Johann Reinhard II of Hanau-Lichtenberg

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Count Johann Reinhard (II.) Von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 13 January July / 23 January  1628 greg. In Buchsweiler ; † 25 April 1666 in Bischofsheim am Hohe Steg ) was a later son of Count Philipp Wolfgang von Hanau -Lichtenberg (* 1595; † 1641) and Countess Johanna von Öttingen-Öttingen († 1639).

Count Johann Reinhard II., Engraving by Peter Aubry, Strasbourg

ancestry

Family table of Count Johann Reinhard (II.) Von Hanau-Lichtenberg
Great grandparents

Philipp V. von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1541; † 1599)

Ludovica Margaretha von Zweibrücken-Bitsch (* 1540; † 1569)

Wolfgang zu Hohenlohe-Neuenstein (* 1546; † 1610)

Magdalena von Nassau-Dillenburg (* 1547; † 1643)

Gottfried von Öttingen (* 1554; † 1622)

Johanna zu Hohenlohe-Neuenstein (* 1557; † 1585)

George III von Erbach (* 1548; † 1605)

Anna zu Solms (* 1557; † 1586)

Grandparents

Johann Reinhard I. von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1568; † 1625)

Maria Elisabeth zu Hohenlohe-Neuenstein (* 1576; † 1605)

Ludwig Eberhard von Öttingen-Öttingen (* 1577; † 1634)

Margarethe von Erbach (* 1576; † 1636)

parents

Philipp Wolfgang von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1595; † 1641)

Johanna von Öttingen-Öttingen (* 1602; † 1639)

Johann Reinhard (II.)

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

About the nomenclature

Johann Reinhard (II.) Is mostly referred to as "Johann Reinhard II." In the relevant literature, although as a later son he never became the ruling count. Thus he is from the ruling Count Johann Reinhard I of Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1559, † 1626) and his own son, Count Johann Reinhard III. (* 1665; † 1736), differentiated. To indicate that he was not formally a ruling count, the ordinal number is put in brackets after his name.

Together with his brother Johann Philipp , he was sent on a cavalier tour through Germany, the Netherlands , England , France and Switzerland .

politics

He then visited the Reichstag in Nuremberg in 1650, which was devoted to the enforcement problems of the Peace of Westphalia . He was assigned to Bischofsheim am Hohen Steg and the office of Lichtenau as his residence by his father's will . Here he took care of the reconstruction after the destruction of the Thirty Years' War , encouraged the immigration of Swiss people and began building the destroyed infrastructure, such as the schools. In 1653 he took part in the Reichstag in Regensburg .

family

On October 19, 1659 he married in Bischweiler (today: Bischwiller) Countess Palatine Anna Magdalena von Pfalz-Bischweiler (* 1640; † 1693). There were five children from this marriage:

Furthermore, Johann Reinhard is known to have an extramarital relationship with Maria Magdalena von Lindenau (also: Lindau). Maria Magdalena († after 1680) was the daughter of a lieutenant colonel von Lindenau († December 1, 1640) from the former Swedish service, who was the commander of the Hanau fortress in the successor to Johann Winter von Güldenborn . After his death, he was succeeded by Kasimir Karl von Landras .

The union of Johann Reinhard and Maria Magdalena gave birth to at least one son, Johann Reinhard von Lichtenfels (* 1656 or earlier; † after May 22, 1689). It is documented in Duisburg in 1680 . The most recent evidence comes from 1689. Johann Reinhard von Lichtenfels served in the military of the Roman Catholic Monastery of Münster and died without an heir.

A second illegitimate son of Count Johann Reinhard (II.), Johann Reinhard von Hanau (* approx. 1665; † unknown), can only be taken as a student of the Herborn High School in 1677/78 and probably died early.

death

After his death on April 25, 1666, Johann Reinhard (II.) Was buried in the crypt at Lichtenberg Castle. 52 Hanau pastors, numerous nobles and representatives of the city of Strasbourg took part in the funeral of the obviously popular father . Two funeral sermons were published:

literature

  • Georg Friedrich Dhein: Collections on Hanauer History . 7 volumes, unprinted . (Based on a typewritten (partial?) Copy in the Hanau City Library , Hanau-Hessen department , signature: I b 2 D).
  • 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 in Darmstadt = Marburger Personalschriftforschungen 13. Sigmaringen 1991.
  • Rudolf Lenz: Catalog of funeral sermons and other funeral pamphlets in the Hessian University and State Library Darmstadt = Marburger Personalschriftforschungen 11. Sigmaringen 1990.
  • Wilhelm Mechler: The territory of the Lichtenberger to the right of the Rhine . In: Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (ed.): Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480–1980 = Pays d'Alsace 111/112 (2, 3/1980), p 31-37.
  • 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.
  • Reinhard Suchier: The grave monuments and coffins of the people buried in Hanau from the houses of Hanau and Hesse . In: Program of the Royal High School in Hanau. Hanau 1879. pp. 1-56.
  • Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau city and country . 3rd edition, Hanau 1919, ND 1978.

References

  1. a b Melcher, p. 36.
  2. ^ Suchier, Grabmonumente, p. 53.
  3. Dietrich: Bastarde , p. 32.
  4. a b Dietrich: Bastarde , p. 33.
  5. Proof: Catalog, No. 69.
  6. Proof: Lenz, No. 155.