Calvelage county
The county of Calvelage existed under this name at the end of the 11th and first half of the 12th centuries in the Vechta area . The County of Calvelage was first mentioned by name around 1070.
When the Counts of Calvelage , who were wealthy around Vechta and Bersenbrück , acquired territories in the Teutoburg Forest northwest of Halle around 1100 and built Ravensberg Castle , they moved their headquarters to the new castle around 1140 and called themselves Counts of Ravensberg from then on . The county area around Vechta and Bersenbrück was sold to the diocese of Münster in 1252 .
The fact that the bourgeois family name "Kalvelage" (more rarely also "Calvelage") occurs today in the Vechta district is probably not due to the work of the noble family, but to the farm name "Kalvelage" in Brockdorf. Until the time of glory, the farmers as a whole were called Dinklage in reference to the long-abandoned castle "Kalvelage" and were later called "Brockdorf".
Counts of Calvelage
- Hermann I, † probably 1082, Count of Calvelage; ∞ by 1070 Ethelinde of Northeim , daughter of Otto of Nordheim , 1061 - 1070 Duke of Bavaria after being deposed and his son and successor Welf I. , 1070 - 1101 Duke of Bavaria ( Guelph had been violated); Hermann was descendant of Hermann von Eenham from the family of the Counts of Verdun
- Hermann I (Ravensberg) , 1115/34 attested, their son, 1120 Count, 1125 Count of Calvelage;
- Hermann II, † 1115; ∞ sister of Heinrich von Zutphen ;
- Otto I. (Ravensberg) , * around 1120, † 1170/80, Count von Calvelage 1138 and von Ravensberg 1141–1170, brother of Hedwig, whose son ∞ Oda, 1166 attests.
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Köbler : Historical Lexicon of the German Lands. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present . Munich. 1988. pp. 737f. (Article "Vechta")
- ↑ Winfried Breidbach: Kalvelage . Oldenburg People's Newspaper . January 21, 2013
- ^ Clemens Pagensteert: Lohner families . 1927