Ulrich IV. (Hanau)

Ulrich IV. Von Hanau (* between 1330 and 1340; † 1380 ) was Lord of Hanau from 1369/70 .

family

Pedigree of Ulrich IV.
Great grandparents	Ulrich I. von Hanau (* 1250/60; † 1305/06) ∞ Elisabeth von Rieneck -Rotenfels (* approx. 1260; † approx. 1300)	Kraft I. von Hohenlohe -Weikersheim (proven 1260–1312) 2. ∞ vmtl. Margarethe von Truhendingen -Dillingen	King Adolf of Nassau (1255 - † 1298) ∞ Imagina von Isenburg-Limburg († after 1313)	Landgrave Heinrich d. J. von Hessen (* approx. 1264; † approx. 1298) ∞ Agnes von Bayern (* approx. 1276/1277; † approx. 1340)
Grandparents	Ulrich II. Von Hanau (* 1280; † 1346) ∞ Agnes von Hohenlohe -Weikersheim (* before 1295; † 1342/44)		Gerlach I. von Nassau (proven 1288–1361) ∞ Agnes von Hessen († 1322)
parents	Ulrich III. von Hanau (* 1310; † 1369/70) ∞ Adelheid von Nassau († 1344)
Ulrich IV.

See also: About the Hanau family (noble family)

Ulrich IV. Was born between 1330 and 1340, which is based solely on the presumed year of his parents' marriage, Ulrich III. von Hanau and Adelheid von Nassau , and its first documented appearance.

In 1366 or 1367 he married Elisabeth von Wertheim , daughter of Eberhard von Wertheim. (The engagement is proven for February 11, 1366, the wedding agreement is dated February 15, 1366, on March 12, 1367 it appears for the first time in a document as the wife of Ulrich IV.) From this marriage four children are proven:

1. Ulrich V , ruled 1380–1404
2. Reinhard II. , Reigned 1404–1451
3. Johann , co-regent 1404–1411
4. Konrad (proven: 1388–1419)

government

At the end of 1369 or beginning of 1370 Ulrich IV followed his father in the Hanau rulership. Since the time of his death has not been passed down more precisely, Ulrich IV's assumption of office cannot be more precisely defined.

Imperial politics

On March 20, 1371, he was appointed bailiff in the Wetterau by Duke Wenzel of Bohemia as the representative of Emperor Charles IV in the empire . Here too he followed his father's position. But by autumn of the same year he no longer held the position. Landvogt was now Archbishop Johann von Mainz. The emperor may not have confirmed Ulrich IV's appointment.

During his reign he was involved in various feuds and regional wars, including the Star War , a dispute between the expanding Landgraviate of Hesse and the surrounding smaller territorial lords.

It was probably in this context that Ulrich IV killed the knight Frowin von Hutten , who was on the landgrave's side, in Steinau an der Strasse in Hanau . The exact course of the incident is not known. The slain man's relatives, especially his brother Konrad von Hutten, pursued Ulrich IV and put him prisoner. Ulrich IV's uncle, Bishop Adolf von Speyer , mediated the reconciliation. The price for this was that Ulrich IV paid an atonement of 7,500 guilders , founded an eternal mass and an eternal light in the Schlüchtern monastery , further donated 50 guilders to the benefices for the maintenance of the altar and the slain a stone atonement cross worth 100 guilders at the house where the crime was committed. There were also various political concessions that were intended to prevent Ulrich IV from continuing to fight on the side of the Sterner against the Landgrave of Hesse.

Parallel to these less peaceful events, Ulrich IV continued to take part in the peace policy of his predecessor.

Acquisition of territory

Through his marriage to Elisabeth von Wertheim , Hanau received a quarter of the castle and lordship of Breuberg in 1366 or 1367 . It was only under Ulrich's successors that the Counts of Wertheim bought back this share in 1409.

Ulrich IV succeeded in 1371 in acquiring Steinheim , located across from Hanau on the other side of the Main , from the Lords of Eppstein - albeit only temporarily - as well as their shares in the Alzenau Free Court . He sold half of Steinheim in 1377 to Count Wilhelm II von Katzenelnbogen , his brother-in-law. Temporarily (1378-1389) he and his successor came into possession of the castle and town of Königstein and other rights and income that the lords of Falkenstein- Munzenberg had to hand over to him, Frankfurt and Falkenstein as security for a loan.

In 1372 he sold Babenhausen in Hanau for 4,000 guilders to the Bohemian crown , but immediately received it back as a fief . The background to this transaction is the efforts of the electors - here the Bohemian - to gain secure paths and places between their residences and the electoral place of the German kings , which Frankfurt am Main had finally become with the Golden Bull of 1356 . Babenhausen is about a day's journey from Frankfurt and was therefore very suitable as the next “stepping stone” to the polling station.

1374 the pledged monastery of Fulda , the Veste Otzberg , the city herring and its share of Umstadt Ulrich IV. In 1390, the monastery sold the territories of Palatine Ruprecht II. , Which the Electoral Palatinate became the debtor of Hanau. Hanau thus became a partner in the Umstadt condominium . In 1377 Ulrich IV received the second half of the Schlüchtern office in exchange for Bütthard Castle and Altenhaßlau as a fief from Bishop Gerhard von Schwarzburg of Würzburg .

Domestic and house politics

Ulrich IV confirmed and expanded in 1375 the primogeneity law in the Hanau rulership, first laid down by his grandfather Ulrich II in 1339 , thus giving it its final form for the centuries to come. In the political practice of the rule and later county of Hanau , however, it was to be circumvented several times.

death

Ulrich IV died in September or October 1380. He was buried - like all his ancestors - in the Arnsburg monastery . This was the last time that this “hereditary burial” of the von Hanau family was used.

literature

• Joseph Aschbach : History of the Counts of Wertheim. From the earliest times to their extinction in the male line in 1556. 2 volumes. Andreae, Frankfurt am Main 1843.
• 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 : Konrad von Hanau. In: New magazine for Hanau history. Vol. 9, No. 4, 1990, ZDB -ID 535233-2 , pp. 326-327.
• 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 .
• Georg-Wilhelm Hanna : The knight nobles von Hutten, their social position in church and state until the end of the Old Kingdom. Ministerialism, power and mediatization (= Hanauer Geschichtsblätter. Vol. 44). Hanauer Geschichtsverein, Hanau 2007, ISBN 978-3-935395-08-3 (also: Bamberg, University, dissertation, 2006), online (PDF; 6.86 MB) .
• Hanns Hubert Hoffmann: Charles IV and the political land bridge from Prague to Frankfurt. In: Collegium Carolinum, Research Center for the Bohemian Lands (ed.): Between Frankfurt and Prague. Lerche, Munich 1963, pp. 51-74.
• Paul Huprach: An episode of the Star Wars in the Kinzigtal. Atonement negotiations in the city of Orb. In: Homeland yearbook of the Gelnhausen district. 1963, ZDB -ID 546325-7 , pp. 98f.
• Friedrich Rehm: Diplomatic history of the lords and counts of Hanau up to the division into the lines Minzenberg and Lichtenberg. In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies. Vol. 13 = NF Vol. 3, 1871, ISSN  0342-3107 , pp. 114-261.
• 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).
• 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. ^ Aschbach: History of the Counts of Wertheim. , P. 164.
2. ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg State Archive Wertheim Signature: G-Rep. 100 No. 1366 Feb. 15
3. ↑ For the details see: Hanna: Die Ritteradligen von Hutten. 2007, pp. 74ff.

predecessor	Office	successor
Ulrich III.	Lord of Hanau 1369 / 70-1380	Ulrich V.