Johannes von Praunheim

Johannes von Praunheim († around 1216 ) from the family of the Knights von Praunheim was the second Reichsschultheiß of Frankfurt am Main from 1207 .

family

His father was Wolfram I. von Praunheim , the first Reichsschultheiß in the city, who died before 1207, his mother a " Pauline ", whose family of origin is unknown and who was his father's second wife. Johannes was married to Elisabeth von Hohenberg from the Heusenstamm family. The marriage gave birth to a son, also named Johannes , who died as a child. Reichsschultheiß Johannes transferred the Riederhof , a fiefdom that his father had received from the emperor , to the Aulesburg monastery in order to set up a piece of equipment for himself and his family.

politics

As “sculterus imperii”, Reichsschultheiß, Johannes held a central position of power in the strategically important Frankfurt and the entire Wetterau . The fact that he came to this position before his older stepbrother Heinrich I von Praunheim was due to the fact that he took the side of Philip of Swabia in the Staufer-Welf throne dispute , while Heinrich and his maternal relatives, who ruled the Wetterau, sided with him The von Hagen-Munzenberg family stood on the side of King Otto IV .

After the murder of Philip of Swabia in 1208, Johannes went over to Otto IV. The von Hagen-Münzenberg family, who also opposed Emperor Friedrich II after 1212 , were expropriated by him. He handed over the property of the Hagen-Münzenberg family to the administration of Johannes and the burgrave of Friedberg Castle .

In 1216 there was a political upheaval: Johannes had to return the property of the Hagen-Münzenberg family he managed to return to Ulrich I von Hagen-Münzenberg and, at about the same time, to renounce the Reichsschultheissenamt, which his stepbrother Heinrich was now entrusted with. It is not known whether he died before, at the same time, or a little later. With this year his track is lost.

literature

• Alfred Friese: The Lords of Praunheim-Sachsenhausen, inheritance of the Reich in Frankfurt am Main: Property, social and cultural history of an imperial family of the high and late Middle Ages . Masch. Diss. 1952.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Friese writes "Aulisburg Monastery".