Ulrich II. (Hanau)

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Ulrich II. Von Hanau (* approx. 1280/1288; † September 23, 1346 ) was Lord of Hanau between 1305/1306 and 1346 .

childhood

Nothing is known from his childhood. He is only documented when he takes office. The year of birth has not been determined. The earliest point in time (approx. 1279) for this is calculated from the wedding date of his parents, Ulrich I. von Hanau and Countess Elisabeth von Rieneck , 1278. The latest point in time for his birth (approx. 1288) results from the fact that he was obviously when he took office was of legal age , which occurred at the age of 18 during this time. Since he got married four years after taking office, everything speaks for a late year of birth.

family

Ulrich II married Agnes von Hohenlohe (* before 1295; † November 29, 1346), daughter of Kraft I. von Hohenlohe , in 1310 . Ten children are known from the marriage. The order of the sons results from documents. How the daughters relate to this is unknown. The sons are therefore prefixed:

  1. Ulrich III. (* 1310; † 1369/70)
  2. Reinhard , cathedral curator in Mainz
  3. Kraft († 1382), canon in Cologne , Mainz , Würzburg and Worms
  4. Ludwig , († after 1386), archdeacon in Würzburg
  5. Gottfried († after 1372), Commander of the Teutonic Order
  6. Konrad († 1383 [murdered]), prince abbot of Fulda
  1. Elisabeth († after 1365), married to Philipp V. von Falkenstein
  2. Adelheid († after 1378), married to Heinrich II. Von Isenburg
  3. Agnes († after 1347), nun in Patershausen Monastery
  4. Irmengard († after 1348), nun in the Gerlachsheim monastery , mentioned between 1343 and 1347.

For the first time Ulrich II. 1339 ordered the primogeniture in the Hanau house . This is one of the oldest house law provisions with this content in Germany. The commandment of primogeniture was repeated several times, e.g. B. 1343 and 1375. Despite this family statute, however, if this was politically opportune, the county should be divided several times in the future. B. 1456 and 1685.

government

Political activities

In 1310 Ulrich II provided military assistance to King John of Bohemia , a son of Emperor Heinrich VII , for which he pledged the Jews in the cities of Hanau ( Babenhausen , Hanau , Steinau an der Straße and Windecken ) worth 600 pounds Heller received.

In 1314 Ulrich II found himself in the entourage of the Elector and Bavarian Duke Ludwig in the election of a king in Frankfurt.

Ulrich II took an active part in the pacification policy for the region through land peace .

Shortly before his death - the reasons are not known - Ulrich II was under imperial ban . Emperor Ludwig commissioned Friedrich von Hutten as bailiff of the Wetterau with the enforcement. The matter appears to have been settled soon and amicably. Details are not known.

Acquisition of territory

In 1316 Ulrich II bought the Brandenstein court and half of the Schlüchtern von Rieneck court . It was a fiefdom of the Bishop of Würzburg , who agreed to this sale. Hanau received the second half of Schlüchtern in 1377 in exchange for Büttert Castle . The Schlüchtern monastery finally came under the patronage of Hanau in 1457.

In 1317 the owner of the Trages court placed himself under Ulrich II's fiefdom.

In 1320 King Ludwig IV pledged the Bornheimerberg to Ulrich II, a payment for services rendered during a campaign in Alsace . In 1351 King Charles IV renewed this pledge. In 1434 Count Reinhard II was enfeoffed with the Bornheimerberg.

In 1326, finally in 1349, the imperial city of Gelnhausen was pledged to Hanau by King Ludwig IV. In 1330 the citizens were released from their oath of allegiance to the emperor and referred to Hanau in this regard.

In 1333 the brother of Ulrich II's mother, Count Ludwig V von Rieneck, died, with which this line of Count von Rieneck expired. Through an agreement between the deceased and Ulrich I von Hanau from 1296, the Rienecker's fief rights were transferred to Hanau . However, Ludwig V had decreed in 1329 that his daughter Udelhilt should take over the inheritance. From this constellation an extensive inheritance dispute developed, in which other lines of the Rieneck house and the greatest feudal lords, Kurmainz and the Bishopric of Würzburg participate. Ultimately, however, the profit for Ulrich II is considerable, namely:

death

Two different dates of death for Ulrich II are mentioned in the literature: September 2, 1346 and September 23, 1346. He was buried in the Arnsburg monastery , the family burial place of the Hanau family until the 15th century.

As early as 1343, a document has come down to us in which his daughter Adelheid is allowed to visit the father's grave twice a year, which was in the cloister of the Arnsburg monastery and was therefore not freely accessible.

literature

  • Ludwig Clemm : The Book of the Dead of the Ilbenstadt Monastery. In: Archives for Hessian History and Archeology. NF Vol. 19, No. 2, 1936, ISSN  0066-636X , pp. 169-274.
  • Walter Czysz: Klarenthal near Wiesbaden. A women's monastery in the Middle Ages 1298–1559. Seyfried, Wiesbaden 1987, ISBN 3-922604-10-2
  • Klaus Peter Decker: Clientele and competition. The knightly von Hutten family and the Counts of Hanau and von Ysenburg. In: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte. Vol. 38, 1988, ISSN  0073-2001 , pp. 23-48.
  • Reinhard Dietrich: The state constitution in Hanau. The position of the lords and counts in Hanau-Münzenberg based on the archival sources (= Hanauer Geschichtsblätter. Vol. 34). Hanau History Association, Hanau 1996, ISBN 3-9801933-6-5 .
  • Franziska Haase: Ulrich I., Lord of Hanau 1281–1306. Münster 1924 (Münster, University, typewritten phil. Dissertation of May 27, 1925).
  • Fred Schwind : The Landvogtei in the Wetterau. Studies on the rule and politics of the Hohenstaufen and late medieval kings (= writings of the Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies. Vol. 35). Elwert, Marburg 1972, ISBN 3-7708-0424-4 (Partly at the same time: Frankfurt am Main, University, dissertation, 1965–1966).
  • Karl-Heinz Spieß : Family and Relatives in the German High Nobility of the Late Middle Ages. 13th to the beginning of the 16th century (= quarterly for social and economic history. Supplements 111). Steiner, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-515-06418-4 (At the same time: Mainz, University, habilitation paper, 1992).
  • Reinhard Suchier : Genealogy of the Hanauer count house . In: Festschrift of the Hanau History Association for its 50th anniversary celebration on August 27, 1894 . Hanau 1894.
  • Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau city and country. Cultural history and chronicle of a Franconian weatherwave city and former county. With special consideration of the older time. Increased edition. Self-published, Hanau 1919 (Unchanged reprint. Peters, Hanau 1978, ISBN 3-87627-243-2 ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Czysz: Klarenthal near Wiesbaden. 1988, p. 170.
  2. ^ Clemm: The Book of the Dead of Ilbenstadt Abbey. 1936, p. 252.
  3. ^ Theodor Ruf: Hanau and Rieneck. About the changeable relationship between two neighboring noble families in the Middle Ages. In: New magazine for Hanau history. Vol. 8, No. 6, 1986, ZDB -ID 535233-2 , pp. 300-311, here pp. 305ff.
  4. ^ Clemm: The Book of the Dead of Ilbenstadt Abbey. 1936, p. 239.
  5. ↑ Nekrologium des Klarenthal Monastery according to: Suchier: Genealogie des Hanauer Grafenhauses. 1894, p. 9, note 11.
  6. ↑ Spieß: Family and Relatives in the German High Nobility of the Late Middle Ages. 1993, p. 481, note 129
predecessor Office successor
Ulrich I. Mr. von Hanau
1305 / 06-1346 		Ulrich III.
personal data
SURNAME Ulrich II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hanau, Ulrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mr. von Hanau
DATE OF BIRTH between 1280 and 1288
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1346