John IV, Duke of Brabant
John IV of Brabant ( born June 11, 1403 Arras, † April 17, 1427 in Brussels) was Duke of Brabant, Limburg and Lothier ( 1415-1427 ) and Count of Hainault, Holland and Zeeland ( 1418-1427 ). He was the eldest son of Duke Anton and Johanna of Luxembourg, Countess of Saint-Pol and Ligny.
Life
When he succeeded his father in 1415, John was still a minor. He was therefore based on the insistence of the estates of his duchy for two years a regency council. On July 31, 1417 he became engaged to his cousin Jacqueline of Bavaria ( 1401-1436 ), Countess of Hainault, Holland and Zeeland. The close relationship of the two made a papal dispensation required, Pope Martin V. Although granted on 22 December 1417 but already on January 5, 1418 again withdrew. The marriage took place in March 1418 anyway. King Sigismund now be said, however, in letters to John and the stands of the counties whose co-regency in Hainaut, Holland and Zeeland, which he had already been assigned to Jakobäas uncle John of Bavaria. Nevertheless, John of Brabant was homage in Mons on 29 May from the stands of the three counties.
The on February 13, 1419 brought about by Philip of Burgundy compensation of Workum between uncle and niece, who, in return for the recognition of marriage between John and Jacqueline the investiture of John of Bavaria Dordrecht, Rotterdam and Gorcum and a five-year joint government the counties provided for, was not to last. On May 27, Pope Martin V gave renewed dispensation, the marriage was thus considered lawful. John of Brabant closed on April 21, 1420, against the will Jakobäas the Treaty of St. Martinsdijk with Johann of Bavaria and wore this for 12 years, the domination of Holland, Zeeland and Friesland. He also assured him the succession in the case of a childless death of his wife. The Brabant estates refused this agreement and put John's brother Philip of Saint-Pol as a regent.
To the Treaty of St. Martinsdijk military defeats Jakobäas were added against her uncle. She explained, therefore, in February 1421 her marriage to John of Brabant invalid and fled to England on March 6. Johann submitted to one of Brabant stands responsible Council on 12 May 1422 Jacqueline married in the autumn of the same year Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, the brother of the recently deceased King Henry V. Two years later, Jacqueline and Humphrey returned with British troops in Hainaut back where the booths Humphrey worshiped on 5 December 1424. Before it could come to hostilities between Johann, whose rights to the counties with the death of John of Bavaria had fallen on January 6, 1425 at him, and Humphrey but it renounced its claims and returned to England.
On December 9, 1425 Brabant was given at the request of Duke John of Pope Martin V a university, the University of Louvain, which was officially opened on 7 September 1426. Jacqueline was taken by Philip of Burgundy in Mons in protective custody, but escaped to Holland, where she found support in the aristocratic party of Hoeks. Johann continued, however, as John of Bavaria in front of him on the urban party of cod, but could not beat Jakobäa crucial. He died in April 17, 1427 and have left no descendants. His younger brother Philip of Saint-Pol was his successor. The marriage between John and Jacqueline was finally legitimized only in January 1428. In the 1430s, eventually raided the territories of both spouses at common cousin Philip of Burgundy.