Johann VI. Droste to Hülshoff

Johann VI. Droste zu Hülshoff (* 1430 , † 1499 ) was a councilor and mayor of the city of Münster and landowner of Hülshoff Castle .

Life

Origin and family

Johann VI. was the only son of Johann V. Droste zu Hülshoff and Margaretha von Kerckerinck , a daughter of the temporary mayor of Münster, Bernd von Kerckerinck zum Bispinghof, and belonged to the 10th known generation of Droste zu Hülshoff . He married Christina von Strick, a daughter of Diederich von Strick and Anna von Münster (Westphalian noble family) . They had five children, including their successor Johann VII. Droste zu Hülshoff .

Military service as a knight

Johann VI. had as a vassal of Bishop Heinrich XXVII. von Schwarzburg participate in numerous feuds . In 1475 he fought against Charles the Bold of Burgundy at the siege of Neuss , where the humanist Rudolf von Langen , a distant relative of Johann VI. from the old family home of Everswinkel , the bishop had to accompany. John VI only narrowly escaped. a bloodbath when Charles the Bold attacked the episcopal camp near Munster one night.

Councilor and Mayor of Münster

Johann VI. was councilor and 1484–1486, 1489, 1494 and 1496/97 mayor and city ​​judge of Münster (1494 he held this office at the same time as his son Johann VII. Droste zu Hülshoff ). So - in times of economic and cultural heyday - he had a respected position in the city in which the Droste zu Hülshoff had their headquarters (next to the Gut Hülshoff acquired in 1417) in their town courtyard on Krummen Timpen.

Landowner at Hülshoff Castle

Since his father was only the second oldest son and his two brothers had also inherited estates, John VI. only inherited the not yet fully developed estate of Burg Hülshoff , where he grew up as the first lord. He was able to round it off in 1469 by buying it in Roxel. He was helped by the fact that he had inherited the estates in Münster and Osnabrück from his grandfather Bernd von Kerckerinck . So in 1461 he was able to redeem the old ancestral estate Grosseeckenbrock near Everswinkel , which had been pledged, and leave it to his sister Anna Elisabeth instead of a bride's treasure (it then fell back to Hülshoff). In 1464 he also acquired the fiefdoms Bettenbrock, Huge, Mundeshove and half Sentmaring from his uncle Alhard II Droste zu Handorf. With his death in 1499, the Hülshoffer line had a significant fortune.

literature

• Wilderich from Droste to Hülshoff : 900 years of Droste to Hülshoff. Verlag LPV Hortense von Gelmini, Horben 2018, ISBN 978-3-936509-16-8
• J. Holsenbürger: The gentlemen v. Eckenbrock (by Droste-Hülshoff) and their possessions. Münster iW 1869.