Ehrenfels reign

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The direct imperial rule of Ehrenfels was completely owned by the von Stauff zu Ehrenfels from 1432 and was incorporated into the Principality of Pfalz-Neuburg from 1568 .

area

The Ehrenfels rule included roughly the area of ​​the parish of Beratzhausen , which had previously been consolidated by the Burgraves of Regensburg . At the end of the Holy Roman Empire, 48 localities belonged to Beratzhausen : the market in Beratzhausen , six church villages, three villages , twelve hamlets , six mills and 20 solitary farms .

Coat of arms of the Stauffer von Ehrenfels according to Siebmacher's coat of arms book

history

Dietrich I von Stauff († after 1343) acquired half of Ehrenfels Castle and the Beratzhausen market from Emperor Ludwig IV in 1335 , which the Kaiser had received from Heinrich von Ehrenfels in the same year . After Hadmar von Laaber had sold his share to the brothers Dietrich V. (* around 1400; † 1470) and Albrecht II von Stauff in 1432, the entire Ehrenfels estate was owned by the Stauffer. 1465 were the Stauffer to Ehrenfels from Emperor Friedrich III. elevated to the imperial baron status and at the same time granted them high jurisdiction , the ban on blood, the ban on wild animals and the mountain shelf .

The brothers Hieronymus and Bernhardin von Stauff rebelled against Duke Albrecht IV with the Löwlerbund in 1491 . On January 23, 1492, Duke Albrecht succeeded in capturing Sigmund von Sattelbogen and Stephan Mausheimer, along with 60 mercenaries, in the stormed Ehrenfels Castle. After the end of the conflict, Hieronymus again became Vitztum in Straubing and fought for Duke Albrecht in the Landshut War of Succession . He supported the young Duke Wilhelm IV in 1514 when he tried to evade the co-government of his brother Ludwig . In the spring of 1516 the ducal brothers reconciled. They agreed to punish the influential Hieronymus von Stauff as allegedly responsible for the dispute. On April 1, 1516, Hieronymus was arrested and charged in Ingolstadt. His confession was made under torture. The death sentence was presented to the assembled landscape and approved by it. He was executed by sword on April 8, 1516. Bernhardin II von Stauff introduced the Lutheran doctrine in 1521. The imperial estate of the Ehrenfels rulership was secured from 1552. However, there was an economic decline.

The deeply indebted Johann Bernhard von Stauff had to sell the imperial rule in 1568 to the Palatinate-Neuburg landscape, which gave it to the Count Palatine Philipp Ludwig in 1574 . He withdrew to his farm in Regensburg and his estates Dieterskirchen and Pottenhof . He died in 1598 without a male heir. The special position of the Ehrenfels rule as an imperial fiefdom was maintained until the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1803.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g The rule of Ehrenfels in: Manfred Jehle: Stauffer zu Ehrenfels, noble family , online at historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de
  2. ↑ Origin and seat in: Manfred Jehle: Stauffer zu Ehrenfels, noble family , online at historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de
  3. ^ The imperial direct status of the Ehrenfels rule in: Manfred Jehle: Stauffer zu Ehrenfels, noble family , online at historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de