Reinhard III. (Hanau)

Count Reinhard III. from Hanau on the Wörther Altar

Count Reinhard III. von Hanau (born April 22, 1412 , † April 20, 1452 in Heidelberg ) was Count of Hanau since 1451 .

family

Reinhard III. was the son of Count Reinhard II of Hanau and Katharina von Nassau-Beilstein .

Pedigree of Count Reinhard III. from Hanau
Great grandparents	Ulrich III. von Hanau (* 1310; † 1369/70) ∞ Countess Adelheid von Nassau († 1344)	Count Eberhard von Wertheim (*; † 1373) ∞ Countess Katharina von Hohenzollern († after 1369)	Heinrich I von Nassau -Beilstein († 1378/80) ∞ Meyna von Westerburg († 1388)	Arnold von Randerode ∞ ?
Grandparents	Ulrich IV. Von Hanau (* 1330/40; † 1380) ∞ Countess Elisabeth von Wertheim (* 1347; † 1378)		Count Heinrich II of Nassau-Beilstein († 1412) ∞ Katharina von Randerode († approx. 1415)
parents	Count Reinhard II of Hanau (* approx. 1369; † 1451) ∞ Countess Katharina von Nassau-Beilstein († 1459)
Reinhard III.

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

He was married since July 11, 1446 to Margarethe von Pfalz-Mosbach (* March 2, 1432; † September 14, 1457). They had two children:

1. Philip I (the Younger) (1449-1500);
2. Margarethe (* 1452, † March 14, 1467), engaged to Philipp von Eppstein , died before the marriage.

Regency

Already during his father's lifetime he took over the guardianship of the children of his widowed sister from his first marriage to Count Thomas II von Rieneck , when Katharina joined Count Wilhelm II von Henneberg-Schleusingen in her second marriage . After the death of his father in 1451 he took over the government in the county of Hanau . But he died after only ten months in reign. “ There is nothing noteworthy to note about his short reign. "

death

Reinhard III. died on April 20, 1452 in Heidelberg . He is said to have gone there because of the better medical care provided by the university . He was buried in the Marienkirche in Hanau .

From now on - apart from the accession of Count Reinhard IV. - there will be no beginning of a government in the County of Hanau-Munzenberg for 200 years without a minority guardianship for the successor. The counts of the Hanau-Münzenberg line usually die in their third decade, leaving behind a successor who is underage. Presumably there is an inheritable disease - which one is unknown. The phenomenon spans nine generations. A coincidence can be ruled out. The series of these early deaths continues with Reinhard III. a.

useful information

Reinhard III. is depicted as a prayer together with his wife on the altarpiece of the late Gothic Wörther Altarpiece . The winged altar dates from 1485/90 and was donated by his son, Count Philip I, for the salvation of his parents' souls. Since the altar was only about 40 years after the death of Reinhard III. it can be assumed that the illustration is not a lifelike portrait of the count.

proof

1. ^ Ernst J. Zimmermann: Hanau city and country. 3rd edition, Hanau 1919, ND 1978, p. 98

literature

• Reinhard Dietrich : The state constitution in Hanau. = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 34, Hanau 1996. ISBN 3-9801933-6-5
• Reinhard Suchier : Genealogy of the Hanauer Grafenhaus: in: Festschrift of the Hanauer Geschichtsverein on its fiftieth anniversary celebration on August 27, 1894, Hanau 1894.
• Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau city and country. 3rd edition, Hanau 1919, ND 1978.

predecessor	Office	successor
Reinhard II.	Count of Hanau 1451–1452	Philip I, the younger