Reinhard III, Count of Hanau
Count Reinhard III. Hanau (* April 22, 1412, † April 20, 1452 in Heidelberg) was since 1451 Count of Hanau.
Family
Reinhard III. was the son of Count Reinhard II von Hanau and Katharina von Nassau- Beilstein.
Ulrich III. Hanau (* 1310, † 1369/70 ) ∞ Countess Adelheid von Nassau ( † 1344)
Graf Eberhard von Wertheim (*, † 1373 ) ∞ Viscountess Catherine of Hohenzollern ( † after 1369 )
Henry I of Nassau- Beilstein († 1378/80 ) ∞ Meyna of Westerburg († 1388 )
Arnold of Randerode ∞?
Ulrich IV of Hanau (* 1330/40, † 1380 ) ∞ Countess Elisabeth of Wertheim (* 1347, † 1378 )
Count Henry II of Nassau- Beilstein († 1412 ) ∞ Catherine of Randerode ( † ca 1415)
Count Reinhard II von Hanau ( * ca 1369, † 1451 ) ∞ Countess Katharina von Nassau- Beilstein († 1459 )
Reinhard III.
For family see main article: Hanau ( noble )
He was married since July 11, 1446 Margarethe von Pfalz- Mosbach ( * March 2, 1432; † September 14, 1457 ). They had two children:
Regency
During his lifetime of his father he took over in 1434 the guardianship of the children of his widowed sister from her first marriage with Count Thomas II of Rieneck, as Catherine was combined in a second marriage with Count William II of Henneberg - Schleusingen. After the death of his father in 1451 he took over the government in the county of Hanau. He died after a reign of only ten months. "In his short reign, nothing is highlighted remarkable. "
Death
Reinhard III. died on April 20, 1452 in Heidelberg. He should have gone to there because of better medical care by the University. He was buried in St. Mary's Church in Hanau.
From now on it is - apart IV of the accession of Count Reinhard - for 200 years not the beginning of a government in the county of Hanau - coins mountain give more without a Minderjährigkeitsvormundschaft for the successor. The Count of Hanau- line Miinzenberg usually die in their third decade of life, where they leave an underage successor. There is probably a hereditary disease - which is unknown. The phenomenon extends over nine generations. A coincidence is ruled out since. This series of early death interspersed with Reinhard III. one.
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Reinhard III. is depicted as praying with his wife in the altarpiece of the late Gothic altar Wörthersee. The altarpiece dates from the years 1485/90 and was donated by his son, Count Philip I, for the salvation of his parents. Since the altar until about 40 years after the death of Reinhard III. has been created, it can be assumed that the mapping is not a life-like portrait of the Count.