Wilhelm II (Katzenelnbogen)

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Count Wilhelm II of Katzenelnbogen (* 1315; † before October 23, 1385 ) was a member of the older line of the Counts of Katzenelnbogen .

biography

He was a son of Count Wilhelm I von Katzenelnbogen (recorded since 1277; † November 18, 1331) and Adelheid von Waldeck († September 1, 1329).

He ruled from 1332 to 1385. Wilhelm II was first married to Countess Johanna von Mömpelgard († 1347/1349) from 1339 onwards . She was already widowed twice, namely by Count Ulrich III. von Pfirt and Margrave Rudolf Hesso of Baden .

Wilhelm II was married to Elisabeth von Hanau for the second time . The engagement took place on July 22, 1355, the wedding shortly afterwards. The groom's morning gift was 4,000 Frankfurt guilders , a debt that he did not pay in cash, but rather by transferring the town and castle of Zwingenberg on Bergstrasse as pledge and their income as income instead of interest. Your father, Ulrich III. von Hanau , on the other hand, on the occasion of the wedding, Wilhelm II prescribed his portion of Tannenberg Castle (one sixth) as a dowry for his daughter . In addition, Wilhelm II received 4,000 pounds of Heller or 400 pounds of Gülte for half the Hanau village of Schaafheim .

In 1375 Wilhelm II was a founding member of the St. George League and in 1379 of the Lion League in Wiesbaden . In 1378 Wilhelm II became captain of the Wetterau imperial land peace.

After his death, Wilhelm II was buried in the Eberbach monastery . His brother Eberhard V. led the counts of the older line of the von Katzenelnbogen family until his death in 1402. With the marriage of his daughter Anna von Katzenelnbogen to Johann IV von Katzenelnbogen (younger line) in 1383, the two branches of the family were reunited in 1402.

literature

  • Karl Ernst Demandt : Regesta of the Counts of Katzenelnbogen 1060–1486 . Vol. 1, Wiesbaden 1953, p. 42.
  • Detlev Schwennicke : European family tables: Family tables for the history of European states . NF Vol. 12. 1992. Plate 29.
  • 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.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Documents of the County of Katzenelnbogen Upper County)  (HStAD inventory B 3). In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen). and documents from the County of Katzenelnbogen 1249–1490 Section B 3  (= REPERTORIES Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt ) (PDF; 99 KB), as of January 3, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Wilhelm II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Count Wilhelm II von Katzenelnbogen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count von Katzenelnbogen
DATE OF BIRTH 1315
DATE OF DEATH before October 23, 1385