page_title: Philipp III, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg
section_title: Inheriting Rieneck
hierarchical_section_title: Philipp III, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg / Reign / Inheriting Rieneck
caption_attribution_description: Scheibler'sches Wappenbuch , älterer Teil Grafen von Hanau
context_page_description: Count Phillip III of Hanau-Münzenberg ruled the County of Hanau-Münzenberg from 1529 until his death.
context_section_description: Count Philipp III of Rieneck co-operated closely with Count Philipp III of Hanau-Münzenberg on the issue of the Reformation and on other issue. As it was foreseeable that the Count of Rienieck would die without a male heir, he asked Emperor Karl V for permission to bequeath Rieneck to Hanau. Permission was granted in 1555. One argument used for this permission was the similarity between the coats of arms of Rieneck and Hanau, which suggested that they had from a common ancestor, which was actually not the case.
  Since Emperor Karl V abdicated in the same year, Count Philipp III of Hanau-Münzenberg attempted to ask his successor Emperor Ferdinand I to confirm the permission at the Diet of Augsburg of 1558. He had, however, forgotten to bring the charter sealed by Karl, to that Ferdinand could not confirm it. Philipp III of Rieneck died on 3 September 1559, before this error could be corrected. His territory fell back to the Archbishopric of Mainz and the Bishopric of Würzburg. Philipp III of Hanau could only inherit the coat of arms and the title of "Count of Rieneck".
caption: Coat of arms of the Lords and Counts of Hanau, after Scheibler's armorial
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