Wirich V. von Daun-Falkenstein

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Coat of arms of the Lords of Daun-Falkenstein , detail from the family epitaph in the Marienthal monastery church (Palatinate)

Wirich V. von Daun-Falkenstein ( Wirich von Daun, Count of Limburg and Falckenstein, Herr zum Oberstein and Broich ; also written Dhaun ) (* around 1473 at Burgsteinfurt Castle ; † at the end of 1546 at Falkenstein Castle ; buried in the Otterberg Abbey ?) was a diplomat and military commander.

He came from the Daun family . Through descent, marriage and his own merits, he was able to acquire the following titles and claims: Due to the premature legacy of his father, he became Lord of Daun , Falkenstein , Oberstein and Linnep in 1505 and, through the early inheritance of his father-in-law in 1508, Lord of Broich and - together with Gumprecht II. von Neuenahr-Alpen  - Count of Limburg and in 1510 Mr. zu Bürgel . Wirich V. and his descendants called themselves the "Lords of Daun-Falkenstein ".

ancestry

Wirich V. was a son of Melchior von Daun-Oberstein (* 1451–1 September 1517) and Margaretha von  Virneburg (* 1453–1521), as well as a nephew of Cologne Archbishop Philip II of Daun-Oberstein and the princess abbess to eat Meyna von Daun-Oberstein .

Life

Probably through negotiation with his uncle Philip II von Daun, Wirich von Daun-Falkenstein married Countess Irmgard von Sayn on November 14, 1505. Irmgard was previously adopted by her childless uncle, Count Johann von Limburg-Broich , in order to be able to leave the secured legacy of Limburg and Broich to the couple in 1508.

In 1518, Emperor Maximilian I raised Wirich's rule of Falkenstein to a county. Half of the lordship had been bought from Count Wilhelm von Virneburg by his grandfather Wirich IV von Daun-Oberstein in 1456 . The condition of the deal was that Wirich's IV son Melchior should marry Wilhelm's heir, who then brought the other half of Falkenstein into the marriage.

Count Wirich, who had received military and diplomatic training early in his life, played a prominent role in the negotiations for the conclusion of an alliance between his liege lord , Duke Johann von Jülich-Kleve-Berg and the designated Emperor Karl V. The alliance became Completed in Sittard on November 25, 1519 . At that time, Wirich probably did not yet have a specific office at the ducal court in Düsseldorf.

Wirich repeatedly represented Duke Johann in important matters and especially at the Diets of 1526 and 1529 in Speyer and 1530 in Augsburg . Already at the first and important Reichstag of the young emperor Charles V in 1521 in Worms he appeared for the duke.

In Brussels , on June 22, 1521, Wirich, together with Wilhelm von Rennenberg , on behalf of Duke Johann, took the oath for his enfeoffment by Emperor Charles V with Jülich-Berg , Ravensberg and Kleve-Mark .

In 1523 he and Count Dietrich von Manderscheid were induced to recruit a few hundred horsemen to help the Scandinavian King Christian II recapture his empire. Christian had previously been forced by Gustav Eriksson to flee his empire. The two counts called for help had already arrived in the Altmark with 850 horsemen , but then turned back because the king was penniless.

In 1526 Wirich was appointed Hofrat by the Saxon Elector Johann .

In May and June 1527, Wirich escorted the eldest daughter of his liege, Duke Johann, Princess Sibylle , from Burg Castle to Torgau , where she married Prince Elector Johann Friedrich of Saxony on May 7th. The delegation witnessed the Torgau tournament , which was also attended by Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon .

In 1528 Wirich was appointed governor of Ravensberg by Duke Johann von Jülich-Kleve-Berg .

In 1532 Wirich went into the Turkish wars as an imperial field captain . At Linz on the Danube he is said to have defeated an army of 15,000  Ottomans under the leadership of Pascha Michalogli near Linz .

After Franz von Waldeck , the Bishop of Münster, as the highest field captain, tried in vain with his mercenaries to free Münster from the Anabaptists , Wirich was assigned to him as a war council . After months of siege, he took over the military duties of the bishop and was now supreme commander of the troops. The other councils of war had to resign. Wirich's attempts to peacefully end the occupation of the city failed. From May 24th to 25th, 1535, he attacked, favored by a strong thunderstorm, and Munster was taken. After the leaders of the Anabaptist Empire were arrested, Bishop Franz took over the supreme command again and celebrated in the city. (" I must be silent, then I would like to go limp with my whole skin. " ( Count Wirich )). Wirich only received letters of congratulations from the Elector of Saxony and Landgrave Philip I of Hesse .

1539 directed Wirich, “ the Erle of Ouersteyn, and vij. persons ”, on behalf of his new liege, Wilhelm V von Jülich-Kleve-Berg, together with Hermann von Neuenahr , the Electoral Saxon court marshal Hans von Doltzig , the Klevian chancellor Heinrich Bars called Olisleger († 1575) and a large delegation (263 people) from him Sister Anna from Kleve to England. Anna married King Henry VIII of England there on January 6, 1540 .

In 1542 Wirich responded to the increasingly aggressive claims of the Neuenahrers on the county of Limburg by giving his daughter Amöna to Count Gumprecht II von Neuenahr-Alpen as wife, with the promise that after his own death Gumprecht would inherit the other half of the condominium .

In 1546 Wirich had his family come to Falkenstein to take care of his inheritance. On May 8, a contract was drawn up in which his sons Johann should inherit the County of Falkenstein and Philipp the dominions of Oberstein, Broich and Bürgel. Johann was supposed to take care of his mentally handicapped brother Caspar. Wirich's youngest son Sebastian should get half of the gradient from Philipp. His daughters Elisabeth, Amona and Anna were to be compensated. Wirich did not survive the year and will probably have found his grave with his ancestors in the Otterberg Abbey .

Marriage and offspring

Epitaph of the sons Caspar († 1576) and Johann († 1579) with family;
Marienthal Abbey Church

Wirich had been married to Irmgard von Sayn , († August 27, 1551, buried in the Petrikirche in Mülheim ), the adopted daughter of her uncle, Johann von Limburg-Broich , since November 14, 1505  . Your children were:

  • Elisabeth, abbess in Neuss
⚭ December 13, 1546 with Ursula Wild- and Rhine Countess at Salm
  • Wirich (* around 1512; fallen in Hungary in 1543), enrolled in 1530 as "Wyricus Comes ex Obersteyn" at the artistic faculty of the old University of Cologne ( Universitas Studii Coloniensis ), Canon of Mainz
⚭ September 28, 1552 with Maria Caspara von Holtey (* 1520; † January 14, 1558)
  • Amöna (* around 1520, † around 1582)
⚭ November 20, 1542 with Gumprecht II of Neuenahr-Alpen
  • Anna, canoness in Essen, later abbess in the Borghorster women's monastery
  • Sebastian (around 1530; † 1576), canon of Strasbourg , canon of St. Gereon in Cologne, resigned
⚭ 1558 with Elisabeth von Salm-Dhaun (around 1540/42; † before 1579), daughter of Wild and Rhine Count Philipp Franz von Dhaun-Neufville (1518–1561) and Maria Aegyptica von Oettingen-Oettingen (* around 1520; † 1559 )

Wirich V. von Daun-Falkenstein had the natural son Gossen (Goswin) von Daun-Oberstein († before 1560), the 1541 Katharina Pege († 1549/50), widow of Johann Rulinwirdt (von Rolinxwerth; Rolandswerth) from Wesel and sister of the judge Johann Pege from Essen, and in the second marriage Brigitte van Groin, a sister of the Wesel mayor Dietrich van Groin, married.

literature

  • Otto Redlich : Mülheim an der Ruhr - Its history from the beginning to the transition to Prussia in 1815 . City of Mülheim an der Ruhr self-published, city of Mülheim an der Ruhr 1939.
  • Hans-Joachim Wolter: The German Peasants' War , Mülheim Yearbook 1979.
  • Brigide Schwarz : The Petrikirche in Mülheim as a stately burial place (= magazine of the history association Mülheim ad Ruhr. Issue 78, ISSN  0343-9453 ). History Association, Mülheim ad Ruhr 2007.

Individual evidence

  1. Helmut Lahrkamp: The drama of the "Anabaptists" . Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-05342-X , p. 40.
  2. Cf. Karl Wilhelm Bouterwek : Sibylla, Electress of Saxony . In: Zeitschrift des Bergisches geschichtsverein 7 (1871), pp. 105–164, especially p. 121 ( Google Books ).
  3. ^ Cf. Woldemar Harleß:  Olisleger, Heinrich Bars . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, pp. 303-305.
  4. See letter from Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell († 1551) to his wife Elizabeth Seymour, Lady Cromwell († 1568) from Calais . In: Henry Ellis (Ed.): Original letters, illustrative of English history , Vol. III / 3. Richard Bentley, London 1846, pp. 251f, especially p. 252 ( Google Books ); British Museum London (Harleian MS.296, sheet 169f); Regest in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII , Vol. XV 1540 (1896), pp. 1-19 ( digitized from British History online).
  5. a b On the burial site in the Marienthal Monastery (Palatinate), see footnote at the bottom of the page
  6. ^ Correspondence with Philipp Melanchthon .
  7. Documents of July 26, 1541 and September 9, 1560; City archive Mülheim an der Ruhr (inventory 1010 Herrschaft Broich / Amt Broich-Styrum, documents no. 375 and no. 408).
predecessor Office successor
Melchior from Daun-Oberstein Lord of Oberstein
1505–1546
Philip II of Daun-Falkenstein
Melchior from Daun-Oberstein Lord von Falkenstein
Count von Falkenstein
1505–1519
1519–1546
Johann von Daun-Falkenstein
Gumprecht I of Neuenahr-Alpen Lord of Linnep
1505–1546
Gumprecht II of Neuenahr-Alpen
Johann von Limburg-Broich Count of Limburg
in the condominium
1508–1546
Gumprecht II of Neuenahr-Alpen
Johann von Limburg-Broich Herr zu Broich
1508–1546
Philip II of Daun-Falkenstein
Johann von Limburg-Broich Herr zu Bürgel
1510–1546
Philip II of Daun-Falkenstein