Bernard I, Margrave of Baden-Baden

Margrave Bernard I von Baden (* 1364, † April 5, 1431 in Baden- Baden), ruled the Margraviate of Baden from 1372 to 1431.

History

Bernard was the son of Margrave Rudolf VI. († March 21, 1372 ) and Matilde of Sponheim († November 1, 1410 ).

He and his brother Rudolf VII closed in 1380, when they were of age, a contract of inheritance, after the Margraviate could be shared only in the male line in a maximum of two parts. Rudolf VII was then the southern region of Ettlingen Rastatt in Baden-Baden, he. Themselves the areas around Durlach and Pforzheim

Bernhard had his headquarters at the castle Hohenbaden, high above the thermal baths of Baden. During his reign, he expanded the castle to the Gothic lower castle and led the side line of the Margrave of Baden- Hachberg back into the main line.

The over 50 years reigning Bernhard I was bathing a new streamlined administration, he created through a constitutional offices, a law firm with lawyers and educated writers, on whose head was a chancellor. In his time, he had many disputes with the cities of Strasbourg, Speyer and with King Ruprecht, against whom he joined also the Marbach covenant. With the breisgauischen and towns in Alsace, he was due to high tariffs in the dispute, and he resisted robbery and looting. In the years 1402 and 1403 he led a feud with the lords of the castle look.

Under the mediation of King Siegmund, who had temporarily invested him with the bailiwick Breisgau, there was a brief peace. For 80,000 guilders in 1415, he acquired the dominion Hachberg and some areas in the uplands. In 1425 he secured an entitlement to the County of Sponheim in the Nahe.

His successor, James I built the castle to castle with over 100 highly prestigious rooms.

Marriage and issue

Bernard I von Baden married his first wife in 1384 Margaret of Hohenberg († February 26, 1419 ). From divorced in 1393 marriage no children were born, Margaret then married the Count Hermann von Sulz with whom she had three children:

• Rudolf III. of Sulz ∞ Ursula von Habsburg- Laufenburg
• Anna von Sulz ∞ 1406 Frederick of Hohenzollern
• Half Count Heinrich von Sulz ∞ 1 ∞ 2 Ursula Quiteria of Münsingen

His second wife he married on September 15, 1397 Anna von Oettingen (* 1380, † November 9, 1436 ). From this marriage the following children were born:

• Anna (* March 15, 1399; † after December 6, 1421 ) ∞ May 11th, 1409 Louis IV of Lichtenberg ( † August 28, 1434 )
• Beatrix (* June 24, 1400, † 1452 ) ∞ July 11, 1411 Count Emich of Leiningen- VII Hartsburg († 1452 )
• Matilde (* 1401, † 1402)
• Margarete (* January 25, 1404, † November 7, 1442 ) ∞ March 1, 1418, Count Adolf II of Nassau- Wiesbaden- Idstein (* 1386, † 1426)
• Jacob (* March 15, 1407, † October 13, 1453 in Mühlburg )
• Agnes (* March 25, 1408; † January 1473 in Ebersteinburg )

• Ursula (* October 24, 1409, † March 24, 1429 )

• Bernhard ( * 1412, † 1424)
• Brigitte ( * 1416, † by July 24, 1441 ), Nun
• Rudolf ( * 1417, † 1424)

And following illegitimate children:

• Bernhard, canon in Basel
• Anna, († May 12, 1449 ) ∞ 1439 Paul Lutran of drowning

Bernhard's bones are buried in the Collegiate Church in Baden -Baden.