Count of Veldenz
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The County of Veldenz was a principality in the contemporary Land
Rhineland-Palatinate
. The county was located partially between Kaiserslautern
, Sponheim
and Zweibrücken
, partially on the Mosel
in the so-called Erzstift Trier
. A town of the same name Veldenz
and a castle Schloss Veldenz
are located in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich
.
The Counts of Veldenz separated from the Wildgraves of Kyrburg
and Schmidburg
family in 1112 . The direct male line of the first comital house ceased in 1260 with the death of Gerlach V of Veldenz and his daughter Agnes of Veldenz inherited the county in 1260. Her husband Heinrich of Geroldseck became the founder of the second line of Counts of Veldenz or the House of Veldenz-Geroldseck (Hohengeroldseck
).
In 1444 the county came under the rule of Count palatine
Stefan of Pfalz-Simmern-Zweibrücken by his marriage to Anna of Veldenz
, the only heiress of Count Friedrich III of Veldenz.
In 1543 by the Marburg treaty it was agreed that the uncle of Duke Wolfgang of Zweibrücken, Ruprecht, should receive the county of Veldenz. Ruprecht died in 1544 but his son Hans Georg married Anna Maria of Sweden
, a daughter of Gustav I of Sweden
in 1563. This was the joining of the House of Wittelsbach with the Swedish Vasa
royal family which was strengthened by a further marriage when Johann Casimir of Pfalz-Zweibrücken married Catharina of Sweden, a sister of Gustav Adolfus in the 17th century. Wolfgang had in 1553 with the Heidelberg Succession agreement regulated the mutual inheritance of all Wittelsbach lines reaching from Veldenz-Palatinate to the county Lützelstein in Alsace. The grandson of Georg Hans, Leopold Ludwig von Lützelstein, died in 1694 without legitimate offspring and the county-Palatinate of Veldenz reverted to the Zweibrücken line.
In 1801 it was incorporated into the Saardepartement
of the First French Empire
. The Congress of Vienna
, 1815, gave the smaller part of the county lying on the Mosel to Prussia
and the remainder to Bavaria
.
Continued in the Pfalz-Zweibrücken line.
: Vorlesung: Von dem ersten geschlecht der alten graven von Veldenz und dessen gemeinschaftlichen abstammung mit den ältern Wildgraven von den graven im Nohgau. Historia et Commentationes. Academiae Electoralis Scientiarvm et Elegantiorvm Litterarvm Theodoro-Palatinae. Mannhemii Typis Academicis 1770 (complete at Google Books) Crollius, Georg Christian: Vorlesung: von dem zweiten geschlechte der grafen von Veldenz, aus dem hause der herren von Geroldseck in der Ortenau. Historia et Commentationes. Academiae Electoralis Scientiarvm et Elegantiorvm Litterarvm Theodoro-Palatinae. Mannhemii Typis Academicis 1778 (complete at Google Books) Gerbert, Martin
: Pragmatische Geschichte des Hauses Geroldsek, wie auch derer Reichsherrschaften Hohengeroldsek, Lahr und Mahlberg in Schwaben. Frankfurt und Leipzig 1766 (complete at Google Books)
States of Germany
Germany is made up of sixteen which are partly sovereign constituent states of the Federal Republic of Germany. Land literally translates as "country", and constitutionally speaking, they are constituent countries...
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has an area of and about four million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz. English speakers also commonly refer to the state by its German name, Rheinland-Pfalz ....
. The county was located partially between Kaiserslautern
Kaiserslautern
Kaiserslautern is a city in southwest Germany, located in the Bundesland of Rhineland-Palatinate at the edge of the Palatinate forest . The historic centre dates to the 9th century. It is from Paris, from Frankfurt am Main, and from Luxembourg.Kaiserslautern is home to 99,469 people...
, Sponheim
Sponheim
Sponheim is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.-History:Sponheim was the capital of the County of Sponheim. There was a Benedictine abbey here which was founded in 1101 by Stephan II, Count of Sponheim not far from the countly residence at...
and Zweibrücken
Zweibrücken
Zweibrücken is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Schwarzbach river.- Name :Zweibrücken appears in Latin texts as Geminus Pons and Bipontum, in French texts as Deux-Ponts. The name derives from Middle High German Zweinbrücken...
, partially on the Mosel
Mosel
Mosel may mean the following:* Moselle , a European river, named Mosel in German* Mosel , a German appellation, formerly known as Mosel-Saar-Ruwer** Mosel wine, wine produced in the region...
in the so-called Erzstift Trier
Archbishopric of Trier
The Archbishopric of Trier was a Roman Catholic diocese in Germany, that existed from Carolingian times until the end of the Holy Roman Empire. Its suffragans were the dioceses of Metz, Toul and Verdun. Since the 9th century the Archbishops of Trier were simultaneously princes and since the 11th...
. A town of the same name Veldenz
Veldenz
Veldenz is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany...
and a castle Schloss Veldenz
Schloss Veldenz
Schloss Veldenz in the Mosel Valley region is a Castle ruin about 1.5 kilometers southeast of Veldenz.-Location:The site is located in the Rhineland-Palatinate in the county of Bernkastel-Wittlich...
are located in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich
Bernkastel-Wittlich
Bernkastel-Wittlich is a district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Vulkaneifel, Cochem-Zell, Rhein-Hunsrück, Birkenfeld, Trier-Saarburg and Bitburg-Prüm.- History :...
.
History
Kirn
Kirn is a town in the district of Bad Kreuznach, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the river Nahe, roughly 10 km north-east of Idar-Oberstein and 30 km west of Bad Kreuznach....
and Schmidburg
Schmidtburg
Schmidtburg is a ruin of a former castle next to Schneppenbach in Germany. The castle was built up in 926, and was destroyed during the War of the Grand Alliance by French troops in 1688.-External links:**...
family in 1112 . The direct male line of the first comital house ceased in 1260 with the death of Gerlach V of Veldenz and his daughter Agnes of Veldenz inherited the county in 1260. Her husband Heinrich of Geroldseck became the founder of the second line of Counts of Veldenz or the House of Veldenz-Geroldseck (Hohengeroldseck
Hohengeroldseck
The Hohengeroldseck family or House of Geroldseck was a German noble family which arrived in Baden-Baden about 948 AD and ended on the male line in 1636 with the death of Kurfürsten Jacob von und zu Geroldseck. They were heavily involved in mining of ores, especially silver. The Hohengeroldseck...
).
In 1444 the county came under the rule of Count palatine
Count palatine
Count palatine is a high noble title, used to render several comital styles, in some cases also shortened to Palatine, which can have other meanings as well.-Comes palatinus:...
Stefan of Pfalz-Simmern-Zweibrücken by his marriage to Anna of Veldenz
Anna of Veldenz
Countess Palatine Anna of Veldenz was born a countess of Palatinate-Veldenz and, by marriage, Margravine of Baden-Durlach...
, the only heiress of Count Friedrich III of Veldenz.
In 1543 by the Marburg treaty it was agreed that the uncle of Duke Wolfgang of Zweibrücken, Ruprecht, should receive the county of Veldenz. Ruprecht died in 1544 but his son Hans Georg married Anna Maria of Sweden
Anna Maria of Sweden
Princess Anna Maria of Sweden also Anne Princess Anna Maria of Sweden also Anne Princess Anna Maria of Sweden also Anne (in Swedish Anna Gustavsdotter (19 June 1545 - 20 March 1610) was a Countess Palatine of Veldenz as the spouse of George John I, Count Palatine of Veldenz. She served as Regent...
, a daughter of Gustav I of Sweden
Gustav I of Sweden
Gustav I of Sweden, born Gustav Eriksson of the Vasa noble family and later known simply as Gustav Vasa , was King of Sweden from 1523 until his death....
in 1563. This was the joining of the House of Wittelsbach with the Swedish Vasa
Vasa
Vasa may refer to:* House of Vasa, a medieval Swedish noble family, the royal house of Sweden 1523–1654 and of Poland 1587–1668** Vasa , a Swedish warship that sank in 1628, since restored...
royal family which was strengthened by a further marriage when Johann Casimir of Pfalz-Zweibrücken married Catharina of Sweden, a sister of Gustav Adolfus in the 17th century. Wolfgang had in 1553 with the Heidelberg Succession agreement regulated the mutual inheritance of all Wittelsbach lines reaching from Veldenz-Palatinate to the county Lützelstein in Alsace. The grandson of Georg Hans, Leopold Ludwig von Lützelstein, died in 1694 without legitimate offspring and the county-Palatinate of Veldenz reverted to the Zweibrücken line.
In 1801 it was incorporated into the Saardepartement
Sarre (département)
Sarre is the name of a department of the First French Empire which is now part of Germany and Belgium. It is named after the river Saar. It was formed in 1798, when the left bank of the Rhine was annexed by France. Prior to the occupation, its territory was divided between the Archbishopric of...
of the First French Empire
First French Empire
The First French Empire , also known as the Greater French Empire or Napoleonic Empire, was the empire of Napoleon I of France...
. The Congress of Vienna
Congress of Vienna
The Congress of Vienna was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna from September, 1814 to June, 1815. The objective of the Congress was to settle the many issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars,...
, 1815, gave the smaller part of the county lying on the Mosel to Prussia
Kingdom of Prussia
The Kingdom of Prussia was a German kingdom from 1701 to 1918. Until the defeat of Germany in World War I, it comprised almost two-thirds of the area of the German Empire...
and the remainder to Bavaria
Kingdom of Bavaria
The Kingdom of Bavaria was a German state that existed from 1806 to 1918. The Bavarian Elector Maximilian IV Joseph of the House of Wittelsbach became the first King of Bavaria in 1806 as Maximilian I Joseph. The monarchy would remain held by the Wittelsbachs until the kingdom's dissolution in 1918...
.
First Veldenz Line
- Emicho, Count of Kyrburg and Schmidburg (1086–1113)
- Gerlach I, Count of Veldenz (1112–1146)
- Gerlach II, Count of Veldenz (1146–1186)
- Gerlach III, Count of Veldenz (1186–1214)
- Gerlach IV, Count of Veldenz (1214–1254)
- Gerlach V, Count of Veldenz (1254–1260)
- Agnes, Countess of Veldenz (1260–1277)
Veldenz-Geroldseck Line
- Heinrich, Count of Geroldseck (1277–1298) ∞ Agnes of Veldenz (1258–?)
- Walter, Count of Veldenz (1298–1327)
- Georg I, Count of Veldenz (1327–1347)
- Heinrich II, Count of Veldenz (1347–1378)
- Friedrich II, Count of Veldenz (1378–1396)
- Heinrich III, Count of Veldenz (1378–1389)
- Heinrich IV, Count of Veldenz (1389–1393)
- Friedrich III, Count of Veldenz (1393–1444)
Pfalz-Zweibrücken Line
- Stefan of Pfalz-Simmern-Zweibrücken (1410–1459) ∞ Anna of Veldenz (1390–1439)
- Ludwig I of Pfalz-ZweibrückenLouis I, Count Palatine of ZweibrückenLouis I of Zweibrücken was Count Palatine and Duke of Zweibrücken and of Veldenz in 1444–1489.He was the younger son of Stefan, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken and his wife Anna, heiress of the County of Veldenz, whom he had wed in 1409. Although Anne died in 1439, her widower did not...
(1459–1489) - Alexander of Pfalz-Zweibrücken (1489–1514)
- Ludwig II of Pfalz-ZweibrückenLouis II, Count Palatine of ZweibrückenLouis II of Zweibrücken was Count Palatine and Duke of Zweibrücken from 1514 to 1532.He was the son of Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken and his wife Margarete of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein. He was married in 1525 to Elisabeth of Hesse, daughter of William I, Landgrave of Lower Hesse, and they...
(1514–1532) - Wolfgang of Pfalz-Zweibrücken (1532–1569) In 1543 handed Veldenz to his uncle Ruprecht.
Pfalz-Veldenz Line
- Ruprecht, Count Palatine of Veldenz (1543–1544)
- Georg Johann I, Count Palatine of Veldenz (1543–1592; or Georg Hans), from 1544 to 1592 Pfalzgraf of Pfalz-Veldenz
- George Gustavus, Count Palatine of VeldenzGeorge Gustavus, Count Palatine of VeldenzGeorge Gustavus was the Duke of Veldenz from 1592 until 1634.-Life:George Gustavus was born in 1564 as the eldest son son of George John I, Count Palatine of Lützelstein. His father died in 1592, and John Augustus and his brothers succeeded him under the regency of their mother Anne Maria of Sweden...
(1592–1634) - Leopold Louis, Count Palatine of VeldenzLeopold Louis, Count Palatine of VeldenzLeopold Louis was the Duke of Veldenz from 1634 until 1694.-Life:Leopold Louis was born in Lautereck in 1625 as the youngest son of George Gustavus, Count Palatine of Veldenz. After his father's death in 1634 he succeeded him as his elder brothers had already died...
(1634–1694), died without heir, Veldenz returned to Zweibrücken
Continued in the Pfalz-Zweibrücken line.
Literature
Crollius, Georg ChristianGeorg Christian Crollius
Georg Christian Crollius was a German historian and librarian.The son of the gymnasial headmaster Johann Philipp Crollius and of Margaretha Gabriela Joannis, Crollius studied in Halle and Göttingen and occupied, as had his father, to whom he succeeded in the management of the Zweibrücker...
: Vorlesung: Von dem ersten geschlecht der alten graven von Veldenz und dessen gemeinschaftlichen abstammung mit den ältern Wildgraven von den graven im Nohgau. Historia et Commentationes. Academiae Electoralis Scientiarvm et Elegantiorvm Litterarvm Theodoro-Palatinae. Mannhemii Typis Academicis 1770 (complete at Google Books) Crollius, Georg Christian: Vorlesung: von dem zweiten geschlechte der grafen von Veldenz, aus dem hause der herren von Geroldseck in der Ortenau. Historia et Commentationes. Academiae Electoralis Scientiarvm et Elegantiorvm Litterarvm Theodoro-Palatinae. Mannhemii Typis Academicis 1778 (complete at Google Books) Gerbert, Martin
Martin Gerbert
Martin Gerbert , German theologian, historian and writer on music, belonged to the noble family of Gerbert von Hornau, and was born at Horb am Neckar, Württemberg, on the 12th of August 1720....
: Pragmatische Geschichte des Hauses Geroldsek, wie auch derer Reichsherrschaften Hohengeroldsek, Lahr und Mahlberg in Schwaben. Frankfurt und Leipzig 1766 (complete at Google Books)
