Werner II of Battenberg

Werner II of Battenberg († around 1255 in Mergentheim ) was Count of Battenberg and Wittgenstein . He gave up the rule in 1231 at the latest and entered the Order of St. John as a knight .

Life

Werner II von Battenberg was the eldest of four sons of Count Werner I von Battenberg and Wittgenstein . It is documented for the first time in 1215. After the death of his father in 1215, he first took over the affairs of state in the county of Battenberg . He let his brothers Widekind I and Hermann I participate at least partially in the rule.

Werner planned to retire from the office for a long time. He then possibly already entered in 1221, but no later than 1230/31 in the either already by his father after his participation in the crusade of Henry VI. (1197/98) or Johanniterhaus Wiesenfeld , which he donated himself, southwest of Frankenberg , and then called himself in documents "Brother Werner, Johannisspitaler, before Count von Battenberg". So he is z. B. in the agreement of December 15, 1237 of Archbishop Siegfried III. of Mainz with the brothers Konrad II. and Wittekind von Merenberg as a witness in which the archbishop bought the county of Ruchesloh from the Merenbergers. The county of Battenberg fell to his brother Widekind I. Werner himself became commander in the Johanniterhaus Wiesenfeld in 1238 at the latest .

Werner fought in vain with the Ludowinger Landgraves about the hospital of Saint Elisabeth of Thuringia, who died in 1231, in Marburg. He was well acquainted with Elisabeth and was one of her supporters in Marburg. This house fell to the branch of the Teutonic Order in Marburg in 1234 . Subsequently, he used his spiritual position variously for the purposes of his family and in particular contributed to the equipment of the monasteries close to his house. For example, in 1248 he made sure that goods were sold to the Georgenberg monastery near Frankenberg. In the same year he decided a tithe dispute in favor of the Haina monastery . Werner is documented for the last time in 1255.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manfred Fay: The Patch Merenberg and the "Holy Land" ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 6.6 MB) 

literature

• Gerhard Beaupain: Wiesenfeld. Johanniterkommende, Huguenot and Waldensian colony, Industriehof. A village story for the 750th anniversary celebration in 1988 . Ed .: Karl-Hermann Völker. 2nd Edition. Self-published by K.-H. Völker, Burgwald-Wiesenfeld 1989.

Web links

• Helfrich Bernhard Wenck: Hessische Landesgeschichte , third volume, Varrentrapp and Wenner, Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1803 (p. 100-105)
• Wiesenfeld, on the website of the municipality of Burgwald
• Battenberg, Werner II. Count of. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Matthias Seim: The Counts of Battenberg - Dynasty, territory and rule in the 13th century

predecessor	Office	successor
Werner I.	Count of Battenberg and Wittgenstein 1215 – before 1231	Widekind I.