Wolf of Praunheim-Sachsenhausen

Wolf von Praunheim-Sachsenhausen (called: Wolf the Younger , mentioned from 1374; † 1410 ) from the family of the lords of Praunheim was bailiff of Goldstein and the Frankfurt Königsforst .

family

His father was Rudolf II von Sachsenhausen-Praunheim , who died in 1371 and had held influential positions in Frankfurt and the Wetterau . Among other things, he was Reich mayor of Frankfurt and viscount of Castle County Friedberg of Friedberg in Friedberg (Hessen) have been. His mother was a Christine († before 1400), whose family name has not been passed down, and whom his father, for whom this was the second marriage, had married between 1342 and 1345.

After his death, the children from Rudolf II's first and second marriage became entangled in extensive inheritance disputes, which were based on the unequal distribution of inheritance between the children from the two marriages. The parties initially argued before the municipal aldermen's court in Frankfurt, whereby, according to the court's records, there was mutual abuse, in the second instance before the royal court in Prague . The children from their first marriage succeeded in first having their siblings from their second marriage imposed under the imperial ban. When they then presented themselves to the trial , with Wolf appearing for himself and his siblings before the court, the trial was referred to the courts of the archbishops of Trier and Mainz . The exact outcome of the dispute has not been passed down, but the majority of the assets seem to have remained with the children from the second marriage and Wolf seems to have been successful with it. He was also the administrator of the common family property.

Wolf died in 1410 without leaving any descendants.

Positions and Politics

Wolf was - like his brothers - a member of the aristocratic " Löwenbund " (also: "Löwengesellschaft"), an alliance directed against the up-and-coming cities. But he must have changed sides soon, because his official career took place in the services of the city of Frankfurt am Main . He was a lay judge there and since 1400 bailiff of Goldstein, after the city bought this moated castle in the same year. In addition, he was - like his brothers - Burgmann at the Electorate of Trier castles Ober- and Niederburg Kobern - today: Kobern-Gondorf and Ganerbe der Burg Rödelheim .

In 1404 he mediated successfully, together with others, in a dispute between the knight Wigand von Hatzfeld and the city of Cologne and in some other disputes, such as between Hans Bafey and the city of Frankfurt.

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.