Marburg Treaty
The Marburg Treaty is an inheritance regulation from the year 1543, through which Duke Wolfgang von Pfalz-Zweibrücken, when he took office, gave his uncle and previous guardian Palatine Count Ruprecht his own territory, the future Principality of Palatinate-Veldenz . The transferred areas previously belonged to Pfalz-Zweibrücken .
history
The Marburg Treaty was intended to give the Count Palatine Ruprecht, who had previously ruled as guardian of Wolfgang, his own territory for himself and his descendants. However, he died in the following year 1544, whereby his son Georg Hans, who was born in 1543, succeeded him when he came of age. Pfalz-Veldenz included the offices of Veldenz , Lauterecken , the Jettenbach court and the provost's Remigiusberg near Kusel . The Michelsburg became the secondary residence of the new line of princes, the provost church of St. Remigius the burial place of the princely house.
Pfalz-Veldenz was again considerably enlarged in 1553 and became extinct with the end of the Pfalz-Veldenz line in 1694, as Count Palatine Leopold Ludwig died without a biological heir. After 40 years of dispute, the inheritance was divided among the other Palatinate lines in 1733.
Parallels to other contracts
The Marburg Treaty was the second of three succession contracts with which the House of Wittelsbach attempted to regulate the succession in the event of the expected extinction of the Heidelberg spa line. This was first attempted on February 21, 1541 with the Disibodenberg Treaty , which was followed in 1543 by the Marburg Treaty. In 1553 the Heidelberg Succession Treaty became necessary again, which came into force when the Kurlinie became extinct in 1559.
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literature
- Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 3rd, improved edition expanded by one register. CH Beck, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-406-34838-6 , p. 412.
- Theodor Gümbel: History of the Principality of Pfalz-Veldenz . Kaiserslautern 1900.