Valepage (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Valepage ( Book of arms of the Westphalian nobility )

The Lords Valepage (also called Valepage from Wichmodeberg) were a knightly noble family of the Paderborn bishopric , which had its seat in the Delbrücker Land .

Family history

The name Valepage is mentioned at the earliest around 1353 as an epithet of a knight family von Kellinghausen (called Vahlepage), which the Rüthener chronicler Christoph Brandis names in a chronicle of 1650 among the Rüthen families of the 14th century and which became extinct at the beginning of the 15th century. The first documentary mention of the family name Valepage falls in the year 1358. In a document from 1385 the name Valepage appears for the first time in connection with the Bürener family of the Lords of the Wichmodeberg (called Valepage), who in the early 14th century as witnesses of the Böddeken monastery and the noblemen of Büren occur in records and probably once used by a same later desolate has become seat came in Buren.

In the late 14th century, the lords of the Wichmodeberg, called Valepage, appear as vassals of the Abdinghof Benedictine monastery , which brought them into the possession of several fiefs in the Delbrücker Land . The center of this manorial rule was a knight's farm , first mentioned around 1337 as a free aristocratic saddle lair . The Valepages were among the few landlords resident in the Delbrücker Land . They are named among the knightly families of the Paderborn country in the Liber Dissentionum of the Paderborn cathedral scholasters Dietrich von Engelsheim from 1444.

When they expired at the end of the 15th century, the Valepagi fiefs came by marriage to a branch of the Westphalian dynasty of the Lords of Varendorff , whose first fief falls in 1477 (again 1481) and who carried on the name Valepage. In the 16th century, the Valepage entered the service of the diocese of Paderborn and were entrusted by the bishopric with the offices of the episcopal bailiff , land clerk as well as wood and counters of the Delbrücker Land. From 1594 to 1603 the Valepage appear in the register of the nobility of Altenheerse Abbey . During the Thirty Years' War of the 17th century, members of the family served in the Electoral Cologne Landdrosten Regiment . In the 18th century, Valepagen were judges at the Fürstenberg patrimonial court and were in charge of the renting of the Erpernburg and Fürstenberg palaces . The family died out around 1844. The Josephs Hospital in Delbrück , which opened around 1860, dates back to a 19th century Valepagic foundation . The Valepagenstiftung has been active in the Delbrück area since 1846.

Surname

The Low German name Valepage means pale horse and could refer to the old horse breed of dairymen . Perhaps the name suggests an old Saxon family .

coat of arms

The coat of arms of those von dem Wichmodeberg called Valepagen had six roses in a ratio of 3 to 2 to 1. A coat of arms was similar to that of Kellinghausen , in the shield split by red and silver, 3 red and silver roses in changing colors in a ratio of 2 to 1 and on the helmet made an open flight . Since the late 15th century, the Valepages had the varendorff lion in an undivided shield . In seals of the 18th century, a growing or striding fox appears as a helmet figure .

possession

Valepage farm

The fiefdom of the Valepage extended to several fiefdoms in the Delbrücker Land , which in the high Middle Ages probably represented an independent villication . The center of this manorial rule was a treasure-free court, which was lent to the Lords of Lake by the Abdinghof monastery in the first half of the 14th century . In the time after the lords of the Wichmodeberg called Valepage were first enfeoffed towards the end of the 14th century, the Fronhof was named Valepagenhof. The construction of the courtyard complex, which still exists today in parts, dates back to 1577. The ornate courtyard building in the Weser Renaissance style is considered the oldest courtyard in the Paderborn district. The now in the LWL Open-Air Museum Detmold exploiting Dende former Gografen - Hof was originally freiestend, with a hall cultivation and a court orchestra provided and to protect with moats and militia surrounded. The main fiefdom included hunting and fishing . The Delbrücker possessions survived the Thirty Years War . In the 18th century, through marriage, the family came into possession of the family v. Spork . The last enfeoffment with the Delbrücker estates dates back to the year of the dissolution of the Abdinghof monastery in 1803. The remaining property after the liberation of the farmers in the 19th century was bequeathed by the last Valepages to related families. On the still preserved gate of the Valepagenhof there is a low German rhyme inscription between the coat of arms of the Valepage and those of Hülst , which refers to the Delbrück Gographer Jost Valepage and the establishment of the court in 1577.

literature

  • Hans von Hülst: The Valepagenhof in Delbrücker Land in: Die Warte, Heft 9 (1970), pp. 136-139
  • Hans Jürgen Rade: The history of the Valepage family in: Contributions to Westphalian family research, Vol. 53, Münster 1995
  • Max von Spiessen (ed.); Adolf Hildebrandt: Book of arms of the Westphalian nobility. Book 1 and 2, Görlitz 1901–1903
  • Josef Tönsmeyer: The Lippeamt Boke . Rheine (Westphalia) 1968
  • Dietrich von Engelsheim: Liber dissentionum . 1444
  • Theodor Ilgen : Westphalian coats of arms of the Middle Ages, Volume IV: The seals of nobles, citizens and farmers, Münster 1894–1900
  • Johann Suibert Seibertz : Sheets for a closer look at Westphalia , No. 12, Meschede 1874
  • Christoph Brandis : History of the city of male dogs (around 1650). In: Johann Suibert Seibertz: Sources on Westphalian History, Vol. 1, Arnsberg 1857, pp. 221–318 ( digitized version )
  • Dehio-Gall : Handbook of the German art monuments. First volume: Lower Saxony and Westphalia, Munich - Berlin 1949

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Hans von Hülst: The Valepagenhof in Delbrücker Land (in: Die Warte Heft 9), p. 136 ff.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Hans Jürgen Rade: The history of the Valepagen family in: Contributions to Westphalian family research, vol. 53 (1995), p. 343 ff.
  3. ↑ a b c Max von Spiessen : Book of arms of the Westphalian nobility, first volume, p. 50 (plate 119).
  4. ↑ Christoph Brandis : History of the city of Rüthen in: Sources for Westphalian history, vol. 1, p. 276.
  5. ^ Theodor Ilgen : Westphalian Seal of the Middle Ages, Volume IV, pp. 67 and 73.
  6. ↑ Abdinghof file No. 155 registrum omnium officiorum 1409–1437 (Münster State Archives).
  7. ↑ Abdinghof file No. 154 (State Archives Münster).
  8. ^ Johann Suibert Seibertz : Sheets for a closer look at Westphalia, No. 12 p. 104.
  9. ↑ Joseph Tönsmeyer: The lip Office Boke, S. 284, 429th
  10. ^ A. Guttstadt: Hospital Lexicon for the German Empire (Berlin 1900), p. 123
  11. ↑ List of foundations in North Rhine-Westphalia: Valepage Foundation.
  12. ^ Theodor Ilgen : Westphalian seals of the Middle Ages, Volume IV, Plate 242 No. 19 (1400).
  13. ↑ Max von Spiessen : Book of Arms of the Westphalian Nobility, first volume, p. 29 (plate 72).
  14. ↑ a b LWL-Freilichtmuseum Detmold: Museumsführer (2009), p. 37 f.
  15. ↑ Max von Spiessen : Book of Arms of the Westphalian Nobility, p. 76 ( plate 182 )

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