Dietrich Morrien (Drost)

Dietrich Morrien (* in the 15th century; † in the 16th century) was Drost of the Office of Cloppenburg and confidante of the Bishop of Münster .

Life

Origin and family

Dietrich Morrien came from the Westphalian noble family Morrien , which was one of the leading families in the knighthood in the Middle Ages and early modern times and held the office of Hereditary Marshal in the Prince Diocese of Münster from 1350 to 1691 . He was the son of Hereditary Marshal Sander Morrien and his wife Frederun Wolff zu Lüdinghausen. His brothers were the Hereditary Marshal Gerhard , the Provost Alexander and the Canon Johann . His sister Margarethe was married to Walter von Münster zu Horstmar. They are among the ancestors of the Dutch princes Willern Alexander, Johann Friso and Constantijn.

Act

In 1521 Dietrich married the heiress Anna von Valcke zu Rockel. So he came into the possession of the Falkenhof in Rheine , which, like the one in Horstmar inherited from his grandmother Margarethe von Borghorst, had it thoroughly renovated. His son Dietrich became the founder of the Protestant line of the family. His son Bernhard was provost in Münster. As a representative of the bishop, Dietrich was involved in the negotiations from March 1526 to March 1527 on the definition of the border between Essen and Quakenbrück opposite Osnabrück. On July 30, 1528 he worked as a bailiff in Cloppenburg in regulating the trademark rights there. He loyally stood by Bishop Friedrich's side. So he advanced him 550 gold florins. In 1531 Dietrich was appointed drosten of the Cloppenburg office. Two years later, the bishop mortgaged his castle in Ottenstein . This remained in the family's possession until the time of Prince Bishop Christoph Bernhard von Galen .

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• Germania Sacra , published by the Max Planck Institute for History; The diocese of Münster 7.4. The diocese, edited by Wilhelm Kohl , [1] , 2004 Verlag Walter de Gruyter

Web links

• Morrien personal database at Germania Sacra
• Family history Morrien Article in the Internet portal "Westphalian History"