Düdelsheim (noble family)

The lords of Düdelsheim were a knightly aristocratic family in today's Hesse , which was especially wealthy in the east of the Wetterau .

Coat of arms of Friedberger Burgmannen Philipp von Düdelsheim in the Salbuch of the Naumburg Monastery , illumination from the 16th century.

history

The family is to be distinguished from a family of the same name, which owned property in the Bachgau around Babenhausen and has three cattails in the coat of arms. This derives its name from the place Dietesheim and, like the Wetterau lords of Düdelsheim, is often proven to be the fiefs of the lords and counts of Hanau .

The Wetterau lords of Düdelsheim named themselves after the Büdinger district of Düdelsheim, which was first mentioned in a document in 792, and thus belong to the numerous ministerial families of the Rhine-Main area whose origins can be traced back to an early local rule of the Hohenstaufen era. For the first time in 1239 a Rudolf von Düdelsheim is mentioned as a witness of a document which documents the settlement of a dispute between Ulrich I. von Munzenberg and his son Kuno zu Frankfurt. In very quick succession, the Düdelsheimers appear as heirs to the imperial castle on the Glauberg, which only existed for a short time .

With the destruction or abandonment of the castle by the castle team, further donations of the property in the eastern Wetterau are apparent. In ysenburgische services as Burgmannen the Düdelsheimer occur later than the present in a similar position Lords of Büches . They were also initially not involved in the Lindheim inheritance . The formation of their own territory at their headquarters was also prevented by Ysenburg. However, the Düdelsheimers are proven to be numerous in the service of the Counts of Hanau. In order to evade the influence of larger territorial lords, they strove, like many local nobility, to participate in the Burggrafschaft Friedberg , where they were one of the more important Burgmann families who repeatedly provided regimental castles and builders.

The family died out on August 12, 1587 with Anton von Düdelsheim in the male line. Dorothea von Düdelsheim, abbess of Altenberg an der Lahn monastery , probably a sister or cousin of Anton, died around 1600 . She is extensively acknowledged in the Altenberg Chronicle from around 1650 due to her erudition, command of the Latin language and her commitment to the rights of the monastery.

coat of arms

In the black field a silver, erect, crowned lion . The lion is repeated on the crest , which consists of a black eagle wing . The helmet covers are black and silver.

Historical possession

• Castle loan in Glauburg Castle
• Burgmannenhaus in the Reichsburg Friedberg
• Mengos von Düdelsheim owned a ninth of the 4th quarter in the Staden inheritance around Staden Castle, which had been in existence since 1405 and was thus one of 19 shareholders.
• Possibly an early castle seat in the locality of Düdelsheim.
• Predecessor castle in the locality instead of the later Stammheim Castle

Ysenburg offices and fiefdoms

• Castle loan in Büdingen Castle .
• Hofreite with three and a half Huben Land in Heldenbergen
• Presumably from the Falkensteiner inheritance a castle seat in Assenheim and the Fronhof in Bauernheim .

Hanau offices and fiefdoms

• In 1292 Hartmann von Düdelsheim was Ulrich I von Hanau's Burgmann in his Babenhausen Castle .
• In 1323 Johann von Düdelsheim was among the executors for Ulrich II.
• Mengos of Düdelsheim served several times as a guarantor on behalf of Ulrich IV. For these services he received a hanauisches Burglehen in Freigericht Kaichen and Busecker valley (the latter he pledged, however, soon to Erwin of Trohe ). At first he owned a fiefdom in the Hanau castle of Windecken and later rose to the position of bailiff in Assenheim, where he held the Hanau part of the castle in Assenheim as a pledge. His sons Mengos the Elder followed him in this role. J. and Henne after.

literature

• Klaus Peter Decker: The gentlemen from Düdelsheim. In: Magistrat der Stadt Büdingen (Ed.): Chronicle Düdelsheim 792–1992. Büdingen 1991, pp. 54-71.
• Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon , Volume 2. Leipzig 1860, p. 611.
• Dieter Krieger: Hessisches Wappenbuch, 3rd part. Family coat of arms, volume 1. Starke, Limburg 1999, ISBN 3-7980-0002-6 , p. 52 and plate 8.
• Hans Philippi : Territorial history of the county of Büdingen. Elwert, Marburg 1954 ( Writings of the Hessian Office for Historical Regional Studies 23 ), pp. 85–89.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klaus Peter Decker: The Lords of Düdelsheim. In: Magistrat der Stadt Büdingen (Ed.): Chronicle Düdelsheim 792–1992. Büdingen 1991, p. 55f .; Hans Philippi: Territorial history of the county of Büdingen. Marburg 1954, p. 88f.
2. ^ Hans Otto Keunecke: The Munzenberger. Sources and studies on the emancipation of an imperial servant family. Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt 1978 ( Sources and Research on Hessian History 35 ), No. 303.
3. ↑ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt (HStAD), documents of the former province of Upper Hesse A 3, 76/1 : The Burgmannen zu Glauburg certify a substantial donation of lands in Düdelsheim to the Arnsburg monastery (1247); Ludwig Baur: Document book of the Arnsburg monastery in the Wetterau. Publishing house of the historical association for the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Darmstadt 1851, No. 115 (1247); Friedrich Battenberg: Isenburg documents. Register of documents and copies of the princely archives in Birstein and Büdingen 974-1500. Darmstadt 1976. 3 volumes. ISBN 3-88443-210-9 , No. 71 = Fürstliches Archiv Birstein No. 2345 (around 1247).
4. ↑ Klaus Peter Decker: The Lords of Düdelsheim. In: Magistrat der Stadt Büdingen (Ed.): Chronicle Düdelsheim 792–1992. Büdingen 1991, p. 59f.
5. ↑ Klaus Peter Decker: The Lords of Düdelsheim. In: Magistrat der Stadt Büdingen (Ed.): Chronicle Düdelsheim 792–1992. Büdingen 1991, p. 66.
6. ^ Thomas Schilp: Document book of the city of Friedberg, second volume. The Reichsburg Friedberg in the Middle Ages. Regest of the documents 1216-1410. Elwert, Marburg 1987, ISBN 978-3-86354-070-8 ( publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 3/2 ), Regest No. 38 and 348a.
7. ↑ Klaus Peter Decker: The Lords of Düdelsheim. In: Magistrat der Stadt Büdingen (Ed.): Chronicle Düdelsheim 792–1992. Büdingen 1991, pp. 60f.
8. ↑ Klaus Peter Decker: The Lords of Düdelsheim. In: Magistrat der Stadt Büdingen (Ed.): Chronicle Düdelsheim 792–1992. Büdingen 1991, p. 61.
9. ↑ Klaus Peter Decker: The Lords of Düdelsheim. In: Magistrat der Stadt Büdingen (Ed.): Chronicle Düdelsheim 792–1992. Büdingen 1991, pp. 61 and 64.
10. ^ Hans Philippi: Territorial history of the county of Büdingen. Marburg 1954, pp. 85-89.
11. ^ ^{A b} Friedrich Battenberg: Isenburg documents. Register of documents and copies of the princely archives in Birstein and Büdingen 974-1500. Darmstadt 1976. 3 volumes. ISBN 3-88443-210-9 , No. 3613/3614 = Princely Archives Birstein No. 4326 (1500).
12. ↑ Klaus Peter Decker: The Lords of Düdelsheim. In: Magistrat der Stadt Büdingen (Ed.): Chronicle Düdelsheim 792–1992. Büdingen 1991, p. 63.
13. ^ Heinrich Reimer : Hessisches Urkundenbuch. Section 2, document book on the history of the Lords of Hanau and the former province of Hanau. Vol. 1. 767-1300. Hirzel, Leipzig 1891, ( publications from the royal Prussian state archives 48 ) No. 719.
14. ^ Heinrich Reimer: Hessisches Urkundenbuch. Section 2, document book on the history of the Lords of Hanau and the former province of Hanau. Vol. 2. 1301 - 1349. Hirzel, Leipzig 1892 ( publications from the royal Prussian state archives 51 ) No. 252.
15. ↑ Klaus Peter Decker: The Lords of Düdelsheim. In: Magistrat der Stadt Büdingen (Ed.): Chronicle Düdelsheim 792–1992. Büdingen 1991, p. 62, other sources p. 69f.