Kalkum (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Kalkum

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 .

Kalkum Castle

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:

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ^ 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 ).
  3. ↑ 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 ).
  4. ↑ Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH). Arnulfi Diplomata . Weidmann, Berlin 1940, pp. 159-160, no. 107a ( online ).
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ 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) ).
  7. ^ Calcum, Johann Friedrich von , index entry: German Biography, accessed on April 4, 2019.