Falkenburg (noble family)
The Lords of Falkenburg came from the greater Aachen area and were closely related to the Dukes of Limburg , the Counts of Monschau , the Lords of Heinsberg and the Counts of Leiningen-Dagsburg . They were first mentioned in 1041 in a document from the German Emperor Heinrich III.
The ancestral seat of the Lords of Falkenburg was originally the castle in Valkenburg near Maastricht , which however was destroyed for the first time in 1122 and fell to the Duchy of Limburg .
In 1351 the main line of the Monschau-Falkenburg family died out. This resulted in the Falkenburg succession dispute (1352–1417), essentially between Reinhard von Schönforst , who sold Euskirchen to the Duchy of Jülich in 1355 , whose descendants could remain in the Monschau rule until the Schönforst family died out in 1433, and Simon III. von Sponheim - Vianden , who can bring Sankt Vith and Bütgenbach to himself.
Significant family members
- Engelbert II. Von Falkenburg , the 56th Archbishop of Cologne (1261–1274).
- Beatrix von Falkenburg (* 1253; † 1277), daughter of Dietrich von Falkenburg, since 1269 third wife of the German King Richard of Cornwall , German King 1257–1272.