Full spit
Vollenspit (also Volenspit ) is the name of a Westphalian noble family belonging to the knighthood , which was first mentioned in 1210 . The name is a nickname and translates as "foal spit". The Lords of Vollenspit were among the followers of the Counts of the Mark .
history
origin
According to Pastor Kumann zu Bockum, the family estate of the von Volenspit is said to have been located in Kuhkamp near the Schulze Blasum farm in Bockum , where the half-ruined ditches and ramparts could still be seen around 1800. Heinrich Petzmeyer contradicts this view, according to whose opinion the facilities go back to the Smeling family; Kumann falsely linked her to the Volenspits. Otherwise little is known about the origin and origin of this family.
Dietrich Vullespit appears as a witness in 1210 during a legal act by Count Adolf I. von der Mark .
Dietrich Volenspit II († 1289), knight, possibly his son, belonged in 1261 to the closest entourage of Count Engelbert I von der Mark . In 1269 his brother Johann was also employed in the Brandenburg region. From then on, both were constant companions of the Counts of the Mark and were used in the constant feuds and wars of the Brandenburg rulers. Dietrich is said to have infected the city of Kamen over the head of his own people in 1264 as part of a feud with the Archbishop of Cologne . The chronicler Levold von Northoff is unable to state the exact purpose of this procedure. However, he suspects that this was done to prevent the enemy from taking refuge in the settlement. On the journey to Tecklenburg in 1277, Dietrich and his liege lord were taken prisoner by Hermann II von Lohn ( Stadtlohn ) and were brought to Bredevoort Castle , where Engelbert died. His son and successor Eberhard I. von der Mark besieged the castle in the following year, put the crew to flight and freed the prisoners from the Brandenburg region. The wages had to return 50 marks that Dietrich Volenspit claims to have carried with him when he was arrested. Count Eberhard appointed Dietrich his bailiff in 1280.
The Volenspit brothers have been part of the Landesburg Mark team since 1269 . The castle crew service required them to be on constant alert. The power struggles in the region repeatedly led to the outbreak of hostilities. The von Volenspit then had to meet to defend the castle. Her duties also included protecting the city of Hamm . In peacetime they sat on their fiefs, let their farmers work for them and waited for the next fight.
Theoderich Vollenspit , knight, donated a pension from his home at Cunne in the parish of Lo to the Welver monastery in the event of death in 1281 as a memorial for himself and his family.
Volenspit to Nordherringen
It is not fully clear whether Dietrich already had Haus Nordherringen as a fief.
Only his son Pultian Volenspit is attested . He came up with the plan to build a chapel on Nordherringen. He emphatically recommended this task to his sons Gottfried and Dietrich.
In 1312 Gottfried and Dietrich Volenspit agreed to the foundation and construction of this chapel on Gut Nordherringen and handed over the Afhuppe house in the parish of Methler for furnishing. In 1322, the Volenspits donated the chapel, which was then consecrated by Auxiliary Bishop Hermann. By 1327 all necessary approvals had been obtained. Archbishop Heinrich von Köln was then able to announce that there was a chapel in Herringen, with pensions and a priest. In 1350 Gottfried Vollenspit acquired the goods to Merschen from Wilhelm Merschen in the Merschhoven peasantry in the parish of Bockum as a man fief. There he also bought the goods called Pipelbroke from Friedrich gt. Kotmann.
Dietrich Volenspit , Gottfried's eldest son, exchanged the ownership rights of the Steinfurt tithe in the parishes of Ahlen and Sendenhorst for an allod in Herringen with the noble Baldwin von Steinfurt . The house "Tom Bezege" was temporarily on the Beisey Nordherringen Steinfurter fiefdom. Between 1370 and 1385 part of the Volenspit property went to the chapel, so that the house of Nordherringen did not achieve any notable manorial rule among the Volenspits. The few Kötter owned by the house lived south of the estate and on or near the Beiseys. Between 1370 and 1388 the chapel experienced an unexpected enrichment.
Lambert Volenspit bought the rector's office from his relatives; in particular these were Godeke, Dietrich and his daughter Grete as well as Hermann von Herringen, who was related by marriage to the Volenspits through his wife Gertrud. In 1383 Mr. Goscath van Hetvelde provided the chapel as Lambert took over the parish of Heessen.
Hermann Vollenspit recorded in 1386: With fear and coercion he was through Count Engelbert III. The Mark urged officials and servants to go to the church in Herringen to listen to services and receive the sacraments. Although he and syne Vurellern owners of the Huises Northerringen, and all syn Hussgesinde je and all tydt toe vurg, Capellen went to hear Gods service, dabye to syn and received the sacrament of the altar in the same .
Volenspit to Kissinchusen
Alexander Volenspit († 1323) received in the first half of the 14th century the houses zume Pote , the Große Haus zu Bockum and an annual pension of 9 Soester Schillings 5 Pfennig from the Hammer Kloster von Deutz zu Lehen.
Sander Volenspitte , his son, ruled in 1429 as feudal lord over the Hove to Kissinchusen in the parish of Herringen.
Other goods
Further goods of the house of Volenspit were located in Lünern east of Unna (Volenspit gt. Dolberg), on Vorhelm (Volenspit gt. Vette) and on Heidemühlen in the municipality of Uentrop . Presumably they also inherited the noblemen of Dolberg . From their extensive acquisitions, they created their own feudal association, like independent sovereigns.
Dietrich Vollenspit was the second son of Arnd Vollenspit († before 1485) to Heidemühle and his wife Anna nee. Schnellenberg born. When she became a widow, Anna entered the Kentrop Monastery as a lay sister , where her daughter Ursula had become a nun as early as 1480. On February 1, 1498, Dietrich Vollenspit became a bailiff (Drost) in Hamm. A letter from the city of Soest addressed to him (Dietrich Volenspit, Amtmann zu Hamm) dates from 1505.
In 1553 the heirs of the last full spit called up power derselwigen oir innate Leens Eerffrechtigkeit to the new loan in det Dorp tho Rinheren as oire old ordinary Leens Maelplatzen . Among the eleven fiefs there was also an alienated Deutz fief, the court at Kissingerhöfen.
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows a galloping silver horse in red. The horse growing on the helmet with the red and silver blankets .
Individual evidence
- ↑ pastor coumarin to Bockum, o. J..
- ^ Levold von Northoff, Chronicle of the Counts of the Mark. German Translation by Hermann Flebbe (historian of the German prehistory 99).
- ↑ Certificate from Welver Abbey A 394 from October 1, 1281, LA NRW
- ^ Deutzer fiefdom register
- ^ Wilhelm Honselmann: The knight family Vollenspit and their heirs, in: Westfälische Zeitschrift 118, 1968, p. 192.
- ↑ Soest City Archives, Findbuch (inventory A: 3185)
literature
Heinrich Petzmayer, history of the former municipality of Herringen . Publisher: Heimatverein Stadtgebiet Herringen eV in collaboration with the Hamm City Archives, Hamm 2003.