Bronkhorst (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those von Bronkhorst after the Armorial Gelre
Former castle in Bronkhorst

The Lords of Bronkhorst , also Bronckhorst or the Bronkhorsten , were an aristocratic family that probably originally came from Rekheim an der Maas, which is now part of the empire and is now Belgian .

Personalities

Jacob van Bronckhorst van Batenburg

The most important representatives of this noble family are:

  • Gysbert I .: He is said to have been the first of this family. He was the banner owner of the Count von Geldern and had the castle in Bronkhorst built around 1140 , which stood strategically on a sand hill on the banks of the IJssel and gave the owner control of the shipping.
  • Wilhelm II (1241–1290) is attested as a military leader in the Battle of Worringen in 1288.
  • Giselbert , Archbishop of Bremen from 1273 to 1306, a grandson of Wilhelm II and brother of Wilhelm III.
  • Wilhelm III, a grandson of Wilhelm II, was Lord von Bronkhorst from 1315. He acquired the Batenburg estate through his marriage to Johanna and was Marshal of Duke Rainald II of Geldern . He fell in 1328 in the battle against Liège .
  • Florence (Florentius) , archdeacon of Hadeln and Rüstringen , one of three rival bishop selects from Bremen, died without ever being papally confirmed, a son of Wilhelm III.
  • Gysbert V., the eldest son and successor of Wilhelm III. He started the civil war against the Heeckeren family and against Duke Rainald III. of funds and had great success. Chroniclers describe him, depending on the party to which they belonged, as brilliant and brave or as a bloodthirsty gang leader. He died at the height of his power in 1356.
  • Dietrich acquired Anholt around 1380 .

With Georg ( Joost ), who died in 1553, the family died out. The Counts of Diepholz laid claim to his land. Otto IV. Von Diepholz († 1462) had married Hedwig von Bronkhorst in 1441, from which the Diepholz family derived claims to the lords of Bronkhorst and Borkelo , which is also reflected in an extended title "Graff zu Diepholz and Brunckhorst Herr zu Borkelohe ", as well as heraldic , in an increase in coat of arms with the respective claim coats of arms for Bronkhorst and Borkelo, reflected (field 1 and 4 or 2 and 3). Nevertheless, Bronkhorst's castle and rule fell to Joost's niece Irmgarde von Wisch, who had married Count Georg von Limburg-Styrum in 1539 ; ownership remained with the Counts of Limburg-Styrum until 1721 , who also added the Bronkhorst and Borkulosche coats of arms to their large coat of arms (field 2 and 4, respectively).

coat of arms

The blazon reads: In red a silver, gold-crowned, armored lion with a double, crossed tails, and on the helmet two black bear paws, each with a silver coin.

Later the coat of arms was increased with the possessions: blazons

  • Family coat of arms of those of Bronckhorst (mirror-inverted)

  • Coat of arms of those of Bronkhorst-Batenburg

  • Coat of arms of the Counts of Bronckhorst-Batenburg

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Schnath: "Diepholz, v." in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 3 (1957), pp. 652–653 ( online version )
  2. ^ Wilhelm von Hodenberg: Diepholzer Urkundenbuch , Hannover 1842, p. 127.
  3. ^ Anton Fahne : History of the barons and lords of Hövel. Volume I, Section II (history and genealogy of those families from which the gentlemen von Hövel took their wives), Cologne 1860, p. 12 ( Google books ).
  4. ^ Blazons in the register of arms of the Westphalian nobility