Heinrich I. von Barmstede

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Heinrich I von Barmstede (around 1149) was a Holstein nobleman.

Heinrich I von Barmstede was the progenitor of the von Barmstede family , who lived in the Elbmarschen in the 12th and 13th centuries . He was first mentioned in a document as a witness from September 18, 1149 as "Heinricus advocatus de barmizstide" . In this document, Duke Heinrich the Lion assigned the Neumünster Monastery Marschländer an der Stör and Wilsterau . In the following years he was counted among the noble free and the "seniores et iudices" (elders and judges of the country) in Holstein , who formed an upper class of the nobility. His sons were Wilbrand, 1175 Ritter, from whom Eckehard (around 1211) and the later Bishop Lambert II of Barmstede († 1228) descended, as well as Borchard I., Ritter 1190, from whom the sons Borchard II. (Around 1211), Lambert I (1211), Markquard I (around 1211) and Heinrich II († 1240) descended. Heinrich II von Barmstede later became the most important person in the family in the history of South Holstein.

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