Dietrich von Viermund

Family coat of arms of Dietrich von Viermund

Dietrich von Viermund zu Oeding (also Viermundt zu Odinck * before 1546; † 1614 ) was lord of Oeding and Mallem from the noble family Viermund .

Life

He was the son and heir of Ambrosius von Viermund zu Oeding and Mallem from his first marriage to Frederune von Morrien . After his father died in 1580, Dietrich was enfeoffed on March 16, 1581 as a vassal of the Prince-Bishop of Münster with the paternal lords of Oeding and Mallem.

He was inclined to Protestantism and introduced the Reformed Faith in his lands at the latest in the 1590s .

When the father of his stepmother Margareta von Elverveldt (* 1516; † 1593) died in 1579, he took possession of his land near Lüdenscheid and in the Bochum district in the county of Mark in the name of the stepmother , while his step-uncle Konrad von Elverfeldt took legal action against Herbede . The case reached the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer through several instances and ended in favor of Konrad in 1586.

In 1581, together with his third cousin, Ambrosius von Viermund zu Neersen , he protested against a ruling by the Reich Chamber of Commerce that his second-degree niece, Anna von Viermund , with Burg and Herrschaft Nordenbeck , had the old ancestral seat of the Viermund family.

Marriages and offspring

In his first marriage he married Cecilia von dem Berge. After Cecilia's death, he married the maid of one of his sisters, Marcella Kaiser, in his second marriage.

He had at least five children:

Konrad von Viermund, ⚭ I) Anna von der Hoven called Pampus , ⚭ II) Margaretha von der Hövelich
Ambrose von Viermund
Friederike von Viermund (* 1575; † 1617), ⚭ 1601 Ludolf Konrad von Keppel (* 1570; † 1654), Lord of Westerholt and Mingfeld, in 1618 also Lord of Oeding and Mallem
Helene von Viermund, ⚭ Levin von Plettenberg
Elisabeth von Viermund

For unclear reasons, his dominions Oeding and Mallem did not fall to his eldest son and his descendants after his death, but to her husband Ludolf Konrad von Keppel zu Westerholt through his daughter Friederike (also Frederunde or Vrede) in 1618.

Individual evidence

^ Karl Hopf: Historisch-Genealogischer Atlas. Perthes, Gotha 1858, p. 305.
^ Joseph Adam Gustav Hergenröther: Kirchenlexikon. Herder, Freiburg 1893, p. 1995.
↑ Eberhard Fricke : Continuation of the research on the history of jurisdiction in Lüdenscheid city and country. II. On the legal actions. In: Geschichts- und Heimatverein Lüdenscheid eV (Hrsg.): The Reidemeister. History sheets for Lüdenscheid town and country. No. 183, pp. 1521 f., August 16, 2010.
^ Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies (ed.): Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies. Volume 37, Neumeister Printing House, 1903, p. 139.

Web links

Herren von Haus Oeding at www.heimatverein-suedlohn.de

personal data
SURNAME	Viermund, Dietrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Mr. von Oeding and Mallem
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1546
DATE OF DEATH	1614

[1] Karl Hopf: Historisch-Genealogischer Atlas. Perthes, Gotha 1858, p. 305.

[2] Joseph Adam Gustav Hergenröther: Kirchenlexikon. Herder, Freiburg 1893, p. 1995.

[3] Eberhard Fricke : Continuation of the research on the history of jurisdiction in Lüdenscheid city and country. II. On the legal actions. In: Geschichts- und Heimatverein Lüdenscheid eV (Hrsg.): The Reidemeister. History sheets for Lüdenscheid town and country. No. 183, pp. 1521 f., August 16, 2010.

[4] Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies (ed.): Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies. Volume 37, Neumeister Printing House, 1903, p. 139.