns to the Reussians. Only the possessions in Bohemia and the Bohemian fiefs Lobenstein and Schloss Posterstein remained with the brothers. But only with the imperial confirmation of a new treaty and the sealing of this treaty on May 9, 1562 in Prague, the dispute with the Russians came to an end. On March 14, 1562, the two brothers were enfeoffed by the emperor with the lords of Plauen, Voigtsberg, Schleiz and Lobenstein and the offices of Pausa and Schöneck.
When the two brothers divided the country in 1563, Heinrich V received the Bohemian rulers as well as the rulers of Plauen and Voigtsberg and the office of Schöneck. When Heinrich V wanted to redeem this, he found that the money was no longer available. So the heartland of the Plauen was lost forever to the Electoral Saxony.
In 1564 Henry V lost the Bohemian rule of Elbogen (Loket) to the crown of Bohemia. In 1567 he had to transfer Engelshaus ( Andělská Hora ), Buchau ( Bochov ), Graslitz ( Kraslice ) and Theusing ( Toužim ) to the Geraischen land heirs, those of Lobkowitz and Hassenstein.
Completely impoverished, the brother of his wife Dorothea Katharina gave them a house in Hof to stay, he died there on December 24th, 1568 and was buried in the mountain church in Schleiz.
Dorothea Katharina received Theusing as a personal asset from the land heirs and died there on January 8, 1604. Four years after her death, her great cousin, the Saxon Elector Christian II , organized her burial in the Johanniskirche in Plauen .
See also
literature
- Berthold Schmidt : "The Reuss, genealogy of the entire Reuss family older and younger line, as well as the extinct Vogtslinien to Weida, Gera and Plauen and the Burgraves of Meißen from the House of Plauen", Schleiz 1903
- Berthold Schmidt: "Burgrave Heinrich IV. Of Meißen, Colonel Chancellor of the Crown of Bohemia and his government in the Vogtland", Gera 1888
- Berthold Schmidt: "Geschichte des Reußenlandes", 1st and 2nd half volume, Gera 1923 and 1927
- Johannes Richter: "On the genealogy and history of the Burgraves of Meißen and Counts of Hartenstein from the older Plauen house", in "Sächsische Heimatblätter" 5/1992
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heinrich V of Plauen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Burgrave of Meissen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1533 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Andělská Hora |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 1568 |
| Place of death | court |