Dietrich VI. from Limburg-Broich

Dietrich VI. von Limburg-Broich († 1478 ) was a German nobleman. By ancestry and inheritance, he was Count of Limburg .

ancestry

Count Dietrich VI. von Limburg-Broich was born as the son of Count Dietrich V. von Limburg-Broich (* 1387 - 16 January 1444) and his wife Henrika von Wisch († 1459).

Life

After the death of his grandfather, Count Wilhelm I of Limburg-Broich, in February 1459, Dietrich VI. together with his brothers Heinrich and Wilhelm II. against Count Gumprecht II. von Neuenahr claim to the County of Limburg , which on June 25, 1459 was also enfeoffed by Duke Gerhard von Jülich-Berg . Since Gumprecht did not recognize this, however, the Hohenlimburg Castle was violently sieged and captured by troops of the three brothers. Further armed conflicts could only be settled in 1460 through an arbitration award in which Cologne Archbishop Dietrich II von Moers had participated. He determined that the county should be governed as a condominium by all parties involved and that truces should be concluded.

literature

• Otto Redlich : Mülheim ad Ruhr. Its history from the beginning to the transition to Prussia in 1815. City of Mülheim an der Ruhr self-published, city of Mülheim an der Ruhr 1939.
• Günther Binding : Broich Castle in Mülheim / Ruhr (= art and antiquity on the Rhine. No. 23, ISSN  0075-725X ). Rheinland-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1970.

predecessor	Office	successor
Gumprecht II of Neuenahr	Count of Limburg in the condominium 1459–1478	Heinrich von Limburg-Broich Johann von Limburg-Broich Gumprecht II. Von Neuenahr