Heinrich von Windeck

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Heinrich von Windeck , actually Heinrich von Berg, Herr zu Windeck (* before 1247; † probably 1298 , buried in Altenberg Cathedral ) was a younger son of Count Adolf IV von Berg and Margarete von Hochstaden and the brother of Adolf V and Wilhelm I. von Berg .

He was married to Agnes von der Mark, with whom he had three children: Kunigunde, Adolf VI. von Berg, Margarethe von Windeck (* before 1290).

From 1271 to 1281 Heinrich resided as governor of his brother Adolf on the Morp manor .

Like his brother Adolf, he supported the Duke of Brabant in the War of the Limburg Succession at the Battle of Worringen in 1288 . Heinrich and Adolf should have known each other at the latest as a result of the captivity of Count Adolf von Nassau , brother-in-law of Archbishop Siegfried von Westerburg of Cologne . The following time he found him on Windeck , one of the four Bergisch main castles, owned by Bergisch since 1247 at the latest, presumably again as an “official” of his brother.

A Bergish legend probably relates to him, according to which a Count Guntram von Kranz, who was sitting on Windeck, took part in the Battle of Göllheim (July 2, 1298) and was killed there, as was the previous King Adolf of Nassau.

Heinrich von Windeck is buried together with other members of the Bergisches Grafhaus in Altenberg Cathedral (Odenthal).

literature

  • Hansjörg Laute: The Lords of Berg. Solingen 1988.
  • Thomas R. Kraus : The emergence of the sovereignty of the Counts of Berg up to the year 1225. Bergische Research Volume XVI, Ed. Bergischer Geschichtsverein, Neustadt ad Aisch 1981.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Justus Bockemühl: The tombstone of Count Adolf, founder of the Altenberg monastery, and its previous significance for the genealogy of the ruling house. In: Two Altenberg tombstones. Altenberger Dom-Verein (ed.), Bergisch Gladbach 1970, p. 58, note 46.
  2. ^ Alfred Noss: The coins from Berg and Jülich-Berg. Volume I. Ed. Stadt Düsseldorf, Verlag Kress und Hornung, Munich 1929, p. 2.
  3. ↑ Handbook of Historic Places in Germany. Volume 3: North Rhine-Westphalia. Stuttgart 1970, p. 444.
  4. ↑ W. Melsheimer: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein. No. 89, Neustadt / Aisch, p. 8, with reference to: Th. J. Lacomblet: Niederrheinisches Urkundenbuch. Volume 2, No. 312.
  5. ↑ The healing spring in the Ohmbach valley. In: Paul Weitershagen: The Bergische chest. Greven Verlag, Cologne 1955, p. 98.
  6. ↑ Emil Pauls : A mass grave in Altenberg Cathedral. In: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein. No. 31, volume, Elberfeld 1895, pp. 105-112. ( Text archive - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Heinrich von Windeck
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heinrich von Berg, Herr zu Windeck
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Son of Count Adolf IV von Berg
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: before 1247
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 1298
Place of death buried Altenberg Cathedral