Philip III (Waldeck)

Philip III von Waldeck (born December 9, 1486 in Waldeck at Waldeck Castle , † June 20, 1539 in Arolsen ) was Count von Waldeck -Eisenberg from 1524 to 1539 .

Life

He was a son of Count Philipp II von Waldeck-Eisenberg and his first wife, Katharina zu Solms-Lich. He came from the Waldeck family . In 1495 he and his brother Georg were enrolled at the old University of Cologne ( Universitas Studii Coloniensis ). Philip III followed his father in 1524 as Count von Waldeck-Eisenberg.

Around 1520 he built a residential wing of what would later become Goldhausen Castle . The further expansion took place in 1563–1565 by his son Wolrad II.

Soon after taking office, he initiated the Reformation in Waldeck with the "Landordnung" of 1525 . Philip III and his nephew Philipp IV , Count von Waldeck-Wildungen, appointed the Lutheran preacher Johann Hefentreger (Johannes Trygophorus), who had been expelled from Fritzlar in Electoral Mainz, as pastor of the city of Waldeck , where he gave his inaugural sermon on June 17, 1526. On June 26, 1526, they had him hold a Lutheran service in the Waldecker Stadtkirche, officially introducing the Reformation in the county - four months before Landgrave Philip I introduced the Reformation in neighboring Hesse with the Homberg Synod . In 1529 the Lutheran doctrine was preached for the first time in the Korbach Kilian Church (on whose altarpiece Philip is shown as the founder). In the city of Korbach, however, Philipp was not yet able to enforce the Reformation.

From 1526 to 1530, Philipp acquired the secularized Antonite monastery Aroldessen in Arolsen and had it converted into a residential palace. His court master was first Johann von Wolmeringhausen and from 1530 his son Hermann von Wolmeringhausen.

Marriages and children

In his first marriage, Philipp married Adelheid († 1515), daughter of Count Otto IV von Hoya in 1503. His second wife was Anna von Kleve (1495–1567) in 1519, the only daughter of Duke Johann II von Kleve and Mechthild von Hessen-Marburg . Her brother imprisoned her for her marriage from 1517 to 1519.

From his first marriage, Philipp had the following children:

Otto (1504–1541)

Elisabeth (1506–1562), married Jean de Melun, Burgrave of Ghent in 1525

Wolrad II. , Founder of the so-called "Middle Eisenberger Line"

Erika (1511–1560), married Eberhard von der Mark, Count von Arenberg in 1526, then in 1532, his second marriage, Count Dietrich V. von Manderscheid-Virneburg

and from his second marriage:

Philipp V. (1519 / 20–1584), enrolled at the old University of Cologne in 1534, cleric
Johann I (1521 / 22–1567), founder of the "newer Landau line", which died out in 1597
Katharina (1523 / 24–1583), married Count Bernhard VIII. Zur Lippe in 1550
Franz (1526–1574), married Maria Gogreve († 1580) in 1563

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SURNAME	Philip III
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Waldeck, Philip III. from; Philip III from Waldeck-Eisenberg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg
DATE OF BIRTH	December 9, 1486
PLACE OF BIRTH	Waldeck Castle , Waldeck
DATE OF DEATH	June 20, 1539
Place of death	Arolsen