Ludovica Margaretha from Zweibrücken-Bitsch

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Ludovica Margaretha von Zweibrücken-Bitsch (* July 19, 1540 in Ingweiler ; † December 15, 1569 in Buchsweiler ) was the only child of Count Jakob von Zweibrücken-Bitsch (* July 19, 1510; † March 22, 1570) and his heir . She was buried in Ingweiler.

family

She married Count Philipp V von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1541; † 1599) in Bitsch on October 14, 1560 , whose first marriage (of three) was that. They had the following children together:

  1. Johanna Sibylle (born July 6, 1564 in Lichtenberg ; † March 24, 1636 in Runkel ), married to Count Wilhelm V. von Wied-Runkel and Isenburg († 1612)
  2. Philipp (born October 7, 1565 in Buchsweiler, † August 31, 1572 in Strasbourg ), buried in Neuweiler
  3. Albrecht (born November 22, 1566 in Buchsweiler; † February 13, 1577 in Hagenau ), buried in Neuweiler
  4. Katharina (born January 30, 1568 in Buchsweiler; † August 6, 1636), married to Eberhard Schenk von Limpurg-Speckfeld (born October 3, 1560; † February 26, 1622)
  5. Johann Reinhard I. (born February 13, 1569 in Bitsch; † November 19, 1625 in Lichtenberg )

heritage

Her father, Count Jakob von Zweibrücken-Bitsch (* 1510; † 1570), was the last male bearer of the family's name. His brother, Simon V. Wecker , had already died in 1540 . This also left only one daughter. Between the husbands of the two cousins, Count Philipp I of Leiningen-Westerburg and Count Philipp V of Hanau-Lichtenberg, a violent dispute arose over the inheritance. These included the second - not already ruled by Hanau-Lichtenberg - half of the Lichtenberg rule, the Bitsch rule , the Lemberg office and the Ochsenstein rule . Formally, the Bitsch lordship was a fiefdom of the Duchy of Lorraine . In principle, fiefdoms were only inheritable in the male line.

In the dispute, Philip V was initially able to prevail, but with the immediate introduction of the Reformation under Lutheran confession, the powerful and Roman Catholic Duchy of Lorraine became an enemy. This drew in the fiefs. In July 1572 Lorraine troops occupied the county. Since Philip V was not up to the military superiority of Lorraine, he chose the legal route. In the subsequent process before the Imperial Court of Justice, Lorraine referred to the fact that, on the one hand, significant areas of Zweibrücken-Bitsch had been exchanged by Lorraine in 1302 and, on the other hand, that the Counts of Leiningen had sold their inheritance claims to Lorraine in 1573.

Only in 1604 and 1606 was there a contractual settlement between Hanau-Lichtenberg and Lorraine. The compromise included a division: the Bitsch rule fell back to Lorraine and the Lemberg office was added to Hanau-Lichtenberg.

literature

  • Adrian Willem Eliza Dek: De Afstammelingen van Juliana van Stolberg tot aan het jaar van de vrede van Munster. Zaltbommel, 1968.
  • Reinhard Dietrich: The state constitution in the Hanauischen = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 34. Hanau 1996. ISBN 3-9801933-6-5
  • M. Goltzené: From the history of the office Buchsweiler . In: Pays d'Alsace, issue 111/112, p. 64f.
  • Franz Domenicus Häberlein: The latest German Empire history from the beginning of the Schmalkaldic War to our times . No. 8 and 9. Hall 1779, 1780.
  • Hans-Walter Herrmann : The county of Zweibrücken-Bitsch. In: Hans-Walter Herrmann, Kurt Hoppstädter (Hrsg.): Geschichtliche Landeskunde des Saarlandes. Volume 2: From the Frankish conquest to the French Revolution. Saarbrücken 1977, pp. 323-332.
  • Heinrich Hermelink: The matriculations of the University of Tübingen . Vol. 1, Stuttgart 1906.
  • Johann Georg Lehmann : Documented history of the county Hanau-Lichtenberg in the lower Alsace . 2 vol., Mannheim 1862, ND Pirmasens 1970.
  • Wilhelm Morhardt: Hanau old - in honor of b'halt - The Counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg in history and stories = Babenhausen then and now 10th Babenhausen 1984.
  • Reinhard Suchier : Genealogy of the Hanauer count house . In: Festschrift of the Hanau History Association for its 50th anniversary celebration on August 27, 1894. Hanau 1894.
  • Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau city and country . 3rd edition, Hanau 1919, ND 1978.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ She was baptized on July 17, 1564.
  2. ↑ Baptized on October 24, 1565 in Buchsweiler.
  3. ↑ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg , inventory 81. Hanau Government, A 12.6f, names August 31, 1570 by way of derogation
  4. ↑ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, inventory 81. Hanau Government, A 12.6f, states November 23 , 1566, between 3 and 4 a.m. So he was born on the night of November 22nd to 23rd, 1566. He was baptized on December 11, 1566 in Buchsweiler.
  5. ↑ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, inventory 81. Hanau government, A 12.6f: Baptized on February 7, 1568.
  6. ↑ Zimmerische Chronik , Volume 2, p. 251 [1] .
personal data
SURNAME Zweibrücken-Bitsch, Ludovica Margaretha von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hanau-Lichtenberg, Ludovica Margaretha from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobles
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1540
PLACE OF BIRTH Ingweiler , then: Ingweiler
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1569
Place of death Bouxwiller , back then: Buchsweiler