Weiher zu Nickenich
The Weiher zu Nickenich family were knights from Nickenich in the Pellenz region .
history
Moritz von Nickenich was the first to appear in the sources in 1163 in a document from the Buchholz provost . He was wealthy in Andernach . In 1245 there is evidence of a house belonging to the knights of Nickenich on the old market in Andernach. A Theodoric von Nickenich is named as a Trier Ministeriale in a document from Archbishop Theodoric in 1204 . In the 13th century the knights Hermann von Nickenich and (perhaps his sons) Hellwich and Meinward are mentioned. Furthermore, Simon von Nickenich occurs in 1253. In 1289, the knight Ludwig von Nickenich died as the canon of St. Castor in Koblenz. In the 14th century the brothers Johannes and Siegfried von Nickenich are mentioned in a document. Of these, Siegfried is known as the founder of the. Johannes was married to Adelheid von Dienstburg and died before 1365. At the end of the 14th century, the above-mentioned knight Krafft von Nickenich meets as a feudal man of the Counts of Virneburg . He was the owner of the Virneburg castle Monreal and at the same time enfeoffed with goods in Mertloch, which he had pledged around 1432. Later he quit the Virneburg service, seems to have gone on a trip and been gripped by an epidemic. Johannes and Richard are named as sons of the mentioned married couple Johannes and Adelheid.
Around 1400 some of the knights of Nickenich entered the service of the Archbishops of Cologne. Engelbert von Nickenich was enfeoffed in 1376 by the Archbishop of Cologne with the Weiherhof zu Nickenich. This fiefdom remained in the family's possession until 1440. At the beginning of the 15th century the Knights of Nickenich reappeared in Trier service. In 1414 Archbishop Werner von Trier enfeoffed the knight Hermann von dem Weiher zu Nickenich with goods in Pomerania on the Moselle. Hermann had to undertake to convert a brick floor into a house. At the same time we meet several knights from the pond at Nickenich as officials of the Trier electors. Around 1420 Hermann von dem Weiher is said to have been a bailiff and Burgsess in Cochem and for several years Hermann was bailiff at Wittlich . Hermann's wife was Maria von Bourscheid, a daughter of Johann von Bourscheid and Katharina von Cröv. Among other things, he acquired half of Bourscheid Castle from their inheritance . Hermann died before 1518. He did not have male descendants, as can be inferred from the document of the Archbishop of Trier from 1488, through which he assured him that he would transfer fiefdoms to his daughters in the absence of male heirs. Hermann's eldest daughter Margaretha married the knight Dietrich von Metternich zu Zievel in 1496 .
Other knights from the pond at Nickenich are mentioned in the 15th and 16th centuries: In 1483 and 1510, an Anton von Nickenich von Kurtrier was enfeoffed with a quarter of the jurisdiction in Hambuch (Kr. Kochern). In 1510 the brothers Peter, Anton and Hermann von dem Weiher zu Nickenich received a pledge from the Archbishop of Cologne for 5000 gold guilders, the Nettegut bei Andernach, which remained in their hands until 1546. Peter and Anton were both Teutonic Knights, namely Commander of the Ordensballei Cologne. In 1546 Hermann married Christine von der Leyen, the daughter of Berthold and Katharina Pallandt . In 1440, a Johann von dem Weiher zu Nickenich became the Archbishop of St. Simeon in Trier, and in 1506 a Sophie von Nickenich died as Abbess of the Augustinian convent in Stuben. With Anna von dem Weiher zu Nickenich, who died in 1616 as abbess of the Benedictine monastery Oberwerth near Koblenz and had held the office since 1578, the family of knights from the pond in Nickenich died out.
The two bishops and brothers Johann von Schönenberg in Trier (1525–1599) and Georg von Schönenberg in Worms (1530–1595) came from the family of the Weiher zu Nickenich on their mother's side.
people
- Hermann vom Weiher zu Nickenich, Elector Burgrave of Cochem
- Antonius vom Weiher zu Nickenich, Landkomtur of the Teutonic Order
coat of arms
Three red diamonds on a silver background.
Possessions
Individual evidence
- ^ Anton Philipp Brück : Georg von Schönenberg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 232 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Zobel, coat of arms on the Middle Rhine and Moselle, plate 245 ( digitized version )
literature
- Johann Friedrich Schannat, Georg Bärsch: Eiflia illustrata or Geographical and Historical Description of the Eifel , Aachen and Leipzig 1829, Vol. 2.1, pp. 379–381. on-line
