Johann I von Sponheim-Starkenburg

https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&p... Count Johann I. von Sponheim (* before 1206 ; † 1266 ) came from the Sponheim nobility and ruled the county of Sponheim from 1218 to 1266. He inherited the County of Sayn .

Table of Contents 1 life 2 offspring 3 References 4 Notes Life [ Edit | Edit Source Code ] Johann shared with his brothers Simon and Heinrich the legacy of their father Gottfried III. The exact time of the division is not secured, but must have been between 1223 and 1237. His younger brother Simon received two-thirds of the county of Sponheim and founded the Sponheim-Kreuznach line, which was later called the County. Johann himself received the last third of the county of Sponheim, and the inheritance of Sayn , which was made by her mother Adelheid von Sayn .

The inheritance occurred in 1247 after the death of their uncle Count Henry III. From Sayn . Heinrich received parts of the Sayner inheritance and married the heiress of the domination of Heinsberg . Johann resided at Starkenburg Castle and was married at least twice. The first marriage remained childless. His sons, in turn, shared paternal possessions. Gottfried founded a new line of the Counts of Sayn, Heinrich I. continued the Sponheim-Starkenburg line, which was later called the "back county". In October 1252, Abbot and Prior promised Corvey to Count Johann von Sponheim not to sell his court to Lüßig (district of Traben-Trarbach ) without his consent.

At the coronation of King Richards at Aachen on May 22, 1257, Count Johann and his brother Simon were present; And Count Johann, on the 15th of July, with the king in Boppard , when he confirmed the privileges of the town of Oberswesel. The monastery of Himmerod was cleared of the taxes and wolf in March 1252 by Count Johann. On April 1, 1264, Count Johann, with the permission of his sons, Gottfried Graf von Sayn and Heinrich Archbishop Engelbert of Cologne and his church, sold the inherited estates to Unkel and Breitbach , as well as Heinrich von Breitbach (the ancestor of the Breidbach-Bürresheim family ), Gottfried the Schenk of Engers and the heirs of the knight Heinrich von Nettersdorf. In addition to the sons mentioned, Count Gerhard von Neuenahr, with his consort Elisabeth, daughter of Johann von Sponheim, and Marquard von Solms with his wife Agnes, also Johann's daughter. On the other hand, Count Johann von Sponheim and his son Gottfried, on Sept. 15, 1264, attest to the two mills at Saynbach, given by Henry von Sayn to the Abbey of Laach in 1232 against a lease of 30 times Of 30 marks. With the permission of Count Johann von Sponheim, who was called Count of Sayn in the same year in 1264 as Bishop of the Albanian monastery, Ludwig Ritter of Dunso (Densen?) Gave the Abbey of Kumbd the freedom to leave their estates at Enkirch . Johann is mentioned last time in 1266 by the author. He was buried in Himmerod Monastery.

Descendants [ Edit | Edit Source Code ] The mother of the children, Johann's second wife, is probably NN von Altena-Isenberg , daughter of Count Friedrich von Isenberg and his wife Sophie von Limburg . [1]

Gottfried von Sayn Elisabeth ∞ Gerhard of Neuenahr Henry I of Sponheim Agnes ∞ Marquard III. Of Solms Adelheid ∞ Dietrich of Altena-Isenberg References [ Edit | Edit Source Code ] Johann Christian von Stramberg , Anton Joseph Weidenbach : The Nahethal. Historical and topographical. 5 volumes. ( Worthy and useful Rhenish antiquarian: Which represents the most important and most agreeable geographical, historical, and political peculiarities of the whole Rhine stream, from its outpouring into the sea to its origin. ), Koblenz, Rud. Friedr. Hergt 1869-1871 ( digitized ) Winfried Dotzauer: History of the Nahe-Hunsrück area from the beginnings to the French Revolution , Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2001 ( digitized ) Notes [ Edit | Edit Source Code ] ↑ Confirmed by Johannes Mötsch in notices from the Residency Commission of the Academy of Sciences of Göttingen, issue 16/1, 2006 . The other possibilities would be according to Winfried Dotzauer NN of Mark-Altena , daughter of Adolf I , or NN von Geldern , daughter of Otto I. , who, however, are also considered Johann's first wife (both women could be sisters).

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