Johann V. (Nassau)

Johann V (born November 9, 1455 in Breda ; † July 30, 1516 in Dillenburg ) was Count of Nassau-Dillenburg , Katzenelnbogen, Vianden and Diez, Lord of Breda, Diest and Grimbergen from 1475 to 1516 .

family

Johann was the youngest of five siblings from the marriage of Count Johann IV of Nassau-Dillenburg and Maria von Loon-Heinsberg . His brother Engelbert II later became governor-general of the Netherlands; his sister Anna became Duchess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and regent of the Principality of Lüneburg and the last Countess of Katzenelnbogen by marriage .

In 1482 he married Elisabeth von Hessen, the daughter of Landgrave Heinrich von Hessen-Marburg and his wife Anna von Katzenelnbogen. The following children were born from his marriage to Elisabeth von Hessen-Marburg:

• Henry III. (January 12, 1483 - September 14, 1538), heir to Breda
• Johann (1484–1504)
• Ernst (* 1486)
• Wilhelm the Rich (April 10, 1487 - October 6, 1559), heir of Dillenburg
• Elisabeth (December 1, 1488 - June 3, 1559) ∞ Count Johann III. zu Wied-Runkel († March 18, 1533)
• Maria (* February 1, 1491; 1547) ∞ Jobst I. von Schaumburg (* 1483; † June 5, 1531)

Life

When his father Johann IV. Von Nassau-Dillenburg inherited the estate in 1972, the German possessions of Nassau on the right bank of the Rhine fell to him, including the Siegerland with the residence in Siegen, but also Dillenburg, Herborn and Haiger. In 1476 he was able to set up a "high court" in Siegen. In 1478 he made regulations for the iron stone and coal trade as well as for the metallurgy. After the death of his father in 1475, Johann V's older brother Engelbert II became heir to the Dutch possessions around Breda , while Johann himself became Count of Nassau-Dillenburg. Johann then inherited Engelbert when he died in 1504. Inheritance disputes over the County of Katzenelnbogen , spurred on by his marriage to Elisabeth Landgräfin zu Hessen-Marburg in 1482, could not be brought to an end until 1557, long after the death of Johann V. Johann V was known for his lively construction activity in the Nassau government seats of Siegen, Dillenburg and Herborn. In Siegen, among other things, he had the fortifications in the Kölner Tor and Obergraben area expanded.

In 1484/1485 he went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem with his brother-in-law, Count Philipp I zu Hanau-Münzenberg . The journey led with a stately entourage via Augsburg and Innsbruck to Venice, where they reached Jerusalem on June 10, 1484 by sea along the Dalmatian coast via Aegean waters on July 29, 1484. John V was knighted by the Holy Sepulcher in the Jerusalem Church of the Holy Sepulcher . The return journey took him and Count Philip I via Rome, where they set out on December 3, 1484 and spent Christmas Eve 1484 in Trento via Siena, Florence and Bologna. On January 28, 1485, Johann V returned to Dillenburg; on February 3, 1485 in Siegen.

After his pilgrimage to Jerusalem, John V became a Terziarier of the Third Order of the Franciscans . In 1495 he founded the Minorite Monastery in Siegen. His father had Johann IV. Had already agreed on this with the Archbishop of Mainz Adolf II of Nassau in 1473 , but the structural implementation was tackled by Johann V. Pope Innocent VIII approved the construction of the monastery on March 15, 1486. On March 25, 1489, 11 monks then moved into the still unfinished Franciscan monastery in Siegen; In 1534 the monastery was closed during the Reformation and the monks were expelled from Siegen. After his death he was buried in the barefoot monk's robes (Franciscan brothers) in the monastery church next to the altar of St. Francis. After the fire in 1695, the Lower Castle was built in its place . 200 priests appeared in Siegen for these funeral ceremonies .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Christian Brachthäuser: "On the 500th year of the death of the Siegen sovereign Johann V. Graf zu Nassau, Katzenelnbogen, Vianden and Diez, Mr. Breda, Grimbergen and Diest (1455-1516)"
2. ↑ ^{a b} Valmar Cramer: The order of knights of the Holy Grave from the Crusades to the present. , JP Bachem, Cologne 1952, p. 35
3. ^ Siegerländer Heimatkalender 1966, p. 96 "Milestones from the Siegerland past" by Adolf Müller, Verlag für Heimatliteratur

literature

• Ernst Joachim:  Johann V. (Count of Nassau-Dillenburg) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, pp. 252-254.
• Emil Becker: The pilgrimage of Count Johann V. von Nassau-Dillenburg to the holy land 1484/85 . In: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 2 (1952), p. 58ff.
• Christian Brachthäuser: "On the 500th year of the death of the Siegen sovereign Johann V. Graf zu Nassau, Katzenelnbogen, Vianden and Diez, Mr. Breda, Grimbergen and Diest (1455-1516)"

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann IV.	Count of Nassau-Dillenburg 1475–1516	Wilhelm
Engelbert II.	Lord of Breda Count of Vianden 1504–1516	Henry III.