Adalbert von Saffenberg

Adalbert of SAFFENBERG even Adalbert of Saffenburg and Adolf Nörvenich (* before 1074, † 1110) was a count from the Gender SAFFENBERG / Saffenburg headquartered on the Saffenburg in Mayschoss in the Ahr valley .

family

Adalbert von Saffenberg was the son of Hermann IV von Saffenberg (1027-1091), also known as Hermann II von Saffenberg-Nörvenich , and his wife Gepa (Jepa) von Werl (* 1032).

Adalbert's wife was Mathilde (Mechthildis). This was her first marriage with either Giso II or Giso III. married.

Their son and ancestor of the von Saffenberg family was Adolf I von Saffenberg († 1147). Another son was Herman, provost of Xanten . He died around 1148.

The daughter Mathilde married Duke Heinrich II of Limburg-Arlon and received the rule of Rode and the Vogtei Klosterrath ( Kerkrade ) as a dowry . Mathilde died after 1144.

Domination

Count Adalbert von Saffenberg was an influential nobleman in the Rhineland. He was Count von Saffenberg and Nörvenich . He also held the title of bailiff of the imperial abbey of Cornelimünster and bailiff to St. Martin in Cologne . After its founding, he also took over the post of Vogt of the Klosterrath Abbey , near Kerkrade .

The Saffenburg

The headquarters of the Counts of Saffenberg is near Mayschoss in the Ahr valley. There the ruins of the Saffenburg from the 11th century still testify to the importance of the sex at that time. The von Saffenburg family is named after the castle .

Rode Castle and Klosterrath Abbey

Another castle , where the Counts of Saffenberg were lords around 1100, was north of Aachen on a hill on the edge of the Wurmtal . This castle was located in the west of Jülichgau in today's Herzogenrath , a clearing area that was apparently only re-populated at that time, which later gave the castle and the place its name. Not far from here, Count Adalbert von Saffenberg gave an Augustinian monk named Ailbertus von Antoing two Hufen land, near Rode Castle . The Count's wife gave another hoof to the monk. Ailbertus then built an initially wooden and later stone church from which the Klosterrath Abbey, today's Rolduc Monastery , emerged.

literature

• Günter Aders: The Lords and Counts of Saffenberg. In: The Counts of Limburg Stirum. Part 1, Volume 1, Assen, Münster 1976, pp. 6-21.
• Louis Augustus (Ed.): Annales Rodenses. Kroniek van Kloosterrade. Maastricht 1995. ( Publikaties Rijksarchief Limburg Volume 3). ISBN 90-74407-03-X

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Annales Rodenses.