Hövel (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Hövel

Hövel is the name of an old Westphalian noble family who were among the ministerials of the Counts of Hövel and should not be confused with them. The gender is not to be confused with the von Höveln, also from Westphalia, who have recently also called themselves Hoevell . The family, of which Zweig still exists today, took on this name after being enfeoffed with Hövel .

history

In 1145 belehnte Count Adolf II. Von Berg and Hoevel the castle Hoevel with large land holdings to one of his ministerials. During this time it took the name of the castle and called itself "de Hüvele". Over time, different spellings such as de Hovele, de Huvele and de Houele appeared.

The family is first mentioned in a document in 1198 with Lambertus de Hovele , who testifies to an exchange of land between the Count of Arnsberg and a provost from the Cappenberg monastery . The same document also lists a Werner de Hüvele who then owned the Krutmann farm in Barsen as an additional fief in 1229.

Lambert de Hüvele has only one son named Johann. Johann de Hüvele appears as a witness in the country change of Prince-Bishop Ludolf von Münster around 1238. Johann de Hüvele Burgmann is said to have been with Count Adolf I von der Mark as early as 1243 .

A Godfried de Houele appears as a witness at the provost in Cappenberg when Count Engelbert I of the Mark apologized for injustice done at the Cappenberg monastery in 1260. In 1262 there is a Johannes de Houele canon in Münster. Under this name he was the first to sign contracts, then various knights came as witnesses.

On June 24, 1269, Godefridus de Hüvele was the first witness to confirm the contract between Count Engelbert von der Mark and the citizens of the young city of Hamm on minting coins. On March 21, 1279, Godefridus de Hüvele was the first witness to sign a contract with Count Eberhard I von der Mark when he gave the citizens of Hamm the right to Lippstadt as a town charter.

Around 1280, Eberhard von der Mark founded the North Hospital in Hamm together with his wife Ermegard. The witnesses were: Godefridus de Hüvel and Johann de Hüvele. In 1297 Johann de Hüvele became Burgmann in Stromberg . Hermann de Hüvele was at the same time bailiff for the Prince-Bishop of Münster. Lambert de Hüvele, the eldest son, probably continued to live at Hövel Castle . He was married to Odburgis. They had six children from the marriage, namely the daughters Ermegardis and Christina and the sons Statius, Lambert, Johann and Godfried. Lambert de Hüvele stayed at Hövel Castle. The others became ministerials to various counts. Lambert had a daughter named Otburga, who became a nun in Welver monastery, and five sons, Lambert, Deibolt, Godfried, Johann and Hermann. Hermann became canon in Münster, Johann de Hüvele Ritter and Burgmann in Stromberg. Now Lambert de Hüvele acquired the feudal rights of the Stockum family from the nuns in Herford and acquired Geinegge Castle . Godfrid de Hüvele became the feudal lord of the Stockum family, and his son Lambert became lord of Geinegge Castle. Dreibolt de Hüvele became the master of Hövel Castle. He was married to Elseke. On October 31, 1323, Dreibold de Hüvele gave a donation from Schürkmann's legacy in Nordick with the approval of his wife Elseke. In addition to gifts of grain to the pastor, various debt reliefs, etc. The Nortwick estate, which at that time still belonged to the parish of Bockum, was given away to a Johann von Berle. The seal of Dreibolt de Hüvele still hangs intact on a strip of parchment on the deed of gift.

Around 1339, the squire Albert de Hüvele gave his wife and children Albert, Johann, Arnold and Bromeken, Pastor Ruitger from the Grotenhuis zu Hövel, a meadow in the Bockumer Grafenmersch, for which three soul masses were to be held every year. Lambert de Hüvele gave the farmers a chapel around 1385.

In 1390 Lambert de Hüvele witnessed the sale of the free chair in Ascheberg. At that time he lived at his Hövel castle. In 1448 Evert von Mersfeld married a Gödeke de Hüvele who lived at the castle in Hövel.

The uninterrupted lineage of the family begins with Johann von Hövel around 1450. As early as 1441, he appears as a witness in a document with the name Johan van Hovele to Geynetge .

In 1467 Heinrich de Hüvele donated two shillings from Dalhoff's legacy and two shillings from Weilings' legacy to the church in Hövel. Witnesses of the donation act were Pastor Wilhelm Wittling, Gert von Galen and Schulte von Swederink.

In 1507 Dietrich de Hüvele and his wife Frederene lived at Hövel Castle.

In 1527 Gerd de Hüvele and his wife Frye prescribed half of the pension from the six farms they owned in the Natorp peasantry in the Drensteinfurt parish .

Hermann von Hoevell went to Livonia around 1544 , where he was first master of Pernau . He married Gertke von Uexküll , who was widowed Konrad von Vietinghoff , the mayor of Pernau. His descendants owned the Wohlfahrt estate until the 17th century.

In 1550 the Hövel Castle passed into the hands of the von Reck family in Heessen. Around 1580 the owner of Hövel Castle was Hermann von der Reck in Heessen, who also called himself Lord of the Castle von Hövel. Diedrich von Kaldenhof was the next lord of the Hövel castle. He had to sell this castle because it went bankrupt. The Ermelinghof house and Hövel Castle were bought by Pastor Baggel, pastor at the Pankratius Church in Hövel, in 1608. He set up a family foundation there. The moats were filled in so that nothing can be seen of the former manor today.

Direct descendants of the Hövel family still live in Junkernthal in the Westerwald and Herbeck an der Lenne . They were only awarded the title of baron around 1850.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a shield divided three times by red and silver. On the helmet with the red and silver covers there is an open eagle flight marked like the shield. Sometimes the shield was also divided four times, so that two red bars appeared in silver or two silver bars in red.

  • Coat of arms of the Hövel in Siebmacher's book of arms (1878)

  • Coats of arms variant of Hövel in Siebmacher's book of arms (1878)

  • Coat of arms of the Hövel (Huvele) in the coat of arms of the Westphalian nobility (1901–1903)

Known family members

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Westphalia. Document book 2, Münster1851: Erhard, Reg. 2415 and 2416, document 576 and 577.
  2. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Nobility Lexicon. Volume V, Volume 84 of the complete series, Limburg (Lahn) 1984, p. 265.
  3. ^ Höllinghofen - Heessen certificate HV 2
  4. ^ Leonhard von Stryk : Contributions to the history of the manors of Livonia. Part two: The Latvian District. Dresden 1885, p. 426.