Wildenburg (noble family)
The Lords of Wildenburg are an old Rhenish noble family. Its headquarters are in Wildenburg Castle in the Wildenburger Land .
history
The family went out of the Counts of Arenberg indicate the away held the hereditary Burggrafenamt in Cologne for centuries.
In the course of an inheritance division of the Arenberg property in the middle Sieg , carried out around the mid-1230s , Heinrich von Arenberg received rights and goods south of the Sieg, while his younger brother Gerhard I von Wildenburg received the half of the parish of Wissen und Güter im north of the river Spaces fell to Friesenhagen . In 1239, Gerhard built the castle “Am wilden Berghe” near the important trade route “ Hileweg ” mentioned in 1048 at a strategically favorable location not far from Friesenhagen and named himself after it.
His son Heinrich zu Wildenburg got into a dispute with Johann Graf zu Sayn , who was settled on June 13, 1284 by Heinrich I. Graf von Sponheim and Heinrich von Isenburg as elected arbitrators as follows: Heinrich may not harm Wildenburg Castle to anyone to harm Johann or his brothers sell or pledge; he should just leave them to his children or Johann's brothers. Heinrich is allowed to exercise jurisdiction within the Burgtal and the bann fences with the exception of theft, manslaughter, robbery or other cases that are punishable by the heaviest or death penalty; such cases are to be referred to the bailiff Johanns in Friesenhagen.
In 1418 the male line of Hermann von Wildenburg died out. Through the marriage of his niece Jutta with Johann von Hatzfeld († n. 1407), the now imperial rule came to the Counts of Hatzfeld .
Stem row
- Gerhard von Arenberg zu Wildenburg († approx. 1283), ∞ Aleidis von Westerburg
- Heinrich zu Wildenburg (ext. 1284 and 1307)
- Johann I of Wildenburg
- Johann II. Von Wildenburg († 1357) ∞ Elisabeth von Sayn-Homburg († 1377)
- Hermann von Wildenburg († 1418) ∞ Feye von Hammerstein
- Johann II. Von Wildenburg († 1357) ∞ Elisabeth von Sayn-Homburg († 1377)
- Johann I of Wildenburg
- Heinrich zu Wildenburg (ext. 1284 and 1307)
coat of arms
In red, 2.1 yellow heraldic rose petals with blue clusters; on the crowned helmet with a red and gold blanket a red umbrella board, covered with 2.1 rose petals and decorated with seven white peacock feathers.
literature
- Jens Friedhoff : The von Hatzfeld family