Claus from Rottorp
Claus von Rottorp (also Clawes; Rottorf, Rottorpe ) was a famous military leader in the 16th century and probably came from Drakenburg .
Life
His family was enfeoffed with the court in Hülsede by the Count of Schaumburg as early as 1310 . Rottorf is a desert between Rinteln and Mölenbeck. He was the son of Johann von Rottorf auf Hülsede and Katharina von Freitag .
In 1519 Claus had a stone house there converted into a defense system. In 1548, the entire complex with many wings, Wasserschloss Hülsede, was completed.
The Rottorf feud was in the period from 1550 to 1557: Claus was employed as a Drost in the Wölpe office . However, after the four noble residences and the Burgmannshöfe had picked up, he was declared a rebel and the Emperor imposed on him the imperial ban . The sovereign Erich II of Calenberg , Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, was commissioned to execute the Wölper rebels and had to besiege his own castle. In order to have a “clear view”, Claus had the Wölpe area and many of the forecourt of the castle burned down. The citizens were now faced with the question of which of the two they should obey. They decided to support the Duke and this is where Erichshagen (district of Nienburg, in the county of Wölpe ) was born.
In 1544, on the orders of Duchess Elisabeth von Calenberg, he had the watermill in the village of Laderholz an der Alpe (today part of Neustadt am Rübenberge ) rebuilt as an official mill.
He married Armgard von dem Bussche , the daughter of Albrecht von dem Bussche on Ippenburg and Helena von Büschen adH Oldendorf .
- Daughter Armgard married Ernst von Reden on January 22, 1566 .
literature
- Thorsten Neubert-Preine : The manors of the Hoya-Diepholz'schen landscape. Nienburg 2006, ISBN 3-00-019898-9 , p. 50
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Timeline of the Laderholz watermill ( Memento from April 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rottorp, Claus von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rottorp, Clawes; Rottorf, Claus von; Rottorpe, Claus von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German military leader |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1519 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1544 |