Gumprecht II of Neuenahr-Alpen

Gumprecht II. (IV., VI.) Von Neuenahr-Alpen (* around 1503; † 1555 , before September 10th) was inherited from Cologne as the hereditary bailiff and ruling Count of Limburg .

ancestry

Gumprecht II (IV.) Came around 1503 as the son of Count Gumprecht I (III.) Von Neuenahr-Alpen (* after 1461; † 1504) and his wife Countess Amalia von Wertheim (* around 1460; † around 1532 ) to the world.  

Life

After his father's death in 1504, Gumprecht inherited part of the condominium in the county of Limburg , the Alps , Helpenstein , Linnep Castle and the Cologne hereditary bailiwick . Guardians were initially 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 second uncle, Count Wilhelm II Neuenahr († 1552). The guardians compared in 1505 with Count Johann von Limburg-Broich († 1511) about the claims of their ward on the county of Limburg.

In 1515, "Domicellus Gombertus Comes de Nuwenar et praefectus civitatis Coloniensis, dominus in Alps" was registered with his brother Friedrich at the old University of Cologne ( Universitas Studii Coloniensis ).

Since around 1522, Gumprecht II von Neuenahr, as Cologne hereditary bailiff, had argued with the Chapter of St. Kunibert about various rights of the Fronhof in Mauenheim . In May and June 1527 he was a member of the delegation that accompanied Duchess Sibylle von Jülich-Kleve-Berg on her bridal trip to Johann Friedrich I of Saxony in Torgau and was an eyewitness to the Torgau tournament , which was also attended by Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon . In 1530 "Graff Gunprecht von Newenaer" took part in the retinue of Archbishop Hermann V von Wied (1477–1552; ruled 1515–1547) at the Augsburg Diet and in January 1531 at the coronation celebrations for Ferdinand I in Aachen. Gumprecht II. (IV.) Von Neuenahr, like his relative Wilhelm II. Von Neuenahr, played a decisive role in the politics of the Electorate of Cologne; he was considered reform-minded and Protestant.

Gumprecht II von Neuenahr tried in the 1520 / 30s, the glories Arsbeck (" Orsbeck ") and Rödgen as well as goods in Wassenberg and Birgelen in the Duchy of Jülich, which in 1434 by his great-grandfather Dietrich von Linnep and Helpenstein († 1445/46) for 600 Upper Rhenish guilders to Wilhelm von Vlodrop (* around 1396, † 1458 or * around 1410, † 1493) had been pledged to be redeemed by the heirs of Johann von Vlodrop (* around 1445; † 1519). After a process before the Imperial Court of Justice, which was referred to the Duke of Jülich as sovereign, Wilhelm V von Jülich-Kleve-Berg finally decided on December 1, 1540 in favor of Neuenahr.

In 1546, according to the marriage contract of November 20, 1542 with Amöna von Daun, after the death of her father Wirich V. von Daun-Falkenstein , he inherited the rest of the Limburg condominium. This meant that the county was once again under one hand after almost nine decades. In the same year, on May 17th, he received the fiefdom from Duke Wilhelm V of Jülich-Kleve-Berg.

Gumprecht II von Neuenahr was founded in 1548 by Georg von Westhofen the Elder. Ä. zu Letmathe accused of having broken the peace in the country , because he had his sons Adrian and Georg von Westhofen the Elder. J. had arrested.

In 1550 Gumprecht II signed and sealed the Cologne Hereditary Land Association . In 1553 he and his wife took in the maids Veronika († 1553) and Katharina vom Juden († after 1558), who had fled Cologne from the plague, in Hackenbroich . They were daughters of the late Cologne aldermen Johann von Judden the Elder. Ä. († 1548/58) and his wife Anna von Schiderich († after 1561), granddaughters of the bailiff Dr. Dietrich von Schiderich and Anna Sudermann.

Initially, Johann von der Hövelich, Drost zu Alpen, and later Hermann von Neuenahr acted as guardian of the children of the late Gumprecht II . In 1560, Hermann and Amöna von Daun, as guardians, sold the rule of Arsbeck with Rödgen for 5500 imperial guilders to Wilhelm V von Vlodrop († 1564), Herr zu Rickolt and Leuth, who passed it on to Duke Wilhelm V in 1561.

Marriages and offspring

⚭ (I) February 14, 1528 with Anna von Bronckhorst († October 1, 1529), daughter of Friedrich von Bronckhorst (1456–1508) and Mechthild van den Bergh († around 1539), sister of Joost von Bronckhorst (1503–1553 )
⚭ (II) March 19, 1536 with Cordula (Karda) (* 1516; † November 20, 1542), daughter of Jobst I. von Holstein-Schauenburg and Maria von Nassau-Dietz (1491–1547)

• Amalia (born April 6, 1539 in Alpen , † April 10, 1602)

⚭ 1557 Heinrich von Brederode (* December 20, 1531; † February 15, 1568)

⚭ April 25, 1569 Friedrich III. von der Pfalz (February 14, 1515 - October 26, 1576)

⚭ (III) November 20, 1542 with Amöna (* around 1520, † around 1582), daughter of Wirich V. von Daun-Falkenstein and Irmgard von Sayn († 1551), the adopted daughter of Johann von Limburg-Broich

• Magdalena (* 1553 - 13 January 1627)

⚭ July 26, 1573 with Arnold II. Von Bentheim-Tecklenburg (* October 10/11, 1554; † January 11, 1606)

• Adolf (around 1554 - October 1589)

⚭ 1575 Anna Walburga von Neuenahr (* 1522; † May 25, 1600)

Gumprecht's widow Amöna sealed the marriage speech of Margarethe, natural daughter of Neuenahr, with Heinrich Öde, citizen of Cologne in 1555. In 1574 she took part in the wedding of Princess Anna von Jülich-Kleve-Berg with Count Palatine Philipp Ludwig von Pfalz-Neuburg in Neuburg an der Donau .

literature

• Walter Bösken: The Neuenarer Grafenhaus and the Protestant community in the Alps near Wesel from the Reformation to the Thirty Years' War . In: Theological works from the Rhenish Scientific Prediger Association NF 2 (1898), pp. 58–96 ( Google Books ; limited preview)
• 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 ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On various occasions, May 21, 1556 is incorrectly given as the date of death.
2. ^ 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; Trial Records, 1511-1527; Historical archive of the city of Cologne (inventory 310 Reichskammergericht - letters U, A 2).
3. ↑ See document of August 6, 1516; Historical archive of the city of Cologne (holdings 1 main document archive, U 2/15901).
4. ↑ File 1505; Nationaal Archief The Hague (2.21.106 Inventory of het archief van de familie Van Limburg Stirum, LW1); see. Gerhard E. Sollbach: The county of 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.
5. ↑ Cf. Historical Archive of the City of Cologne (holdings 239 Kunibert, A 26).
6. ↑ Cf. Karl Wilhelm Bouterwek : Sibylla, Electress of Saxony . In: Zeitschrift des Bergisches geschichtsverein 7 (1871), pp. 105–164, especially p. 121 ( Google Books ).
7. ↑ See Reinhard Braunisch (arrangement): Johannes Gropper Briefwechsel , Vol. I 1529-1547 . (Corpus Catholicorum 32). Aschendorff, Münster 1977, p. 212, note 3.
8. ↑ Cf. Paul Pesel: Warhrachtyge vnd aigentliche verzaichnüs der… Künig Ferdinanden… Coronation to Aach . Singriener, Vienna 1531, unpaginated ( Google Books ).
9. ^ Letter from Martin Bucer in Bonn to Jakob Sturm von Sturmeck in Nuremberg on February 27, 1543; Otto Winckelmann (arr.): Political Correspondence of the City of Strasbourg in the Age of Reformation , Vol. III. (Documents and files of the City of Strasbourg II, 3). K. J. Trübner, Strasbourg 1898, No. 339, p. 356f ( Google Books ; limited preview).
10. ^ Cf. Elisabeth M. Kloosterhuis: Erasmus disciples as political reformer. The ideal of humanism and rulership practice on the Lower Rhine in the 16th century . (Rheinisches Archiv 148). Böhlau, Köln / Weimar / Wien 2006, pp. 82f and 635 (data partly inaccurate).
11. ↑ See process files, 1531–1534; State archive of North Rhine-Westphalia. Rhineland Duisburg Department (Reich Chamber of Commerce, No. 4079 - N 307/898); Eberhard Quadflieg: The Helpensteiner rule Arsbeck-Rödgen . In: Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine 176 (1974), pp. 41–56.
12. ↑ See process files, 1582–1587; State archive of North Rhine-Westphalia. Rhineland Duisburg Department (Reich Chamber of Commerce, No. 4086 - N 314/906).
13. ↑ See Landesarchiv NRW, Westphalia Münster department (Reich Chamber of Commerce, No. W 816).
14. ↑ Cf. Konstantin Höhlbaum (arrangement): Das Buch Weinsberg , Vol. II. (Publications of the Society for Rhenish History 4). Alphons Dürr, Leipzig 1887, p. 40 ( digitized in the Internet Archive).
15. ↑ Cf. Regest of October 1, 1552; Anna-Dorothee von den Brincken ( arrangement ): The Lückger and Fahne collections in the Cologne City Archives . In: Mitteilungen aus der Stadtarchiv von Köln 49 (1965), pp. 89–267, esp. P. 151; Regest of November 7, 1558; Hugo Loersch (arr.): The documents of the Bonn district library . In: Annalen des Historisches Verein für den Niederrhein 66 (1898), pp. 40–93, esp. No. 14, p. 68, cf. No. 9-10, p. 65f, No. 13, p. 67, and No. 15, p. 68, and especially p. 87f ( digitized in the Internet Archive).
16. ↑ Married to Margaretha von Bronckhorst-Batenburg († 1546).
17. ↑ Cf. Günter Aders (arrangement): Documents and files of the Neuenahrer lordships 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. 1368, p. 329.
18. ^ State archive North Rhine-Westphalia. Rhineland Duisburg Department (Jülich-Berg II, No. 2663); see. Wilhelm Ritz: How did Dalheim Abbey come under Jülich sovereignty? and the glory of Helpenstein or the villages of Arsbeck and Rötgen an Jülich? In: General Archive for the History of the Prussian State 6 (1831), pp. 89–92, esp. P. 91 ( Google Books ).
19. ^ Marriage contract of March 19, 1536; Lower Saxony State Archive Bückeburg (Orig. F Fürstlich Schaumburg-Lippisches Hausarchiv, certificate no. 225).
20. ↑ Presumably from the family of the cathedral capitular Martin von Oed (de Oed ; Ude, † 1536) from Kempen, natural son of the Cologne mayor Dietrich von Schiderich ( cf.Historical Archive of the City of Cologne, holdings 120 civil trials, A 4280, sheet 7), Dr. jur., since 1508 official of the Archbishop of Cologne Philip II von Daun , 1509 rector of the University of Cologne , friend of the humanist Hermann von dem Busche .
21. ^ Regest of September 10, 1555; see. Heinrich Kochendörffer (edit.): Document registers from the archives of the princes and former counts of Salm-Reifferscheidt-Krautheim and Dyck at Dyck Castle (Rhineland) . In: Archivalische Zeitschrift 33 = N. F. 20 (1914), pp. 107–156, esp.p. 153.
22. ↑ Cf. Sigmund Feyerabend : Magnificent, full description of the princely journey home by both . Sigmund Feyerabend, Frankfurt am Main 1576, Bl. 63f, 79, 81, 83 and 130 ( Google Books ).

predecessor	Office	successor
Gumprecht I. (III., V.)	Count of Neuenahr-Alpen 1504–1555	Hermann von Neuenahr (Guardianship) Adolf von Neuenahr (from 1570)
Gumprecht (I.) III. (V.) von Neuenahr-Alpen Wirich V. von Daun-Falkenstein	Count of Limburg 1504–1546 in the condominium 1546–1556 (alone)	Hermann von Neuenahr (regency) Adolf von Neuenahr (from 1570)
Gumprecht (I., III.) V.	Bailiff of the Archbishopric of Cologne 1504–1555	Hermann von Neuenahr (Guardianship) Adolf von Neuenahr (from 1570)