Philipp II, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg
Philipp II, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg | |
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Born | Hanau, County of Hanau | 31 May 1462
Died | 22 August 1504 Babenhausen, County of Hanau-Lichtenberg | (aged 42)
Noble family | House of Hanau |
Spouse(s) | Anna of Isenburg-Büdingen |
Father | Philipp I, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg |
Mother |
Philipp II of Hanau-Lichtenberg (born 31 May 1462 in Hanau; died: 22 August 1504 in Babenhausen) ruled the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg from 1480 until his death.
Early life[]
Philipp II was born on 31 May 1462 between 21:00 and 22:00, as the second son of the Count Philipp I, the Elder of Hanau-Babenhausen[1] and his wife, . He was baptized three days after the birth, in the St. Mary's Church in Hanau. His godparents were Konrad Brelle, abbot of , Wenceslaus of Cleves and Meze of Gemmingen, the widow of Eber-hard Waißen.
His older brother, Johann, died young, so that Philipp succeeded his father as Count of Hanau-Babenhausen.
Family[]
Marriage and issue[]
He married on 9 September 1480 with Anna of Isenburg-Büdingen (d. 1522). A papal dispensation had been necessary for this marriage because they were related to each other in the fourth degree. They had the following children:
- Philipp III (18 October 1482 – 15 May 1538).
- Anna (1485 – 11 October 1559), a nun in the
- Margaret (1486 – 6 August 1560 in Babenhausen), also nun in the Marienborn Abbey, interned for life at Babenhausen Castle,[2] because of a "slip".[3] She was buried in the St. Nikolaus church in Babenhausen.
- Ludwig (born: 5 October 1487 in Buchsweiler; died: 3 December 1553 in Willstätt; buried in the St. Adelphi church in Neuweiler), unmarried clergyman
- (born: c. 1487;[4] died: probably 1526), abbess of Klarenthal Abbey from 1512 to 1525
- Amalia (born: 7 June 1490 in Buchsweiler; died 11 March 1552 in Pfaffenhoffen; buried in the St. Adelphi church in Neuweiler), a nun
- (born: 19 February 1494 in Klingenberg am Main; died in Buchsweiler; buried in the St. Adelphi in Neuweiler), joined the clergy
Ancestors[]
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References[]
- M. Goltzené: Aus der Geschichte des Amtes Buchsweiler, in: Pay d’Alsace, vol. 111/112, p. 64 ff
- Hatstein, hand-written chronicle in the archives of the
- E. Haug: Groß-Arnsburg bei Baerental, in: Wasgaublick, vol. 19, issue 10, 1991, p. 364-419.
- Bernhard Herzog: Chronicon Alsatiae. Elsasser Chronick unnd außführliche beschreibung des unteren Elsasses am Rheinstrom, Strasbourg, 1592
- J. G. Lehmann: Urkundliche Geschichte der Grafschaft Hanau-Lichtenberg im unteren Elsasse, two vols., 1862, reprinted: Pirmasens, 1970
- Eckhard Meise: Bernhard Hundeshagen - kein Denkmalschutz im Hanau des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts, in: Neues Magazin für Hanauische Geschichte, 2006, p. 3-62.
- 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
- Reinhold Röhricht and Heinrich Meisner: Deutsche Pilgerreisen nach dem Heiligen Lande, Berlin, 1880
- Sebastian Scholz: Die Inschriften der Stadt Darmstadt und des Landkreises Darmstadt-Dieburg und Groß-Gerau = Die deutschen Inschriften vol. 49, series Mainze, vol. 6. ed. by Akademie der Wissenschaften Mainz, Wiesbaden, 1999
- Reinhard Suchier: Genealogie des Hanauer Grafenhauses, in: Festschrift des Hanauer Geschichtsvereins zu seiner fünfzigjährigen Jubelfeier am 27. August 1894, Hanau, 1894
- Georg Wittenberger: Stadtlexikon Babenhausen, Babenhausen, 1995
- Ernst J. Zimmermann: Hanau Stadt und Land, 3rd ed., Hanau 1919, reprinted: 1978
Footnotes[]
- ^ He is often called Philipp I of Hanau-Lichtenberg, but this is an anachronism, as his part of the county was not called Hanau-Lichtenberg until after his death
- ^ Morhardt, p. 34
- ^ Only Wittenberg, p. 92, explicitly calls it a pregnancy
- ^ Estimate based on the age on which she entered into the monastery and on her siblings
- 1462 births
- 1504 deaths
- 15th-century German people
- Counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg