Reinhard von Hanau-Münzenberg

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Reinhard von Hanau-Münzenberg (* 8 April 1528; † 11 October 1554 in Béthune) was a son of Count Philip II of Hanau-Münzenberg and Countess Juliana zu Stolberg.

Journey to the Holy Land
Reinhard undertook a small pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1550. The trip is well documented. He left Hanau on 12 May 1550. The path led him via Bensheim by post to Ulm. From there he drove down the Danube to Regensburg. This was followed by a ride over Innsbruck and the Brenner to Bolzano. From there we went again by post to Trent and Venice. Venice was visited before boarding the ship on June 18 of the same year. This landed first on Zante, where he visited the tomb of Cicero, on July 6 in Candia in Crete, on July 12 in Limassol in Cyprus and on July 21 in Jaffa. But only on July 26, after the leader had arrived from Jerusalem, was he allowed to enter the country. He finally arrived in Jerusalem on July 29, 1550. Two weeks later he was on his way back. He boarded on the 13th. August re-entered Jaffa and remained in Cyprus from August 22 to September 22, 1550.

In 1551 he took part in a tournament in Heidelberg.

Death
Reinhard was on a journey to Brussels and Flanders at the beginning of 1554, accompanied by Philippe de Montmorency, Count of Horn. From there he returned to Hanau, and shortly thereafter joined with 16 mounted men of the army of Emperor Charles V in his campaign against France. On 24 August 1554 he reached the imperial camp. On September 12, he was seriously wounded at Renthy, not far from Saint-Omer. A bullet penetrated the thigh above the right knee. At the end of September, he was taken to Béthune, where he died on 11 October 1554 and was buried in the church. A tomb was commissioned, but probably not completed.

Ancestors

See also:

Hanau (Nobility)

Literature
Adrian Willem Eliza Dek: De Afstammelingen van Juliana van Stolberg tot aan het jaar van de vrede van Munster. Zaltbommel, 1968.
Johann Adam Bernhard [synonym: Jacob Im Hause]. Further statement on genealogy ... Hanau 1741.
Reinhard Dietrich: The National Constitution in the Hanauische = Hanauer Geschichteblatt 34. Hanau 1996. ISBN 3-9801933-6-5
Reinhold Röhricht. German pilgrimages to the Holy Land. Gotha 1889.
Reinhold Röhricht, Die Jerusalemfahrten der Grafen Philipp, Ludwig (1484) and Reinhard von Hanau (1550), in: Zeitschrift des Vereins für Hessische Geschichte und Landeskunde 26 (NF 16) (1891), pp. 85ff.
Reinhard Suchier: Genealogy of the Hanau Count House. In: Reinhard Suchier (ed.): Festschrift des Hanauer Geschichteverein on his 50th anniversary celebration on the 27th. August 1894. Hanauer Geschichteverein, Hanau 1894.
Ernst Julius Zimmermann, Hanau City and Country. 3rd edition, Hanau 1919, ND 1978. In particular, p. 710f.
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