Wenceslaus of Cleen

Wenzel von Cleen (named from 1425; † 1473 ) was a member of the family of Cleen and 1445-1455 City School of Frankfurt .

family

Wenzel was married to Irmel von Praunheim- Sachsenhausen, daughter of Friedrich II. Von Praunheim-Sachsenhausen. Irmel became heir daughter after both her father († 1420) and her uncle, Rudolf IV. Von Praunheim-Sachsenhausen († 1426), died as the last male members of the family branch of the Reichsschultheiss of the von Praunheim family. Wenzel and Irmel had two children:

• Gottfried von Cleen († 1498), married Margarete Echter von Mespelbrunn
• Margarete, married Philipp Groschlag von Dieburg in 1453

Praunheimer Reichslehen

After Irmel's father Friedrich II von Praunheim-Sachsenhausen died in 1420, his brother Rudolf IV went to the Reichstag in Breslau and had the Roman-German King Sigismund re-grant him the imperial fiefs that his family held. Since he had no offspring and his siblings entitled to inherit only fathered daughters, Peter Wacker , protonotary of the king, had him transfer the entitlement to the Praunheim-Sachsenhauser imperial fiefdom. But since it was not clear whether it was a question of male fiefs or whether daughters could inherit, the inheritance dispute was inevitable.

After the death of Rudolf IV. In 1426 the future emperor asked both the Castle side of the castle Roedelheim as well as the the Imperial Castle Friedberg , so that he could speak legal advice about how the legal situation is. This dispute, initially only between Wenzel von Cleen and Peter Wacker, also promoted the desire of the children of Christine von Ingelheim , a sister of Rudolf IV., For the inheritance. King Sigismund took the side of Peter Wacker, rejected all claims of the (potential) heirs and in 1429 commissioned Count Philipp I von Katzenelnbogen to execute the royal judgment . But it failed. So there was a second trial before 1431, but with the same outcome and the same failure in execution. The process continued. In 1433 there was a judgment that rejected Peter Wacker's claims and confirmed the claims of the sons-in-law Friedrich II and Rudolf IV: Wenzel von Cleen and Wilhelm von Ingelheim. In 1434 they were finally able to take over the inheritance, but both were enfeoffed with imperial fiefs in 1440.

politics

Due to this legal succession to the Reichslehen, the core property of the Lords of Praunheim, Wenzel von Cleen, in the tradition of his father-in-law's family, was also the city school of Frankfurt from 1445–1455. To achieve this, in 1441 he sold the former praunheim shares in Rödelheim Castle to the City Council of Frankfurt. Another success for him was that in 1465, after the death of Wilhelm von Ingelheim, he succeeded in taking possession of the entire holdings of the former Praunheim-Sachsenhausen imperial fiefs. Wenzel was a member of the Society with the Donkey .

literature

• Alfred Friese: The Lords of Praunheim-Sachsenhausen, inheritance of the Reich in Frankfurt am Main: Property, social and cultural history of an imperial family of the high and late Middle Ages . Masch. Diss. 1952, p. 91f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Friese, p. 136.