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Philipp V, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg

January 01, 1970

Philipp V of Hanau-Lichtenberg (21 February 1541, in Bouxwiller – 2 June 1599, in Niederbronn) was Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg from 1590 until his death.

Philipp V of Hanau-Lichtenberg
Born(1541-02-21)21 February 1541
Bouxwiller
Died2 June 1599(1599-06-02) (aged 58)
Niederbronn
BuriedLichtenberg
Noble familyHouse of Hanau
Spouse(s)Ludowika Margaretha of Zweibrücken-Bitsch
Katharina of Wied
Agathe of Limpurg-Obersontheim
FatherPhilipp IV, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg
MotherEleonore of Fürstenberg

Life edit

Philipp V was the eldest son, heir and successor of Count Philipp IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1514–1590) and the Countess Eleonore of Fürstenberg (1523–1544).

Philipp V was baptized in Bouxwiller on the day he was born.[1] On 18 June 1553 he enrolled at the University of Tübingen,[2] where he focussed on mathematics and astronomy. It was said that for a long time the Hanau family possessed a silver "terrestrial and celestial sphere" that Philipp had manufactured himself.

In his last years, Philipp V was sick. He died in 1599 during a visit to the spa in Bad Niederbronn. He was buried in Lichtenberg.

Government edit

Inheritance of Zweibrücken-Bitsch edit

In 1570, Philipp's father-in-law, Count Palatine Jakob of Zweibrücken-Bitsch (1510–1570), died without male heir and Philipp's first wife, Countess Ludowika Margaretha inherited the County of Bitsch, the Lordship of Ochsenstein and half the Lordship of Lichtenberg (his father already held the other half). Jakob's older brother, Simon V Wecker, had already died in 1540, also without a male heir. A dispute about the inheritance erupted between the husbands of Ludowika Margaretha and her cousin Amalie, Philipp V of Hanau-Lichtenberg and Philipp I of Leiningen-Westerburg,[3] respectively. Formally, the County of Bitsch and he district of Lemberg were fiefs of the Duchy of Lorraine and such fiefs could only be inherited in the male line.

Philipp V was initially successful in the dispute with Philipp I about Zweibrücken-Bitsch. However, he immediately introduced the Lutheran confession in his newly gained territories. This made the powerful and Catholic Duke of Lorraine unhappy. The Duke terminated the fief and in July 1572 Lorraine troops occupied the county. Since Philipp V's army was no match for Lorraine, he took his case to the Reichskammergericht. During the trial, Lorraine argued that, firstly, a significant part of the territory of Zweibrücken-Bitsch had been obtained in an exchange with Lorraine in 1302 and, secondly, the Counts of Leiningen had sold their hereditary claims to Lorraine in 1573. In 1604, Hanau-Lichtenberg and Lorraine decided to settle out of court. In a treaty signed in 1606, it was agreed that Bitsch would revert to Lorraine and Hanau-Lichtenberg would retain Lemberg. This was reasonable, as it corresponded approximately to the religious realities of the territories.

Ascent to the throne edit

Because of his advanced age, Philipp IV delegated successively larger parts of the government business to Philipp V during the final years of his life. After Philipp IV died in 1590, Philipp V took up rule in his own name. As early as 1579, Philipp V introduced the Statutes of Solms in the district of Babenhausen, "on the advice" of his father. This was part of a program to have the same statute law in all territories rules by members of the Wetterau Association of Imperial Counts. In 1585, he took over from his father the guardianship of Philipp Ludwig II and Albrecht, the underage sons of Philipp Ludwig I of Hanau-Münzenberg, who had died in 1580.

Guardianship in Hanau-Münzenberg edit

The other guardian in Hanau-Münzenberg, beside Philipp V, were Count Johann VI "the Elder" of Nassau-Dillenburg and Count Ludwig I of Sayn-Wittgenstein. With respect to Albrecht, who reached adulthood in 1608, there were considerable religious disputes between the parties — Hanau-Lichtenberg was Lutheran, Hanau-Münzenberg was Calvinist — and the guardianship could only be finalized in 1608.

Philipp V tried to have the Lutheran Count Palatine Richard of Simmern-Sponheim appointed as an extra guardian. This attempt failed, despite a ruling in his favour by the Reichskammergericht. The Calvinist majority of the guardians prevented the population of Hanau-Münzenberg from paying homage to Richard. The majority then had the Electoral Administrator Count Palatine Johann Casimir of Simmern appointed as "upper guardian" — a purely honorary position — thereby strengthening the Calvinist majority among the guardians. In this conflict, Philipp V eventually succumbed.

Domestic policies edit

In 1588, he built the first mint in his county in Wörth an der Sauer;[4] this was probably induced by the excellent economic situation in the county during his reign.

Witch hunts were widespread in this period. Philipp V issued a proclamation on the subject, but did not involve himself any further. This led to fewer executions than in other territories. Even so, there was at least one execution, in Schaafheim.

Marriage and issue edit

Philipp V married three times:

  1. 14 October 1560 in Bitsch with Countess Palatine Ludowika Margaretha of Zweibrücken-Bitsch (born: 19 July 1540 in Ingwiller; died: 15 December 1569 in Bouxwiller). She was the only child of Count Jakob of Zweibrücken-Bitsch (born: 19 July 1510; died: 22 March 1570) and was his heiress. She was buried in Ingweiler. With her, Philipp V had the following children:
    1. Johanna Sybille (born: 6 July 1564[5] in Lichtenberg; died on 24 March 1636 Runkel), married to Count Wilhelm V of Wied-Runkel and Isenburg (died: 1612)
    2. Philipp (born: 7 October 1565[6] in Bouxwiller; died: 31 August 1572[7] in Strasbourg; buried in Neuwiller-lès-Saverne)
    3. Albrecht (born: 22 November 1566 [8] in Bouxwiller; died: 13 February 1577 in Haguenau; buried in Neuwiller)
    4. Katharina (born: 30 January 1568 [9] in Bouxwiller; died 6 August 1636), married Schenk Eberhard of Limpurg-Speckfeld (1560–1622)
    5. Johann Reinhard I (born: 13 February 1569 in Bitsch, died: 19 November 1625 in Lichtenberg)
  2. On 18 February 1572 in Bitsch Countess Katharina of Wied (born: 27 May 1552; died: 13 November 1584 in Lichfield). She was buried in Ingweiler. With her, Philipp V had the following children:
    1. Juliane (born: 6 March 1573[10] in Babenhausen; died on 8 April 1582[11] in Bouxwiller; buried in Neuwiller)
    2. Eleanor (born: 13 June 1576;[12] died young)
    3. Philipp (born: 21 July 1579 in Babenhausen; died 23 February 1580 in Bouxwiller; buried in Neuwiller)
    4. Amalie (born: 14 March 1582 in Bouxwiller; died: 11 July 1627;[13]) buried in Lichtenberg
  3. On 20 June 1586 in Bouxwiller with Schenkess Agathe of Limpurg-Obersontheim (born: 17 November 1561; died: 1623; buried in Lichtenberg), daughter of Schenk Friedrich VII, Lord of Limpurg-Obersontheim[14] (born: 6 August 1536; died: 29 January 1596). She married after 1605 in her second marriage to Count Rudolf of Sulz, Landgrave in Klettgau (born: 13 February 1559; died: 5 May 1620), who had previously married Barbara of Staufen. Philipp V and Agathe had the following children:
    1. Agathe (born: 17 June 1587; died after 1605[15])
    2. Reinhard (born: 21 January 1589; died 7 February 1589; buried in Neuweiler)
    3. Anna Margarethe (born: after 1589; died shortly after birth). She was once assumed to be identical with Agathe,[16] this assumption is contradicted by a contemporary document in the Hessian State Archives, Marburg,[17] which lists all members of the family.

Ancestors edit

References edit

  • Adrian Willem Eliza Dek: De Afstammelingen van Juliana van Stolberg tot aan het jaar van de vrede van Munster, Zaltbommel, 1968
  • Reinhard Dietrich: Die Landesverfassung in dem Hanauischen = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter, vol. 34, Hanau, 1996, ISBN 3-9801933-6-5
  • M. Goltzené: Aus der Geschichte des Amtes Buchsweiler, in: "Pay d'Alsace", vol. 111/112, p. 64 f
  • Franz Domenicus Häberlein: Neueste Teutsche Reichsgeschichte vom Anfange des Schmalkaldischen Krieges bis auf unsere Zeiten, vols. 8 and 9, Halle, 1779, 1780
  • Heinrich Hermelink: Die Matrikeln der Universität Tübingen, vol. 1, Stuttgart, 1906
  • J. G. Lehmann: Urkundliche Geschichte der Grafschaft Hanau-Lichtenberg im unteren Elsasse, 2 vols, 1862 (?), reprinted: Pirmasens, 1970.
  • Wilhelm Morhardt: Hanau alt's - in Ehren b'halt's - Die Grafen von Hanau-Lichtenberg in Geschichte und Geschichten = "Babenhausen einst und jetzt", vol. 10, Babenhausen, 1984
  • Reinhard Suchier: Genealogie des Hanauer Grafenhauses, in: Festschrift des Hanauer Geschichtsvereins zu seiner fünfzigjährigen Jubelfeier am 27. August 1894, Hanau, 1894
  • Ernst J. Zimmermann: Hanau Stadt und Land, 3rd ed., Hanau, 1919, reprinted 1978

Footnotes edit

  1. ^ Staatsarchiv Marburg, 81 Government Hanau, file 12.6f
  2. ^ Hermelink, p. 366
  3. ^ Zimmerische Chronik, vol. 2, p. 251 Online
  4. ^ Fried Lübbecke: Hanau. Stadt und Grafschaft, Cologne, 1951, p. 279 ff
  5. ^ She was baptized on 17 July 1564
  6. ^ Baptized on 24 October 1565 in Bouxwiller
  7. ^ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, file 81 Government Hanau, document A 12,6f says it was on 31 August 1570
  8. ^ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, file 81 Government Hanau, document A 12,6f says it was on 23 November 1566 between 3 and 4 o'clock. Perhaps he was born in the night of 22 to 23 November 1566. He was baptized on 11 December 1566 in Bouxwiller
  9. ^ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, file 81 Government Hanau, document A 12,6f says she was baptized on 7 February 1568
  10. ^ Hessian State Archives in Darmstadt, file D7, 1/1 says it was on 26 March 1573. Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, file 81 Government Hanau, document A 12,6f says she was baptized on 29 March 1573
  11. ^ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt, file D7, 1/1 says it was on 4 April 1583; Dek, p. 242 says it was on 3 April 1582
  12. ^ Babenhausen Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, file 81 Government Hanau, document A 12,6f says she was baptized on 28 June 1576 in Babenhausen
  13. ^ Dek, p. 242 says she died in 1582, an obvious confusion with the birth year
  14. ^ Schenk was a title of nobility
  15. ^ Morhardt says she died in 1587, without giving a source for that statement
  16. ^ Cf. Suchier, genealogy, p. 21, remark
  17. ^ File 81 Government Hanau, document A 12,6f
 
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Philipp V of Hanau Lichtenberg 21 February 1541 in Bouxwiller 2 June 1599 in Niederbronn was Count of Hanau Lichtenberg from 1590 until his death Philipp V of Hanau LichtenbergBorn 1541 02 21 21 February 1541BouxwillerDied2 June 1599 1599 06 02 aged 58 NiederbronnBuriedLichtenbergNoble familyHouse of HanauSpouse s Ludowika Margaretha of Zweibrucken BitschKatharina of WiedAgathe of Limpurg ObersontheimFatherPhilipp IV Count of Hanau LichtenbergMotherEleonore of Furstenberg Contents 1 Life 2 Government 2 1 Inheritance of Zweibrucken Bitsch 2 2 Ascent to the throne 2 3 Guardianship in Hanau Munzenberg 2 4 Domestic policies 3 Marriage and issue 4 Ancestors 5 References 6 FootnotesLife editPhilipp V was the eldest son heir and successor of Count Philipp IV of Hanau Lichtenberg 1514 1590 and the Countess Eleonore of Furstenberg 1523 1544 Philipp V was baptized in Bouxwiller on the day he was born 1 On 18 June 1553 he enrolled at the University of Tubingen 2 where he focussed on mathematics and astronomy It was said that for a long time the Hanau family possessed a silver terrestrial and celestial sphere that Philipp had manufactured himself In his last years Philipp V was sick He died in 1599 during a visit to the spa in Bad Niederbronn He was buried in Lichtenberg Government editInheritance of Zweibrucken Bitsch edit In 1570 Philipp s father in law Count Palatine Jakob of Zweibrucken Bitsch 1510 1570 died without male heir and Philipp s first wife Countess Ludowika Margaretha inherited the County of Bitsch the Lordship of Ochsenstein and half the Lordship of Lichtenberg his father already held the other half Jakob s older brother Simon V Wecker had already died in 1540 also without a male heir A dispute about the inheritance erupted between the husbands of Ludowika Margaretha and her cousin Amalie Philipp V of Hanau Lichtenberg and Philipp I of Leiningen Westerburg 3 respectively Formally the County of Bitsch and he district of Lemberg were fiefs of the Duchy of Lorraine and such fiefs could only be inherited in the male line Philipp V was initially successful in the dispute with Philipp I about Zweibrucken Bitsch However he immediately introduced the Lutheran confession in his newly gained territories This made the powerful and Catholic Duke of Lorraine unhappy The Duke terminated the fief and in July 1572 Lorraine troops occupied the county Since Philipp V s army was no match for Lorraine he took his case to the Reichskammergericht During the trial Lorraine argued that firstly a significant part of the territory of Zweibrucken Bitsch had been obtained in an exchange with Lorraine in 1302 and secondly the Counts of Leiningen had sold their hereditary claims to Lorraine in 1573 In 1604 Hanau Lichtenberg and Lorraine decided to settle out of court In a treaty signed in 1606 it was agreed that Bitsch would revert to Lorraine and Hanau Lichtenberg would retain Lemberg This was reasonable as it corresponded approximately to the religious realities of the territories Ascent to the throne edit Because of his advanced age Philipp IV delegated successively larger parts of the government business to Philipp V during the final years of his life After Philipp IV died in 1590 Philipp V took up rule in his own name As early as 1579 Philipp V introduced the Statutes of Solms in the district of Babenhausen on the advice of his father This was part of a program to have the same statute law in all territories rules by members of the Wetterau Association of Imperial Counts In 1585 he took over from his father the guardianship of Philipp Ludwig II and Albrecht the underage sons of Philipp Ludwig I of Hanau Munzenberg who had died in 1580 Guardianship in Hanau Munzenberg edit The other guardian in Hanau Munzenberg beside Philipp V were Count Johann VI the Elder of Nassau Dillenburg and Count Ludwig I of Sayn Wittgenstein With respect to Albrecht who reached adulthood in 1608 there were considerable religious disputes between the parties Hanau Lichtenberg was Lutheran Hanau Munzenberg was Calvinist and the guardianship could only be finalized in 1608 Philipp V tried to have the Lutheran Count Palatine Richard of Simmern Sponheim appointed as an extra guardian This attempt failed despite a ruling in his favour by the Reichskammergericht The Calvinist majority of the guardians prevented the population of Hanau Munzenberg from paying homage to Richard The majority then had the Electoral Administrator Count Palatine Johann Casimir of Simmern appointed as upper guardian a purely honorary position thereby strengthening the Calvinist majority among the guardians In this conflict Philipp V eventually succumbed Domestic policies edit In 1588 he built the first mint in his county in Worth an der Sauer 4 this was probably induced by the excellent economic situation in the county during his reign Witch hunts were widespread in this period Philipp V issued a proclamation on the subject but did not involve himself any further This led to fewer executions than in other territories Even so there was at least one execution in Schaafheim Marriage and issue editPhilipp V married three times 14 October 1560 in Bitsch with Countess Palatine Ludowika Margaretha of Zweibrucken Bitsch born 19 July 1540 in Ingwiller died 15 December 1569 in Bouxwiller She was the only child of Count Jakob of Zweibrucken Bitsch born 19 July 1510 died 22 March 1570 and was his heiress She was buried in Ingweiler With her Philipp V had the following children Johanna Sybille born 6 July 1564 5 in Lichtenberg died on 24 March 1636 Runkel married to Count Wilhelm V of Wied Runkel and Isenburg died 1612 Philipp born 7 October 1565 6 in Bouxwiller died 31 August 1572 7 in Strasbourg buried in Neuwiller les Saverne Albrecht born 22 November 1566 8 in Bouxwiller died 13 February 1577 in Haguenau buried in Neuwiller Katharina born 30 January 1568 9 in Bouxwiller died 6 August 1636 married Schenk Eberhard of Limpurg Speckfeld 1560 1622 Johann Reinhard I born 13 February 1569 in Bitsch died 19 November 1625 in Lichtenberg On 18 February 1572 in Bitsch Countess Katharina of Wied born 27 May 1552 died 13 November 1584 in Lichfield She was buried in Ingweiler With her Philipp V had the following children Juliane born 6 March 1573 10 in Babenhausen died on 8 April 1582 11 in Bouxwiller buried in Neuwiller Eleanor born 13 June 1576 12 died young Philipp born 21 July 1579 in Babenhausen died 23 February 1580 in Bouxwiller buried in Neuwiller Amalie born 14 March 1582 in Bouxwiller died 11 July 1627 13 buried in Lichtenberg On 20 June 1586 in Bouxwiller with Schenkess Agathe of Limpurg Obersontheim born 17 November 1561 died 1623 buried in Lichtenberg daughter of Schenk Friedrich VII Lord of Limpurg Obersontheim 14 born 6 August 1536 died 29 January 1596 She married after 1605 in her second marriage to Count Rudolf of Sulz Landgrave in Klettgau born 13 February 1559 died 5 May 1620 who had previously married Barbara of Staufen Philipp V and Agathe had the following children Agathe born 17 June 1587 died after 1605 15 Reinhard born 21 January 1589 died 7 February 1589 buried in Neuweiler Anna Margarethe born after 1589 died shortly after birth She was once assumed to be identical with Agathe 16 this assumption is contradicted by a contemporary document in the Hessian State Archives Marburg 17 which lists all members of the family Ancestors editAncestors of Philipp V Count of Hanau Lichtenberg8 Philipp II Count of Hanau Lichtenberg 1462 1504 4 Philipp III Count of Hanau Lichtenberg 1482 1533 9 Anna of Isenburg Budingen d 1522 2 Philipp IV Count of Hanau Lichtenberg 1514 159 10 Christoph I Margrave of Baden Baden 1453 1527 5 Sibylle of Baden 1485 1518 11 Ottilie of Katzenelnbogen 1453 1517 1 Philipp V of Hanau Lichtenberg12 Wolfgang of Furstenberg 1465 1509 6 Friedrich II of Furstenberg 1496 1559 13 Elisabeth of Solms Braunfels 1469 1514 3 Eleonore of Furstenberg 1523 1544 14 Christoph of Werdenberg d 1534 7 Anna of Werdenberg d 1554 15 Eleonora Gonzaga of Mantua d 1512 References editAdrian Willem Eliza Dek De Afstammelingen van Juliana van Stolberg tot aan het jaar van de vrede van Munster Zaltbommel 1968 Reinhard Dietrich Die Landesverfassung in dem Hanauischen Hanauer Geschichtsblatter vol 34 Hanau 1996 ISBN 3 9801933 6 5 M Goltzene Aus der Geschichte des Amtes Buchsweiler in Pay d Alsace vol 111 112 p 64 f Franz Domenicus Haberlein Neueste Teutsche Reichsgeschichte vom Anfange des Schmalkaldischen Krieges bis auf unsere Zeiten vols 8 and 9 Halle 1779 1780 Heinrich Hermelink Die Matrikeln der Universitat Tubingen vol 1 Stuttgart 1906 J G Lehmann Urkundliche Geschichte der Grafschaft Hanau Lichtenberg im unteren Elsasse 2 vols 1862 reprinted Pirmasens 1970 Wilhelm Morhardt Hanau alt s in Ehren b halt s Die Grafen von Hanau Lichtenberg in Geschichte und Geschichten Babenhausen einst und jetzt vol 10 Babenhausen 1984 Reinhard Suchier Genealogie des Hanauer Grafenhauses in Festschrift des Hanauer Geschichtsvereins zu seiner funfzigjahrigen Jubelfeier am 27 August 1894 Hanau 1894 Ernst J Zimmermann Hanau Stadt und Land 3rd ed Hanau 1919 reprinted 1978Footnotes edit Staatsarchiv Marburg 81 Government Hanau file 12 6f Hermelink p 366 Zimmerische Chronik vol 2 p 251 Online Fried Lubbecke Hanau Stadt und Grafschaft Cologne 1951 p 279 ff She was baptized on 17 July 1564 Baptized on 24 October 1565 in Bouxwiller Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg file 81 Government Hanau document A 12 6f says it was on 31 August 1570 Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg file 81 Government Hanau document A 12 6f says it was on 23 November 1566 between 3 and 4 o clock Perhaps he was born in the night of 22 to 23 November 1566 He was baptized on 11 December 1566 in Bouxwiller Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg file 81 Government Hanau document A 12 6f says she was baptized on 7 February 1568 Hessian State Archives in Darmstadt file D7 1 1 says it was on 26 March 1573 Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg file 81 Government Hanau document A 12 6f says she was baptized on 29 March 1573 Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt file D7 1 1 says it was on 4 April 1583 Dek p 242 says it was on 3 April 1582 Babenhausen Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg file 81 Government Hanau document A 12 6f says she was baptized on 28 June 1576 in Babenhausen Dek p 242 says she died in 1582 an obvious confusion with the birth year Schenk was a title of nobility Morhardt says she died in 1587 without giving a source for that statement Cf Suchier genealogy p 21 remark File 81 Government Hanau document A 12 6f nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Philip V Count of Hanau Lichtenberg Philipp V Count of Hanau LichtenbergHouse of HanauBorn 21 February 1541 Died 2 June 1599 Preceded byPhilipp IV Count of Hanau Lichtenberg1590 1599 Succeeded byJohann Reinhard I Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Philipp V Count of Hanau Lichtenberg amp oldid 1217557505, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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