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Simon V. Wecker (born  August 28, 1505 , †  October 28, 1540 ) was the penultimate Count of Zweibrücken-Bitsch .

Life

Simon V. Wecker was born as the eldest son of Count Reinhard von Zweibrücken-Bitsch and Lichtenberg (* around 1470; † 1532) and his wife Anna von Salm (* around 1480; † 1541).

He had four siblings: his brother Wilhelm (* 1507) became canon of Strasbourg at the age of seven and therefore played no role in the succession of the county. The youngest brother Jabob (* July 19, 1510, † March 22, 1570) was therefore his successor. And Johanna (born June 10, 1517), who did not come for the heritage of the county in question since this a fief of; next had Simon alarm two sisters, Elisabeth († March 8, 1575 born November 4, 1504) Duchy of Lorraine was that could only be inherited in the male line.

The father's inheritance

In the county of Zweibrücken-Bitsch there was an inheritance statute established in 1476, according to which every male descendant received a few castles, the oldest, however, the sovereignty and the main castle Bitsch . In addition, none of the younger brothers was allowed to marry as long as the eldest brother had male legitimate offspring or could hope for.

After Count Reinhard's death in 1532, a dispute about his inheritance began: At first, the two brothers jointly refused their mother several claims from the estate and only reluctantly fulfilled their obligations to set up a widow's residence in Burgaltdorf , so that several relatives intervened , in particular Wilhelm von Hohnstein , Bishop of Strasbourg.

According to the inheritance statute, Simon V. Wecker became the new Count of Zweibrücken-Bitsch, but it still remained to be determined how the castles from the paternal inheritance should be divided among the brothers. Promised To this end, Simon alarm clock and Jacob Although the truce in the common Veste Lichtenberg were, but then quickly divided and finally demanded - notwithstanding the Erbstatuts 1476 - the division of all the possessions of the family. During the two-year negotiations, the two brothers jointly administered the county until they signed a new partition treaty on July 24, 1535. Simon Wecker received Bitsch, Medelsheim, Ingweiler, Reichshofen, Wasenburg and Waldeck, Jakob received Lemberg, Landeck, Lindelbol, Kleinarnoburg, Wörth, Bischofsheim and Brumath. The fortress Lichtenberg, the copper mine in Görsdorf and the Kastvogtei in Ingweiler remained in the joint ownership of the two brothers.

Marriage and offspring

Simon Wecker married Barbara von Dun in 1526. The marriage resulted in two daughters: Esther († 1542), who died unmarried, and Amalie (* 1537; † 1577), who married Count Philip I of Leiningen-Westerburg (* 1527; † 1597).

After the partition contract of 1535 had lifted the marriage ban for his brother Jakob, he married Countess Katharina von Hohnstein on April 13, 1536 . Jacob's son Johann Friederich was born a year later, but died on August 22, 1538. In 1540, their daughter Ludovica Margaretha was born, who in 1560 married Count Philipp V. von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1541; † 1599).

Testament and Succession

On July 7, 1540, Simon Wecker deposited his will with a notary in Hagenau. In it he determined the following: If he should still have male heirs, the eldest son should receive the county and be allowed to marry, the others would have to remain celibate. Otherwise his brother Jacob should inherit everything that cannot be passed on to female descendants, in addition to the county, cities, castles, land and people who are male or family fiefs. His two daughters Esther and Amalia (under the tutelage of their mother Barbara) would receive the rest.

Less than four months later, Simon V. Wecker died on October 28, 1540 at the age of 35 and his brother Jakob became Count of Zweibrücken-Bitsch.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Heinrich Zedler (ed.): Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . tape 64 . Halle and Leipzig 1750, p. 1259-1260 ( Zedler Lexicon ).
  2. ^ A b c Johann Georg Lehmann : Documented history of the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg . tape 2 . J. Schneider, Mannheim 1863, p. 336-406 ( MDZ ).
  3. ^ Hans Ammerich : Zweibrücken-Bitsch . In: Werner Paravicini (ed.): Courtyards and residences in the late medieval empire . tape 4. , Counts and Lords / Teilbd. 2. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7995-4525-9 , p. 1802–1805 ( Academy of Sciences in Göttingen [PDF; 51 kB ]).
  4. ^ Hans-Walter Herrmann : The county of Zweibrücken-Bitsch . In: Kurt Hoppstädter , Hans-Walter Herrmann (Hrsg.): Geschichtliche Landeskunde des Saarlandes . tape 2 , From the Frankish conquest to the outbreak of the French Revolution. Saarbrücken 1977, ISBN 3-921870-00-3 , p. 323-332 .