Jakob Johann von Hanau-Munzenberg

Count Jakob Johann von Hanau-Münzenberg (* July 28, 1612 ; † June 9/19 , 1636 , died near Zabern ) 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 Schweigers.

Life

Jakob Johann got his first name from his godfather , King Jakob I of England and Scotland.

Together with his brother, Count Heinrich Ludwig 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.

In 1635 Jakob Johann was entrusted with the government of the county by his brother Philipp Moritz , the ruling Count of Hanau-Munzenberg. With the Battle of Nördlingen in 1634, the situation in the Thirty Years' War had turned in favor of the Catholic side. Philipp Moritz, who had turned away from the imperial cause and had to turn to the Swedish one, was now left with nothing other than to flee with his family, ultimately to the Orange-Nassau relatives in The Hague and Delft . In Hanau he left his youngest brother, Jakob Johann, as regent. The excellently developed fortress town of Hanau was occupied by the Swedish until 1638 by General Jakob von Ramsay , who controlled the surrounding area from there.

Jakob Johann embarked on a military career. With the Swedish-Scottish occupation of Hanau, when the fortress Hanau was not yet completely blocked , he undertook several successful coups at neighboring places held by imperial soldiers such as Wächtersbach , Gelnhausen and Staden . On August 12, 1635, he was sent by Ramsay with 500 men as reinforcement to Hans Vitzthum von Eckstedt in Sachsenhausen , where the Swedish garrison was in great trouble against the Imperialists admitted to Frankfurt under Guillaume de Lamboy . With Vitzthum's surrender, Jakob Johann was unable to return to Hanau. He followed Vitzthum to the camp of Duke Bernhard von Weimar , which at that time was in Hochheim and had been in French military service since November 2, 1634 .

In the following time Jakob Johann accompanied the Duke on his ventures in Lorraine and on a trip to Paris in the winter of 1635/36. His concern for the - meanwhile enclosed - city of Hanau is passed down in a letter to Landgrave Wilhelm V of Hessen-Kassel , which is kept in the Hessian State Archives in Marburg .

Jakob Johann von Hanau-Münzenberg died on June 9, 1636 during the siege of Zabern in Alsace , when he was trying to save a wounded count from the house of La Guiche , the commander of the French auxiliary corps. He was buried in St. Nikolai in Strasbourg .

ancestors

Pedigree of Count Jakob Johann 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)
Jakob Johann

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

literature

Friedrich Battenberg (arrangement), Solms documents. Regesten to the act of stocks and Kopiaren of the counts and Prince of Solms in the state archives Darmstadt (Abt. B 9 and F 24 B), in the count archive to Laubach and royal archive Lich 1131-1913 = repertories of the Hessian State Archives Darmstadt 15. Volumes 1 -4: Urkundenregesten No. 1-5035, ISBN 3-88443-224-9 , 225-7, 227-3 and 232-X; Volume 5: Supplements (document registers No. 5306-5318), corrigenda and indices. 1981-1986. XXIV, 437, 348, 408. 409, 579 pp. ISBN 3-88443-235-4
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
Reinhard Suchier : Genealogy of the Hanauer Grafenhaus in: Festschrift of the Hanauer Geschichtsverein for its 50th anniversary celebration on August 27, 1894 , Hanau 1894.
Richard Wille: Hanau in the Thirty Years War. Alberti, Hanau 1886, pp. 211-213.
Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau Stadt und Land , 3rd edition, Hanau 1919, ND 1978.

Individual evidence

^ Suchier, note 77
↑ Wille, pp. 91, 593f.
↑ Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen processed the Swedish occupation of Hanau in his picaresque novel The adventurous Simplicissimus .
↑ Wille, p. 196f.
↑ Dek, p. 267.
↑ Battenberg, No. 3980
^ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, OIa inventory from December 26, 1636: King Ludwig XIII. appoints Count Philipp Moritz von Hanau-Münzenberg in place of his late brother Jakob Johann as commander of an infantry regiment in Hanau.
↑ Files of Wilhelm V .; Richard Wille: Hanau in the Thirty Years War. Alberti, Hanau 1886, p. 212f.
^ Richard Wille: Hanau in the Thirty Years' War. Alberti, Hanau 1886, p. 213; The statement in Dek, p. 29, that he was buried in Hanau is not found anywhere else, especially not in the comprehensive work by Reinhard Suchier: The grave monuments and coffins of the people buried in Hanau from the houses of Hanau and Hesse . In: Program of the Royal High School in Hanau. Hanau 1879. pp. 1-56. and is therefore incorrect.

personal data
SURNAME	Hanau-Munzenberg, Jakob Johann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH	July 28, 1612
DATE OF DEATH	June 9, 1636 or June 19, 1636
Place of death	at Zabern

[1] Suchier, note 77

[2] Wille, pp. 91, 593f.

[3] Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen processed the Swedish occupation of Hanau in his picaresque novel The adventurous Simplicissimus .

[4] Wille, p. 196f.

[5] Dek, p. 267.

[6] Battenberg, No. 3980

[7] Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, OIa inventory from December 26, 1636: King Ludwig XIII. appoints Count Philipp Moritz von Hanau-Münzenberg in place of his late brother Jakob Johann as commander of an infantry regiment in Hanau.

[8] Files of Wilhelm V .; Richard Wille: Hanau in the Thirty Years War. Alberti, Hanau 1886, p. 212f.

[9] Richard Wille: Hanau in the Thirty Years' War. Alberti, Hanau 1886, p. 213; The statement in Dek, p. 29, that he was buried in Hanau is not found anywhere else, especially not in the comprehensive work by Reinhard Suchier: The grave monuments and coffins of the people buried in Hanau from the houses of Hanau and Hesse . In: Program of the Royal High School in Hanau. Hanau 1879. pp. 1-56. and is therefore incorrect.