Moritz III. (Oldenburg-Delmenhorst)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Moritz III. von Oldenburg (mentioned in a document 1428 ; † August 9, 1464 ) from the ruling house of the same name - rarely referred to as Moritz IV. von Oldenburg - tried to participate in the rulership of Oldenburg and was sovereign of Delmenhorst for a short time from 1463 to 1464 .

Life

Moritz von Oldenburg-Delmenhorst was the second son of Count Dietrich von Oldenburg-Delmenhorst and his second wife Heilwig von Holstein (* approx. 1398/1400; † 1436), the daughter of Count Gerhard VI. from Holstein-Rendsburg .

He was intended for the clergy and received his training for this at the universities in Rostock , Leipzig and Erfurt . He was endowed with benefices from the dioceses in Cologne , Magdeburg , Hildesheim , Bremen , and Lübeck at an early stage and from 1456 onwards he was led as canon of these dioceses. In 1447 he was still rector of the university in Erfurt, from 1450 he gradually switched to a secular, aristocratic way of life and finally resigned his benefices accordingly. In 1457 he gave his older brother Christian (1426–1481), the (since 1448) Danish king, help in the struggle for Swedish royal dignity. On February 22nd, 1458 he married Katharina, Countess von Hoya , the daughter of Otto V von Hoya, who brought him the Harpstedt estate . The son Jakob von Oldenburg-Delmenhorst (1463–1484) and two daughters emerged from the marriage.

In order to be able to provide for himself appropriately, Moritz tried to participate in the Oldenburg regional rule, which brought him into conflict with his younger brother Gerd ( the brave , 1430 / 1431–1500). First of all, in March 1460, after the death of their childless maternal uncle, Adolf VIII , Count of Holstein , Duke of Schleswig , who tried to compensate for them as his heirs, the brothers waived all inheritance claims to Adolf's territories in return for a payment of each 40,000 Rhenish guilders in favor of her brother, the Danish King Christian. After that the conflict over the Oldenburg sovereignty came to light. Moritz distanced himself from Gerd's expansive efforts in eastern Friesland and strengthened relations with Bremen , which Gerd repeatedly provoked through attacks against merchants. Archbishop Gerhard III. von Bremen, who, like Moritz's wife, came from the Hoyaer Grafenhaus, finally allied himself with Moritz and with the East Frisian chiefs threatened by Gerd's expansion policy . Gerd allied himself in turn with the Bishop Johann von Münster , the Count of Tecklenburg and the Duke Wilhelm of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . In July 1462 war broke out in the lower Weser-Ems area. Gerd and his allies were able to win a victory on the Borsteler Heide near Siedenburg on August 27, 1462, but the Oldenburg estates nevertheless enforced the division of power against Gerd. The partition they proposed eventually became the basis of a peace made in May 1463. Gerd chose Oldenburg, Moritz received Delmenhorst as the center of power. The war broke out again in the summer and was still going on when Moritz suddenly died of the plague on August 9, 1464 . Gerd was then able to take over Delmenhorst again as the guardian of Moritz's son Jakob.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry of Mauricius comes de Oldenborch et Elmehorst's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Biography of Gerhard (Gherd) "the courageous" . In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg. Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 233-237 ( online ).

See also

predecessor Office successor
Gerhard von Oldenburg (joint reign over Oldenburg and Delmenhorst) Blason Comtes de Delmenhorst.svg
Count of Delmenhorst
1463–1464 		Gerhard von Oldenburg (joint reign over Oldenburg and Delmenhorst)
personal data
SURNAME Moritz III.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moritz von Oldenburg-Delmenhorst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Delmenhorst (1463–1464)
DATE OF BIRTH 1428
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1464