Johann II. (Troppau-Ratibor)

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Johann II. Von Troppau (also: Johann II. Von Troppau-Ratibor ; Johann der Eiserne ; Czech: Jan II. Opavský ; Hanuš Ferreus ; * after 1365 ; † 1424 ) was Duke of (Troppau) -Ratibor , Jägerndorf and Freudenthal . From 1388 to 1397 he was governor and from 1397 to 1422 pledge lord of Glatz and Frankenstein . He came from the Troppau-Ratibor family of the Troppauer Přemyslids .

Life

His father of the same name, Johann I , who came to the Duchy of Ratibor as the sole heir in 1365, founded the Přemyslid lineage of Troppau-Ratibor. In addition, when the Duchy of Opava was divided in 1377, he received the areas of Jägerndorf and Freudenthal . Johann II's mother was Anna, daughter of Heinrich V von Glogau - Sagan .

After the death of John I, his sons John II "the Iron" and Nicholas IV shared his possessions. The younger Nikolaus received a share from Freudenthal, which Johann "der Eiserne" administered until he came of age in 1385 and which he inherited after Nikolaus death (1405/07). Already in 1384 Johann had sold the Duchy of Jägerndorf, which had been independent since 1377, to Wladislaus II of Opole . Johann II was able to win back Pless and Nikolai , which his father had already pledged to Wladislaus von Opole .

In 1387 Johann II founded the town of Alt Berun and gave the town bailiwick to a certain Cussowitz. In 1391 he gave the bishop of Kraków the villages of Imielin , Kosztow and Groß Chelm , which were situated on the eastern border of the Duchy of Ratibor, with all sovereign rights, which meant that these villages were no longer included in Silesia . The village of Halemba near Ruda developed from an iron hammer settlement founded by him and his brother Nikolaus in 1394 . In 1397 Johann II founded another iron hammer on the site of the desert village Bogutschütz , which was called Bogutzker hammer and from which Katowice developed at the end of the 16th century .

Since Johann II was one of the followers of Margrave Prokop , he stepped up to the Treaty of Hotzenplotz in 1389 , that of the bishops of Breslau and Olmütz and the princes of Liegnitz , Oels , Glogau , Troppau and Teschen to maintain the peace and mutual protection Prokop has been completed, not at.

As the highest court master of King Wenceslaus IV , Johann was one of the leading personalities of the Kingdom of Bohemia . In this position he also held the office of Karlstein Burgrave. Along with other aristocratic councils accusing 1397 King Wenceslas IV. Neglecting his duties as Roman-German king and told him to, a parliament convened. The accusations were made against Wenceslas councilors and favorites Stefan Poduška von Martinitz , Stefan von Opočno , Burkhard Strnad von Janowitz and the prior of the Order of St. John Marquard von Strakonitz. After these continued to stand in the way of the demands of Johann and his colleagues, Johann invited them to a banquet on June 11, 1397 at Karlstein Castle. There he attacked her with the words: "You, gentlemen, advised our Lord King day and night not to bother about the German land because you wanted to deprive him of the office of Roman-German king!" Then he let her to murder. In the same year John received from King Wenzel IV the pledge for the counties of Glatz and Frankenstein, which Margrave Jodok , who was enemies of King Wenzel , had to surrender.

After Wenceslas stepbrother Sigismund besieged Ratibor in 1400, John II enforced an alliance directed against Hungary on the occasion of the meeting of Kings Wenceslaus IV and Władysław II of Poland in 1404 in Wroclaw . After King Wenceslas death, Johann supported his successor King Sigismund, whom he paid homage to in 1420 on the occasion of the Breslau Reichstag. When an embassy of the rebellious Czechs was on their way to the Lithuanian Grand Duke Witold , to whom they wanted to propose the Bohemian crown, they were arrested by the citizens of Ratibor on September 21, 1421 and handed over to King Sigismund by John II. As a reward, Johann received the hunting village he had sold in 1384 back, which had last been in the hands of Ludwig II of Liegnitz. The Hussites retaliated with an incursion into the Ratibor country.

After his death Johann was buried in the monastery church of the Dominican Sisters in Ratibor . Only in 1437 was there a comparison and the division of his lands: son Wenzel received town and country Ratibor, son Nikolaus received Jägerndorf, Freudenthal, Pless , Rybnik and Bauerwitz .

family

On January 16, 1407, John II married the Lithuanian princess Helene, a niece of the Polish king Władysław II Jagiełło. She received in 1407 as a jointure the soft images Pless, Old Berun and Nikolai and 1412 the additional Waldhufen villages south Sohrau . After Johann's death, she was titled as Mistress of Pless 1424–1449 .

Children came from marriage

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  1. ↑ quoted from cs: Jan II. Opavský : "Vy, páni, jste ve dne v noci našemu panu králi radili, aby se o německé země nestaral, a chtěli jste ho zbavit německé říše!"
  2. ↑ http://genealogy.euweb.cz/bohemia/bohemia3.html#MJ2
personal data
SURNAME Johann II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES John the Iron; Jan II Opavský; Hanuš Ferreus (Czech)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Troppau-Ratibor, Jägerndorf and Freudenthal, governor of Glatz and Frankenstein
DATE OF BIRTH after 1365
DATE OF DEATH 1424