Ulrich II von Munzenberg

Ulrich II von Hagen-Münzenberg († August 11, 1255 ) was Imperial Ministerial and the last male descendant of the von Hagen-Münzenberg family .

Life

The family of Reichsministeriale Kämmerer von Munzenberg, which emerged from the imperial ministerial dynasty of the (Heusenstamm-) Hagener, was for three generations a driving force in the area of ​​the Wetterau which helped to shape this region . Ulrich II was the only son of Ulrich I von Munzenberg and his second wife Adelheid, a daughter of Count Rudolf II von Ziegenhain . He was the grandson of Kuno I von Munzenberg and (half) brother of Adelheid von Munzenberg . He himself was married to Helwig von Weinsberg , who died in December 1244. The marriage remained childless. In order to have children after all, in 1254 the couple transferred the patronage rights of the Johannisberg Church near Nauheim to the Mainz Cathedral Chapter in the hope of its intercession . As early as 1252 he founded the Patershausen monastery , where his aunt Lukardis von Ziegenhain became the first abbess. In his first documents until the childless death of his older stepbrother Kuno III. von Munzenberg in 1244 he was notarized as lord of Tannenberg (castle near Seeheim-Jugenheim on the Hessian mountain road).

As treasurer of the empire from 1247 he took the side of the opposing king Wilhelm of Holland against the Hohenstaufen dynasty , was in his court camp and took part in the siege of Caub Castle and the imperial palace Ingelheim.

The Bickenbacher (the family of his great-grandmother) and Diether von Katzenellenbogen declared a feud in connection with disputes about bailiwick law in Trebur . On the way from Tannenberg Castle near Seeheim-Jungsheim in the Odenwald to a planned meeting of the Rhenish Association of Cities in Worms, he died of battle injuries on August 11, 1255, six months after his father died on February 25 of the same year. His inheritance, the so-called Munzenberger inheritance , fell to the families of his six secular sisters. The seventh, a stepsister from a paternal first marriage, was a nun (and her aunt Lukardis, the second abbess, who succeeded her) of the Patershausen monastery.

Ulrich was the last Munzenberger in the male line.

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• Hofrath Heidenbach: The Caub or Gutenfels Castle and the Pfalzgrafenstein . In: Association for Nassau antiquity and historical research (Hrsg.): Nassauische Annalen . tape 9 . Wiesbaden 1868, p. 281 ( full text in Google Book Search [accessed November 14, 2011]).
• Georg Eduard Steiz: The Lutheran preacher Hartmann Beyer . Events in the Dominican monastery and Hartmann Beyer's relationship with them 1560–1564. In: Frankfurter Verein für Geschichte und Landeskunde (Ed.): Archive for Frankfurt's History and Art . Volumes 5-8. Verlag der S. Schmerber'schen Buchhandlung, Frankfurt am Main 1853, p. 88 ( full text in Google Book Search [accessed November 14, 2011]).
• Friedrich Philipp Usener : Contributions to the history of knight castles and mountain castles in the area around Frankfurt am Main . Verlag von Jacob Stiefel, Frankfurt am Main 1852, p. 40 ( full text in Google Book Search [accessed November 14, 2011]).
• Friederun Hardt-Friederichs: The royal free court Kaichen in the Wetterau in its national and legal historical importance . In: Genealogy and national history . tape 26 . Degener, Neustadt / Aisch 1975, ISBN 3-7686-4026-4 , p. 237 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed November 14, 2011]).
• Helfrich Bernhard Wencks: Hessian national history . With a document book and geographical charts. JE Krieger the Younger, Darmstadt and Giessen 1783, p. 296 ( full text in Google Book Search [accessed November 14, 2011]).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Foundation deed of the subsequent heirs as document of the medieval document book (codex diplomaticus) of the city of Frankfurt