Catherine of Henneberg

Katharina von Henneberg, also Katherina von Henneberg, since 1347 Margravine of Meissen, Landgrave of Thuringia, etc. (* around 1334 in Schleusingen, † July 15, 1397 in Meissen ) was the wife of the Margrave Frederick the rigors of Meissen. She brought from her father's heritage Frankish possessions to Coburg to the House of Wettin.

Life

Catherine was the second of four daughters of Count Henry VIII of Henneberg - Schleusingen and his wife Jutta von Brandenburg.

During the transition of the Coburg region of the hen salvors (county Henneberg ) to the House of Wettin, there were complications. Henry VIII built for the " new rule " referred to part of the country laid his wife and daughters as heiresses, while the other Henneberger territory went to his brother Johann. The result was a division of the hen bergischen ownership. The female succession also had the consequence that after Henry VIII's death in 1347 is not equal to the sons could enter into the inheritance. This was made possible only after the death of Jutta's Brandenburg on February 1, 1353rd Already on February 9, 1353 appeared Margrave Friedrich at Emperor Charles IV in Prague to can borrow with the area around Coburg.

The complicated succession rules contradicted the expectations of the surviving father of Catherine, Frederick the Serious. This is reflected in the wide chronikalisch traditional episode, was sent back to her parents' house for failure to surrender her dowry after Catherine. Another tradition says Catherine was wearing only black clothes after the early death of her firstborn and while waiting for the next son and waives all jewelry. In both cases it is likely to keep legends, however, revolve around the central points in Catherine's life, the unusual succession and a good 20 - year wait for the birth of heirs. It was not until 1370-1380 she was the mother of three surviving sons, Frederick, William and George.

When her husband died in 1381, the children were minors. Catherine took over according to the will of her late husband's guardianship until her death and reigned with them both their Coburg heritage and the sons at the Chemnitz division in 1382 awarded parts of the country on the middle Saale or between Saale and Mulde. Catherine has Landgrafin of Thuringia and Margrave of Meissen often geurkundet and performed for this purpose its own seal. Your widow took her seat in Coburg, where her mother Jutta had resided. She held even during their marriage frequently, while Frederick III. in pursuit of a typical travel time rule was traveling a lot in the country. From her husband she had next to get Weissenfels as jointure.

Come forward is Katharina von Henneberg as the Contracting Authority of Henry of Vippach written, named after her princely mirror " Katherina divina ".