Limburg-Arlon

Limburg-Arlon is the family of the counts and (from 1140) dukes of Limburg from the 11th to the 13th and 14th centuries. It came into the possession of the counties of Berg and Luxemburg through marriage at the beginning of the 13th century . While the older Berg and Limburg lines died out in 1279 and 1348, respectively, the Luxembourg line came to the German royal throne with Henry VII in 1308 and has been referred to as the House of Luxembourg ever since . A younger line of Luxembourgers, on the other hand, came to prominence in France.

Family history

The first mention of a Count of Limburg comes from around 1061 with the egregius comes Udo de Lemborch (chosen Count Udo of Limburg). Count Heinrich I was appointed Duke of Lower Lorraine by Emperor Heinrich IV in 1101 . In the power struggle between the emperor and his son ( Heinrich V ), Heinrich von Limburg remained loyal to the old emperor, whereby in 1106 he lost the ducal dignity to Count Gottfried I , Count von Löwen . In the period that followed, there was constant fighting for the title and office of Duke of Lower Lorraine between the houses of Limburg-Arlon and Leuven-Brabant. In 1128 Heinrich I's son, Walram III. of Limburg (1119–1139), the title of the later Emperor Lothar III. , in 1139 awarded Conrad III. him back to the Brabanters. The situation was then resolved by the fact that Walram's son Heinrich II was appointed Duke of Limburg the following year (1140).

Through the marriage (1214) of Duke Walram IV to Ermesinde , Countess of Luxemburg as daughter and heiress of Count Heinrich IV. The Blind , the House of Limburg-Arlon came into the possession of the counties Luxemburg, Durbuy and Laroche; However, since the legacy of Limburg came from the first marriage and that of Luxembourg from the second marriage, the two fiefs could not be merged.

Count Heinrich IV of Limburg married Irmgard von Berg , the heiress of the County of Berg , at about the same time , but this time too - now through the division of the estate - a merger of the property was prevented. Both the Duchy of Limburg and the County of Berg were lost a little later when the family died out.

Count Henry VII from the (younger) Luxembourg line was elected German king in 1308 and crowned emperor in 1312; the imperial family is known as the Luxemburg house.

Before the accession of the Luxembourgers to the throne, another line (House Luxemburg-Ligny) split off, which later settled in France and acquired numerous titles of counts and dukes under the family name de Luxembourg , including the title of Duc de Luxembourg et de Piney ( † 1680) and a Duc de Penthièvre et d'Étampes († 1624).

origin

In the literature the sequence Walram I - Walram II - Heinrich I has been given for the first generations of the House of Limburg-Arlon. Walram II von Arlon, the first Count of Limburg, and Judith / Jutta, daughter of Duke Friedrich II of Lower Lorraine and heiress of Limburg, are Heinrich's parents.

On the other hand, around 1061 - during Walram II's lifetime - an egregrius comes Udo de Lemborch (chosen Count Udo von Limburg) is mentioned. As a result, Walram II and Udo are seen as one person who is often given the name Walram-Udo .

Schwennicke (1999, see below) and a. now give a different genealogy. According to him, Walram II and Udo are two different people, with Walram II remaining Count of Arlon and Judith's husband, but not being mentioned as Count of Limburg. Udo is Count of Limburg around 1061 (near Schwennicke: a Count of Limburg, who was probably called Udo) and married to Judith / Jutta, a daughter of Duke Friedrich's brother Giselbert , Count of Salm . The merging of the counties of Arlon and Limburg takes place here via Heinrich I, who as the son of the first count of Limburg, probably Udo's first marriage, married the heir to Walrams II of Arlon. This - and not Heinrich II's (second) wife Adelheid von Pottenstein - would then also be the mother of the next generation.

Tribe list

• See the list of family members of the House of Limburg-Arlon

Individual evidence

1. ↑ so Hermann Grote (family tables, 1877, plate 199), W. Bahnson (family and regent tables, 1912, volume III, 14) and Freytag von Loringhoven (European family tables, volume III (1964), plate 107), but also genealogy -middle Ages
2. ↑ so Lexikon des Mittelalters , Erich Brandenburg , Winfrid Glocker, see: genealogie-medieval ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ see web links

literature

• Detlev Schwennicke : European Family Tables Volume I.2 (1999) Table 229-230
• Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 .

Web links

• genealogy.euweb.cz (engl.)
• foundation for medieval genealogy (engl.)