Philip I (Katzenelnbogen)

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Philip I von Katzenelnbogen , called the Elder (* 1402 ; † June 27, 1479 ) was Count von Katzenelnbogen from 1444 to 1479 and the last male descendant of the Count von Katzenelnbogen (his two sons died before him).

Lineage and Marriages

His parents were Johann IV von Katzenelnbogen (younger line) and Anna von Katzenelnbogen (older line), who reunited the two lines of the family in 1402.

Philip I married Anna von Württemberg (1408–1471), daughter of Eberhard IV von Württemberg , called the Younger , on February 24, 1422 in Darmstadt . In 1456 Philip I obtained a table and bed separation from the Pope .

In 1474 he was married to Anna von Nassau in his second marriage .

progeny

  • Philip the Younger (* 1427; † February 27, 1453), married Ottilie von Nassau (1437–1493), daughter of Count Heinrich II. Von Nassau-Dillenburg in 1450 . The daughter Ottilie von Katzenelnbogen emerged from this connection in 1453 .
  • Eberhard († 1456), Canon of Cologne, was stabbed to death in Bruges (Flanders).
  • Anna ( September 5, 1443 - February 16, 1494), married the Landgrave Heinrich III in 1458 . of Hesse (October 15, 1440 - January 13, 1483). From this connection Wilhelm III went. emerged. This was the last male descendant of this Hessian line.

Act

Before he took office, he made a trip to the Holy Land in 1433/34 . His tax officer, Siegfried von Gelnhausen , who also worked as a customs clerk in Sankt Goar , prepared a travel description about this trip , which - following a lecture of the text in front of a noble audience in 1477 - was written in verse by Erhard Wameshracht on behalf of Philip.

In 1444, Philip I initiated the major renovation of the collegiate church in St. Goar .

In 1449 Philip I bought the abbey rights to St. Goar from Abbot Johann from Prüm.

In the Mainz collegiate feud , Count Philipp stood on the side of Archbishop Diether von Isenburg and his ally, Elector Friedrich the Victorious of the Palatinate . In this constellation he successfully took part in the Battle of Seckenheim in 1462 .

During a feud against Count Gerhard II von Sayn , Philipp had several villages and the central church in the parish of Höhn in the Westerwald burned down and also plundered in Höhn.

In 1470 Philip I gave his son-in-law Heinrich III. of Hesse the Upper County with its seat in Darmstadt . Philipp's sons Eberhardt and Philipp the Younger died before his death, so that Philip the Elder died without male descendants. The County of Katzenelnbogen therefore fell to the Landgraviate of Hesse in 1479 , namely to Philip's son-in-law Heinrich III, Landgrave of Hesse in Marburg.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Raff : Hie gut Wirtemberg every way. Volume 1: The House of Württemberg from Count Ulrich the Founder to Duke Ludwig. 6th edition. Landhege, Schwaigern 2014, ISBN 978-3-943066-34-0 , pp. 259-265.
  2. ^ Silvia Schmitz: Siegfried von Gelnhausen. In: Author's Lexicon . Volume VIII, Col. 1205 f.
  3. ^ Otto Renkhoff : Nassau biography . Historical Commission for Nassau , Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 3-922244-90-4 , p. 381 .
  4. ↑ Hansjörg Probst : Seckenheim (1981), pp. 377-403 online Heidelberg University Library
  5. ^ Karl Kessler, Wolfgang Reinhardt: Great Westerwaldführer . Ed .: Hermann-Josef Hucke [editor]. 3. Edition. Westerwald-Verein e. V., Montabaur 1991, ISBN 3-921548-04-7 , p. 108-109 .
personal data
SURNAME Philip I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Philip I of Katzenelnbogen; Philip the Elder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count von Katzenelnbogen
DATE OF BIRTH 1402
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1479