Kuno I. von Munzenberg

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Kuno I von Munzenberg († 1207 ) was a leading Reich Ministerialer in the service of the Hohenstaufen emperors and kings.

family

Kuno I was a son of Konrad II von Hagen-Arnsburg and his wife Luitgart von Bickenbach. He was the founder of the Hagen-Münzenberg family and had at least two sons:

Kuno I. von Munzenberg died in 1207. He is shown with sword and shield on a bracteate in front of his ancestral castle. It is also assumed that he was on Wetterau coins next to Emperor Heinrich VI. is shown.

Home power

Probably before 1156 under Kuno I - probably with imperial confirmation - the Munzenberg Castle was built, after which the family named itself from 1156. In favor of Munzenberg Castle, he gave up Arnsburg Castle and donated it to the Cistercians in 1174 , who built the Arnsburg Monastery nearby.

In a certificate issued on March 29, 1193 in Speyer , Heinrich VI. for his devotion and loyalty to the Kuno 1190 in Sass Husen prope Franche Ford in honor of the glorious Mother of God built the Royal Hospital allodial the women's paths , the Sandhof . It is the oldest written mention of Sachsenhausen. In the last years of his life, Kuno I gave the Sachsenhausen Hospital to the Teutonic Order.

In 1194 he received as a reward from Emperor Heinrich VI. half of the Frankfurt coin. Presumably in Munzenberg himself he had bracteates minted, which show a mint stem as a sign of the mint master. However, there is no evidence of an official granting of the right to mint.

Political importance

Kuno I. is the most common in documents from Emperor Heinrich VI. Emerging witness and one of the most important representatives of the House of Hagen-Münzenberg . In general, from Kuno's frequent stay at court and the formulations of the emperor's indications of favor, it is concluded that the two were very closely related.

From 1162 onwards, Kuno can be identified as a treasurer . In the 1180s years he is often in the documents Emperor I. Frederick called. For many years he accompanied his son, Heinrich VI, almost continuously on his travels in the empire. a. in the negotiations between Henry VI. and Henry the Lion .

This applies to the period from February to September 1191, from the end of 1191 to March 1192 and he was probably also on the farm days in Worms at the beginning of the year and in August 1192. In autumn he followed the emperor to the diocese of Liège and to Thuringia . Kuno's sons were also present at court at the time.

In 1194 Kuno was also part of the emperor's company, while he was holding talks with the opposition to the princes and negotiating the extradition of Richard the Lionheart . Only in February and March 1194 did he leave the court for a short time. Soon afterwards he moved with Heinrich VI. to Italy, where it appears in a few cases in documents, for example in February 1195 in Catanzaro and in the summer on the way back to Germany.

There he seems to have occupied himself with his own affairs for some time. From December 1195 in Worms to summer 1196 in Besançon , he again accompanied Henry VI. Heinrich settled a dispute with Heinrich about the income of the Bailiwick of Nierstein in an amicable manner. One of Kuno's sons moved to Italy with the emperor.

In the Hohenstaufen-Welf throne dispute, Kuno supported Heinrich's brother, Philipp von Schwaben . At the beginning of 1199, as reported in the Cologne royal chronicle, he devastated the properties of Landgrave Hermann of Thuringia , an opponent of Philip's , in Hesse . This was held on a train in support of Otto IV . In May 1199 he was present at Philip's farm day in Speyer. In the summer of the same year he fought again against Philip's enemies in the Middle Rhine area.

literature

  • Ingeborg Seltmann: Heinrich VI .: rule practice and environment. Palm & Enke 1983, pp. 120-124. ISBN 3-7896-0143-8 .
  • Otto Gärtner: Arnsburg Monastery in the Wetterau . Koenigstein i. Ts., 3rd ed. 1998 (= The Blue Books), p. 5f. (with further literature). ISBN 978-3-7845-4052-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 . 1952, p. 36f, derives this from ownership traditions in the von Praunheim family, since goods that were in the hands of the Hagen-Münzenberg family in the 12th century are later owned by the von Praunheim family.
  2. ↑ 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 . 1952, plate I.
  3. ↑ Walter Hävernick : The older coinage of the Wetterau up to the end of the 13th century . (=  Publication of the Historical Commission for Hesse and Waldeck. 18.1). Marburg 1936, 2nd edition. 2009 [with research report and biographical foreword by Niklot Klüßendorf ], pp. 9–11.
  4. ^ Ingeborg Seltmann: Heinrich VI. Domination Practice and Environment, pp. 123–124
personal data
SURNAME Kuno I. von Munzenberg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuno I of Hagen-Munzenberg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Reich Ministerialer
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1207