Johann Ludwig (Nassau-Saarbrücken)

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Johann Ludwig of Nassau-Saarbrücken

Johann Ludwig von Nassau-Saarbrücken (born October 20, 1472 in Saarbrücken ; † June 18, 1545 there ) was Count of Saarbrücken .

family

He was born when his father Johann von Nassau-Saarbrücken had already died three months. His mother was Elisabeth von Württemberg (1447–1505).

Life

The mother was guardian until she remarried to Count Heinrich von Stolberg-Wernigerode in 1474. Afterwards these were taken over by Philipp von Nassau-Weilburg and Eberhard von Württemberg .

Johann Ludwig lived in Weilburg until he was fourteen . He enrolled in Heidelberg in 1483 and in Tübingen in 1485 . He then spent a short time at the court of Duke René II of Lorraine in order to study in Paris afterwards.

In 1490 he took over the rule himself. Right at the beginning of his reign, an inheritance contract for the Nassau-Weilburg and Nassau-Saarbrücken lines was concluded in 1491 . As a result, he fought under Maximilian I at Metz against Charles VIII of France .

In 1495 Johann Ludwig accompanied his brother-in-law Count Palatine Alexander von Zweibrücken and his cousin Bishop Antoine de Croÿ on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land . The route touched Nancy , Venice , Crete , Rhodes and Cyprus . In 1495 he was knighted in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem .

From 1496 he was chamberlain and advisor to René II of Lorraine. In 1498 he became a member of the State Council of Maximilian I. He accompanied him to Italy and in 1499 took part in the battles against the Swiss. He also supported Maximilian financially. In 1499 he became co-regent of his cousin Ludwig von Nassau-Weilburg . In 1503 Maximilian I. visited Saarbrücken.

Johann Ludwig had a Way of the Cross built in 1496 and the Holy Sepulcher Chapel in Saarbrücken in 1505 . In 1510 he had the Calvary built in Weilburg. He always remained loyal to the emperor and was also available to Charles V as an advisor. In 1521 he took part in the Reichstag in Worms . The Reformation doctrine rejected Johann Ludwig. The unrest at the beginning of the 16th century, such as the Peasants' War, also had an impact in part on Nassau-Saarbrücken.

Through his second wife, half of the County of Saar Werden came to him. After the death of the heir of the second part, the rest of the county also fell to Nassau-Saarbrücken in 1527. The Bishop of Metz objected to this and the resulting legal dispute lasted until 1629. The dispute initially did not change anything about the de facto ownership of the county in the hands of Johann Ludwig. In 1544 he took over the Herbitzheim monastery . In the same year, Charles V stayed in Saarbrücken.

He was very fond of alchemy in his last years . In 1544 he divided his property between the sons Philipp, Johann and Adolf, but reserved a quarter of the income. After his death he was buried in the collegiate church of St. Arnual .

Marriages and offspring

On January 29, 1492, he married Elisabeth von Pfalz-Zweibrücken , daughter of the Count Palatine and Duke Ludwig I of Zweibrücken , who died in 1500. The marriage produced six daughters:

  • Ottilie (1492–1554) ⚭ 1516 Count Johann V. von Sayn (1493–1529)
  • Anna (1493–1565), nun in Rosenthal
  • Elisabeth (1495–1559), nun in Walsdorf
  • Johanna (1496–1566), Abbess of Herbitzheim
  • Margarethe (* 1497), died young
  • Felicitas (* 1499), nun

In his second marriage, he married Countess Katharina von Moers-Saar Werden (1491–1547), daughter of Count Johann III, on February 14, 1507. (1468-1507). Nine children were born from this marriage:

  • Anna (1508–1582), nun in Rosenthal
  • Philipp (1509–1554), Count of Saarbrücken (1545–1554)
  • Johann (1511–1574), Count of Saarbrücken (1554–1574); → Line extinguished in the male trunk
  • Margarethe (1513–1562), nun in Walsdorf
  • Elisabeth (1515–1590), nun in Walsdorf
  • Katharina (1517–1553) ⚭ 1537 Count Emich X. von Leiningen-Dagsburg (1498–1541)
  • Agnes (* 1519), died young
  • Johann Ludwig (1524–1542), died by falling from a horse; Canon in Cologne, Trier and Strasbourg
  • Adolf (1526–1559)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. Halm: German Travel Reports, No. 108 , accessed on September 19, 2013
  2. Jakob Hermens: The Order of the Holy. Grabe , Schaub, 1867, p. 40
  3. Valmar Cramer: The order of knights of the Holy Grave from the Crusades to the present. , JP Bachem, Cologne 1952, p. 22
  4. ^ Saarland Biographies: Nassau-Saarbrücken Johann Ludwig the Younger von , accessed on January 6, 2019
  5. ^ Saarland Biographies: Nassau-Saarbrücken Adolph von , accessed on January 6, 2019
predecessor Office successor
Johann Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken
1472 / 1490–1545
Philip II