Borculo reign

Map of the Dominion of Borculo 1741

Borculo Castle 1720

The Borculo lordship was a great glory in the northeast of the County of Zutphen and until 1615 a fiefdom of the Duchy of Münster .

location

The lordship lay in the Achterhoek and roughly encompassed the current area of the municipality of Berkelland without Ruurlo and, until 1616, also the area of the former municipality of Lichtenvoorde .

The most important places of rule were the cities of Borculo and Eibergen and the villages of Neede , Geesteren and Lichtenvoorde.

history

As the first of the Lords of Borculo, Rudolf von Borculo is mentioned by name in a document from Bishop Werner von Münster from 1151 as "Rotholfus de Burclo". Heinrich von Borculo sold Groenlo to Count Otto II von Geldern in 1236 , which became an enclave in Münster.

After the family of the Lords of Borculo died out in 1401, the Borculo rule fell to the von Bronckhorst family. In 1406 Gisbert von Bronckhorst recognized the sovereignty of the diocese of Münster over the rule of Borculo. Gisbert von Bronckhorst and the subsequent owners were enfeoffed by the diocese of Münster with the rule of Borculo.

When Joost von Bronckhorst died in 1553 without a direct heir, the Duchy of Münster took in the lordships of Borculo and Lichtenvoorde as a dilapidated fief. Joost's widow Maria von Hoya retained the usufruct provided that this would not violate any rights of the bishop.

The cousin of the late Joost von Bronckhorst-Borculo, Irmgard von Wisch , widow of Georg von Limburg-Styrum , raised a claim to the inheritance and concluded a contract with Maria von Hoya in this regard and the court of Borculo recognized this as legitimate. But she was unsuccessful at the feudal court of Münster and the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Speyer. When Maria von Hoya died in 1579, the prince-bishopric took possession of the rulers and placed them under direct administration.

It was not until Irmgard's grandson, Jobst von Limburg-Styrum , that the matter was brought to the Geldrischen court in Arnhem in 1612 , which on December 20, 1615 passed its judgment in favor of the plaintiff. The verdict was enforced with general government troops from Zutphen, who took the village and castle Lichtenvoorde on December 27th and on 3rd / 4th. March 1616 - after a short siege - the city and the castle Borculo.

Prince-Bishop Christoph Bernhard von Galen tried twice to bring Borculo and Lichtenvoorde back under his influence. In the Peace of Kleve on April 18, 1666, the Bishop of Münster had to finally renounce Borculo. Since then, Borculo has definitely been part of the Gelderland province. In 1726 the House of Limburg-Stirum sold the rule to Karl Sophronius Philipp von Wartensleben . The Counts of Wartensleben-Flodorp in turn sold them in 1742 to the Counts of Flemming (owners from 1742 to 1771). By inheritance, the rule briefly belonged to the Polish Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski (from 1771 to 1777) . In 1777 the House of Orange acquired Borculo. To this day the title Heer van Borculo belongs to the " grote titulatuur ", the complete list of the titles of the Dutch kings.

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Footnotes

^ Heinrich August Erhard : Regesta historiae Westfaliae. The sources of the history of Westphalia in chronologically ordered records and extracts accompanied by a document book , Vol. 2: From the years 1126 to 1200 . Regensberg, Münster 1851, part of the document book on the history of Westphalia , p. 64, certificate no. 282.
^ Joannes Henricus Hofman: Het oude kerspel Borkelo . In: Archief voor de geschiedenis van het bisdom Utrecht , Vol. 1 (1874), pp. 179–207, here p. 179.
^ Joannes Henricus Hofman: Het oude kerspel Borkelo . In: Archief voor de geschiedenis van het bisdom Utrecht , Vol. 1 (1874), pp. 179–207, here p. 190.
^ Wilhelm Kohl : The diocese of Münster. Volume 1: The Diocese (= Germania Sacra NF 37.1). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-11-016470-2 , p. 588.
^ Wilhelm Kohl: The diocese of Münster. Volume 1: The Diocese . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1999, p. 589.
^ Wilhelm Kohl: The diocese of Münster. Volume 1: The Diocese . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1999, p. 590.

[1] Heinrich August Erhard : Regesta historiae Westfaliae. The sources of the history of Westphalia in chronologically ordered records and extracts accompanied by a document book , Vol. 2: From the years 1126 to 1200 . Regensberg, Münster 1851, part of the document book on the history of Westphalia , p. 64, certificate no. 282.

[2] Joannes Henricus Hofman: Het oude kerspel Borkelo . In: Archief voor de geschiedenis van het bisdom Utrecht , Vol. 1 (1874), pp. 179–207, here p. 179.

[3] Joannes Henricus Hofman: Het oude kerspel Borkelo . In: Archief voor de geschiedenis van het bisdom Utrecht , Vol. 1 (1874), pp. 179–207, here p. 190.

[4] Wilhelm Kohl : The diocese of Münster. Volume 1: The Diocese (= Germania Sacra NF 37.1). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-11-016470-2 , p. 588.

[5] Wilhelm Kohl: The diocese of Münster. Volume 1: The Diocese . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1999, p. 589.

[6] Wilhelm Kohl: The diocese of Münster. Volume 1: The Diocese . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1999, p. 590.