Dietrich von Altena-Isenberg

Count Dietrich von Altena-Isenberg (* around 1215; † 1301 , according to other information around 1299), originally Diderik , was the son and heir to Count Friedrich von Isenberg .

He came from the family of the Counts of Isenberg . Even before his father was executed on November 14, 1226 because of the "murder" of Archbishop Engelbert von Berg , which was presumably a manslaughter after the failed attempt at capture, the ancestral castle of Isenburg near Hattingen was razed and the extensive family property was owned by the Archbishops of Cologne and the Count von der Mark , who was closely related to the Count House of Isenberg, was drafted.

Count Dietrich grew up at the court of his uncle, Duke Heinrich IV of Limburg , who was also Count von Berg . This is where his mother Sophie, Duke Heinrich's sister, fled with her siblings in 1225. Countess Sophie died in 1226 with the youngest child.

A number of sources have survived since 1232 according to which the Archbishop of Cologne complained to the Pope that he was being molested by the relatives and descendants of Count Friedrich II von Altena-Isenberg. Further information on the type and scope of these events can not be found in the sources.

Around 1240 there were military disputes between Count Friedrich von Isenberg on the one hand and Count Dietrich von Isenberg on the other over the legacy of Count Friedrich von Isenberg, the Isenberg Troubles . Dietrich was supported in his actions and in the political enforcement of his inheritance claims by his uncle Heinrich IV of Limburg. Dietrich reclaimed the entire territory, the rest of the property and the rights of his father.

Before 1242 Dietrich appeared with numerous troops in the area of ​​the lower Lenne and built a fortified base. In many cases, it is assumed that he first one then possibly existing Wallburg took advantage of that than today ditches Seven is known. In their protection he had the stone Limburg built, which today still exists as Hohenlimburg Castle near Hagen . Castle research today assumes that the current location of Limburg Castle was identical to the place where the castle was founded in the 13th century.

On July 13, 1242 Dietrich transferred the castle to his uncle and received it back from him as a Bergisches fief . On May 1, 1243, the peace treaty between Count Dietrich and Count Adolf I. von der Mark followed . Dietrich was temporarily also lord of the castle of the New Isenburg in Essen , which was built around 1241 and had to do without it in 1248.

In 1243, Count Dietrich was granted high and Goge jurisdiction for part of his father's former property in the area of ​​the lower Lenne. The jurisdiction turned out to be a decisive prerequisite for the development of the territory of the County of Limburg in the area between the Ruhr , Lenne and Volme , which was in the middle of the County of Mark and bordered the Duchy of Westphalia in the east .

In the Limburg succession dispute and the resulting battle at Worringen in 1288, Dietrich was on the side of Archbishop of Cologne Siegfried von Westerburg . The winner of the battle, Duke Johann I von Brabant , stormed the Hohenlimburg in retrospect and forced Dietrich and his family to flee to Styrum , where he laid the foundation stone of the Styrum Castle on the existing estate .

Count Dietrich founded the Count House Limburg, but still called himself Count von Isenberg until his death. At the beginning of the 14th century, the Count's House split into the main lines Limburg (older line) and Styrum . The Count House Broich split off from the Limburg line in the middle of the second half of the 14th century . While the Styrum House still exists today, the Limburg and Broich lines died out in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Marriage and offspring

Dietrich was married to Adelheid von Sayn († 1297), daughter of Count Johann I von Sponheim-Starkenburg and Sayn . Your children were:

• Heinrich
• Johann (* before 1246; † before 1277)
  ∞ Agnes von Wildenberg
• Eberhard (* 1252; † June 17, 1304)
  ∞ around 1289 Agnes zu Limburg (* 1273 Limbourg; † 1297), daughter of Walram von Limburg
• Elisabeth (* before 1253; † 1311)
  ∞ Heinrich von Wildenburg
• Sophie (* before 1253)
  ∞ Bertold VI. von Büren (* before 1284, † after 1320)
• Adelheid (* before 1253, † after 1266)
  ∞ Albert II. Von Hoerde (* before 1226, † after 1266)

literature

• Brunhilde Leenen (Red.): AufRuhr 1225! Knights, castles and intrigues. The Middle Ages on the Rhine and Ruhr. Catalog for the exhibition in the LWL Museum of Archeology (February 27 to November 28, 2010). von Zabern, Mainz 2010, ISBN 978-3-8053-4108-0 .
• Ralf Blank , Stephanie Marra , Gerhard E. Sollbach: Hagen. History of the city and its region. Klartext, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-893-9 .
• Stephanie Marra: Counts of the Mark, Dukes of Kleve-Mark and Jülich-Kleve (Hof). In: Werner Paravicini (ed.): Courtyards and residences in the late medieval empire. Volume 1: A Dynastic Topographical Handbook. Volume 1: Dynasties and Courts (= Residency Research. Vol. 15, 1). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2003, ISBN 3-7995-4515-8 , pp. 160–166.
• Stephanie Marra : Counts of Isenberg-Limburg (main line Isenberg-Limburg, branch lines Broich and Styrum) . In: Courtyards and residences in the late medieval empire. Counts and Lords , ed. by Werner Paravicini, Ostfildern: Thorbecke, 2012 (Residency Research, Vol. 15.IV, Part 1), pp. 698–704.
• Harm Klueting : “There is no doubt that it is a split from Grafschaft Mark”. The county of Limburg from the 13th to the 19th century. In: Yearbook of the association for local and local history in the county of Mark. Vol. 93, 1995, ISSN  0937-1621 , pp. 63-126.
• Jürgen Kloosterhuis :  Mark, Count of the (family article). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , pp. 219-222 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• History of Hohenlimburg