Johann Philipp von Hanau-Lichtenberg

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Count Johann Philipp von Hanau-Lichtenberg (born January 13, 1626 [according to the Julian calendar ] in Buchsweiler ; † December 18, 1669 in Babenhausen ) was born as the son of Count Philipp Wolfgang (* 1595; † 1641) and his wife, Countess Johanna von Öttingen (* 1602; † 1639) born. In his childhood, he and his parents had to flee several times from the royal seat of Buchsweiler to Strasbourg , where the family owned a city palace, before the effects of the Thirty Years' War .

Pedigree of Count Johann Philipp von Hanau-Lichtenberg
Great grandparents

Philipp V von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1541; † 1599)
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Margarethe Ludowika von Pfalz-Zweibrücken (* 1540; † 1569)

Wolfgang zu Hohenlohe-Neuenstein (* 1546; † 1610)
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Magdalena von Nassau-Dillenburg (* 1547; † 1643)

Gottfried von Öttingen (* 1554; † 1622)
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Johanna zu Hohenlohe-Neuenstein (* 1557; † 1585)

George III von Erbach (* 1548; † 1605)
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Anna zu Solms (* 1557; † 1586)

Grandparents

Johann Reinhard I. von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1568; † 1625)
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Maria Elisabeth zu Hohenlohe-Neuenstein (* 1576; † 1605)

Ludwig Eberhard von Öttingen-Öttingen (* 1577; † 1634)
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Margarethe von Erbach (* 1576; † 1636)

parents

Philipp Wolfgang von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1595; † 1641)
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Johanna von Öttingen-Öttingen (* 1602; † 1639)

Johann Philipp

For the family cf. Main article: Hanau (noble family)

Together with his brother Johann Reinhard (* 1628, † 1666) Johann Philipp was sent on a cavalier tour through Germany, the Netherlands , England , France and Switzerland . As a descendant of the Hanau family , he was assigned the office and Babenhausen Castle as his residence in his father's will . It did not come into their possession until 1647, after the Electorate of Mainz , which had occupied Babenhausen for years due to the war, vacated the castle, town and office of Babenhausen.

On February 16, 1651 he married Princess Susanna Margarethe von Anhalt-Dessau (* 1610; † 1663). She was a daughter of Prince Johann Georg I of Anhalt-Dessau (* 1567; † 1618) and the Countess Palatine Dorothea of ​​Pfalz-Simmern (* 1581; † 1631). So she was a sister of Princess Sibylle Christine von Anhalt-Dessau (* 1603, † 1686), who was married in second marriage to the brother of Johann Philipp, the ruling Count Friedrich Casimir . The marriage of Johann Philipp and Susanne Margaretha remained childless. Johann Philipp fathered children, albeit out of wedlock. Three are proven:

  • NN, a daughter (* after 1663), married to a customs administrator " Cressl ".
  • NN, a son (* after 1663) who had the surname " Berg " and who later got a job as an officer in the Hanau militia .
  • NN, a second son (* after 1663), who also had the surname " Berg ", and who later also got a job as an officer in the Hanau militia.

Nothing is known about the mother or mothers of these children.

In 1664 Johann Philipp visited the Reichstag in Regensburg , where he got into a duel with a Prince of Reuss . In 1669 he tried a coup d'état against his brother Friedrich Casimir , who had heavily indebted the County of Hanau and was now trying to rehabilitate himself by selling territory. The agnates therefore intervened against Friedrich Casimir and seized the government in his absence in November 1669. This emergency regime collapsed after three days and Friedrich Casimir locked his brother out of the city of Hanau in return.

Johann Philipp died shortly afterwards on December 18, 1669 and, like his wife before, was buried in the town church in Babenhausen.

literature

  • Reinhard Dietrich : Hanau bastards . In: New magazine for Hanau history (messages from the Hanauer Geschichtsverein 1844 eV) 2015, pp. 25–34.
  • Reinhard Dietrich: The state constitution in the Hanauischen = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 34. Hanau 1996. ISBN 3-9801933-6-5
  • Catalog of funeral sermons and other funeral pamphlets in the Hessian State Archives Darmstadt = Marburger Personalschriftforschungen 14. Sigmaringen 1992.
  • Wilhelm Morhardt: Hanau old - in honor of b'halt - The Counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg in history and stories = Babenhausen then and now 10th Babenhausen 1984.
  • Reinhard Suchier : Genealogy of the Hanauer count house . In: Festschrift of the Hanau History Association for its 50th anniversary celebration on August 27, 1894 . Hanau 1894.
  • Richard Wille: Hanau in the Thirty Years' War . Hanau 1886.
  • Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau city and country . 3rd edition, Hanau 1919, ND 1978.

References

  1. ↑ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt , inventory: D7, 1/1, names November 28, 1669 as the date of death - probably a difference between the Julian and Gregorian calendar .
  2. ↑ a b c Dietrich: Bastarde , p. 32.
  3. ↑ Dietrich: Bastarde , p. 31f.
  4. ↑ A funeral sermon appeared on her death . Evidence: Catalog: Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg , inventory 81. Hanau government, A 40.6.
personal data
SURNAME Hanau-Lichtenberg, Johann Philipp von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1626
PLACE OF BIRTH Buchsweiler
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1669
Place of death Babenhausen