Wolfram II of Praunheim

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Wolfram II von Praunheim (named from 1243 ; † 1274 ) from the family of the Knights von Praunheim was a long-time imperial school of Frankfurt am Main and founder of the lords of Praunheim's inherited school line.

family

His father was Heinrich I von Praunheim , his mother Adelheid von Echzell .

Wolfram II married his heir, Udelinde von Rödelheim . He had at least five children with her.

politics

Wolfram II has appeared as a lay judge in Frankfurt since 1243 . In 1248 he became the city's imperial school, an office he held between 1263 and 1268 with one interruption until his death in 1274. In the controversy for the throne between Richard of Cornwall and Conrad IV , he supported the latter. For this he received the clearing tithe in the Lindau forest north-west of Frankfurt, which was later supplemented by the church tithe there, which the provost of St. Bartholomew's Foundation in Frankfurt gave him. The city of Frankfurt was ultimately able to assert itself in these battles, both after the battle of Frankfurt in 1246, in which the opposing king Heinrich Raspe was victorious and occupied Frankfurt, and also during the siege of the city by the opposing king Wilhelm of Holland in 1249.

He is called on several times as a judge or mediator in significant legal disputes across the empire, for example in a dispute between the Archbishopric of Mainz and the Counts of Rieneck , one between the Archbishop of Mainz in 1264 and the Count Palatine around Burg and City of Weinheim, or between the Counts of Katzenelnbogen and the Lords of Falkenstein . The notarizations that he carried out during his long term in office, including in preparation for the Munzenberg inheritance, are also numerous .

Through his marriage to Udelinde von Rödelheim he came into joint ownership of Rödelheim Castle . In 1267 Wolfram II also became Burgmann of the Speyer Monastery . Wolfram II was economically very successful. He consolidated his property around a residence in Sachsenhausen , while the headquarters in Frankfurt-Praunheim were used by later sons.

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.

Individual evidence

  1. During this time he is referred to as " olim scultetus ". (Friese, p. 48).
  2. Friese, p. 48.
  3. Friese, p. 45.
  4. Friese, p. 47.
  5. Friese, p. 45.
  6. Friese, p. 47.
  7. Friese, p. 48.
  8. Friese, p. 46.
  9. Friese, p. 49.
  10. Friese, p. 46.
  11. Friese, p. 49.