Arnold von Hückeswagen

Arnold of Hückeswagen ( lat. Arnoldus comes de Hokeneswage , * before 1193; † after 1240, before 1260) was Count of Hückeswagen .

It is first documented in a document from the Archbishop of Cologne, Bruno II, in 1208 (before November 2nd) as a witness and acting Count von Hückeswagen.

Arnold von Hückeswagen was probably a son of Count Heinrich von Hückeswagen († 1205). But he is not the first-born son of Heinrich von Hückeswagen, who had chosen his son Theodorich to be his successor. This Theodoric no longer appears in the documents after 1202 and apparently had already died in 1208. Arnold also had a brother named Albert, who was a canon at the Gereonsstift in Cologne .

Arnold's wife was called Adela (also Adelheid), with whom he specified a donation of properties in Honrath to the Gräfrath monastery in a document from 1209 . With Adela he had six children, Franco , Heinrich, Eberhard, Adela, Aleidis and Agnes.

Between 1210 and 1218 Count Arnold was engaged in a dispute in the course of which he seized an estate in Oberkassel by force of arms. The background was an inheritance dispute, Arnold raised a claim to the property and held it despite a contrary arbitration by the Pope.

Around 1228 Arnold acted as a messenger and mediator between the English and the Bohemian royal courts. This made the first contact with Bohemia , the later seat of the Hückeswagen counts. In 1230 he still appeared as a witness in the Rhineland, from 1234 then in Bohemia and Moravia . There he built the castles Alt Titschein and Hochwald , along the trade route from Moravia through the Moravian Gate and Teschen to Krakow and Wieliczka . The colonization of the landscape Lachia followed further his sons and the bishops of Olomouc.

Arnold was last documented on July 14, 1240, when he, together with his wife Adela and son Franco, gave the Steinfeld monastery his possessions in Rhöndorf . The date of his death has not been determined; in 1260 he is considered deceased, as his son Franco appears on July 6, 1260 as Count von Hückeswagen. His son Heinrich was a canon at the Gereonsstift in Cologne in 1260.

Individual evidence

1. ^ State Archives Münster (ed.): Westphalian document book . Volume VII (1908), 60, p. 27.
2. ^ Theodor Josef Lacomblet: Document book for the history of the Lower Rhine. Volume II (1846), 25, p. 15.
3. ^ Theodor Josef Lacomblet: Document book for the history of the Lower Rhine. Volume IV (1858), 660, p. 800.

Literature and web links

• Lutz Jahr (Ed.): 900 years of Hückeswagen 1085-1985. Hückeswagen 1984.
• Arnold (-after 14 Jul 1240). Count von Hückeswagen. at fmg.ac

predecessor	Office	successor
Heinrich	Count von Hückeswagen before 1208 – after 1240	Franco