Philip of Hachberg-Sausenberg

Philip of Hachberg-Sausenberg
Spouse(s)	Maria of Savoy
Noble family	House of Baden
Father	Rudolf IV, Margrave of Hachberg-Sausenberg
Mother	Margaret of Vienne
Born	1454
Died	9 September 1503 Montpellier

Margrave Philip of Hachberg-Sausenberg (1454 – 9 September 1503, Montpellier) was the son of the Margrave Rudolf IV of Hachberg-Sausenberg and Margaret of Vienne. Philip reigned 1487-1503 as Margrave of Hachberg-Sausenberg and Count of Neuchâtel. From 1466 he called himself Lord of Badenweiler.

Contents 1 Family 2 Territorial rule 3 Other activities 4 See also 5 References and sources 6 External links 7 Footnotes

Family

Philipp married Maria of Savoy, daughter of Amadeus IX of Savoy around 1476 or 1478. With Philip's death, the male line of the Hachberg-Sausenberg family died out.

Phillips's father, Rudolf IV, had begun negotiations with the House of Baden on the possibility of an inheritance treaty. Philip continued the negotiations with Margrave Christopher I of Baden and on 31 August 1490, they came to an agreement. The treaty is known as "Genitalia of Rötteln".^[1] The background of this treaty was that Christopher I intended his son and heir Philip I to marry Joan, the heiress of Hachberg-Sausenberg. This marriage did not materialize, due to political pressure from the French king^[2]

His daughter, Joan (born: ca 1485; died: 1543), became Countess of Neuchâtel after her father's death. In 1504, she married Louis I d'Orléans, duc de Longueville, who was also known as the Marquis de Rothelin. After Joan died in 1543, her son François assumes the title of Marquis de Rothelin, thereby starting the side line Orléans-Rothelin. Joan and the House of Orléans-Longueville contested the Rötteln treaty and they tried to rally support for their case from the Swiss cantons of Solothurn, Luzern Fribourg and Bern. The dispute was settled in 1581, with the House of Baden paying 225000guilders to the House of Orléans-Longueville.

Territorial rule

In 1493 Philip lost his territories in County of Burgundy because of his close connection to the French court. The French king then appointed him to Governor and Great Seneschal of Provence.

Other activities

In 1474 and 1475, he participated in the Burgundian sieges of Neuss and Nancy; in 1476 he fought with Charles the Bold in the battles of Grandson and Murten.

After the defeat of Charles the Bold in the 1477 Battle of Nancy, Margrave Philip turns away from Burgundy and sided with France, because he hopes to not lose his Burgundian possessions that way. In 1484, Philip participated in the coronation of the French King Charles VIII in Reims.

The king liked to send Philip to Switzerland as a negotiator. Philip was appointed Marshall of Burgundy (which had become a French possession after the Battle of Nancy) and Philip de Hochberg, as he was called in France, had a strong influence on politics there. In 1484, he is appointed Chamberlain and in 1489, he becomes a member of the Royal Council of France. In 1499, he fights on the French side, while his subjects from Rötteln fight in the Imperial army.

In 1494 Philip inaugurated a new mansion at his Rötteln Castle. The interior of the Palace at Neuchâtel is also attributed to him.

See also

• Baden
• List of rulers of Baden

References and sources

• Fritz Schülin: Rötteln-Haagen, Beiträge zur Orts-, Landschafts- und Siedlungsgeschichte, Lörrach, 1965, p. 80-82.
• Fritz Schülin: Binzen, Beiträge zur Orts-, Landschafts- und Siedlungsgeschichte, Schopfheim, 1967, p. 525/526 (Genealogy of the House of Hachberg-Sausenberg).
• Karl Seith: Die Burg Rötteln im Wandel ihrer Herrengeschlechter, Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte und Baugeschichte der Burg, special edition published by Röttelbund e.V. in Haagen, place and year unknown, p. 23-28; cited by Schülin as In: Markgräflerland, vol. 3, issue 1, 1931
• Hans Jakob Wörner: Das Markgräflerland – Bemerkungen zu seinem geschichtlichen Werdegang, in: Das Markgräflerland, issue 2/1994, Schopfheim, 1994, p. 64
• August Huber: Über Basels Anteil am Röteler Erbfolgestreit im Jahre 1503, in: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde, vol. 4, 1905, online
• Johann Christian Sachs: Einleitung in die Geschichte der Marggravschaft und des marggrävlichen altfürstlichen Hauses Baden, Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1764, part 1, p. 575-588
• The inheritance treaty is reprinted in: John Staub: The contract of inheritance between Margrave Christoph I of Baden, Margrave Philip of Hachberg of 31 Aug. 1490, in: The Markgräflerland, No. 1 / 1991, Schopfheim, 1991, p. 93-103
• This page is a translation of its German equivalent.

External links

• Philipp von Hochberg in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
• Johanna von Hochberg in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
• Schlacht bei Grandson in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
• Schlacht bei Murten in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.

Footnotes

1. ^ Johannes Staub: Der Erbvertrag zwischen Markgraf Christoph I. von Baden und Markgraf Philipp von Hachberg vom 31. Aug. 1490, in: Das Markgräflerland, issue 1/1991, Schopfheim, 1991
2. ^ Karl Seith: Die Burg Rötteln im Wandel ihrer Herrengeschlechter, Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte und Baugeschichte der Burg, special edition published by Röttelbund e.V. in Haagen, place and year unknown, p. 28

Philip of Hachberg-Sausenberg House of Baden-Hachberg-Sausenberg Born: 1454
Preceded by Rudolf IV	Margrave of Hachberg-Sausenberg 1487-1503	Succeeded by Chirstopher I

Persondata
Name	Philip
Alternative names	Hachberg-Sausenberg, Philip of (full name)
Short description	margrave of Hachberg-Sausenberg
Date of birth	1454
Place of birth
Date of death	9 September 1503
Place of death	Montpellier