Heinrich V of Gudenberg

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Heinrich V. von Gudenberg (* around 1415, † after 1480) from the noble family of the Lords of Gudenberg , son of Werner VI. von Gudenberg, was a Count Waldeck and Landgrave Hessian feudal man and office holder.

Life

He is mentioned in a document from 1438 to 1480, for example in 1441 as the Count's bailiff at Waldeck . During the reign of Count Wolrad I. von Waldeck he was bailiff of Rhoden from 1461–1466 and 1472–1476 . On July 19, 1466 he was one of the guarantors in the contract between Hesse and the Princes of Paderborn , which was supposed to end the Hesse-Paderborn feud that flared up again afterwards . On March 9, 1471, he was named as the secret council of Landgrave Ludwig II of Hesse.

In the bloody phase of the federal feud between 1451–1454 he was on the side of Werner von Elben , whose allies called themselves the “federal lords”.

Heinrich von Gudenberg inherited and acquired considerable property in the north Hessian border area to Waldeck and Westphalia. In the inherited Elmarshausen near Wolfhagen he had the Elmarshausen an der Erpe moated castle, first mentioned in 1442, only a few hundred meters east of the important trade route from Paderborn to Fritzlar and therefore strategically important, built by his grandson Eberhard von Gudenberg, the last male offspring of the Family, sold to Hermann von der Malsburg in 1515 . In 1451 he held the Waldeck half of the Wetterburg as a pledge . In October 1457 he bought the entire Hessian fiefdom of the villages of Breuna , Oberlistingen and Rhöda and half of Ober- and Niederelsungen , Niederlistingen and Wettesingen for 1,800 guilders from Rave von Calenberg († 1464), the last male offspring of Messrs. Rabe von Calenberg . As Kurmainzer fiefs he possessed in ganerbschaft together with the Wolff of Gudenberg 27 hooves in Calden , the villages Meimbressen and Ödinghausen and half the tithes in low-Besse . As a Waldeck fiefdom he had a farm in Rhöda, the tithe at Geppenhagen , 15 Hufen at Wittmar and 3/4 of the tithe at Wetter . At Mederich , too , he had 1/2 tenth.

Marriage and offspring

Heinrich von Gudenberg married Adelheid Sophie von Stockhausen around 1440 . The marriage resulted in the daughters Adelheid and Sophie (⚭ Philipp von Berlepsch ) and the sons Heinrich VI. († before 1508) and Philipp († 1492/93).

Footnotes

  1. ^ Volker Knöppel: On the feud of the federal rulers 500 years ago
  2. ^ Son of Philip of Gudenberg.
personal data
SURNAME Gudenberg, Heinrich V. von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Counts Waldeck and Landgraves Hessian liege and office holder
DATE OF BIRTH around 1415
DATE OF DEATH around 1480