Konrad I. (Rietberg)

Graf Konrad I of Rietberg (* after 1203 ; † 1284 / 94 ) is regarded as the real founder of County Rietberg as an independent territory.

Life

He was the son of Count Heinrich II von Arnsberg and his wife Ermengarde.

In 1237 he married the noble lady Oda zur Lippe (* around 1210), daughter of Hermann II zur Lippe .

Already in the past it was common in the county of Arnsberg that if there were several brothers with inheritance rights after the death of the predecessor, the more powerful one received the actual core areas of the county around Arnsberg, while the weaker one received the territory of Rietberg and the Dutch possessions of the family Cuyk got. This was the case in the time of Friedrich , in the time of Heinrich I as well as in the time of Gottfried II and the father of Konrad Heinrich II. In these cases there was a division. Legally, however, ownership remained a unit.

This changed in 1237 when Gottfried III. and Konrad also legally separated the two halves of the country in a joint contract. Nevertheless, Konrad occasionally continued to call himself Count von Arnsberg.

After the agreement, Gottfried Arnsberg and Konrad received the Dutch possessions and Rietberg. The Dutch possessions were quite significant. After all, they originally included the county of the city of Utrecht, among other things . How far he was able to exercise his rights in Holland is not known.

Konrad thus became the actual founder of a territory that was independent of Arnsberg.

Later he joined the German Order .

After his wife died on September 17, 1262, Konrad gave the county to his son Friedrich in 1264 .

Konrad died in 1284/94. The tomb is not known. Only his wife's grave could be found in the cloister of the Marienfeld monastery . On her tombstone it said:

Oda vir stirpisque suae sociata sepulchris

His tumulata locis titulis iacet inclita pulchris

In German translation:

Oda, noble one to Lippe.

United in the grave with her husband and children,

here is Oda, awarded with glorious honors.

progeny

• Friedrich , ruling Count of Rietberg (1264–1282)
• Konrad , Bishop of Osnabrück (1270–1297)
• Otto , Bishop of Paderborn (1277–1307)
• Simon, Teutonic Knight († before February 19, 1294)
• Hermann, Canon in Osnabrück and Paderborn and Provost in Tongern († 1283)
• Oda, abbess of the Aegidi Monastery in Münster († before 1314)
• Gisela († before 1290), married to Johann von Homburg

literature

• Johann Suibert Seibertz : Diplomatic family history of the old counts of Westphalia to Werl and Arnsberg. Arnsberg, 1845 (The history of the Duchy of Westphalia. First section. History of the counts) pp. 165–176

Web links

• Kaunitz-Rietberg.de ( Memento from February 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

predecessor	Office	successor
–––	Count of Rietberg 1237–1264	Friedrich I.