Heinrich of Württemberg

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Heinrich von Württemberg (born September 7, 1448 in Stuttgart , † April 15, 1519 at Hohenurach Castle ) was Count of Württemberg-Mömpelgard from 1473 to 1482 .

Life

As the second male descendant of Count Ulrich V. von Württemberg-Stuttgart , Heinrich von Württemberg was earmarked for a career as a clergyman . Heinrich had been provost of the cathedral in Eichstätt from around 1464. In Mainz he was planned to succeed Archbishop Count Adolf von Nassau , who in 1465 appointed him his coadjutor and secular regent. The mastermind was the powerful Margrave Albrecht of Brandenburg , who married a daughter to Heinrich's brother Eberhard . He wanted to bind the Archbishopric of Mainz firmly to the imperial party he led, to which Heinrich's father Ulrich V belonged. The Archbishop of Mainz was one of the seven electors and thus had considerable influence on politics in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation . The Koadjutorschaft was directed against the Wittelsbachers and above all against Count Palatine Friedrich the Victorious , who had humiliated Count Ulrich in the Battle of Seckenheim in 1462. Because the Archbishop of Mainz did not want to play the role intended for him, however, violent tensions arose between him and Heinrich, which resulted in the so-called Koadjutor feud from 1465 to 1467. In 1466 Heinrich Graf Johann von Wertheim declared the feud, a dispute that became a test of strength for the great princes and almost led to a war throughout the empire. In the end, however, the Count Palatinate won the diplomatic stage almost entirely, and Württemberg and Heinrich were largely empty-handed. The Mainz office of Bischofsheim, which Heinrich received as compensation, he gave back in 1470.

In 1473 he was awarded the County of Mömpelgard and the other Württemberg possessions on the left bank of the Rhine in the Urach Treaty . In connection with the dispute between the Burgundian Duke Charles the Bold and Emperor Friedrich III. Charles the Bold had Heinrich captured in 1474. During his imprisonment in Maastricht and Boulogne , which lasted until 1477 , Heinrich was treated very badly; Among other things, a mock execution is said to have been carried out. After the death of his father in 1480, Heinrich tried against his brother Eberhard VI. To assert inheritance claims on the county of Württemberg-Stuttgart and thus on the whole of Württemberg. But after he did not succeed in doing this, he ceded the County of Mömpelgard to Eberhard in the Treaty of Reichenweier in 1482. In August 1490 his cousin Eberhard V had him arrested in Stuttgart. An alleged mental illness served as the reason for the arrest. Eberhard im Bart was in 1492 by Emperor Friedrich III. intended to be his guardian. Heinrich and his wife were imprisoned at Hohenurach Castle until his death in 1519 . He was also allowed to stay in Stuttgart for a while.

meaning

In 1999 the historian Klaus Graf attempted a certain rehabilitation of Heinrich's personality, whom Württemberg historiography had stigmatized as a madman . Among other things, he referred to Heinrich's intellectual interests, which can be seen in manuscripts and prints from his possession. In 2004, after finding another book from Heinrich's possession, Felix Heinzer tried to compare Eberhard im Bart and Heinrich as a book lover.

family

Heinrich was the son of Ulrich V von Württemberg-Stuttgart from his second marriage to Elisabeth von Bayern-Landshut . He married in 1485 (marriage speech on January 10, 1485) Countess Elisabeth von Zweibrücken-Bitsch . Elisabeth died on February 17, 1487 a few days after the birth of her son Eitel Heinrich on February 8, 1487. Eitel Heinrich was renamed Ulrich when he was confirmed in 1493 and from 1498 was the third Duke of Württemberg. Heinrich married Countess Eva von Salm on July 21, 1488 . Two other children were born from this marriage:

Heinrich was the founder of the older Württemberg-Mömpelgard branch .

See also the root list of the House of Württemberg

References and comments

  1. ↑ Klaus Graf: Count Heinrich von Württemberg († 1519) - aspects of an unusual princely life. In: Sönke Lorenz , Peter Rückert (eds.): Württemberg and Mömpelgard 600 years of encounter. Montbéliard - Wurtemberg 600 Ans de Relations (= writings on Southwest German regional studies. Volume 26). DRW, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 1999, ISBN 3-87181-426-1 , pp. 107-120 ( online, Memento in the Internet Archive ). Addenda: https://archivalia.hypotheses.org/19421 .
  2. ↑ Felix Heinzer: Heinrich von Württemberg and Eberhard in the beard: two princes in the mirror of their books. In: Peter Rückert (Ed.): The Württemberg court in the 15th century. Contributions to a series of lectures by the working group for regional and local history, Stuttgart. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-17-019759-6 , pp. 149-163 ( online ).

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predecessor Office successor
Eberhard V. Count of Württemberg-Mömpelgard
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SURNAME Heinrich of Württemberg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Württemberg-Mömpelgard (1473–1482)
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1448
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart , Württemberg-Stuttgart , Holy Roman Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1519
Place of death Hohenurach Castle , Duchy of Württemberg , Holy Roman Empire