Ludwig von Hanau-Lichtenberg (1464–1484)

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Ludwig von Hanau-Lichtenberg (born August 23, 1464 , † December 30, 1484 in Trient ) was a later son of Count Philip I (the Elder) of Hanau-Lichtenberg and his wife Anna von Lichtenberg .

family tree

Pedigree of Count Ludwig von Hanau-Lichtenberg
Great grandparents

Ulrich IV. Von Hanau (* approx. 1330; † 1380)
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Elisabeth von Wertheim (* 1347; † 1378)

Heinrich II. Von Nassau-Beilstein (*?; † 1412)
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Katharina von Randerode (*?; † 1415)

Ludwig IV of Lichtenberg (* 1387; † 1434)
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Anna von Baden (* 1399; † 1421)

Albrecht I von Haus Hohenlohe (* 1370; † 1429)
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Elisabeth von Hanau (* 1395; † 1475)

Grandparents

Reinhard II. Von Hanau (* 1369; † 1451)
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Katharina von Nassau-Beilstein (*?; † 1459)

Ludwig V von Lichtenberg (* 1433; † 1471)
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Elisabeth von Hohenlohe (* 1441; † 1488)

parents

Philipp I von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1417; † 1480)
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Anna von Lichtenberg (* 1442; † 1474)

Ludwig von Hanau-Lichtenberg

Youth and Government Participation

Ludwig studied in Heidelberg in 1476 and later in Mainz . After the death of his father, he raised claims to rule over his older brother, Philip II . The primogeniture was anchored in the Hanau family statutes since the 14th century, but the general law of inheritance spoke in favor of a division of the country. With the mediation of Count Philipp I von Hanau-Münzenberg , an agreement was reached within a short time, and Ludwig waived his claim.

Pilgrimage to Jerusalem and death

On April 27, 1484, he and Count Johann V of Nassau set out on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem . For this purpose, he had previously had an “instruction”, a “travel guide” created by Bernhard von Breidenbach , who had just returned to Mainz from the Holy Land . Count Ludwig's travel records have been preserved, but mainly contain accounting information and a list of the places visited. On the way back from the trip, Ludwig died on December 30, 1484 in Trient, where he was buried in the Simeonskirche.

Extra-marital relationship

Count Ludwig had illegitimate children with one or two unknown women:

  1. Hans von Hanau (* between 1480 and 1484).
  2. Cornelius von Hanau (* between 1480 and 1484; † 1549).

literature

  • Emil Becker: The pilgrimage of Count Johann V. von Nassau-Dillenburg to the holy land 1484/85. in: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte. Marburg 2.1952, p. 58ff. ISSN  0073-2001
  • Reinhard Dietrich: Hanau bastards . In: New magazine for Hanau history (messages from the Hanauer Geschichtsverein 1844 eV) 2015, pp. 25–34.
  • Reinhold Röhricht : German pilgrimages to the holy land. Gotha 1889, p. 181.
  • Reinhold Röhricht: German pilgrimages to the holy land. Berlin 1880.
  • Reinhold Röhricht: The trips to Jerusalem by Counts Philipp, Ludwig (1484) and Reinhard von Hanau (1550). in: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies. NF 16. Kassel 26.1891, pp. 85ff. ISSN  0342-3107
  • Reinhard Suchier : Genealogy of the Hanauer count house. in: Festschrift of the Hanau History Association for its 50th anniversary celebration on August 27, 1894. Heydt, Hanau 1894.
  • Gustav Toepke : The register of the University of Heidelberg from 1386 - 1662. Vol. 1. Heidelberg 1884, p. 350.
  • Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau - city and country. 3. Edition. Hanau 1919, 1978 (repr.).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Printed in Röhricht, Deutsche Pilgerreisen (1880), p. 122ff
  2. ^ Reprint of the travel report in: Röhricht, Die Jerusalemfahrten, p. 90ff
  3. ↑ Dietrich: Bastarde , p. 29.
  4. ↑ Dietrich: Bastarde , p. 30.
personal data
SURNAME Hanau-Lichtenberg, Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1464
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1484
Place of death Trent