Werden (Rhineland noble family)

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The lords of Werden are a Rhineland branch of the noble family of the lords of Bornheim , which appeared in the 13th century for only two generations . From the Lords of Werden, who were ministerials of the Werden monastery , the Lords of Buer and the Lords of Landsberg emerged.

history

Contrary to the earlier opinion that the first representative of the family was Everhard ( Euerhardus, nobilis, advocatus et dapifer ), Vogt and Truchseß of the Werden Abbey , mentioned in a document in 1115 , the family of the Lords of Werden actually comes from the Lords of Bornheim from Bornheim (Rhineland) from Bonn . The progenitor of the Lords of Werden was thus the knight Wilhelm Schilling I of Bornheim (documented 1173–1198), who came from a dynastic family, ministerial of the Archbishop of Cologne, Vogt von Bornheim and founder of the famous Schillingscapellen monastery .

The first of the family to call himself von Werden was knight Wessel von Werden (documented 1223–1240, Wescelus de Werdina ), the last governor of Werden. Apparently Wessel's father, Wilhelm Schilling II. Von Bornheim, vassal of the Electorate of Cologne and Vogt von Bornheim, had used his relationship with the Archbishop of Cologne to secure his son the lucrative position of Vogt in Werden, part of the diocese of Cologne.

Wessel had at least four children: Wilhelm Schilling, who called himself Buer de Bure after his main tenure , Philipp, who later took the name Landsberg after his headquarters in Burg Landsberg near Ratingen , Wessel, who was a judge in Recklinghausen and who, according to his role as a Meier , was named after Werdener Fronhof Barkhofen also called de Barichouen , as well as an unidentifiable child named St. de Werdina . This second generation of the Lords of Werden was already the last to bear the name. Wessel's grandchildren already bore only the names of the respective line (Buer, Landsberg, Barkhoven).

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows in gold a red bar latticed in silver with St. Andrew's crosses .

Personalities

  • Wessel von Werden (documented 1223–1240), mayor of Werden

Other families will

Even before the family of the Lords of Werden described here, individuals with the surname of Werden appear in Westphalia, for example the brothers Werenbert and Gerlach de Werdena between 1203 and 1215. However, these belonged to another family that had the same surname.

See also Werden (Pomeranian noble family) .

literature

  • Dietmar Ahlemann: The originally dynastic family association Bornheim-Werden-Landsberg-Buer , in: Our Buer - Contributions to History, Volume 31, year 2012/213, Gelsenkirchen-Buer 2013, pp. 5–30.
  • Friedrich Philippi : The beginnings of the count and baronial von Landsberg family. In: Landsberg, quarterly journal for the Landsberg Family Association, 4./7. Vol., Velen-Westfalen 1926–1929, pp. 1–37.
  • Alfred von Landsberg-Velen: A new attempt to clarify the first beginnings of the Werden-Landsberg family. In: Landsberg Yearbook for the Landsberg Family Association, 8. – 12. Born 1930–1934, Münster 1934, pp. 5–21.
  • Oskar Stavenhagen : Landsberg. In: Genealogisches Handbuch der Kurländischen Ritterschaft, Part 3, 2: Kurland, Lfg. 9-12, Vol. 2, Görlitz 1937, pp. 648-666. ( online )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landsberg-Velen (1934); Trad. Werdin. 122, 124, 128
  2. ↑ The coat of arms of Bornheim (Rhineland) essentially shows the coat of arms of the von Bornheim families. Only a jury's sword was added. See Bornheim (Rhineland) .
  3. ↑ Ahlemann (2013), p. 22 ff.
  4. ↑ Ahlemann (2013), p. 22 ff.
  5. ↑ Ahlemann (2013), p. 22 ff.
  6. ↑ Landsberg-Velen (1934), p. 14.
  7. ↑ Ahlemann (2013), p. 22 ff.