Johann von Veldenz

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Coat of arms of the Counts of Veldenz
Grave slab in the cloister of the Abbey Church of St. Peter and Paul, Wissembourg (Alsace)

Johann von Veldenz († July 10, 1434 ) was a Benedictine , provost of St. Remigius at Kusel and prince abbot of the Weissenburg monastery (Wissembourg) in Alsace.

Origin and family

Johann was a Count von Veldenz from the Geroldseck family and the third son of Heinrich III. von Veldenz and his wife Loretta von Sponheim-Starkenburg , daughter of Count Johann III. (Sponheim-Starkenburg) and his wife Mechthild of Bavaria. The grandmother Mechthild of Bavaria was a child of Wittelsbach Count Palatine Rudolf I , a sister of the Palatinate Elector Ruprecht I , granddaughter of King Adolf von Nassau and great-granddaughter of the German King Rudolf von Habsburg .

Johann's niece Anna von Veldenz (heir daughter of his brother Count Friedrich III. ) Married Count Palatine Stefan von Pfalz-Simmern-Zweibrücken , son of the German King Ruprecht I , in 1409 , whereby the paternal county Veldenz to the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken and to the House of Wittelsbach fell.

Life

Count Johann entered the clergy and became a Benedictine. Until 1402 he served as provost of the monastery of St. Remigius near Kusel, whose protective bailiff was held by his family.

In 1402 he was elected abbot of the Alsatian monastery in Weißenburg. As such, he took part in the Council of Constance . Towards the end of his reign, King Sigismund declared in a document on March 12, 1431 that the abbot was not entitled to homage from the city of Weißenburg (Wissembourg) , as it was a free imperial city .

According to the monastery chronicle by Kaspar Brusch (1551), Johann von Veldenz ruled as abbot for 32 years “wise and laudable” . He died on July 10, 1434 and was buried in the cloister of the Weissenburg Abbey Church of St. Peter and Paul . His grave slab is still there today (2014). Philipp Schenk von Erbach , the brother of Archbishop of Mainz, Dietrich Schenk von Erbach , was elected as his successor .

literature

  • Michael Frey : Attempt of a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal Bavarian Rhine district, Volume 1, Speyer, 1836, p. 471; (Digital scan)
  • Franz Xaver Remling : Documented history of the former abbeys and monasteries in what is now Rhine Bavaria , Volume 1, 1836, p. 112; (Digital scan)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bulletin de la Société pour la Conservation des Monuments Historiques d'Alsace , Volume 1, Strasbourg, 1857, p. 218; Digital scan
  2. ↑ Regest website
personal data
SURNAME Veldenz, Johann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES John II of Weissenburg; Johann von Geroldseck
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count von Veldenz, abbot of Weissenburg Monastery (Alsace)
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1434