Henry III. from Barmstede

Henry III. von Barmstede († probably on July 24, 1257 ) was a Holstein nobleman.

Live and act

Henry III. von Barmstede was a son of Heinrich II. von Barmstede and his wife Adelheid. He had a brother named Gottschalk and another named Otto . Henry III. and Otto are regularly to be found among the witnesses of count documents from 1246 . From 1247 they were mostly in first position there.

Either Heinrich II. Or the brothers Heinrich III. and Otto founded and supported the community in Krempe . The oldest city seal shows a bear's head, probably taken from the coat of arms of the Barmstede family . It is documented that the brothers made numerous sales in 1253 and 1255 and pledged things in order to get larger amounts of cash. The count initially approved this procedure, but became more cautious from 1255/56 in order not to lose any rights that the von Barmstedes had taken as a fief .

In 1255 Friedrich von Haseldorf , who owned Haseldorf Castle and large estates in the Elbmarschen as a fiefdom of the Archbishop of Bremen , became a priest. Henry III. and Otto bought both Burg and the land of Haseldorf and in 1257 also placed themselves in the service of the archbishop as ministerials . In doing so, they expanded their possessions and their position of power in the region and tied themselves to the Archbishopric of Bremen , thereby putting the Counts of Holstein and Schauenburg and the city of Hamburg in distress.

Henry III. died a short time later, presumably in mid-1257. The circumstances surrounding his death were presumably suspicious. He left behind a son of the same name , whom he had together with his first wife Margarethe. With his second wife, Adelheid, daughter of Dietrich I von Haseldorf , he had two more children.

literature

• Hans Harald Hennings: Barmstede, Heinrich III. from . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 1. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1970, pp. 62–63