Kalkum (noble family)
Kalkum (in old sources also Calichem , Caylchem , Calgheim , Calcum or similar) is the name of a Rhineland aristocratic family who are named after their former ancestral seat, Kalkum Castle (later Kalkum Castle ) in the Kalkum district of Düsseldorf .
history
The earliest documented mention of the family comes from the year 1176. A ministerial named Willelmus de Calechheim is mentioned in a document from Countess Hildegund von Meer , who donated 60 acres of land to the Meer monastery . Presumably the Lords of Kalkum were already ministerials of the Gandersheim monastery at this point , which, according to the rhyming chronicle created by Eberhard von Gandersheim from 1216 to 1218 , was given a royal court in Kalkhem from the later Emperor Arnolf of Carinthia in 892 ( Noch gaf de Könnich to Gandersem a riken hof, de is gone Kalkhem; and they are bi deme Rine. ) An early ministerial activity of the gentlemen of Kalkum for the monastery Gandersheim is proven by a later source. In 1265 , the abbess Margareta I von Plesse from Gandersheim enfeoffed Knight Hermann von Kalkum, her Kalkum Vogt Heinrich von Kalkum and his sons Dietrich, Adolf, Anton and Arnold von Kalkum “in view of what they and their ancestors gave to the abbey services to be provided "with the located at Kalkum, Vorst mentioned grove to inheritance. At the end of the 14th / beginning of the 15th century, the lords of Kalkum were the main participants in the Kalkum feud .
In the course of time, different family lines appear, which were named after their respective seats. The following surnames (with and without mentioning the main name of the family) are documented:
- Leuchtmar (also Luchtmar or similar) to Haus Leuchtenberg in the Lohausen district of Düsseldorf
- Lohausen (also Lohusen , Losen or similar) to Haus Lohausen in the Lohausen district of Düsseldorf
- Renbruggen (also Rembruggen , Rintbruggen or similar (= cattle bridge )) to Haus Remberg in today's Duisburg district of Huckingen
- Rheinheim (also Rhinhem , Rinem or similar) after the abandoned Rheinheim house in Rheinheim in what is now the Duisburg district of Mündelheim
The exact family relationships or origins between the various lines are only partially known to this day. The lords of Kalkum zu Remberg ( Renbruggen ) are therefore a seven generation long sideline of the lords of Kalkum called Lohausen . What is unknown, however, is how the lines to Leuchtenberg and Rheinheim are connected to the main line to Haus Kalkum or the Lohausen-Remberg line.
In addition to the houses mentioned, the lords of Kalkum u. a. also Haus Böckum , Haus Bilkrath and Haus Schlickum (Glehn) .
coat of arms
The family coat of arms of those of Kalkum shows a red bar in gold . Above the bar two, below the bar a red ring . On the helmet with a gold-red cover a gold brackish head with a collar like the shield.
In a modification of the family coat of arms, various members of the family also used a coat of arms that showed stars (2: 1) instead of rings (2: 1) .
Known family members
- Hermann von Kalkum, 1312–1317 bailiff in the Angermund office
- Agnes von Rheinheim, 1344 abbess of the Cistercian monastery Saarn
- Peter von Kalkum, 1355–1360, 1362 bailiff in the Beyenburg office
- Dietrich von Leuchtmar, 1358–1364 bailiff in the Angermund office
- Arnold von Kalkum zu Haus Remberg, 1392, 1399 and 1404 bailiff in the Angermund office
- Heinrich Rombliaen von Leuchtmar, 1398 and 1400 bailiff in the Angermund office
- Wilhelm von Kalkum, 1407–1408 bailiff in the Angermund office
- Wilhelm von Calcum (1584–1640), Swedish-Mecklenburg Major General and Commandant of Rostock
- Elisabeth Margarete von Kalkum († 1600), 1584–1600 abbess of the Saarn monastery
- Gerhard Romilian von Kalcheim (1589–1644), German lawyer and diplomat
- Johann Friedrich von Kalkum called Leuchtmar († after 1640), Brandenburg court marshal, court master of the electoral prince Friedrich Wilhelm , prince educator
literature
- Anton Fahne : History of the Cologne, Jülich and Bergisch families in family tables, coats of arms, seals and documents . Volume 1, Cologne and Bonn 1848, p. 61 ( digitized version of the ULB Düsseldorf ).
- Heinrich Ferber : The Calkumschen feuds with the city of Cologne, in: Contributions to the history of the Lower Rhine, yearbook of the Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein, Volume 8, Düsseldorf 1894, pp. 55-72 ( digitized version of the ULB Düsseldorf).
- Kurt Niederau : On the history of the Bergisch nobility. The one from Kalkum called Leuchtmar . In: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein , Volume 86, year 1973.
- Kurt Niederau: Kalkum-Lohausen - Schlickum - Lauvenberg , Düsseldorf 1992 (unpublished manuscript in the Düsseldorf City Archives).
- Ernst von Schaumburg : General Wilhelm von Calckum called Lohausen, a Bergisch warrior . In: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein . Volume 3 (1866), pp. 1–223, especially 3 ( Google Books ; special print: urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-66609 }).
- Herbert M. Schleicher: Ernst von Oidtman and his genealogical-heraldic collection in the University Library of Cologne . Volume 3, Cologne 1992, pp. 254-274.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walther Zimmermann , Hugo Borger (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 3: North Rhine-Westphalia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 273). Kröner, Stuttgart 1963, DNB 456882847 , p. 324.
- ^ Theodor Joseph Lacomblet (ed.): Document book for the history of the Lower Rhine, Volume I (779–1200), Düsseldorf 1840, No. 453, p. 318 f. ( Digitized version of the ULB Bonn ).
- ↑ Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH). German chronicles and other history books of the Middle Ages . Volume 2. Hanover, Hahnsche Buchhandlung 1877, pp. 408-409, verse 830-832 ( online ).
- ↑ Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH). Arnulfi Diplomata . Weidmann, Berlin 1940, pp. 159-160, no. 107a ( online ).
- ↑ Jost Kloft (edit.): Inventory of the document archive of the princes of Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg zu Schönstein / Sieg , Volume 1 (Regesten No. 1 to 450, 1217–1467) (= Landschaftsverband Rheinland (Ed.), Inventories of non-state archives, volume 18), Cologne 1975, No. 5, p. 5 f.
- ↑ Dietmar Ahlemann: Genealogies of selected noble and middle-class families from Huckingen and the surrounding area , in: Huckinger Heimatbuch, Volume 3, Duisburg 2015, pp. 283–288 (here: i) Lords of Kalkum (called Lohausen and called Rheinheim) ).
- ^ Calcum, Johann Friedrich von , index entry: German Biography, accessed on April 4, 2019.