Philip IV (Waldeck)

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Philip IV von Waldeck (* 1493 in Alt-Wildungen ; † November 30, 1574 in Waldeck at Waldeck Castle ) was Count von Waldeck -Wildungen from 1513 to 1574 . He and his uncle Philip III. von Waldeck-Eisenberg introduced the Lutheran Reformation in the county of Waldeck in 1526 .

origin

Philipp was the son of Count Heinrich VIII von Waldeck and his wife Anastasia von Runkel . He comes from the Waldeck family . He was born at Friedrichstein Castle in Alt-Wildungen and followed his father in 1513 as ruler of the southern sub-county. With a total of 61 years, his reign was the longest of all the Counts and Princes of Waldeck. According to the custom of the time, he was called Philip "the younger" from 1512 to November 1524, then "the middle one" until July 1539 and then "the elder" until his death.

reformation

Philipp spent his youth in Vianden (Luxembourg), where his father was governor; later he stayed at the royal French court for some time. At the Diet of Worms in 1521, where he also met his first wife Margarethe von Ostfriesland, the 28-year-old Philipp met Martin Luther and over the following years became a follower of his teachings. As early as 1525, when the Protestant sermon was expressly ordered in the county, the vast majority of the North Hessian and Waldeck population had become Lutheran. Soon afterwards, Philipp invited the Lutheran preacher Johann Hefentreger (Johannes Trygophorus) , who had previously been expelled from Fritzlar in Mainz, to a trial sermon, which he held on April 29, 1526 in Alt-Wildungen. Then Philip IV and his uncle, Count Philip III appointed him. von Waldeck-Eisenberg, to the pastor of the city of Waldeck , where he gave his inaugural sermon on June 17, 1526. On June 26, 1526 Philip IV 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 the same year (1526), ​​Philip IV and Count Wolrad II von Waldeck-Eisenberg organized the Waldeck Lutheran State Church with their pastors at a synod in the later disbanded monastery of Volkhardinghausen . In doing so, they were largely guided by the "Evangelical advice to Count Philipp IV. Zu Waldeck" by the Hessian reformer Adam Krafft .

Hefentreger was used as a visitor and, on behalf of the two counts, dissolved the monasteries based on the Hessian model (e.g. Berich , Flechtdorf , Marienthal Monastery (Netze) , Ober-Werbe , Schaaken ), but provided that they were first would be finally closed with the death of the last spiritual inhabitants. The income from the secularized monasteries was used for charitable foundations or in 1578/79 as the basis for the establishment of the Korbach State High School ( Alte Landesschule Korbach ).

death

Residence Waldeck Castle on Edersee in Hesse

Philipp died at the age of 80 at Waldeck Castle , the family seat. He was buried on December 4, 1574 in the grave chapel of St. Nicholas in the Marienthal monastery in Netze . His successor as Count von Waldeck-Wildungen was his son Daniel .

family

Philipp was married three times.

  • On February 17, 1523 he married Margarethe von Ostfriesland (* 1500; † July 15, 1537), daughter of Count Edzard I of East Frisia and Countess Elisabeth von Rietberg in Emden . He had the following children with her:
    • Ernst (* 1523/24; † 1527)
    • Elisabeth (* December 10, 1525; † March 30, 1543 at Waldeck Castle); married in 1542 to Count Reinhard von Isenburg († February 28, 1568)
    • Samuel (* May 2, 1528 at Waldeck Castle, † January 6, 1570 at Alt-Wildungen Castle ); married October 8, 1554 to Anna Maria von Schwarzburg-Blankenburg (1538–1583), daughter of Count Heinrich XXXII.
    • Daniel , Count of Waldeck-Wildungen (born August 1, 1530, † June 7, 1577 in Waldeck); he followed Philip as the ruling Count of Waldeck-Wildungen; married November 11, 1568 to Barbara von Hessen (1536–1597), daughter of Landgrave Philipp I of Hessen and widow of Georg I von Württemberg-Mömpelgard
    • Henry IX. , Count of Waldeck-Wildungen (December 10, 1531 - October 3, 1577 in Werbe ); married December 19, 1563 to Anna von Viermund († April 17, 1599)
    • Margaretha (* 1533; † 1554 in Brussels)
    • Friedrich (* 1534; † 1557 in St. Quentin)
    • Anastasia (* 1536; † 1561 in Heidelberg)
    • Esther (* 1537 in Alt-Wildungen; † probably 1537)
  • His second marriage in 1539 to Katharina von Hatzfeld († 1546 in Naumburg) remained childless.
  • On October 6, 1554 he married Jutta von Isenburg -Grenzau († July 28, 1564 at Waldeck Castle) for the third time . He had the following children with her:

literature

personal data
SURNAME Philip IV
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waldeck, Philip IV of (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Waldeck-Wildungen (1513–1574)
DATE OF BIRTH 1493
PLACE OF BIRTH Alt-Wildungen
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1574
Place of death Waldeck