Otto von Ziegenhain (Provost)

Otto von Ziegenhain (* 1304 ; † March 31, 1366 in Mainz ), from the house of the Counts of Ziegenhain , was a canon in the cathedral chapters of Mainz and Cologne and from 1333 to 1366 provost of the Petristift in Fritzlar .

origin

Otto was the second son and the youngest of five children of Count Gottfried VI known by name . (1262–1304) and his wife Mechthild (around 1267–1332) of Hesse , daughter of the Hessian Landgrave Heinrich I. His older brother Johann († 1359) followed his father in 1304 as Count von Ziegenhain and inherited in 1333 through his wife the county of Nidda . Otto, first mentioned in a document in 1304, the year his father died, was evidently still very young, because in June 1309 he was described as not of age in a certificate from his brother Johann, who was declared of legal age that year, and his mother Mechthild. Since members of aristocratic houses could be declared of age at the age of 13 or 14 and Otto compared himself to Johann about his father's inheritance in 1318 , he was probably born shortly before his father's death in 1304.

Life

As a later-born son, Otto was provided with spiritual benefices at an early age , initially with a canonical with benefices at St. Petristift in Fritzlar and with the parish of Lich . In the inheritance comparison with his brother in 1318, he was assigned an annual pension of 50 Mark Pfennigs from the city of Treysa ; thereupon Otto renounced his canonics there towards the dean and the collegiate chapter in Fritzlar. The parish in Lich, which he had held since 1315, he exchanged in 1319 for the parishes in Bonames and Langen . Since he was without the appropriate ordinations , Pope John XXII granted him . In 1320 the necessary dispensation ; at the same time he awarded him - at the instigation of Count Johann - the right to a canonical in the Mainz cathedral chapter .

In 1323 Otto achieved in a new comparison with his brother Johann an increase in his income from his parents' inheritance to an annual value of 100 marks in Cologne currency from the cities of Treysa and Rauschenberg ; In return, Otto renounced all claims to the paternal inheritance and to the county of Ziegenhain.

In 1327 Otto owned a canonical in Cologne, with the right to a benefice, litigated before the Holy See for a prebend in Mainz, and received a canonical from the Pope in Magdeburg . From 1331 he is also attested as a canon in Mainz, although he still had no higher ordinations. In 1333 at the latest he obtained the influential and profitable post of provost in the Fritzlar St. Petristift, which he held until his death.

Otto von Ziegenhain died on March 31, 1366, probably in Mainz, and was buried in the cathedral there.

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ Otto was to remain a cleric during Johann's lifetime, but after Johann's death he should be free to remain a cleric or to become a layperson. ( Ziegenhainer Regesten online No. 746. Regesta of the Counts of Ziegenhain. (Status: November 28, 2011). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).)
2. ^ Ziegenhainer Regesten online No. 455. Regest of the Counts of Ziegenhain. (As of October 26, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
3. ↑ Ziegenhainer Regesten online no. 753. Regesten der Graf von Ziegenhain. (As of November 22, 2011). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

literature

• Martin Röhling: The story of the counts of Nidda and the counts of Ziegenhain. Niddaer Geschichtsblätter Heft 9, Niddaer Heimatmuseum eV, Nidda, 2005, ISBN 3-9803915-9-0 , pp. 40–41.