Ambrose von Viermund

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Ambrosius I von Viermund zu Neersen (born June 23, 1470 in Nordenbeck ; † 1539 ) was a Hessian knight from Nordenbeck and the founder of the Lower Rhine noble family Virmond-Neersen (1502–1744). He was an advisor and diplomat to the Electors of Cologne .

Hessian origin

Ambrosius came from the Hessian noble family Viermund zu Nordenbeck , who named themselves after the place Viermünden and had their residence in the moated castle Nordenbeck . His parents were Konrad (IV.) Von Viermund and Margareta von Hatzfeld. His older brother Philipp I von Viermünden zu Nordenbeck owned a number of Electoral Cologne , Arnsberg , Corven and Iterian fiefs in the vicinity of Nordenbeck , as well as other estates in the county of Wittgenstein and had just acquired the manor Bladenhorst in the county of Mark through marriage in 1496 .

Mr. von Neersen

Under the government of the Elector Hermann IV of Cologne (1480–1508), who was a Hessian prince, the electoral Cologne and Hessian regions had entered into closer relations. Hermann repeatedly drew clergy and nobles from his homeland into the service of Cologne, including Ambrosius von Viermund zu Nordenbeck, who came to the Lower Rhine as a liege of the elector.

There, on December 31, 1499, Ambrosius married Agnes von Palant , daughter of Thonis von Palant and Agnes von der Neersen , heiress of the castle and the Neersen hereditary bailiwick , which are located on the Niers on the border of the Archbishopric of Cologne and the Duchy of Jülich . After the death of his father-in-law, he was taken over by Archbishop Hermann IV. With these estates and the associated bailiffs of Anrath and Uerdingen on August 1, 1502, and by Duke Wilhelm IV. Of Jülich-Berg with the bailies of Neersen and Uerdingen on September 1, 1502 enfeoffed. The double loan shows how controversial these possessions were between Kurköln and Jülich.

He entered the service of the Electorate of Cologne and founded the Rhenish line Virmond-Neersen , which only died out in 1744 . He sold his father's property in Waldeck and Hesse:

  • 1518 the town of Fürstenberg to the Waldeck countrymen Friedrich von Twiste , who later became court master of the Münster bishop Franz von Waldeck .
  • Half of the town of Viermünden inherited from his brother Johann in 1510 to his brother Philipp, who according to him, as the eldest of the tribe, should be left with the fiefdom of the town. After the death of his brother Philipp, he enfeoffed the four-mouthed feudal people in Waldeck, Hesse and Westphalia as an elder.
  • With a fruit pension that he received at the time, he founded a Tuesday mass for himself and his family in the Grafschaft monastery .

Diplomat for Kurköln

Ambrosius was the electoral councilor and the Cologne diplomat under the electors Hermann IV, Philip II and Hermann V. and accompanied them to the Reichstag .

He himself remained loyal to the Catholic Church and looked after three of his daughters in Engelthal Monastery in Bonn . Nevertheless, he was considered particularly suitable under Hermann V. to negotiate border and other disputes and questions of the Hessian and the intended Cologne church reformation with Hesse, since Marshal Hermann von der Malsburg , who led the wars of Landgrave Philip I of Hesse led since 1524 was married to Ambrosius' niece Katharina.

In 1514 he negotiated in Wolfhagen and in 1516 in Siegen with the Hessian councilors about the Cologne war debts towards Hesse for the war aid given to the archbishopric in the Neuss war in 1474/75.

In the election of the (Roman-German) Emperor Charles V , Ambrosius won and strengthened the wavering Cologne Elector Hermann V against the advertisements of the party of King Francis I of France, for which Charles V rewarded him in 1518 with an annuity of 200 thalers . The later Emperors Ferdinand II and Joseph I , who brought his descendants Johann von Viermund into the | Freiherrn - and Damian Hugo von Virmont raised to the rank of imperial count , commemorated his services to the imperial house with special recognition in the patents that resulted from this.

In 1520 he settled the arch-penal disputes with the city of Soest in Ostönnen .

In 1528, Ambrosius negotiated with Hermann von der Malsburg in Kassel about the complaint of the Revilienstift in Cologne and the citizens of the Cologne city of Rhens, which is in the Hessian pledge, because of the church reformation carried out by Landgrave Philipp, through which Kurköln is the patron of the church and the citizens use the saw church property there impaired.

From 1528 to 1532 he was also electoral Cologne bailiff of the Linn office .

On September 3, 1536 in Kassel he negotiated jointly with his nephew, the bailiff of Medebach , Hermann von Viermünden zu Nordenbeck, and the Cologne canon Johannes Gropper with the Hessian councilors Hermann von der Malsburg, Johann Feige and Dr. Walter on the settlement of old border disputes in the brands of villages that have become desolate between Battenberg and Hallenberg . The recess was carried out by the Hessian and Cologne councilors and officials from 7th to 11th May 1537 through a major border crossing.

Death and offspring

Ambrosius died in 1539. He was succeeded by his son Johann I von Viermund .

He also had four daughters, two of whom married into the Bylandt noble family from the Lower Rhine :

  • Barbara von Viermund († 1565) ⚭ on June 3, 1524 Roeleman von Bylandt-Halt-Spaldorf (* around 1508; † around 1558), Lord of Halt and Spaldorf
  • Klara von Viermund, a nun in Engelthal Abbey
  • Margaretha von Viermund, nun in Engelthal Abbey
  • Anna von Viermund (* 1524) ⚭ Adrian von Bylandt-Rheydt (* 1503; † 1549), Herr von Rheydt , Drost zu Heinsberg (a cousin of Roelemans)

His wife Agnes von Palant died in 1524 giving birth to their youngest daughter Anna.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b See Detlev Schwennicke (Ed.): European family tables. Volume 11, plate 2.
  2. ↑ Cf. Gisela Meyer: The Palant family in the Middle Ages . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004. p. 201
  3. ↑ a b cf. Johann Peter Lentzen, Franz Verres: Geschichte der Herrlichkeit Neersen and Anrath. Lentzen, Fischeln 1883, p. 276
  4. ↑ See Detlev Schwennicke (Hrsg.): European family tables. Volume 18, plate 48.

literature

predecessor Office successor
Thonis of Palant
(de iure uxoris) 		Lord von Neersen
(de iure uxoris )
1502–1539 		Johann I. von Viermund
personal data
SURNAME Ambrose von Viermund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ambrosius I of Virmond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mr. von Neersen, diplomat from the Electorate of Cologne
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1470
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordenbeck
DATE OF DEATH 1539