Eversteiner feud

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Falkenburg ruins
Polle castle ruins

The Eversteiner Feud , also Everstein's Feud , was a war of succession and took place in Lippe from 1404 to 1409 .

In the High Middle Ages , Everstein County stretched on both sides of the Weser between Holzminden and Aerzen . On June 6, 1403, the at that time still childless Count Hermann VII of Everstein concluded with the noble lord of Lippe, Simon III. a hereditary brotherhood treaty , according to which Everstein County should fall to the Lippe family after his death .

The dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg , Heinrich and Bernhard , did not want to accept this expansion of power by the Lipper and began a feud against Lippe. Duke Heinrich was captured by knights from Lippe and taken to the Falkenburg near Berlebeck . After Heinrich had promised a ransom of 100,000 guilders and waived revenge under oath, he was released on September 8, 1405.

1407 reached Duke Heinrich von Pope Gregory XII. the repeal of the oath he had taken. In the same year he began a campaign against the noble lords of Lippe, besieged and occupied Polle Castle . Afterwards, Lippe was attacked from all sides. The neighboring rulers and the bishop of Paderborn , with whom the Brunswick had allied themselves, were involved. The cities of Detmold , Horn and Blomberg were particularly badly hit , but most places in the countryside were also looted and pillaged. The siege of the Falkenburg was unsuccessful. According to the damage inventory drawn up around 1409 and still preserved today, the residents of the unprotected settlements suffered in particular and lost all of their property. One example is the town and castle of Rischenau , founded by the Counts of Schwalenberg , which 40 years later fell victim to attacking troops again in the Soest feud .

Count Hermann von Everstein had completely underestimated the extent of the feud and tried to come to an agreement with the Dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg. On January 20, 1408, he betrothed his daughter Elisabeth, born in 1404, to Otto, the son of the Brunswick Duke Bernhard, renounced all rights and handed the county over to the Brunswick dukes.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Burned and Robbed - Eversteiner Feud. Retrieved January 31, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Lippische Regesten Volume 3, Lemgo & Detmold 1866, p. 94, No. 1677. Retrieved on March 21, 2020 .

literature

  • Erich Kittel : Home chronicles of the district of Lippe (= home chronicles of the cities and districts of the federal territory. Vol. 44, ZDB -ID 749758-1 ). 2nd, improved and supplemented edition. Archive for German Homeland Care, Cologne 1978.
  • Christian Kuhnke: Lippe Lexicon. Places, people, landscapes, history, sights, companies. Boken-Verlag, Detmold 2000, ISBN 3-935454-00-7 .

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