Johann Ernst (Hanau-Munzenberg)

Johann Ernst von Hanau-Münzenberg-Schwarzenfels (born June 13, 1613 in Schwarzenfels , † January 12, 1642 in Hanau ) was the last count from the House of Hanau-Münzenberg . He followed his great-nephew Philipp Ludwig III in 1641 . in the government of the County of Hanau-Munzenberg.

youth

Johann Ernst was the son of Count Albrecht von Hanau-Munzenberg-Schwarzenfels and Countess Isengard (Ehrengard) von Ysenburg-Büdingen .

Pedigree of Count Johann Ernst von Hanau-Munzenberg-Schwarzenfels
Great grandparents	Philip III von Hanau-Münzenberg (* 1526; † 1561) ∞ Helena von der Pfalz-Simmern (* 1533; † 1579)	Philip IV von Waldeck (* 1493; † 1574) ∞ Jutta von Isenburg († 1564)	Philipp von Isenburg-Ronneburg (* 1467; † 1526) ∞ Amalia von Rieneck (* 1478; † 1543)	Philipp von Solms-Braunfels (* 1494; † 1581) ∞ Anna von Tecklenburg († 1554)
Grandparents	Philipp Ludwig I of Hanau-Münzenberg (* 1553; † 1580) ∞ Magdalena von Waldeck (* 1558; † 1599)		Philip II of Ysenburg-Büdingen (* 1526; † 1596) ∞ Honor Guard of Solms-Braunfels (* 1536; † 1577)
parents	Albrecht von Hanau-Münzenberg-Schwarzenfels (* 1579; † 1635) ∞ Isengard (Ehrengard) of Ysenburg-Büdingen (* 1577; † 1637)
Johann Ernst

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

Johann Ernst received his education at the monastery school in Schlüchtern , today's Ulrich-von-Hutten-Gymnasium , and the University of Basel . His cavalier tour took him to France, from where he returned in 1633. Due to the Thirty Years' War , the family had to leave the Upper County of Hanau-Munzenberg and fled first to Worms and later to Strasbourg , where they had to struggle with great financial difficulties. Johann Ernst's father died here, and he and his mother went to Frankfurt am Main .

In contrast to his father, he did not cause any difficulties for the ruling main line of the House of Hanau-Münzenberg by calling for parts of the County of Hanau-Münzenberg to be separated and his own (co-) regency. So he came with the early deceased Count Philipp Moritz von Hanau-Münzenberg and his wife, Sibylle Christine von Anhalt-Dessau , who after the death of her husband from 1638 took over the reign of her son, the minor Philipp Ludwig III. von Hanau-Munzenberg carried out well.

government

Philip Ludwig III. died as a child on November 21, 1641. With that, the main line of the Hanau-Munzenberg family was extinct in the male line, and Johann Ernst was the only male representative of the Hanau-Munzenberg-Schwarzenfels branch.

Shortly after taking office, he became engaged to Susanna Margarethe von Anhalt-Dessau , who would later become the wife of Count Johann Philipp von Hanau-Lichtenberg and sister of Sibylla Christina von Anhalt Dessau, the mother of his predecessor and wife of his successor, Casimir von Hanau-Lichtenberg . However, there was no longer any marriage.

death

Johann Ernst died of the leaves on January 12, 1642 after only seven weeks of reign . The treating doctors, including Peter de Spina III. , recognized the disease very late and treated the dying man with laxatives and bloodletting .

He was buried on February 26, 1642 in the family crypt in the Marienkirche in Hanau, which - as it was already fully occupied - had to be expanded beforehand. The tin coffin in which he was buried was stolen in the Napoleonic chaos of war in 1812, and the body was reburied in a communal coffin together with the contents of other stolen coffins.

Johann Ernst was inherited by the ruling Count of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg , Friedrich Casimir , who was still under the tutelage of Baron Georg II von Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl because he was a minor .

literature

• Rudolf Bernges: Johann Ernst, the last Count of Hanau-Münzenberg , in: Hanauer Anzeiger of May 5, 1928.
• 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.
• Reinhard Dietrich: The state constitution in the Hanauischen ( Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 34 ), Hanau 1996. ISBN 3-9801933-6-5
• Funeral sermon , 1642, evidence: Catalog of funeral sermons and other funeral pamphlets in the Hessian State Archives in Marburg ( Marburg Personalschriften-Forschungen 14 ), Sigmaringen 1992 .
• 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, reprint 1978.

predecessor	Office	successor
Philip Ludwig III.	Count of Hanau-Munzenberg 1641–1642	Friedrich Casimir