Apremont (noble family)

Territory in the Holy Roman Empire
Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg-Apremont
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Alternative names	Comté de Dabo; Leiningen-Dagsburg
Form of rule	Lordship county
Ruler / government	Lord Count
Today's region / s	FR-57 FR-55
Parliament	Curious voice , counts and gentlemen
Reich register	Ross 3 feet 9 or 36 guilders (1521) (For all territories of the Leiningen-Dagsburg)
Reichskreis	Upper Rhine district
District council	Worms ; Frankfurt am Main
Capitals / residences	Apremont ; Hardenburg - Dürkheim
Dynasties	Luxembourg House Autel; Leiningen-Dagsburg
Denomination / Religions	Roman Catholic
Language / n	French
Incorporated into	Duchy of Lorraine , 1599
See also	Leiningen (noble family)

The coat of arms of the Lords of Apremont is now that of the municipality of Apremont-la-Forêt .

The lords of Apremont were a noble family from Lorraine, whose ancestral castle was in Apremont-la-Forêt , Department of Meuse. They were vassals of the bishops of Metz and Verdun . In the course of the 13th century they rose to become counts through marriage and enfeoffment. They provided a bishop of Metz and three bishops from Verdun. Gottfried II was with Lauretta, the heiress of Simon III. married from Saarbrücken . With the support of his uncle, the Metz bishop Johann , he inherited the county of Saarbrücken , which, however, since he left no heirs, fell to the Lords of Commercy.

The Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg line from the Leiningen noble family owned the Landvogtei Unterelsass in the 16th century and in 1466 acquired, among other things, the rule of Apremont in Lorraine. Thus the new line from Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg-Apremont was created , which is mentioned in the Worms register of 1521. It possessed a fragmented territory between the Palatinate, West Lorraine, East Lorraine and Alsace. The county of Apremont was incorporated into the Duchy of Lorraine in 1599 .

family members

• Gobert VI. von Apremont (* around 1187, † 1263), crusader and monk
• Gottfried II of Apremont (* around 1210; † 1250), Count of Saarbrücken ∞ Lauretta von Saarbrücken († after 1270)
• Johann († 1238), Bishop of Verdun and Metz
• Johann von Apremont-Réchicourt († 1303), Bishop of Verdun
• Heinrich von Apremont († 1350), Bishop of Verdun

literature

• Michel Parisse : Apremont . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 1, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-7608-8901-8 , Sp. 811.
• Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories and imperial immediate families from the Middle Ages to the present. 6th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-44333-8 , p. 19.

Web links

• Foundations of Medieval Genealogy: Limburg Ch. 3 Seigneurs d'Aspremont