Dietrich I. von Volmerstein

Count Dietrich I. (Thiderich) von Volmerstein († approx. 1313/1314) (also Volmarstein ) was a medieval nobleman from the House of Volmestein .

His parents were Count Heinrich III. by Volmestein and Agnes NN.

He followed his father as Count of Volmarstein in 1250 . During his reign, the Volmarstein Castle was destroyed for the first time in 1288 by Count Eberhard I. von der Mark during a feud between the Electorate of Cologne . This took place after the defeat of the Archbishop of Cologne , Siegfried von Westerburg , at the Battle of Worringen .

Marriages and offspring

• 1) ∞ Elisabeth von Brakel
  • Bertold
  • Dietrich II.
  • Henry VII
  • Kunigunde
  • Lutgardis
  • Mathilde ( Abbess of Herdecke Monastery )
  • Sophie ∞ Count Gottfried von Sayn
  • Werner ( Cathedral Canon of Paderborn )

• 2) ∞ Kunigunde von Lindenhorst ( Dortmund )
  • Henry VIII

further reading

• Adelbert von der Recke von Volmerstein: Lehndienst and aristocratic economic management in the late Middle Ages, depicted in the life of Dietrich von Volmerstein. Dissertation, University of Heidelberg, 2002.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Adelbert von der Recke von Volmestein: Dissertation: Lehndienst and aristocratic management in the late Middle Ages, depicted on the life of Dietrich von Volmerstein . University of Heidelberg 2002, p. 20th f .
2. ^ E. Brandstäter: "Volmarstein" in the yearbook of the Association for Local and Local History in the County of Mark, 12th year 1897–1898 . Witten ad Ruhr.