Johann III. from Ahaus

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Johann III. von Ahaus (* 1274 in Ahaus ; † 1323 ) was the lord of the house of Ahaus and inherited the reign of Lohn together with his brother Otto in 1316 .

Life

Origin and family

Johann von Ahaus was born as the son of Bernhard II von Ahaus (1255–1308) and Sophia von Lohn (daughter of Hermann I von Lohn) of the noble family von Ahaus. He married Jutta von Ochten. From this marriage the children Jutta (married to Hermann von Merveldt), Bernhard III., Hermann (Canon in Osnabrück), Maria and Sophia emerged. Agnes and Margaretha were great-great-grandchildren of Johann. Bishop Otto von Rietberg was Johann's cousin, Hermann II von Lohn his uncle.

Participation in the election and dismissal of the Münster bishop

Johann and his brother Otto played a decisive role in the removal of the bishop. This was preceded by a dispute between the bishop and the cathedral chapter , which saw its rights increasingly restricted. A dispute broke out in which many noble lords sided with the cathedral chapter. Johann and Otto, together with Simon zur Lippe , Balduin II von Steinfurt, Hermann II von Lohn, Hermann von Davensberg, Hermann von Münster, Gottfried von Meinhövel and Hermann von Schonebeck on April 10, 1306, stated that they had none in this dispute Would enter into a settlement. The Ahausers found themselves in a strong conflict of interest. Both the bishop and Hermann II von Lohn were her cousins. The coalition against the bishop prevailed and led to his removal on October 3, 1306.

Dealing with the County's Heritage Wages

With the death of Hermann II von Lohn in 1316, the lineage of the noble lords of Lohn died out and a violent dispute broke out over the inheritance of the Lohn rule. The inheritance of the County of Lohn was a complex structure of possessions and rights. The noblemen von Lohn had given their half of the castle Bredevoort to the Geldrischen Count Otto von Geldern as a fief . The bishop had received the other half through purchase from the Steinfurters. The Ahauser brothers sold their inheritance to Bishop Ludwig on April 3, 1316 for 950 marks and on August 3, 1316 for 600 marks, without taking into account the rights of the county of Geldern to the castle and land of Bredevoort. With that, the conflict that went down in history as the Bredevoort feud was programmed. The prince-bishop, always in need of money, could not pay Otto the purchase price and therefore pledged the Landegge and Fresenburg castles . On the other hand, Johann received the farms Schulze Thering (with the associated hooves and tithes in the parishes of Wüllen, Wessum and Alstätte) and Schulte van Almsick (with the wooden court “Liesner Wald” and hunting rights) in alternation for the transfer .

Heilwig von Voorst, a niece of Hermann von Lohn, was on an equal footing with the Ahauser brothers Johann and Otto in the matter of inheritance, but was passed over by them. Through the marriage of Johanna von Ahaus (great-great-granddaughter of Johann) with Sweder III. van Voorst-Keppel (Heilwig's great-great-nephew) was given the opportunity to balance interests that were disregarded at the time. Sweder III. initially raised hereditary claims to Bredevoort and wages, but the bishop resisted and after his capture on November 12, 1400, Sweder had to expressly declare that he would no longer have any legal claims to the estate wages.

literature

  • Volker Tschuschke : The noble lords of Ahaus. A contribution to the history of the Westphalian nobility in the Middle Ages. Ed .: Landeskundliches Institut Westmünsterland. 1st edition. Vreden 2007, ISBN 3-937432-12-4 .
  • Germania Sacra , published by the Max Planck Institute for History, NF 37.1, The Dioceses of the Ecclesiastical Province of Cologne, The Diocese of Münster 7.1, edited by Wilhelm Kohl , Walter de Gruyter Verlag Berlin 1982, ISBN 978-3-11-008508- 2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Tschuschke, Landeskundliches Institut Westmünsterland, Die Edelherren von Ahaus: A contribution to the history of the Westphalian nobility in the Middle Ages, 1st edition, Vreden, ISBN 3-937432-12-4 , p. 393
  2. ↑ Volker Tschuschke, Landeskundliches Institut Westmünsterland, Die Edelherren von Ahaus: A contribution to the history of the Westphalian nobility in the Middle Ages, 1st edition, Vreden, ISBN 3-937432-12-4 , p. 403
  3. ^ Germania Sacra , published by the Max Planck Institute for History, NF 37.1, The Dioceses of the Church Province of Cologne, The Diocese of Münster 7.1, edited by Wilhelm Kohl, Walter de Gruyter Verlag Berlin 1982, ISBN 978-3-11-008508 -2 , p. 152
personal data
SURNAME Ahaus, Johann III. from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dynast of the House of Ahaus, inherited the lordship of Lohn with his brother Otto in 1316
DATE OF BIRTH 1274
PLACE OF BIRTH Ahaus
DATE OF DEATH 1323