Henry V, Burgrave of Plauen
Henry V of Plauen ( born October 9, 1533 Angel House ( Andělská Hora ), † December 24, 1568 in Hof, buried in the mountain church to Schleiz ) was viscount of Meissen and Mr. Plauen and Voigtsberg.
Life
Henry V was the elder of the two sons of the Viscount Henry IV of Plauen from his marriage to Countess Margareta von Salm and Neuburg ( 1517-1573 ).
When the father's death, Henry V was not yet of age. Therefore, King Ferdinand of Bohemia promised about a month after his death, to protect him and his younger brother against the Russias. Henry IV had left his sons not only far -reaching possessions, but also the disputes with the Russias and high debt. These were new by other processes against the Russias.
After Henry V had come of age, he reigned alone first for himself and his brother nor underage Henry VI. Plauen; later they ruled together.
Henry had married Catherine Dorothea (1538-1604) from the House of Frankish Hohenzollerns on August 25 in 1555. She was a daughter of the Ansbacher Margrave George the Pious (1484-1543) and his third wife Aemilia of Saxony ( 1516-1591 ). The four children of this marriage, which were all called Henry, were both died shortly after birth.
Already in 1556 the brothers lost by imperial award the Frankish court offices and looking stone that had captured her father in the war against the outlawed Margrave Margrave Albrecht Alcibiades of Brandenburg- Kulmbach, to an imperial sequestrum. After the death of Albert Alcibiades, the extinction of this line and the Association of margravates Ansbach and Kulmbach to the Margraviate of Brandenburg -Bayreuth, received the young Margrave George Frederick of Brandenburg -Bayreuth, the brother of Henry's wife, these offices.
In May 1559 pledging the reigns Plauen and Voigtsberg and the Office Schoeneck followed on August Elector of Saxony. With the judgment of Vienna on 28 September 1560, the brothers lost by January 1, 1561 the rule Greiz the Russias and the dominions Gera and Schleiz split equally between the Russias. Only the possessions in Bohemia and Bohemian fief Lobenstein and lock Posterstein remained the brothers. But only with the imperial confirmation of a new contract and the sealing of this contract on May 9, 1562 in Prague was the dispute with the Russias an end. On March 14, 1562 was the imperial investiture of the two brothers with the dominions Plauen, Voigtsberg, Schleiz and praising Stone as well as the offices Pausa and Schoeneck.
In the 1563 made land partition between the two brothers, Henry V was next to the Bohemian dominions the reigns Plauen and Voigtsberg and the Office Schoeneck. When Henry V. wanted to redeem them, he found that the money was no longer available. So the heartland of Plauen was lost to the Electorate of Saxony forever.
1564 Henry V got the Bohemian rule Elbogen ( Loket ) to the crown of Bohemia. 1567 he had still Engelhaus ( Andělská Hora ), Buchau ( Bochov ) Graslitz ( Kraslice ) and Toužim ( Toužim ) to the Geraischen country heirs, the transfer of Lobkowitz and hatred stone.
Completely impoverished, his wife Dorothea Katharina 's brother over them suitable as a place to live in a house yard, he died there on December 24, 1568 and was buried in the mountain church to Schleiz.
Dorothea Katharina received by the country heirs as jointure Toužim and died there on January 8, 1604., Four years after her death, organized her second cousin, the Saxon Elector Christian II, their burial in St. John's Church of Plauen.