Wohldenberg (noble family)
The Counts of Wohldenberg , including Woldenberg , formerly Lords of Wöltingerode, were a dynasty documented in the High Middle Ages that was wealthy northwest of the Harz Mountains .
The castle was named after Wohldenberg . In 1174 they had their former family castle Wöltingerode converted into a Benedictine monastery; they founded the Wöltingerode monastery . When they died out, their property fell to the Hildesheim Monastery in 1383 .
Well-known namesake
- Adelheid von Woldenberg , first abbess of the St. Aegidii monastery in Münster
- Burkhard I. von Woldenberg
- Heinrich II of Woldenberg
- Otto II von Woldenberg
- Mechthild II of Wohldenberg
- Jutta von Wohldenberg , provost of the Gandersheim monastery
- Ludiger von Woldenberg , Count of Woldenberg
literature
- Jan Habermann: Allied vassals. The networks of counts and lords in the northwest Harz in the tension between rival princes (approx. 1250-1400) . Norderstedt 2011.
- Wolfgang Petke: The counts of Wöltingerode Wohldenberg. Aristocratic rule, royalty and sovereignty in the northwest Harz in the 12th and 13th centuries . Hildesheim 1971. (Publications by the Institute for Historical Research at the University of Göttingen, 4)
Individual evidence
- ^ Petke; Wöltingerode-Wohldenberg, p. 262 f. Up to the year 1133 the von Wöltingerode appear in the rulership deeds under the nobiles, but never with the title of count .
- ↑ Petke, Wöltingerode-Wohldenberg, p. 313.
- ↑ lrz-muenchen.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ google.books.de
