Reinhard von Hanau-Munzenberg

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Reinhard von Hanau-Münzenberg (born April 8, 1528 , † October 11, 1554 in Béthune ) was a son of Count Philip II of Hanau-Münzenberg and Countess Juliana zu Stolberg .

ancestry

Pedigree of Reinhard von Hanau-Münzenberg
Great grandparents

Philipp I von Hanau-Münzenberg (* 1449; † 1500)
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Adriana von Nassau-Dillenburg (* 1449; † 1477)

Günther XXXVIII. von Schwarzburg -Blankenburg (* 1450; † 1484)
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Katharina von Querfurt († 1521)

Heinrich the Elder zu Stolberg (* 1436; † 1511)
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Mathilde von Mansfeld († 1468)

Philipp von Eppstein-Königstein (* 1459; † 1481)
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Ludovika von der Mark († 1499)

Grandparents

Reinhard IV von Hanau-Münzenberg (* 1473; † 1512)
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Katharina von Schwarzburg-Blankenburg (* 1470; † 1514)

Botho zu Stolberg (* 1467; † 1538)
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Anna von Eppstein-Königstein (* 1482; † 1538)

parents

Philip II of Hanau-Münzenberg (* 1501; † 1529)
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Juliana zu Stolberg (* 1506; † 1580)

Reinhard von Hanau-Munzenberg

For the family cf. Main article: Lords and Counts of Hanau

Nothing is known about his childhood.

Journey to the Holy Land

Reinhard went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land with a small company in 1550 . The trip is very well documented. He left Hanau on May 12, 1550. The way led him via Bensheim with the post to Ulm . From there he drove down the Danube to Regensburg . This was followed by a ride via Innsbruck and the Brenner to Bozen . From there it went again by post to Trento and Venice . Venice was visited before boarding the ship on June 18 of the same year. This landed first on Zante , where he visited the tomb of Cicero , on July 6th in Candia in Crete , on July 12th in Limassol in Cyprus and on July 21st in Jaffa . But only on July 26th, after the Führer had arrived from Jerusalem , was he allowed to enter the country. He finally arrived in Jerusalem on July 29, 1550. Just two weeks later he was on his way back. He embarked again on August 13th in Jaffa and stayed in Cyprus from August 22nd to September 22nd, 1550.

In 1551 he took part in a tournament in Heidelberg .

death

Reinhard was on a trip to Brussels and Flanders at the beginning of 1554, accompanied by Philippe de Montmorency, Count von Horn . From there he returned to Hanau, only to join the army of Emperor Charles V with 16 mounted men on his campaign against France . On August 24, 1554, he reached the imperial camp. On September 12th he was seriously wounded at Renthy , not far from Saint-Omer . A bullet struck the thigh above the right knee. At the end of September he was brought to Béthune, where he died as a result of the injury suffered on October 11, 1554 and was buried in the church. A tomb was commissioned, but probably not completed.

literature

  • Adrian Willem Eliza Dek: De Afstammelingen van Juliana van Stolberg tot aan het jaar van de vrede van Munster . Zaltbommel, 1968.
  • Johann Adam Bernhard [Synonym: Jacob Im Hauße]. More determination to genealogy ... . Hanau 1741.
  • Reinhard Dietrich : The state constitution in the Hanauischen = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 34. Hanau 1996. ISBN 3-9801933-6-5
  • Reinhold Röhricht . German pilgrimages to the Holy Land . Gotha 1889.
  • Reinhold Röhricht, Die Jerusalemfahrten der Graf Philipp, Ludwig (1484) and Reinhard von Hanau (1550) , in: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies 26 (NF 16) (1891), p. 85ff.
  • Reinhard Suchier : Genealogy of the Hanauer count house. In: Reinhard Suchier (Hrsg.): Festschrift of the Hanau History Association for its 50th anniversary celebration on August 27, 1894. Hanau History Association, Hanau 1894.
  • Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau city and country . 3rd edition, Hanau 1919, ND 1978. In particular. P. 710f.
  • Ernst J. Zimmermann: A Count of Hanau was killed in the western theater of war 360 years ago . In: Hanauer Anzeiger 1914. [Newspaper tear in: Hanau City Library - Department Hanau / Hessen, call number: I 20 A0442]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dek, p. 229 mentions October 19, 1554
  2. ↑ The following information from Röhricht, Deutsche Pilgerreisen, p. 237ff; the full text of the travelogue is printed in: Röhricht, Jerusalemfahrten, p. 142ff
  3. ^ Bernhard, p. 98f, prints the letter from Count Wilhelm von Nassau, with which he gave Count Philipp III. von Hanau-Münzenberg and his mother, Countess Katharina von Schwarzburg-Blankenburg, informed of death; Zimmermann: A Count of Hanau .
  4. ^ Zimmermann: A Count of Hanau .
personal data
SURNAME Hanau-Munzenberg, Reinhard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hessian nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1528
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1554
Place of death Bethune