Johann I (Sponheim-Starkenburg)

Count Johann I von Sponheim (* before 1206 ; † 1266 ) came from the noble family of Sponheim and ruled the county of Sponheim from 1218 to 1266. He inherited the county of Sayn .

Life

Johann shared the inheritance of their father Gottfried III with his brothers Simon and Heinrich . The exact time of the division is not certain, but it must have occurred between 1223 and 1237. His younger brother Simon received two thirds of the county of Sponheim and founded the Sponheim-Kreuznach line, which was later referred to as the front county. Johann himself received the last third of the county of Sponheim and the inheritance of Sayn from her mother Adelheid von Sayn .

The inheritance occurred in 1247 after the death of her uncle Count Heinrich III. from Sayn . Heinrich received parts of the Sayner inheritance and married the heiress of the Heinsberg rule . Johann resided at Starkenburg Castle and was married at least twice. The first marriage was childless. His sons in turn shared the paternal property. Gottfried founded a new line of the Counts of Sayn, Heinrich I continued the Sponheim-Starkenburg line, which was later referred to as the rear county. In October 1252, Abbot and Prior zu Corvey promised Count Johann von Sponheim not to sell their farm in Lüßig ( Traben-Trarbach district ) without his consent.

At the coronation of King Richard at Aachen on May 22, 1257, Count Johann and his brother Simon were present; also Count Johann on July 15 of the same year with the king in Boppard , when he confirmed their privileges to the city of Oberwesel . The Himmerod monastery was exempted from all taxes on trotting and wolf by Count Johann in March 1252 . On April 1, 1264, with the approval of his sons Gottfried Graf von Sayn and Heinrich, Count Johann sold the inherited estates of Unkel and Breitbach to Archbishop Engelbert of Cologne and his church , as well as Heinrich von Breitbach (the ancestor of the von Breidbach-Bürresheim family called Rieben ), Gottfried the Schenk von Engers and the heirs of the knight Heinrich von Nettersdorf. In addition to the aforementioned sons, Count Gerhard von Neuenahr with his wife Elisabeth, daughter of Johann von Sponheim, and Marquard von Solms with his wife Agnes, also Johann's daughter, waived the property. In consideration of the two mills on the Saynbach, given by Heinrich von Sayn to the Laach Abbey in 1232 in return for a lease of 30 Malter grain, Count Johann von Sponheim and his son Gottfried certified on September 15, 1264 that they were against the abbey for this lease Would have waived the payment of 30 marks. With the approval of Count Johann von Sponheim, who in the same year 1264 was named Count von Sayn as Vogt of the Albans Monastery in Bendorf , Ludwig Ritter von Dunso (Densen?) Gave the Kumbd Abbey freedom of circulation for their goods in Enkirch . Johann is mentioned for the last time in a document in 1266. He was buried in the Himmerod monastery.

progeny

The mother of the children, Johann's second wife, is probably NN von Altena-Isenberg , daughter of Count Friedrich von Isenberg and his wife Sophie von Limburg .

• Gottfried von Sayn
• Elisabeth ∞ Gerhard von Neuenahr
• Heinrich I of Sponheim
• Agnes ∞ Marquard III. from Solms
• Adelheid ∞ Dietrich von Altena-Isenberg

literature

• Johann Christian von Stramberg , Anton Joseph Weidenbach : The Nahethal. Historically and topographically. 5 volumes. ( Memorable and useful Rhenish antiquarian: which represents the most important and pleasant geographical, historical and political peculiarities of the entire Rhine river, from its outflow into the sea to its origin. Dept. II Vol. 16-20 ) Koblenz, Rud. Friedr. Hergt 1869–1871 ( digitized )
• Winfried Dotzauer: History of the Nahe-Hunsrück Area from the Beginnings to the French Revolution , Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2001 ( digitized )

Remarks

1. ↑ Document of October 29, 1252, cf. Document dated October 28, 1233; Landesarchiv NRW, Dept. Westphalia Münster (Fürstabtei Corvey, documents 89 and 99a).
2. ↑ Confirmed by Johannes Mötsch in communications of the Residences Commission of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Issue 16/1, 2006 . The other options, according to Winfried Dotzauer, would be NN von Mark-Altena , daughter of Adolf I , or NN von Geldern , daughter of Otto I , who are also considered Johann's first wife (both women could be sisters).

predecessor	Office	successor
Gottfried III.	Count of Sponheim 1218–1266	Heinrich I.
Adelheid	Count of Sayn 1263-1266	Gottfried I.