Volkwin IV. (Schwalenberg)

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Volkwin IV. Von Schwalenberg (* around 1190; † before 1255) was Count von Schwalenberg from 1214 and from 1224 to 1228 also Count von Waldeck .

Live and act

His parents were Count Heinrich I von Waldeck and Schwalenberg († before September 21, 1214) and Heseke von Dassel († July 25, 1220). He comes from the Schwalenberg family . Volkwin succeeded his father as Count von Schwalenberg and inherited the county of Waldeck in 1224 after the death of his uncle Hermann I. He ceded the latter to his younger brother Adolf in 1228 . He himself remained Count von Schwalenberg and Vogt of the Möllenbeck , Herford and Marienmünster monasteries . In 1228 he re-founded the town and castle of Schwalenberg.

Volkwin saw himself threatened by the expansion policy of Archbishop Engelbert I of Cologne in the Westphalia area, where Engelbert tried to fully restore the old ducal power in Westphalia, and therefore allied himself with the Archbishop of Mainz, Siegfried II von Eppstein . Volkwin was probably involved in Engelbert's assassination in 1225, at least as an accomplice and co-conspirator, and was therefore punished with the ban of the Reich (despite this, he kept the Herford Bailiwick as an Electoral Cologne fief). As an atonement, the foundation of a monastery on his own land was imposed on him, and in 1231 he founded the Burghagen women's monastery in Schwalenberg , which was moved to Falkenhagen in 1247 .

After years of feuds, he lost important rights and possessions, including the bailiwicks of Willebadessen and Gehrden to the bishops of Paderborn . The loss of the Vizevogtei Höxter-Corvey accelerated its decline. In the period that followed, the history of Schwalenberg was only revealed through pledging, gift and sale deeds, which shows increasing impoverishment.

Marriage and offspring

From Volkwin's marriage (before 1239) to Ermengard (Ermengardis) von Schwarzburg-Blankenburg († March 22, 1274), daughter of Count Heinrich II von Schwarzburg , the following children were born:

  • Widekind V. , Count of Schwalenberg (1249 / 50–1264), († September 28, 1264); ∞ I: () NN , documented in 1246; ∞ II: () Ermengard, first documented mention 1250; ∞ III: () NN , first documented mention 1260
  • Günther I. , Archbishop of Magdeburg (1277–1283) and Bishop of Paderborn (1308–1310), († (23/27) May (after 1310))
  • Volkwin V. , Provost of Goslar (1265–1267), Elekt von Minden (1266–1267), Provost of Hildesheim (1265–1276), Bishop of Minden (1275–1293), documented in 1238, († May 5, 1293)
  • Irmgard (Ermengard), abbess in Heerse Abbey , documented mention 1261 to 1305, († October 1, 1314)
  • Kunigunde, abbess of the Falkenhagen monastery (1247–1305), documented mention 1246 to 1305, († after May 1, 1305)
  • Mechthild, abbess in Möllenbeck Monastery , documented mention 1284 to 1321, († (4th / 7th) January (1321-1324))
  • Heinrich I , Count von Sternberg, documented from 1238 to around 1279; ∞ () NN von Woldenberg, documented in 1252, daughter of Count Heinrich I von Woldenberg and Harzburg, called von Hagen, (–1251) and Sophie von Hagen (- (1251/1261))
  • Adolf I, Count of Schwalenberg (1265), documented in 1238, († May 6, 1302/26 January 1305); ∞ I: () Adelheid. documented in 1274; ∞ II: () Jutta, first documented mention 1287 to 1305
  • Albrecht I, Count of Schwalenberg (1265), documented in 1244, († after February 5, 1317); ∞ () Jutta von Rosdorf , documented in 1274, († after April 1, 1305), daughter of knight Konrad von Rosdorf (-after 1246)
  • Burchard, first documented mention in 1238
  • Ludolf, Canon of Minden (1285)
  • Konrad (around 1225–1277)

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Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Hock, Gabriele M .: The Westphalian Cistercian Convents in the 13th Century. Founding circumstances and early development , download page, miami.uni-muenster.de
  3. manfred-hiebl Heinrich I , accessed November 30, 2014