Ludger von Rosdorf

Ludger von Rosdorf (* approx. 1180 in Lage ; † after 1234 in Erfurt ) was canon of Mainz, provost of Witterda and Rostorf, and was responsible for the Walkenried monastery . His older brother was the nobleman Hermann von Rosdorf. Both brothers were related by marriage to the noblemen of Lo (he), the Counts of Hoya, von Wölpe, von Katzenelnbogen, von Rietberg and von Schwalenberg.

Life

Ludger von Rosdorf came from the family branch of the noble lords of Rosdorf, who owned possessions in the dioceses of Paderborn , Münster , Osnabrück and Bremen . Ludger was born in the village of Lage, then an allod of the family. Part of this branch of the family was named after their allod of Lage. Ludger's great uncle, Hermann I von Lage (1155 to 1179) was a deacon in Münster; Ludger's uncle, Hermann II von Lage, was also a clergyman and, as such, chairman of the collegiate monastery in Munster, provost and temporarily archdeacon and waiter of the St. Mauritz Church . In 1192 he was referred to as a close relative (cognatus noster) by Bishop Hermann II von Katzenelnbogen , and in 1193 as a nephew / grandson (nepos noster Hermannus), which proves that the Lords of Lage-Rosdorf were close relatives of the Counts of Katzenelnbogen . In 1252 the noble lords of Rosdorf sold their village of Lage to Bishop Simon I of Lippe . In return he received the castle and part of the county Moringen (former Pagus Morunga) from the diocese of Paderborn.

Ludger von Rosdorf appears for the first time in the document of the Würzburg canon Gottfried von Kugelberg in 1219 when he made a donation in Hagen, in the diocese of Paderborn. Gottfried von Kugelberg had founded the Schmerlenbach Monastery the year before . Ludger von Rosdorf (Lodergerus de Rastorf) as a Mainz canon witnessed the donation. Two years later, on May 30, 1221, he and his brother Hermann I von Rosdorf testify in a document to Count Otto I von Tecklenburg when he made a donation to Marienfeld Monastery to establish a family memory. The monastery, founded by the Counts of Schwalenberg and Bernhard II. Von Lippe , relatives of the noble lords of Rosdorf, was only about 40 kilometers away from Lage, which in turn was 8 kilometers away from Stapelage Hörste , at that time the allod of the Counts of Schwalenberg.

Only in 1233 did Ludger von Rosdorf appear again in a document. First in a document from the Walkenried monastery, in which Archbishop Siegfried III. von Eppstein an inquiry in favor of Walkenried decides what Ludger von Rosdorf, then canon of Mainz and preposition of Rostorf, testified as the first witness. In the same year Ludger von Rosdorf accepted the atonement gift from Count Heinrich II and his son, Heinrich III, on behalf of the Archdiocese of Mainz . from Schwarzburg-Leutenberg towards. Both counts had to hand over the Eichelburg as punishment. At that time, Ludger von Rosdorf, as the spiritual representative of the Archbishop of Mainz, was responsible for the entire Eichsfeld , which he administered from Erfurt together with the officer on the Rusteberg (his great-nephew Friedrich von Rosdorf held this function from 1287).

When comparing the noble lord of Vippach as Burgmann of the archbishopric in Erfurt in 1233 Ludger von Rosdorf acted as the second witness. Then the Pincerna (cupbearer) Heinrich von Appolda sold the law firm over the villages of Wittern (today Witterda), Rostorf and the Dissental to the archbishopric. The first witness of the action was Provost Ludger von Rosdorf.

Subsequently Ludger did not appear in a document, so that it can be assumed that he died in 1234, presumably in or near Erfurt, his last official seat.

literature

• Acta Mag. Seculi XIII. No. 172, 206, 207, 208
• Erhard, Cod. II, No. 523, 535
• Osnabrück Document Book, Volume I, No. 143
• UB Hildesheim Bishops, Volume I, No. 189
• StA Münster No. 323