Counts of Vianden

The county of Vianden developed in the Late Middle Ages and fell through marriage in the 15th century to the House of Nassau. Your family castle, the castle of Vianden, located in the canton of Vianden in the north of present-day Luxembourg.

History

First mentioned 1090 is a Comes de Vianne called Bertolf, arguably the home of the Counts of Hamm and bailiffs of Prüm was a member, which in turn descended from the Counts of Bidgau. According to the Jesuit Bertholet the counts of Vianden then descended from Gerhard von Sponheim, whose son was probably Frederick I of Vianden 's son Bertolfs. Jules Vannérus was also of the opinion that Frederick I of Vianden was a son Bertolfs, but he could not identify his family. Detlev Schwennicke holds Gerhard von Sponheim even for the son Bertolfs of Vianden and Gerhard II for his son and the father of Frederick I. More recent research, however, is based on a descent in the male line and sees the connection with Sponheim in a later generation between a daughter of Count Gerhard I of Vianden and a son of the Count of Sponheim Meginhard.

In the period 1124-1152 Friedrich I, Count of Vianden and Vogt joined Prüm, in appearance. His son Frederick II married Elizabeth, a daughter of Count Henry I of Salm, which Frederick was also Count of Salm in the Ardennes. Shortly thereafter, a separate branch of the family of Salm- Vianden formed. With Henry I of Vianden, the family acquired its peak. By his marriage with Margaret of Courtenay was Heinrich short time assume the Margraviate of Namur. 1264 came the county of Vianden in Lehnsabhängigkeit of the Counts of Luxembourg. Godfrey I of Vianden was a vassal of the Duke of Brabant participants in the Battle of Worringen. With Henry II became extinct in 1337, the older family of Vianden in the male line. Through the marriage of Simon III. of Sponheim -Kreuznach with the heiress Maria of Vianden in 1346 came the county of Vianden to 1417 in the hands of the Counts of Sponheim. After the death of Elizabeth, the last Countess of anterior County of Sponheim, took Engelbert I of Nassau- Dillenburg the county of Vianden.

Coat of arms

The first coat of arms of the Counts of Vianden was, in red a silver heart tag. As a claim to the heritage of the Margraviate of Namur, Philip I then took the coat of arms of the County: a black lion in gold, covered by a red bar. His son Godfrey I in turn took out not entirely clear reasons, the coat of arms of his maternal grandfather, Gottfried of lions, Lord of Perwez to: in red a silver bar.

Coat of arms of Count Philip I of Vianden.

Coat of arms of the Counts of Vianden from Gottfried I..

Counts of Vianden

House Vianden

  • Gerhard ( 1100 ) Gerhard I of Clervaux (1129-1156)
  • Frederick I (gen. 1124-1150 ) Siegfried I. (gen. 1154-1163 )
  • Frederick II (gen. 1163-1184 ) ∞ Elisabeth of Salm Friedrich III. (gen. 1187-1217 ) ∞ Mechthild of New Castle Henry I (gen. 1214-1252 ), descendants see below
  • Siegfried II (gen. 1215-1242 )
  • Mr. Frederick I of New Castle ∞ Cecilia Kobern Mr. Frederick II of New Castle ∞ Irmgard von Esch Friedrich III. Lord of New Castle
  • Robin Lord of Kobern ∞ Elisabeth von Eppstein
  • Dietrich von Brandenburg

Counts of Vianden

  • Henry I (gen. 1214-1252 ) ∞ Margarete of Courtenay Friedrich † ∞ 1247 Mathilde of Salm Henry of Schoenecken 1248-1299, founder of the line Schoenecken, the extinct 1370
  • Heinrich 1262-1270
  • Godfrey I (gen. 1278-1307 ) Philip II (gen. 1306-1315 ) Henry II (gen. 1317-1337 ) ∞ Maria de Dampierre Maria (c. 1337, † 1400) ∞ Count Simon III. of Sponheim († 1414)

House of Sponheim

House of Nassau

Other well-known members of the House of Vianden

  • Gerhard von Vianden (* 1184-1212 ), Abbot of Prüm and Stavelot- Malmedy
  • Henry I. (Utrecht ) ( † 1267 ), Bishop of Utrecht
  • Yolanda of Vianden (* around 1231, † 1283), prioress of the monastery in Marienthal
  • Adelheid von Vianden ( † 1376 ), married Countess of Nassau- Dillenburg, ∞ Otto II of Nassau- Siegen

Secondary lines

  • Schoenecken
  • New castle
  • Hamm
  • Brandenburg
  • Niedersalm
  • Kobern
High Middle Ages Vianden Castle Vianden (canton) Hamm, Bitburg-Prüm Henry I, Count of Vianden County of Namur Margaret, Marchioness of Namur Henry I van Vianden Engelbert III of the Mark Jan IV of Nassau Engelbert II of Nassau Johann V of Nassau-Vianden-Dietz Henry III of Nassau-Breda René of Chalon Philip William, Prince of Orange Maurice, Prince of Orange William II, Prince of Orange William IV, Prince of Orange William V, Prince of Orange
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