Hermann II, Count of Celje

Herman II (* 1365, † October 13, 1435 in Bratislava ) was Count of Cilli, Ortenbourg and Seger ( Sagor, Zagorje ) and hereditary since 1406 Ban of Slavonia.

Count Hermann II was the son of Hermann I († 1385 ) and Catherine, a daughter of King Stjepan II of Bosnia. He was the real founder of the power house Cilli. In the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396, he commanded the Styrian quota against the Turks. Along with Johann III. Burggraf of Nuremberg, he covered the escape of King Sigismund of Hungary and saved him from captivity. After the rescued group had escaped to sea, succeeded after detours on December 21, 1396 to land in Ragusa and reach home. Following the imprisonment in 1401 of King Sigismund by the Hungarian estates, Hermann von Cilli reached his release from captivity of the Palatine Nicholas of Gara. Hermann's daughter Anna was married for later for tighter binding to the House Gara with the Palatine. Already in 1402 Hermann accompanied his king in the arrest of King Wenceslas on the Hradcany. In 1403 the Earl founded the Carthusian monastery Pleteriach (Slovenian Pleterje ) at Šentjernej in Carniola. Hermann's thirteen- year-old daughter Barbara in 1405 with Sigismund of Hungary married, had become a powerful adviser to the king. The initiative for this compound proceeded from Sigismund, who wanted to ensure the strong influence of the Count in Hungary. However, the strong binding of the Cillier to the house of Luxembourg led to an estrangement with the previously associated House of Habsburg, both of which strove for supremacy in the Pannonian region.

When his son Frederick II in 1422, his wife Elisabeth Francopan eliminated in order to marry his concubine Veronika of Deschenitz can, the Frangepan clan was severely snubbed. Hermann II repudiated his son and wanted to see it, the younger Hermann as his successor, but already in 1426 died of this in a hunting accident. Hermann II had Veronica 1425 imprison and drown at Castle Osterwitz. King Tvrtko II of Bosnia Tvrtkovic declared in 1427 in the case of his childless death, Hermann II and his male heirs to the heirs of his kingdom.

1432 married Hermann's grandson Ulrich II Katarina, daughter of the Serbian King George Brankovic. However, the strong position of the non-country -born Cillier in southern Hungary and their strong influence with the king made ​​the family unpopular with the Hungarian stalls. On September 27, 1435 Count Hermann was raised in Bratislava by Emperor Sigismund and his son Frederick II and his grandson Ulrich II in the Imperial Prince. Through clever marriage policy, large parts of present-day Slovenia and Croatia were already in the hands of the Cillier. When Duke Frederick IV looked at this collection of Cillier as unauthorized intervention in his country's rights of Austria as overlord of Carinthia and southern Styria, he was rebuked by the emperor Sigismund in sharp form. As Hermann's grandson Ulrich II in 1456 in an attack was killed by Hunyadi, the rise of the House was abruptly terminated.

Hermann II had in 1377 with Countess Anna ( † before 1396 ), daughter of Henry VII of Schaubergwerk married and inherited their land, the connection came from five children:

  • Anna, married 1402 Nicholas of Gara
  • Frederick II ( † 1454), married to Elisabeth Francopan
  • Hermann III. († 1426)
  • Barbara († 1451 ), married to King Sigismund of Hungary
  • Elisabeth ( † 1426), married to Count Henry of Gorizia

From illegitimate, but subsequently legitimized relationship of Count Hermann came:

  • Hermann ( † 1421 ), Prince-Bishop of Freising from 1412 to 1421, Prince-Bishop of Trent 1421
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