Lords of Vorsfelde

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Coat of arms of Gottfried von Vorsfelde with antlers, around 1200

The Lords of Vorsfelde were a ministerial family in Guelph services from the 13th to the 15th century , for which the village of Vorsfelde was named. You can be attributed to the lower nobility .

There are first indications of the sex in 1217 through the documentary mention of Gottfried von Vorsfelde as "godefridus de varsfelde". He appeared on June 21, 1217 in Salzdahlum in a feudal contract from Otto IV as a surety for the enfeoffment of Harbke Castle to Hermann and Otto von Harbke . After the death of Otto IV, Gottfried von Vorsfelde rose to the rank of " advocatus ". He held the position of bailiff in legal transactions in which Braunschweig matters were up for negotiation. In addition, Gottfried von Vorsfelde was entrusted with special tasks in the interests of the Guelph and was connected to the Helmstedt area, in particular to the monasteries of Mariental and Marienberg .

In documents dating back to the 15th century, members of the gender can be found. Their possessions and rights existed in the area from Vorsfelde to Vechelde , Helmstedt and Königslutter . In 1334, Volkmar von Vorsfelde, as "Volckmar van Varsfelde", confirmed in a document to the parish in Volkmarsdorf that the parish had donated a piece of land. Jordan von Vorsfelde is mentioned for the last time in a document from 1462. Previously, on April 5, 1444, he left the village of Hondelage to Burchard and Huner von Bartensleben in the event that he would have no descendants. The family died out in the second half of the 15th century. The last representative was Heinrich von Vorsfelde, who was last mentioned in 1478 as vicar at the St. Blaise Monastery in Braunschweig.

The small extent of possessions and rights of the Lords of Vorsfelde compared to other lower nobility genders is explained by their late appearance in the Guelph environment. Due to their narrow property base, they could only give a small amount of fiefs . They had only a small connection to their eponymous place Vorsfelde.

See also

literature

  • The Lords of Vorsfelde in: History of Vorsfeldes Volume 1 . Wolfsburg City Archives, Wolfsburg 1995, pp. 33–34

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Church history of Volkmarsdorf in Braunschweigisches Magazin, Volume 17, 1804, p. 26