Philip II (Hanau-Munzenberg)

Philip II of Hanau-Münzenberg (* August 17, 1501 ; † March 28, 1529 ) ruled the county of Hanau-Münzenberg from 1512.

Origin and Guardianship

Philipp II. Von Hanau-Münzenberg was born as the son of Count Reinhard IV. Von Hanau-Münzenberg and Countess Katharina von Schwarzburg-Blankenburg .

Pedigree of Count Philip II of Hanau-Munzenberg
Great grandparents	Reinhard III. von Hanau (* 1412; † 1452) ∞ Margarethe von Pfalz-Mosbach (* 1432; † 1457)	Johann IV of Nassau-Dillenburg (* 1410; † 1475) ∞ Marie von Loon-Heinsberg (* 1424; † 1502)	Heinrich XXVI. von Schwarzburg -Blankenburg (* 1418; † 1488) ∞ Elisabeth von Kleve (* 1420; † 1488)	Bruno VIII. Von Querfurt (* 1426; † 1496) ∞ Elisabeth von Mansfeld († 1482)
Grandparents	Philipp I von Hanau-Münzenberg (* 1449; † 1500) ∞ Adriana von Nassau-Dillenburg (* 1449; † 1477)		Günther XXXVIII. von Schwarzburg-Blankenburg (* 1450; † 1484) ∞ Katharina von Querfurt († 1521)
parents	Reinhard IV von Hanau-Münzenberg (* 1473; † 1512) ∞ Katharina von Schwarzburg-Blankenburg (* 1470; † 1514)
Philip II

For the family cf. Main article: Hanau (noble family)

Philip II of Hanau-Munzenberg was only 11 years old when he took office. Guardianship was necessary for him and his brother Balthasar , who was seven years his junior . It was established at the request of her mother, who in turn had obtained support from the aristocrats of the county, by the Reich Chamber of Commerce and existed from 1512 to 1523. Philip II's guardians were initially his mother and his great-uncle, Count Johann V von Nassau-Dillenburg . When Countess Katharina died in 1514, Johann V exercised the guardianship alone until his own death in 1516. After his death, on a formal initiative of the ward, the Reich Chamber Court appointed the son of the last deceased guardian, Count Wilhelm I of Nassau-Dillenburg , to be guardian for five years, until 1521. Then apparently an early declaration of consent was made for the now 20-year-old Philip II.

government

Under the tutelage government, Hanau joined the Wetterau Imperial Counts College .

The Reformation began in the reign of Philip II , but initially it had little effect on the county. The German Peasants' War also fell during this period . However, there only appears to have been isolated riots in the County of Hanau . The convent of the Schlüchtern monastery had to go under the protection of the count, according to various sources either in Hanau or in Steinau an der Straße when rebellious farmers approached from Fulda . There were also incidents in other places in the county, in Orb , Partenstein , Preungesheim , in Bornheimerberg and in Niederrodenbach . The Wolfgang monastery in Bulau near Hanau was devastated.

In 1528, the re-fortification of the city of Hanau began , expanding its medieval wall so that the settlement that had meanwhile been built in front of the old walls in the area of ​​today's Hospitalstrasse was also defended. A new fastening system, theoretically conceived by Albrecht Dürer , was actually built for the first time. The work lasted almost 20 years. At the same time, the castle in Hanau was expanded and re-fortified, which lasted until around 1560.

The fact that there was no dispute between Philip II and his brother Balthasar, who was seven years his junior about whether to strictly follow the Primogenitur in the county of Hanau and only to apanage or whether to divide the country, was mainly due to the fact that when the guardianship prepared the corresponding agreement (the decision had been made in favor of the primogeniture) because Count Balthasar's twentieth birthday was approaching and Count Philip II was already dying. The corresponding document has been prepared for his sealing, but it was no longer carried out. However, this draft contract now caused a legal problem with regard to the assumption of guardianship for the children of Philip II by their uncle Balthasar, because in it he had just declared his renunciation of the county. The problem was solved with the formal argument that Count Philip II had no longer sealed the document.

Family and offspring

Juliana zu Stolberg

Count Philipp II of Hanau-Münzenberg married Countess Juliana zu Stolberg on January 27, 1523 (* February 15, 1506 - June 18, 1580) and had five children with her:

1. Reinhard (April 10, 1524 - April 12, 1525)
2. Katharina (1525–1581), married to Johann IV. Von Wied-Runkel
3. Philip III (1526–1561)
4. Reinhard (1528–1554)
5. Juliana (March 30, 1529 - July 8, 1595 ) married twice:
   1. on September 13, 1548 Count Thomas von Salm , Wild and Rhine Count in Kirburg (* 1529; † 1553). From this marriage emerged:
      1. Anna († 1578), married on October 22, 1572 to Wilhelm von Criechingen († 1587).
      2. Juliane (* 1551; † January 21, 1607), married to Count Ernst von Mansfeld-Hinterort († July 7, 1609).
      3. Maria Magdalena (* 1553; † 1554)
   2. on January 18, 1567 the imperial council Count Hermann von Manderscheid-Blankenheim (* August 4, 1535 - † January 4, 1604). The marriage remained childless.

death

Count Philipp II of Hanau-Munzenberg died on Easter Day in 1529, only 28 years old, and left three surviving children and a heavily pregnant woman. His funeral took place a day later in the Marienkirche in Hanau , without any effort to spare the countess in her condition. The day after the funeral, she posthumously gave birth to his daughter Juliana.

The Counts of Hanau-Münzenberg died over a period of almost 200 years, usually in their third decade, leaving behind an underage successor. The phenomenon spans nine generations. A coincidence can be ruled out. Presumably there is an inheritable disease - which one is unknown. The series of these early deaths continues with Reinhard III. a.

Aftermath

A portrait carved in stone of him and one of his brother, Count Balthasar von Hanau , adorned the new gate of the old town of Hanau. They later ended up in the museum of the Hanau History Association , where they were destroyed in a bombing raid on March 19, 1945 during World War II .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Adrian Willem Eliza Dek: De Afstammelingen van Juliana van Stolberg tot aan het jaar van de vrede van Munster . Zaltbommel, 1968; Detlev Schwennicke: European family tables: Family tables for the history of European states .
2. ^ So: Schwennicke; According to Suchier: "1549"
3. ↑ After Suchier 1549; according to Schwennicke: † 1553.
4. ^ According to Suchier; According to Schwennicke: † 1577.
5. ↑ cf. Dek, p. 229
6. ↑ Illustration of the drawing in Meise, p. 49

literature

• Reinhard Dietrich: The state constitution in Hanau. The position of the lords and counts in Hanau-Münzenberg based on the archival sources . Hanauer Geschichtsverein, Hanau 1996, ISBN 3-9801933-6-5 , ( Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 34).
• Rolf Glawischnig: Netherlands, Calvinism and Imperial Counts 1559-1584. Nassau-Dillenburg under Count Johann VI. Elwert, Marburg 1973, ISBN 3-7708-0472-4 , ( publications of the Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies 36).
• Ed. Jacobs : Juliana von Stolberg, ancestor of the House of Nassau-Orange. Represented by sources according to their life and their historical significance . Hendel, Wernigerode et al. 1889.
• Eckhard Meise : Bernhard Hundeshagen - no monument protection in Hanau in the early 19th century . In: New Magazine for Hanau History 2006, ZDB -ID 535233-2 , pp. 3-61.
• Reinhard Suchier : Genealogy of the Hanauer count house . In: Reinhard Suchier (Hrsg.): Festschrift of the Hanauer Geschichtsverein on its fiftieth anniversary celebration on August 27, 1894 . Heydt, Hanau 1894, pp. 7-23.
• Karl Wolf: The guardianship of Count Johann the Elder of Nassau-Dillenburg in the county of Hanau-Munzenberg . In: Neues Magazin für Hanauische Geschichte 15, 1936, ZDB -ID 535233-2 , pp. 81–94; 16, 1937, pp. 1-14.
• Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau city and country. Cultural history and chronicle of a Franconian weatherwave city and former county. With special consideration of the older time . 3rd increased edition. Self-published, Hanau 1919, (also: Unchanged reprint. Peters, Hanau 1978, ISBN 3-87627-243-2 ).

predecessor	Office	successor
Reinhard IV.	Count of Hanau-Munzenberg 1512–1529	Philip III