Johann III. (Wied-Runkel)

Count Johann III. von Wied-Runkel-Isenburg (* around 1475/85; † 1533 ) was a German nobleman.

Life

Johann III. von Wied-Runkel-Isenburg was a son of Friedrich IV. Herr von Runkel († 1487), hereditary officer of Andernach, from 1454 Count zu Wied, Herr von Braunsberg, Herr von Dierdorf, co-lord of Isenburg and (⚭ 1454) Agnes von Virneburg († 1478). He was a brother of the Archbishop of Cologne, Hermann V. von Wied, and the Bishop of Münster, Friedrich III. from Wied . His brother Wilhelm III. von Wied (* around 1455/60; † 1526), ​​Count zu Wied and Moers, Herr von Runkel and Isenburg, ⚭ 1481 with Countess Margareta von Moers (* around 1470; † 1515), gave him in 1503 largely the rights to Wied, Runkel, Isenburg and Braunsberg. In 1508 he concluded a border treaty with Count Gerlach (III.) IV. Von Isenburg-Grenzau (* around 1460; † 1533). 1511 joined Johann III. the Wetterau Count Association .

family

Johann III. von Wied-Runkel-Isenburg married Countess Elisabeth von Nassau-Dillenburg (1488–1559), daughter of Count Johann V von Nassau-Diez (1455–1516) and Landgravine Elisabeth von Hessen (* 1466; † 1523) in 1506 . Her descendants were:

1. Elisabeth of Wied-Runkel (* around 1506/10, † 1542), married about 1522 with Anton I. of Isenburg-Büdingen-Ronneburg-Kelsterbach (1501-1560), who in 1544 issued a Protestant church order, Doppelepitaph in the Marienkirche to Büdingen ,
2. Margarethe von Wied-Runkel (* around 1506/10; † 1572), married I. around 1523 to Bernhard von Bentheim-Steinfurt (* around 1490/95; † 1528), II. 1534 with Count Arnold I. von Manderscheid-Blankenheim (1500–1548), known for her medical knowledge,
3. Philipp von Wied-Runkel (* around 1508; † 1535), buried in the Rommersdorf Abbey , grave slab today in the mausoleum of the Counts of Wied-Runkel in Dierdorf ,
4. Magdalena von Wied-Runkel (* around 1514; † 1572), abbess in Nottuln Abbey since 1537 and in Elten Abbey since 1544 ,
5. Johann IV von Wied-Runkel († 1581), 1525 Canon of St. Gereon in Cologne, enrolled in Cologne in 1534, resigned, married since 1545 to Countess Katharina von Hanau-Münzenberg (1525–1581), led the 1568 in his domain Reformation a,
6. Friedrich IV. Von Wied (1518–1568), Archbishop of Cologne from 1562 to 1567 , resigned,
7. Walpurga Johanna von Wied-Runkel (* around 1510/15; † 1578), married since 1528 to Ludwig zu Stolberg-Königstein , who introduced the Reformation in his domain in 1540, double epitaph in the collegiate church of St. Marien zu Wertheim ,
8. Agnes von Wied-Runkel (* around 1520, † 1588), married I. around 1540 to Kaspar I von Mansfeld-Hinterort († 1542), died in Hungary, II. From 1545 with Friedrich Magnus I von Solms-Laubach ( 1521–1561), who introduced the Reformation in Laubach in 1544,
9. Genoveva von Wied-Runkel (* around 1522; † 1556), married since 1546 to Wolfgang von Stolberg-Königstein ,
10. Maria von Wied-Runkel (* around 1522; † 1563), married since 1554 to Reichserbschenk Christoph III. Schenk von Limpurg-Gaildorf (1531–1574), whose father Wilhelm III. Schenk von Limpurg-Gaildorf (1498–1552) introduced the Reformation around 1540, and around 1564 reconstruction of Untergröningen Castle

Johann III. von Wied-Runkel-Isenburg is the ancestor of almost all ruling members of the European nobility.

literature

• Johann Stephan Reck: History of the counts and princely houses Isenburg, Runkel, Wied . Landes-Industrie-Comptoir, Weimar 1825, esp. Pp. 137–144 ( Google Books )
• Family tree of the mediatized house Wied , o.O. 1884, panels I and II, p. 4f ( digitized version of the State Library Center Rhineland-Palatinate Koblenz)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See documents of 1505, 1506 and 1512; Main State Archive Wiesbaden (holdings 3036 total inventory of the old Dillenburg archive, no. KHA Inv. A 2, no. 530–542).