Reinhard von Dalwigk (knight)
Reinhard von Dalwigk (* around 1400; † 1461 ), called "the unborn" because he was born by caesarean section , was Kurmainzer and at times also Landgrave Hessian bailiff in the Waldeck and Niederhessen area and Burgmann at the castles of Naumburg and Weidelsburg . He was the only (known) son of Reinhard IV von Dalwigk (1370-1413) and his second wife Else von Grafschaft . Reinhard himself married into the family of those von Hertingshausen who had renewed the Weidelsburg around 1400 as Mainz feudal men and who sat there as castle men.
Life
Reinhard, the V of this name in the counting method of his house , navigated skillfully between Hessen , Kurmainz and Waldeck . In 1431 he was by Archbishop Konrad III. appointed by Dhaun as the new Mainz bailiff at the Weidelsburg. He reinforced it so that it met the most modern military requirements of the time. He is described as rich, but also very feudal and greedy. According to contemporary sources, he held court at the castle like a prince. He covered the neighboring nobles with feuds, with arson and skirmishes in the surrounding area of the castles he administered. As a breach of the peace he was besieged at Weidelsburg in 1443 by troops of Landgrave Ludwig I and Archbishop Dietrich of Mainz , forced to submit and punished. When he and his nephew and ward Friedrich IV von Hertingshausen again burned several villages and thus again breached the peace, Landgrave Ludwig I again besieged the Weidelsburg in 1448, which they had given him as a fiefdom in 1437 , and punished by taking away large parts of their fiefdom. Dalwigk had to cede the Weidelsburg to the Landgrave and limit himself to Naumburg Castle, which he also had to share with his nephew.
In the years 1450 to 1454 Reinhard von Dalwigk and Friedrich von Hertingshausen were once again involved in a large feud that was broken by them, the “ federal feud ” with many of the other knightly landlords in the area. Villages were devastated ( Obervorschütz was burned down on April 29, 1454 , Holzhausen on November 19, 1454), and there were several bloody skirmishes, for example at Dorla and Elben , in which several of the fighters lost their lives and Friedrich von Hertingshausen was seriously injured and became a prisoner of the opposite side for a while.
Reinhard's wife Agnes (also "Nese"), daughter of Friedrich III. von Hertingshausen and his wife Lukarde von Spiegel zum Desenberg , whom he married in 1412, is one of several women to whom the legend of Hessian faithfulness to women is attached.
Reinhard von Dalwigk died, according to Georg Landau , in 1461 at Naumburg Castle. No descendants are known of him.
Individual evidence
- ^ Christoph von Rommel: History of Hessen. Part 2, Hampe, Kassel 1823, p. 326 ( digitized version )
- ↑ The "Atonement Cross" in Dorla
- ↑ Johann Samuelansch : Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste . Leipzig 1835 ( digitized )
- ↑ The legend of the Hessian woman loyalty ( memento of the original from July 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- On the history of the Weidelsburg
- The federal feud (PDF file; 15 kB)
literature
- Family table of the von Dalwigk. In: Georg Landau : The Hessian knight castles and their owners. Volume 2, Kassel 1833, p. 270
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dalwigk, Reinhard von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dalwigk, Reinhard V. von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hessian knight |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1400 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1461 |
| Place of death | Naumburg |