Liupold (Werl)

Liupold (also Ludolf ) was Count von Werl until 1102 .

Life

He was the son of Bernhard II von Werl . The mother's name is not known. His brother Heinrich became Bishop of Paderborn . The brother Konrad II was the main heir. He himself received, among other things, possessions with half of Werl as an inheritance. He also got a part of the Lürwald and goods in the area of the later county of Mark .

He appears as a witness for a document issued in Soest by the Archbishop of Cologne Sigewin von Are . He was present in 1085 when Erpho von Münster was regulating affairs for the Freckenhorst Abbey .

He was probably unmarried. During the inheritance dispute with his nephew Friedrich in 1102, he bequeathed his share of the possessions in and around Werl and his share of the Lürwald to the Archdiocese of Cologne . According to later sources, the main farm Hemmerde also belonged to the property . The Cologne bishops were able to expand their sphere of influence in Westphalia. Liupold was the last Count of Werl. The family now concentrated on the area around Arnsberg . It is possible that he had possessions and (county) rights in the Osnabrück area.

literature

Paul Leidinger : The Counts of Werl and Werl-Arnsberg (approx. 980–1124): Genealogy and aspects of their political history in the Ottonian and Salian times. In: Harm Klueting (Ed.): The Duchy of Westphalia. Volume 1: The Electoral Cologne Duchy of Westphalia from the beginnings of Cologne rule in southern Westphalia to secularization in 1803. Aschendorff, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-402-12827-5 , pp. 151, 156.
Johann Suibert Seibertz : Diplomatic family history of the old counts of Westphalia to Werl and Arnsberg. Arnsberg, 1847 pp. 70-72 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

^ Wilhelm Kohl : The diocese of Münster: the diocese (= Germania Sacra 37.3). de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017592-4 , p. 145 ( digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Liupold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Liupold von Werl; Ludolf von Werl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Count of Werl
DATE OF BIRTH	11th century
DATE OF DEATH	12th Century

[1] Wilhelm Kohl : The diocese of Münster: the diocese (= Germania Sacra 37.3). de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017592-4 , p. 145 ( digitized version ).