Wilhelm I of Limburg-Broich

Wilhelm I of Limburg-Broich (* 1385 ; † February 28, 1459 ) was a German nobleman, Count of Limburg and Lord of Broich and Liedberg who ruled by descent and inheritance .

ancestry

Count Wilhelm was born in 1385 as the first-born son of Count Dietrich IV of Limburg (* around 1330; † July 8, 1400) and his wife Lukardis von Broich († 1412).

Life

At the end of 1396, Duke Wilhelm II von Berg signed a contract with Count Wilhelm I of Limburg, his brother Dietrich V and his father Dietrich IV, which obliged them to help the Duke in the upcoming war with Count Dietrich II of to stand by the mark . The Duke also made use of his right to open the Broich and Limburg castles . In the battle of Kleverhamm that followed on June 7th, 1397, the father was defeated and taken prisoner, whereupon he had to pay a high ransom and swear a primal feud . Thereupon Dietrich IV left the rule of Broich to the firstborn son Wilhelm I on June 30, 1397 . After his father's death in 1400, he and his brother Dietrich V inherited the County of Limburg and the Vitinghof house , but had to share Broich with him. On November 16, 1401 they were both enfeoffed by Duke Wilhelm II von Berg with Limburg and Broich.

On December 4, 1412 there was an inheritance split between the brothers, whereby Wilhelm was to rule the County of Limburg alone from now on, his wife Mechthild received his part of the Broich rule as Wittum . When she died in 1437, however, Wilhelm renounced Broich entirely in favor of his brother Dietrich.

In 1428 he sealed the marriage speech between Wilhelm von Wevelinghoven and Alfter, Hereditary Marshal of the Cologne Monastery, and Johanna von Hüchelhoven, widow of the knight Wilhelm von Vlatten. With Duke Philip III. of Burgundy , who had taken over the rule of the duchies of Brabant and Limburg , to which the neighboring (pledged) exclave Kerpen belonged, and his Brabant subjects in part of the Bedburg rule , he waged disputes "with great profit" ( mangna lucracio ) . In 1432 the Count of Virneburg contested the rule of Bedburg.

Around 1440 "Domicellus Wilhelmus, dominus in Lymburch" freed the goods of the Vicarie of St. Aposteln in Rommerskirchen from all burdens. In 1441 he is mentioned as "Lord of Bedburg" and feudal lord of the "House of the Lion" in Cologne's Ehrenstrasse . On March 23, 1442, Count Wilhelm transferred the county of Limburg with all accessories and all rights to his daughter Margarethe and her husband Gumprecht .

Owner of "Dyck's handwriting"

According to a note attached around 1430, Wilhelm I of Limburg, Herr zu Bedburg, was the previous owner of the so-called " Dyckschen manuscript " (created around 1375 near Utrecht), the Der naturen bloeme by Jacob van Maerlant and one of the only two surviving medieval manuscripts from Van contains the vos Reynaerde ( Reineke Fuchs ) from " Willem ". It came to the Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck family through Wilhelm's daughter Margarethe and his granddaughter Philippina von Neuenahr and has been in the possession of the University and State Library of Münster (Ms NR 381) since 1991 .

Marriage and offspring

Before 1397 Count Wilhelm was married to Mechthild (Metze) von Reifferscheidt († 1437), heiress of Bedburg and Hackenbroich , and had the following descendants:

• Margarethe († 1479)

⚭ 1425 Count Gumprecht II of Neuenahr († March 9, 1484)

• Lockpick

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Landesarchiv NRW Rhineland Duisburg department (Wickrath, documents AA 0625, 67 - Reichskammergericht, Az. A 311/695).
2. ↑ Document of January 7, 1427; State main archive Koblenz (inventory 54.032 Waldbott v. Bassenheim, certificate 34).
3. ^ ^{A b} Cf. Eef Overgaauw: The medieval manuscripts of the University and State Library of Münster. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1996, pp. 152-154, especially p. 153 ( digitized version of the Manuscripta Mediaevalia).
4. ↑ Files Wilhelm Graf zu Limburg, Herr zu Bedbur and Broich , 1412–1455; State archive NRW, Rhineland Duisburg department (Jülich-Berg I, No. 546).
5. ↑ See the parish archives of S. Aposteln . In: Annalen des Historisches Verein für den Niederrhein 71 (1901), pp. 130–183, esp. No. 65, p. 145 ( Google Books ; limited preview).
6. ↑ See Ibid., No. 69, p. 145.
7. ↑ Dyck's handwriting ; Website of the University and State Library of Münster; Digitized of the entry on Wilhelm I of Limburg on sheet 123 verso; see. P. 1 recto (ownership entry Jongfru… van Nuwenar ).
8. ↑ See document of August 13, 1397; Landesarchiv NRW Department Rhineland Duisburg (Bedburg / Erft, Augustinian monastery, certificate no. 23); according to others since April 24, 1403.

predecessor	Office	successor
Dietrich IV of Limburg	Herr zu Broich 1397–1437	Dietrich V. von Limburg-Broich
Dietrich IV of Limburg	Count of Limburg 1400–1442	Margarethe von Limburg-Broich Gumprecht II. Von Neuenahr