Luitgard (Falkenstein)

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Luitgard von Falkenstein - also known under the modified first name Luckarde or Luitgardis - (* around 1357 at Falkenstein Castle (Palatinate) ; † after May 28, 1391) was a noblewoman from the Falkenstein family who married into the younger line of the Eppstein family would have. She was the heiress of the dominions of Königstein and Munzenberg and brought them to the House of Eppstein.

family

Luitgard von Falkenstein was the daughter of Philip VI. von Falkenstein , Count von Falkenstein-Bolanden, and his wife Agnes von Falkenstein-Münzenberg .

She was the third wife of Eberhard I des Eppstein (marriage after 1376), with whom she had the following children:

Life

After the death of her brother Werner von Falkenstein (from 1388 to 1418 as Werner III. Archbishop and Elector of Trier ), large estates in the Taunus and Wetterau fell in 1418 to his three sisters, including Luitgard. The division of the inheritance into three equal parts took place on May 24, 1419 in Butzbach. As part of this Butzbach division into the Hainer third, the Licher third and the Butzbacher third, the Lich third fell by lot to the House of Solms and the Butzbacher third to their sons Eberhard II of Eppstein-Königstein and Gottfried VII of Eppstein .

literature

  • Fritz Geisthardt: Eppstein, gentlemen from. In: New German Biography. Volume 4, 1959, pp. 552 f. (deutsche-biographie.de , online version, as of June 13, 2015)
  • Regina Schäfer: The Lords of Eppstein - exercise of power, administration and possession of a noble family in the late Middle Ages. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-930221-08-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f Dataset on Geneanet zu Liutgard von Falkenstein, accessed on June 26, 2015
  2. a b c d e data record on genealogy Eberhard zu Luckarde von Falkenstein, accessed on June 26, 2015
  3. a b European Family Tables, by Wilhelm Karl, Prinz zu Isenburg, Vol. XVII, Plate 27, accessed from the website Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors & Cousins
  4. European Family Tables, by Detlev Schwennicke, New Series, Vol. XVII, Plate 27, accessed from the website Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors & Cousins
  5. a b European Family Tables, by Detlev Schwennicke, New Series, Vol. XVII, Plate 24, accessed from the website Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors & Cousins
  6. European Family Tables, by Detlev Schwennicke, New Series, Vol. XVII, Plate 25, accessed from the website Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors & Cousins
  7. ^ The Burgfrieden Anno 1426 for the Reichslehen Königstein, by Ellengard Jung, published at http://www.burgverein-koenigstein.de/downloads/b3-2013.pdf
  8. ^ Government and civil status in Villingen, published at http://www.nonnenroth.de/download/heimatkundlicher_arbeitskreis/villinger-hefte/07__Villingener-Hefte.pdf