Johann V. (Sponheim-Starkenburg)

Count Johann V von Sponheim (* around 1359; † October 24, 1437 ), the last of his tribe, ruled the rear county of Sponheim from 1414 as heir to his father Johann IV von Sponheim-Starkenburg and from 1417 for 20 years (1417– 1437) the reunited county of Sponheim.

Life

Johann V married Walpurg von Leiningen-Rixingen at an advanced age in 1415 . Johann is described as strange. He devoted himself to black art and invested large sums in dubious projects, but also had medical texts translated and written by his personal doctor Hesse, known as Jude von Salms (* around 1360). His reign was overshadowed by the burden of maintaining the dynasty. When the marriage remained childless, the regulation of the succession came to the fore. In 1416 Countess Elisabeth von Sponheim-Kreuznach , the last countess in the front county, had 1/5 in certain offices in the front county with her brother-in-law, Elector Ludwig III. bequeathed by the Palatinate , the so-called Electoral Palatinate hereditary fifth. The remaining 4/5 and the parts of the county not affected by this overwriting were inherited by Johann V as agnate . Thus, the county of Sponheim was reunited after about 200 years. Taking over the inheritance and dealing with the potential heirs led to repeated disputes and confusion.

In 1421 Johann V took part in the Hussite War. For the time of his absence he commissioned the knight Reinhard von Remchingen with the administration of the county and, if necessary, the execution of his will.

Johann's heirs were the descendants of his father's two sisters, Johann IV von Sponheim-Starkenburg , Mechtild and Loretta, who were Margrave Rudolf VI. of Baden and Count Heinrich III. von Veldenz had married. Johann sold and pledged parts of the county and favored the Margrave of Baden, initially completely ignoring the claims of Veldenz. The tense situation was only contractually settled through the mediation of Count Palatine Stefan in the so-called Beinheim decision in 1425. In it it was determined that the county should get half to Baden and Veldenz in an undivided community. The coat of arms of the front county was allowed to be adopted by Veldenz, the coat of arms of the back county of Baden. Johann died in 1437 and was buried in Trarbach .

Inherit

The Electoral Palatinate hereditary fifth of the front county remained with the Electoral Palatinate . The rest of the county of Sponheim fell to the Margraves of Baden and the Counts of Veldenz .

literature

• Winfried Dotzauer: History of the Nahe-Hunsrück area from the beginnings to the French Revolution , Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2001

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Volker Zimmermann: Jude von Salms (Solms). In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 706.
2. ↑ Michael E [rlaucht] Graf v. Matuschka: Hesse, the Jew from Salms (Solmes): doctor and scribe. A mainly name-based excursus. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 8, 1990, pp. 207-219, here: pp. 208 f.
3. ↑ Václav Bok: Some observations on the so-called Jews of Solms based on the Krumlov collective manuscript of his works. In: "Ik lerde art dor lust". Older language and literature in research and teaching. Festschrift Christa Baufeld . Rostock 1999 (= Rostock Contributions to Linguistics. Volume 7), pp. 87–97.

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann IV.	Graf von Sponheim 1413 - 1437	Margrave Jakob I of Baden as Count zu Sponheim Count Friedrich III. von Veldenz as Count of Sponheim