Philip III (Falkenstein)

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Presumed tombstone of Philip in the Protestant Marienstiftskirche Lich

Philip III von Falkenstein (Licher line) , (* around 1257 , † February 9, 1322 ), Lord von Falkenstein, Lord of Munzenberg and Lich , was the son of Werner I. von Falkenstein , Lord of Munzenberg and Falkenstein, who ran the Lich line of Falkensteiner founded, and his wife Mechtild von Diez (* around 1238; † December 3, 1288).

origin

He came from the original on the Imperial Castle Falkenstein in Donnersbergkreis in the Palatinate -based sex Bolanden -Falkensteiner after 1255 parts of Münzenberger inheritance in the Wetterau had received.

Domination

As early as 1295 - after a further division of the Munzenberg inheritance - his father Werner I had taken his seat away from the Munzenburg in nearby Lich ; To secure the crossing of the river Wetter, Philipp had a large moated castle built on the Lange Hessen road that crosses the town . In the service of the Holy Roman King Albrecht I. Standing raised this with deed dated 10 March 1300 which provides 1297 as "oppidum nostrum" designated Lich to the city, as in 1313 Emperor Henry VII. Which since 1255 also belongs to the reign of the Falkensteiner formerly Nüringsche Königstein im Taunus .

Long-standing disputes over the Munzenberg inheritance with Ulrich I von Hanau, in particular over the Jewish taxes from Assenheim and Munzenberg , were resolved in 1304 with an arbitration award in favor of Philip III. completed.

family

From his first marriage in 1287 to Mechthild von Eppstein (* around 1269, † 1303), daughter of Gottfried IV. Von Eppstein and Mathilde von Isenburg, the children come from:

  • Elisabeth († September 1, 1328), married to Raugraf Heinrich III. from Neuenbaumburg
  • Isengard von Falkenstein (* around 1280, † around 1326), married to Luther von Isenburg-Grenzau
  • Werner von Falkenstein († around 1309)
  • Ulrich II. († around 1307)
  • Philip IV (* around 1272, † 1312), married around 1294 to Adelheid von Rieneck

In his second marriage from 1303 he was married to Luckard (e) von Isenburg († around October 11, 1309), an (illegitimate) daughter of Ludwig I of Isenburg von Cleeberg, Burgrave of Gelnhausen ; from this marriage came the children:

In his third marriage, from October 11, 1309, he was childless with Mechthild von Hessen (* around 1267, † after 1332), widow of Count Gottfried VI. von Ziegenhain , daughter of Landgrave Heinrich I of Hesse and Adelheid of Braunschweig , and great-granddaughter of Saint Elisabeth of Thuringia .

Most of the graves of the Lich line of the Falkensteiner are in the Marienstiftskirche Lich .

literature

  • Anette Löffler: The Lords and Counts of Falkenstein (Taunus). Studies on the history of territories and possessions, the political position in the empire and the genealogy of a leading ministerial family from 1255-1418. Volume 99. Self-published by the Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt and the Historical Commission for Hesse, 1994.
  • Johann Friedrich Böhmer : Regesta on the history of the Archbishops of Mainz: From Konrad I to Heinrich II. 1161 - 1288. 1886.
  • Licher homeland book. On behalf of the city of Lich, edited by the committee for the Lich homeland book. Lich 1950.
  • Licher homeland book. The core city and its districts. Edited by Paul Görlich, published by the Lich City Administration in 1989.
  • Johann Georg Lehmann: Documented history of the lords and counts of Falkenstein on Donnersberg in the Palatinate . In: HV Pfalz (Hrsg.): Messages of the historical association of the Palatinate . tape 3 . Daniel Kranzbühler'sche Buchdruckerei, Speyer 1872, ISBN 5-87557-415-1 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Adolph Köllner: "An attempt at a history of the county of Falkenstein" in "History of the rule of Kirchheim-Boland and Stauf", 1854, Wiesbaden

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Genealogical website by Bernd Josef Jansen, published by Archived Copy ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 29, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berndjosefjansen.de