Johann Mohr von Leun

Johann Mohr , usually referred to as Johann Mohr von Leun (* around 1445 in Leun ; † September 22, 1519 in Mainz ), was a Hessian ministerial , politician and court judge .

family

Johann Mohr came from Leun and was therefore mostly called Johann Mohr von Leun. His parents were Philipp Mohr Leun, of 1473/74 as a solo shear bailiff in Greifenstein is certified and in 1479 by Wied-Runkel with the Church set to Rodheim was invested. and his wife Guda († 1524), daughter of Johann von Mudersbach , 1457–89 Nassau bailiff in Beilstein , and Margarete von Reifenberg .

Mohr had a daughter named Margarethe. She married Jost von Drachsdorf , Hessian chief magistrate and court master .

Life

Mohr probably received his legal training in Mainz. He first appears in 1471 as a "vester" (ie. Central or district judge) in Siegen , where he supported Count Johann IV of Nassau-Dillenburg in subjugating the Lords of Bicken . In 1475 Count Johann V von Nassau-Dillenburg appointed him president of a newly built upper court . In 1492, Johann V gave him a castle in Diez and a castle seat in Herborn as a hereditary man's fief , but Mohr never did castle man's services. Rather, he was involved in the dissolution of the castle teams and was therefore brought before the important court court in Rottweil and ostracized in 1494 . Thereupon Count Johann V obtained the lifting of all jurisdiction of the Rottweiler judges for Nassau.

From 1493 Mohr was also bailiff of Siegen. In 1497 he was transferred to Herborn as a bailiff. With the accomplished in this time laying the residence and seat of government from Siegen to Dillenburg the Count House came from the Westphalian peace and kurkölnischer control in the area of Wetterauer public peace, and Mohr was now actively involved in the renewal of Wetterauer Landvogtei targeting policy of Wetterauer Graf Association involved. In 1498 he was its first envoy to the Reichstag in Freiburg . Mohr was one of those who, even before King Maximilian I proclaimed the Eternal Peace in 1495, made significant contributions to the legalization of political life at an intermediate level. The pioneer of the Hessian court court, Hans von Dörnberg , therefore made an attempt in 1499 to pull him into Hessian service, but Mohr refused.

In 1508 he changed from the office of the magistrate in Herborn to that of the steward in Dillenburg. In 1509 he was envoy to the Reichstag in Worms , and from 1511 he served as bailiff of Dillenburg. Together with Chancellor Johann Wisze, he prepared the complaint for the Katzenelnbogi succession dispute and presented it to the Reichshofrat .

In 1515 Mohr joined kurmainzischen Service: he was Vizedom , bailiff of the Abbey of St. Victor in front of Mainz and Hofrichter the Elector Albrecht .

literature

• Lutz Hatzfeld:  Mohr von Leun, Johann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 714 f. ( Digitized version ).

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ "Rodheim-Bieber, District of Giessen". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of August 31, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
2. ↑ He is mentioned in a document in 1469 as a nobleman ( regesten.regesta-imperii.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ). His father was the "vester", d. H. District judge, Gottfried Mohr, who had three black diamonds with lions striding over them in the coat of arms (see NDB article).  
3. ↑ Count Johann V had been married to Elisabeth von Hessen since 1482, the daughter of Landgrave Heinrich III. von Hessen-Marburg and his wife Anna von Katzenelnbogen, the heir daughter of the last Count von Katzenelnbogen, who died in 1479.