Johann von Viermund (Uerdingen)
Johann von Viermund (* after 1542; † 1576 ) was electoral Cologne bailiff and hereditary bailiff of Uerdingen . He came from the noble family Virmond-Neersen .
He was the son of Johann I von Viermund , Bailiff von Neersen , Anrath and Uerdingen, and his first wife Katharina Scheiffart von Merode. When his father died he inherited him, together with his older brother Ambrosius II. He had already agreed with his brother to share the inheritance in 1566, Ambrosius II received the bailiwicks of Neersen and Anrath, Johann the bailiwick of Uerdingen.
He resided in the fortified manor house Dreven near Hohenbudberg .
Since 1566 he was married to Katharina von Efferen called Hall. With her he had a daughter, Elise Odilia von Viermund, who married Johann von Brembt, the bailiff of Oedt .
When he rode home from a feast in 1576 from the Preut estate near Kaldenhausen , he was killed by people from Junker Reiner von Raesfeld near the Dreven house . The background was a dispute over a shot dog.
In the Bailiwick of Uerdingen he was succeeded by his daughter Elise's husband, Johann von Brempt.
literature
- Franz Verres, Johann Peter Lentzen: History of glory Neersen and Anrath. Lentzen, Fischeln 1883, p. 278 f. ( Digitized version ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Viermund, Johann von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Electoral Cologne bailiff and hereditary bailiff of Uerdingen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | after 1542 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1576 |