Kempenich (noble family)

The Lords of Kempenich were a noble family with ancestral seat at Kempenich Castle in the eastern Upper Eifel . Their area of influence extended from Mainz to the Lower Rhine.

history

Coat of arms of the noble lords of Isenburg-Kempenich

A brother of Count Meffried von Wied , Richwin von Kempenich, was mentioned in 1093 in the deed of foundation of the Laach monastery . His nephew Arnold von Wied was Archbishop of Cologne and Chancellor of King Konrad III. With his great-granddaughter Hedwig I, the first family of the noble lords of Kempenich (Wied-Kempenich) died out. She married Rembold IV von Isenburg around 1197 . This new Kempenich line (Isenburg-Kempenich) expired in 1424 with the death of Johann II. His daughter Hedwig II married Peter von Schöneck . In 1424 Peter von Schöneck had to leave the castle and rule of Kempenich to the Archbishopric of Trier as a fallen man's fief.

Around 1240 Rosemann von Kempenich, a son-in-law of the noble free Gerlach II of Büdingen , minted coins in Ortenberg ( Wetterau ); a "heavy foot half" with his name and a five-petalled rose.

In 1277 Gerhard I gave his imperial allod Kempenich to the Archbishopric of Trier as a fief. This was in 1345 between Simon III. and the Archbishop of Trier Baldwin of Luxembourg confirmed once again.

In the years 1330 and 1331 there was a feud between Simon and his brother Dietrich von Kempenich and the cousin of the two, Gerhard von Kempenich, about the castle and rule of Kempenich (so-called "Kempenich feud"). Both rallied allies around them. Simon's alliance was called "the one with the white sleeves", Gerhard's alliance was called "the one with the red sleeves". On Gerhard's side stood the Trier Archbishop Balduin von Trier , as well as u. a. Gerhard von Landskron, Burgrave Johann von Rheineck, Dietrich von Schönberg and Georg von Eich. Simon's allies included u. a. Johann von Eltz. Gerhard was able to win the argument, but died childless. So it happened that finally Simon came into possession of the castle and rule and continued the line.

The von Kempenich gentlemen were related or by marriage to the following noble families: Bedburg , Blankenheim , Büdingen , Bürresheim , Dehrn , Dorndorf , Eschweiler, Hattstein , Hüchelhoven, Isenburg , Merenberg , Myllendonk , Müllenark , Neuenahr , Pyrmont , Reifenberg , Reifferscheidt , Rolmann von Sinzig , Rosenau , Sayn , Schonenberg , Schöneck , Solms , Spanheim / Sponheim , Virneburg , Boos von Waldeck , Wied

literature

Ernst Lohmeier: The story of the noble lords of Kempenich . Kempenich 1993.

Web links

History of the Kempenich rule ( Memento from June 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ Walter Hävernick : The older coinage of the Wetterau up to the end of the 13th century . (= Publication of the Historical Commission for Hesse and Waldeck. 18.1). Marburg 1936, 2nd edition. 2009 [with research report and biographical foreword by Niklot Klüßendorf ], p. 13. and cat. No. 267.
↑ Alexander Dominicus: Balduin von Lützelburg . Koblenz 1862, p. 512

[1] Walter Hävernick : The older coinage of the Wetterau up to the end of the 13th century . (= Publication of the Historical Commission for Hesse and Waldeck. 18.1). Marburg 1936, 2nd edition. 2009 [with research report and biographical foreword by Niklot Klüßendorf ], p. 13. and cat. No. 267.

[2] Alexander Dominicus: Balduin von Lützelburg . Koblenz 1862, p. 512