Dietrich I. (Are)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Count Dietrich I von Are (also: Diedrich, Diederich, Theoderich, also von Aar; documented evidence between 1107 and 1126) is considered to be the founder of the noble family of the Counts of Are and the builder of the ancestral seat, Are Castle .

Live and act

Are Castle

The parents of Dietrich I von Are are unknown. According to the historian Schannat , one of his ancestors was the Gaugraf des Ahrgau "Sigebad", who lived around 930. Furthermore, Count Gerhard I. von Hochstaden , the founder of the line of the Counts von Hochstaden, is said to have been Dietrich's younger brother.

Dietrich was chief bailiff of Münstereifel and guardian bailiff of the Steinfeld monastery founded by his ancestors . He owned the Upper Bailiwick of Münstereifel as a Prüm's fiefdom with the right to appoint a subordinate there, who then took his jurisdiction as a fiefdom. Thus, in a document from 1115 Dietrich was named as senior bailiff (summus adoucatus) and a certain "Rudolph" as subordinate bailiff (subadoucatus), while in an earlier document from 1110 Dietrich appeared as bailiff alone. The Cologne Cathedral Chapter had also chosen Count Dietrich as Guardian of Erpel , which he soon renounced.

Archbishop Friedrich I of Cologne (1100–1131) says in a document from 1121, in which he confirmed the foundation of the Steinfeld monastery, that he owned the monastery, which is in the Eifelgau in the county of Count "Diedrich von Aar" and from had been donated to the ancestors of this count, acquired by the same. In this document, the archbishop appoints the named count and those of his heirs who would legitimately follow him in the possession of the “ Aar Castle ” as advocates of the Steinfeld monastery and stipulates the rights and obligations of the guardians. Dietrich was named as a witness in various documents from the archbishops of Trier and Cologne. In the document of Archbishop Bruno von Trier (1102–1124) about the foundation of the Springiersbach Abbey from 1107, Dietrich is named "Theoderico de ara" immediately after the count among the free seculars (Laicis liberis), who signed the document as witnesses William of Luxembourg listed. In a document from Archbishop Friedrich I of Cologne on the church of Dunwalt ( Dünnwald ) from the year 1117, “Theodoricus comes de Ara” appears. The same occurs in a document of the same archbishop from the year 1120 and in another from the year 1125.

Dietrich I died between the years 1126 and 1132.

family

The name of his wife has not been passed down, perhaps a daughter of Hermann von Salm .

Dietrich I left four sons:

  • Lothar who followed him in County Are
  • Ulrich , founder of the Are-Nürburg line
  • Gerhard , provost of Bonn and Maastricht
  • Otto , founder of the Are-Hochstaden line

The family relationship with Sigewin von Are , who was Archbishop of Cologne from 1078 to 1089, is unclear. Derived from Sigewin's year of death and Dietrich's life data, Sigewin could have been Dietrich's uncle.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Johann Friedrich Schannat, Johann Peter Bachem: Eiflia illustrata or geographical and historical description of the Eifel , Volume 1, 1824, pages 121, 133 ff
  2. ↑ a b c d Anton Joseph Weidenbach: The Counts of Are, Hochstaden, Nurburg and Neuenare , Habicht, 1845, page 2 ff
  3. ^ Heinrich Beyer: Document book for the history of the, now the Prussian administrative districts of Coblenz and Trier ... , Volume 1, Coblenz: Hölscher, 1860, certificate 415, page 475 ff
personal data
SURNAME Dietrich I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Theodoric I of Are; Dietrich I. of Are
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first count of Are
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century
DATE OF DEATH 12th Century