Gumprecht I of Neuenahr-Alpen

Gumprecht I (III., V.) von Neuenahr-Alpen (* 1465 ; † April 5, 1504 ) was a German nobleman, inherited from Cologne hereditary bailiff and Count of Limburg . Between 1486 and 1500 he regularly took part in court and imperial days as a member of the Kurkölner delegation.

ancestry

Gumprecht I (III.) Was born as the son of Count Friedrich von Neuenahr-Alpen (* around 1439; † June 22, 1468) and his wife Eva von Linnep (* around 1420; † 1483).

Life

Originally Gumprecht I was nominated for a canonical at Cologne Cathedral by the Cologne canon and provost of Emmerich Count Moritz von Spiegelberg (* 1406/07; † 1483). On July 24, 1467 he was given the prebend ( benefice ) of the late scholaster Ludwig von Wertheim. In 1477 he was emancipated as a canon .

After his father fell in Wachtendonk in 1468 , Gumprecht I inherited the Alps . After the death of his mother, Gumprecht I inherited Helpenstein and Linnep Castle around 1483 , and after the death of grandfather Gumprecht II von Neuenahr in 1484, part of the condominium of the County of Limburg and the Cologne hereditary bailiwick were added. In 1484 he renounced his Cologne canonical, which Erich von Sachsen-Lauenburg (1472–1522) received on July 1, 1484 , later Bishop of Hildesheim and Münster . He appointed the Jülich-Bergisch council Wigher von Hassent († 1510), provost of St. Martinus in Kerpen, to be his representative in the matter of resignation .

Archbishop Hermann IV of Hesse († 1508) prescribed in 1485 to Count Gumprecht I of Neuenahr-Alpen 300 guilders a year from customs in Bonn and 110 guilders, 1 mark, 8 shillings from customs in Linz as man money. Archduke Maximilian I (1459-1519) mediated in 1486 in a dispute between the Klevischen feudal man Dietrich von Bronkhorst-Batenburg († 1508), Lord of Rimburg and Gronsfeld, son of Heinrich von Bronkhorst-Batenburg and Katharina von Alpen- Hönnepel , and the electoral Cologne fief Gumprecht I von Neuenahr for the castle and rule of the Alps.

In January and February 1486, Gumprecht I von Neuenahr-Alpen and his uncle Wilhelm I von Neuenahr took part in the wake of the Archbishop of Cologne on election day in Frankfurt am Main ; they took quarters in the Gasthaus Zu der Weinreben on Töngesgasse / corner of Liebfrauenberg . After Maximilian I was coronated as Roman-German King in Aachen , Gumprecht I of Neuenahr-Alpen was knighted in April 1486. As Cologne hereditary bailiff he then took in front of the Cologne Cathedral after old ceremonies and a 1442 by Friedrich III. (1415–1493) gave his grandfather Gumprecht II von Neuenahr († 1484) the right to receive the king's riding horse.

In 1487 Gumprecht I was enfeoffed with Alps by the Cologne Archbishop Hermann IV of Hesse and was in his entourage at the Reichstag of Emperor Friedrich III. in Nuremberg . In 1489 "Der zu Neuenar" took part in the Reichstag in Frankfurt am Main . Emperor Friedrich III. In 1489 commissioned Archbishop Hermann IV to conduct a trial against Dietrich von Bronkhorst-Batenburg because of his attempt to take possession of the Alps.

His sister Elisabeth († 1505) gave Gumprecht I von Neuenahr-Alpen in 1492 when she married Count Johann von Limburg-Broich († 1511) the Limburger Hof zu Wülfrath and the tithe zu Heißen from the inheritance of his grandmother Margarethe von Limburg-Broich († 1479) as a dowry. In 1495 he took part in the Reichstag in Worms as a member and standard bearer of the Electoral Cologne delegation . In a dispute with Archbishop Hermann IV and Dietrich von Bronkhorst-Batenburg over the Alps, the Imperial Court of Justice ruled in 1495 under the chairmanship of Chamber Judge Count Eitel Friedrich II von Hohenzollern for Gumprecht I von Neuenahr-Alpen. The Kurkölner fief of Gumprecht I with Alps was then renewed.

Gumprecht I. von Neuenahr and the Chancellor of Cologne, Dr. Johann Menchin (Menche) († 1504) took part in the Reichstag in Lindau in 1496/97 for Archbishop Hermann IV . At the request of Count Gumprecht von Neuenahr, King Maximilian I granted Bishop Konrad IV von Rietberg († 1508) of Münster and Osnabrück , whose mother Jacoba von Neuenahr († 1492) had been, in 1498 all rights to both dioceses, including Delmenhorst and Harpstedt . Gumprecht took the provisional feudal oath on behalf of the bishop, his cousin , at the Reichstag in Freiburg .

Gumprecht I (III.) Von Neuenahr as sovereign of Linnep and Wilhelm von Hammerstein, judge in Ratingen and Angermund , had some women checked by the apparently competent master Conrad Steinbrecher from Alpen in 1499 who had been accused of sorcery and in Jülich-Bergischer Were imprisoned. Master Steinbrecher thought the " said " women were innocent.

In 1499 the chancellery of King Maximilian I Gumprecht I von Neuenahr-Alpen confirmed the fief of the county of Limburg granted to his grandfather Gumprecht II von Neuenahr in 1442. Over this claim to Limburg Gumprecht I of Neuenahr-Alpen got into a feud with his brother-in-law Johann von Limburg-Broich, which was only settled in 1505 after his death.

Gumprecht I von Neuenahr and Adam Becker († 1510) took part in the Reichstag in Augsburg for Archbishop Hermann IV of Hesse in 1500 , Count Gumprecht I von Neuenahr also "for himself". Count Gumprecht I von Neuenahr died on Good Friday 1504.

After the death of Gumprecht I, Domdechant Philipp von Dhaun-Oberstein (1463–1515), who became Archbishop Philip II of Cologne in 1508 , and Count Philipp II. Von Waldeck (1453–1524), later his cousin Count Wilhelm II, acted . von Neuenahr († 1552) as guardian of the minor children and Vogt (assistance) for the widow Amalie von Wertheim. In 1510 the guardians enfeoffed the Cologne pensioner and mayor Gerhard von Wasserfass († 1520) with goods in Deckstein (now Cologne-Lindenthal ), which he had acquired from the Quatermart family, on behalf of the sons of the deceased hereditary bailiff .

Marriage and offspring

Gumprecht married Countess Amalie von Wertheim (Ameley; Amelyn van Wirthem) (* 1460; † 1532) in 1490 and had the following children with her:

1. Gumprecht II. Von Neuenahr-Alpen (* around 1503; † 1555)
   ∞ (I) 1528 with Anna von Bronckhorst
   ∞ (II) March 19, 1536 with Cordula (* 1516; † 1542), daughter of Jobst I. von Holstein- Schauenburg
   ∞ (III) November 20, 1542 with Amöna (* around 1520, † around 1582), daughter of Wirich V. von Daun-Falkenstein
2. Friedrich von Nuwenair (born September 27, 1504; † 1527), was canon in Cologne in 1508, enrolled in 1515 as a canon at Cologne Cathedral and at St. Gereon at the old University of Cologne ( Universitas Studii Coloniensis ), lived in the Linneper Hof from around 1518 , 1521 in Tübingen and 1521, 1523 in Bologna, 1526 Dompropst Hermann von Neuenahr renounced in his favor the parish Holzheim , which Friedrich transferred to the canon Johann Teschenmacher (Thessenmecher) from Neuss. 1526 to 1527 adjunct at the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer, died in Hungary, his successor at the Imperial Court of Justice was Count Johann von Montfort und Rotenfels († 1547) in 1528.

Web links

• Entry from HIS data

literature

• Hugo Altmann:  Neuenahr, Count of. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , pp. 106-108 ( digitized version ).
• Klaus Militzer (arr.): The minutes of the Cologne cathedral chapter , Vol. I Regesten 1454–1511 . (Publications of the Gesellschaft für Rheinische Geschichtskunde 77). Droste, Düsseldorf 2009, pp. 87, 89f and 598

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See K. Militzer (arr.): Protocols , 2009, No. 371, p. 89.
2. ↑ ancestral test of December 31, 1474; Historical archive of the city of Cologne (inventory 210 Domstift, U 1/1766 and 1767).
3. ↑ ^{a b} cf. Wilhelm Kisky : The cathedral chapters of the clerical electors in their personal composition in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries (sources and studies on the constitutional history of the German Empire in the Middle Ages and modern times 1/3). H. Böhlaus Successor, Weimar 1906, pp. 67 and 76 (some of the information there is, however, to refer to Gumprecht II von Neuenahr (* around 1400; † 1484), who entered the clergy as a widower; Google Books , limited preview).
4. ^ Certificate of January 1, 1484 (= 1485); Günter Aders (edit.): Documents and files of the Neuenahr lordship and possessions of the Alps, Bedburg, Hackenbroich, Helpenstein, Linnep, Wevelinghoven and Wülfrath as well as the hereditary bailiwick of Cologne . (Inventories of non-governmental archives 21). Landschaftsverband Rheinland, Cologne 1977 ( PDF of the Landschaftsverband Rheinland), p. 213 (No. 752). In 1406 his ancestor Gumprecht I von Neuenahr (* around 1370, † 1425) was enfeoffed with it.
5. ↑ 1498 elevated to the rank of imperial count by King Maximilian I.
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} Cf. Landesarchiv NRW Rhineland Duisburg department (Reichskammergericht, 288 - Az. B 616/2625, sheets 82f, 95-101 and 104f).
7. ↑ See Johannes Janssen ( edit .): Frankfurts Reichscorrespondenz , Vol. II / 1. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1872, p. 421 ( Google Books ).
8. ↑ See Gerrit J. Schenk: Ceremonial and Politics. Entering rulers in the late medieval empire . (Research on the imperial and papal history of the Middle Ages 21). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2003, p. 483.
9. ↑ See Johann Jakob Fugger: Spiegel der Ehren Des Hochloblichsten Keyserlichen Erzhauses OESTERREICH , Vol. V. Michael and Johann Friderich Endtern, o. O. [Nuremberg] 1668, p. 964 ( Google Books ).
10. ↑ Cf. Christoph Lehmann: Chronica Der Freyen Reichs-Stadt Speier . Oehrling, Frankfurt am Main 1711, p. 931 ( Google Books ).
11. ↑ See also Akt Neuenar, Graf zu and Dietrich von Battenberg versus Bishop of Cologne, Klage , 1489; Austrian State Archives (House, Court and State Archives, Reichshofrat Judicialia Antiquissima 2-110).
12. ↑ Cf. Christoph Jakob Kremer: Academic contributions to Gülch and Bergische Geschichte , Vol. II. Academic writings, Mannheim 1776, p. 80 ( Google Books ).
13. ↑ Cf. Heinrich Christian von Senckenberg : Collection of Unprinted and Rare Writings, To Explanation of the State of Common Civil and Church Law , Vol. I. Johann Friedrich Fleischer, Frankfurt am Main 1745, pp. 101 and 139f ( Google- Books ).
14. ^ Regest of July 9, 1495; Günter Aders (edit.): Documents and files of the Neuenahr lordship and possessions of the Alps, Bedburg, Hackenbroich, Helpenstein, Linnep, Wevelinghoven and Wülfrath as well as the hereditary bailiwick of Cologne . (Inventories of non-governmental archives 21). Landschaftsverband Rheinland, Cologne 1977, No. 821, p. 229.
15. ↑ See Johann Christian Lünig: Das Teutsche Reichs-Archiv , Vol. II. Friedrich Lanckisch, Leipzig 1713, p. 187 ( Google Books ).
16. ↑ Certificate of July 24, 1498, issued in Freiburg im Breisgau ; House, Court and State Archives Vienna (rrb LL, fol. 90f).
17. ↑ See document from September 9, 1499; Landesarchiv NRW Rhineland Duisburg department (Jülich-Berg I 1212, p. 42); Erika Münster-Schröer: Toversche and witches. Trials in Ratingen and its neighborhood (1499 - 1738) . (Series of publications by the Ratingen City Archives, C 3). 3rd edition Preuss, Ratingen 2004, p. 18f with note 38 ( PDF ; 230.44 kB).
18. ^ Regest of a document dated November 7, 1499, issued in Aschaffenburg, in the House, Court and State Archives Vienna (rrb X / 2, fol. 596) ( digitized by Regesta Imperii Online).
19. ↑ See document dated February 28, 1504; City Archives Mülheim an der Ruhr (inventory 1010 Herrschaft Broich / Amt Broich-Styrum, document 281).
20. ↑ See Gerhard E. Sollbach: Die Grafschaft Limburg . In: Ralf Blank, Stephanie Marra , Gerhard E. Sollbach: Hagen. History of a city and its region , Klartext-Verlag, Essen, 2008, pp. 127–164, esp. P. 154.
21. ↑ Also Kaltpecker from Cologne, Magister, 1474 Dr. leg., 1475 to 1507 professor at the law faculty in Cologne, 1495 appointed as assessor at the Reichskammergericht at the Reichstag in Worms, 1490 official of the curia, 1500 to 1510 canon at St. Viktor's monastery in Xanten .
22. ↑ Cf. All Reichsstage and Farewell held in the Holy Roman Empire , Vol. I. Franz Behem, Mainz 1566, p. Lxix (with misprint): “Simprecht von Newnar” ( Google Books ).
23. ↑ See Order of the Holy Roman Empire . Sebastian Wagner, Worms 1536, sheets LVIII and LIX (twice, as "Simbrecht" and "Gumbrecht") ( Google Books ).
24. ↑ Cf. Klaus Militzer (arrangement): Sources on the history of the Cologne lay brotherhoods from the 12th century to 1562/63 , vol. I. (Publications of the Society for Rheinische Geschichtskunde 71/1). Droste, Düsseldorf 1997, p. 629: " jllustris Gumpertus comes de Nuwena, anno 1504, jpso die Parascevis obijt ".
25. ^ Documents of April 2 and September 15, 1505; see. Christian von Stramberg: The banks of the Rhine from Coblenz to Bonn . (Memorable and useful Rhenish antiquarian III / 9). RF Hergt, Koblenz 1862, pp. 555f.
26. ↑ See document of August 6, 1516; Historical archive of the city of Cologne (holdings 1 main document archive, U 2/15901).
27. ↑ See document of March 25, 1532; Staatsarchiv Wertheim (inventory F-US 7 Grafschaft Wertheim with Herrschaft Breuberg; Certificate No. 53; R-US Rosenbergisches Archiv, US 1532 March 25 and 1532 June 20).
28. ↑ Lehenbrief about estates located in the court and court at Deckstein , 1510. In: Joseph Strange: News about noble families and estates , Vol. II. Hergt, Koblenz 1879, supplements, p. 18 and 116f ( digitized version of the Landesbibliothekszentrum Rheinland-Pfalz Koblenz ).
29. ↑ Ancestry samples from October 28, 1511; Historical archive of the city of Cologne (inventory 210 Domstift, U 1/1961 and 1962).
30. ↑ ^{a b} Cf. Klaus Militzer: Sources on the history of the Cologne lay brotherhoods from the 12th century to 1562/63 , Bd. II St. Gereon - White women and brotherhoods that cannot be assigned . (Publications of the Society for Rhenish History 71/2). Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1997, p. 643: " Fredericus comes ex comitibus de Nuwenair requiescat eius anima in pace, obijt in Ungaria anno 1527 ".
31. ↑ Cf. Klaus Militzer (arrangement): The Protocols of the Cologne Cathedral Chapter , Vol. I. (Publications of the Society for Rheinische Geschichtskunde 77). Droste, Düsseldorf 2009, No. 2203, p. 565.
32. ↑ Document of July 25, 1518. In: Peter Joerres (edit.): Document book of the St. Gereon Abbey in Cologne . Hanstein, Bonn 1893, p. 622f, cf. P. 627–629 and 630f ( digitized version of the University and State Library in Düsseldorf).
33. ↑ Documents of February 26, 1528; Landesarchiv NRW, Westphalia Münster department (County Tecklenburg - Rheinische Urkunden, No. 97); Princely Archives Berleburg (document 1596); Regesten with Günter Aders (arrangement): documents and files of the Neuenahrer lordship and possessions of the Alps, Bedburg, Hackenbroich, Helpenstein, Linnep, Wevelinghoven and Wülfrath as well as the hereditary bailiwick of Cologne . (Inventories of non-governmental archives 21). Landschaftsverband Rheinland, Cologne 1977, No. 149 and 150, p. 52 ( PDF of the Landschaftsverband Rheinland).
34. ↑ See document of May 31, 1526; Peter Wilhelm Gustav Urchs: Documents . In: Annals of the historical association for the Lower Rhine, in particular the Old Archdiocese of Cologne 28/29 (1876), pp. 217–241, esp. No. IX, pp. 223f ( Google Books ).

predecessor	Office	successor
Friedrich	Count of Neuenahr-Alpen 1468–1504	Gumprecht II. (IV., VI.)
Gumprecht II (IV.)	Count of Limburg in the condominium 1484–1504	Gumprecht (II.) IV. (VI.)
Gumprecht (II.) IV.	Hereditary bailiff of the Archbishopric of Cologne 1484–1504	Gumprecht (II., IV.) VI.