Horhusen (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Horhusen

Horhusen is the name of an extinct Westphalian noble family named as late as 1444 in a manuscript by the Paderborn cathedral scholaster Dietrich von Engelsheim. They were ministerials of the imperial abbey Corvey and later also the bishops of Paderborn. Their ancestral home was the former village of Horhusen an der Diemel , a district of what is now Marsberg in the eastern Sauerland .

history

The von Horhusen were originally noblemen . Since they were no longer able to live adequately on their property in the course of time, they descended into the ministry of the Corvey monastery. This had considerable rights and possessions in the Marsberg area. The Horhusen have been traceable as comes corveys since around 1100 . They served the monastery as ministerial city counts with the function of judges in the Horhusen settlement. According to the historian Manfred Wolf, they had previously given their previous property to the monastery and received it back as a fief . In 1227 they were called the ministerialis ecclesie nostre . Wolf also assumes, contrary to the older research, that they were the patron saints of the now disappeared St. Dionysius Church. At times, members of the family also held the office of cupbearer for the Corvey monastery. The family had their castle in a corner of land formed from the Diemel and the Glinde . The name Burgstrasse still exists today. The farm yard and the water-powered castle mill were attached to the castle.

Later the sex split into two lines. The older one, which was owned by the Meierhof in Horhusen, had two shaft beams in its seal. The younger line had a lion in the seal. The younger line was probably located outside of Horhusen. At Wartberch Castle in Warburg , which belonged to the Paderborn bishopric , since Count Dodiko had inherited his county to the bishop in 1020 , members of the Horhusen family entered the episcopal service as castle men, together with the Rabe von Pappenheim and the Berkule .

In the year 1335 a Bodo von Horhusen is known to be the Corveyscher feudal owner of the " Kemenate " ( Castle Twiste ) and the Amtshof with dairy in Twiste ; A Johann von Horhusen sold this property together with the local mill, with the consent of the abbey, in 1440 to Werner von Sunreke (Sunrich) and his wife Guste, and from them the Hessian Landgrave Ludwig I. Ein Dietrich von Horhusen bought it in 1450 was enfeoffed around 1356 with goods in the Twiste office by Count Gottfried IV of Arnsberg and the Corvey monastery. Members of the family from different lines lived around Dalheim .

When most of the residents of Horhusen moved to Obermarsberg around 1220 , the city judge's office lost value and the family suffered a great financial loss. As a result, the family went down, as is evident from the sale of goods. These increased in the 14th century. In the 14th century the von Horhusen still owned land a. a. in Leitmar and a mill in Helminghausen , which they donated to the Bredelar monastery in 1325 . In 1330 Ludolf von Horhusen finally sold the main courtyard to the Bredelar monastery.

In 1525 they also handed over the tithe from Bontkirchen to the Bredelar monastery. The family died out a short time later in the male line.

Family members

  • Elver I. "Albus" (the white one) von Horhusen is the oldest known representative of the family. He was mentioned 1081–1106, was city count of the village (villa) Horhusen, today's Niedermarsberg, which was raised by King Ludwig the Child to a market settlement with coinage and customs rights around 900 . His wife Gertrud died before 1123.
  • Bodo I. von Horhusen (* approx. 1077), his son, was city count of Horhusen in 1113.
  • Elver II von Horhusen (* around 1105), his son, was mentioned in 1126–1149 and inherited the city count's office.
  • Dietrich II of Horhusen (* around 1140) was 1176-1210 Count of Horhusen. Around 1201 his brother Beringer von Horhusen handed over his property to the Obermarsberg monastery, which was part of the Covey Empire .
  • Dietrich III. von Horhusen (* around 1180) was married to Gertrudis von Pappenheim .
  • Stephan von Horhusen (* 1173), a son of Dietrich II, was mentioned in 1201–1246 as a knight and Corveyer Ministeriale. He was married to Alverade von Dalwigk and died around 1246.
  • Friedrich von Horhusen (* 1205), their son, was mentioned in 1227–1269. As a Corveyer ministraler he was a knight and castle man at the Kugelsburg and, together with Ludolf von Dalwigk, had the right to present the chapel in Rhadern . In the service of the Paderborn bishop, he settled a dispute between the Gerden monastery and the knights of Pappenheim . In 1269 he was one of the guarantors when Bishop Simon I of Paderborn was released from captivity in Münster. He and his wife Adele von Grove-Hamelspringe had at least 5 children.
  • Konrad von Horhusen (* 1237) was mentioned 1237-1326 and was a knight and castle man at Wartberch Castle in Warburg . He was married to Cunigunde von Westheim , daughter of Ulrich II von Westheim and Sophie von Padberg .
  • Stephan II von Horhusen , Konrad's brother, was a knight in 1268, councilman in Marburg in 1286 , captain of the castle in Aldenfels and bailiff in Malsburg in 1298 .

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows twin diagonal bars in gold, silver and blue. It was also used as the official coat of arms of the city of Niedermarsberg in 1936.

More name bearers

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ munitio ... in Tuiste.
  2. ^ Regest of the Landgraves of Hesse, Regest no. 9623: Corvey Abbey confirms the purchase in Twiste
  3. ↑ Manfred Wolf: Horhusen / Niedermarsberg and the Church of St. Dionysius. In: Südwestfalenarchiv, vol. 11, 2011, pp. 13-18