Isenburg-Limburg
The house Limburg ( also Isenburg -Limburg) was about 150 years in the 13th and 14th centuries in Limburg an der Lahn reigning noble family, one side line of the Counts of Isenburg. Seat of the Lords of Limburg was the castle of Limburg. The majority of today's building stock was built by them. Grave situation of the family was a Franciscan monastery founded by them in 1232 in Limburg, the present town church. From the house came from Limburg several canons in Cologne and Trier. In addition to the house Isenburg existed family relations also to the houses of Nassau and Westerburg.
History
The house Limburg arose with the division of an estate between Gerlach I. and Henry II of Isenburg on May 22, 1258th Gerlach, who called himself since 1247 Lord of Limburg, received the sole possession of the town of Limburg. The rule of Limburg was only like 1219-1221, as the heir of the extinct in the male line Leiningen house, to the house of Isenburg.
Lords of the rule Limburg were the Landgrave of Hesse, the Archbishop of Mainz and the Holy Roman Empire to one third. Core of the rule were the town of Limburg and the advocacy of the Limburg St. George's pen. Furthermore, the rule included the villages Neesbach, Elz, Oberbrechen, Werschau that Zente Werode and the rule Cleeberg with the places Cleeberg, Brandoberndorf, Oberkleen and Ebergöns and shares in Schaumburg. However, the rule Cleeberg and the proportion of the Schaumburg lost due to use as dowry.
The ratio of the Lords of Limburg with the freedom of the city was tense. In the year 1279 sold the citizens Gerlach I of Limburg from the city. Only after negotiations, he could return to his castle, but had to concede the citizenship far-reaching freedoms.
In 1288, Gerlach I participated together with Nassau and Westerburg at the Battle of Worringen on the side of the Cologne archbishop Siegfried of Westerburg.
The dynasts of the House Limburg worked for the German kings. In particular, Johann I von Limburg worked 1292-1298 for his brother, King Adolf of Nassau, who was married to John's sister Imagina of Limburg. Despite his participation in the Battle of King Adolf Göllheim on pages he could gain the favor of King Albert of Austria.
Under Gerlach II the town of Limburg reached its highest medieval bloom. The chronicler Tilemann Elhen Wolf Hagen writes in his chronicle Limburger before 1402 that the city could muster against the plague over 2,000 able-bodied citizens. Gerlach had built the stone Lahn bridge and put in front of the suburbs Diezer Gate, the Frankfurter Tor and in the bridge suburb. With the fire of 1342 and the first plague in 1349 but started the economic decline. The rule was pledged from 1344 gradually to the archbishops of Trier.
In 1365, Gerlach III died. without male heirs of the plague. With the approval of Pope Urban V. His brother John was allowed to resign from the office of provost of Trier and as John II take over the rule of Limburg. With the death of John II in 1406, the last male representative of the house of Limburg had died. The Archbishopric of Trier was able to take over the city and rule final.
Dynasts
- Gerlach I. * 1227; Regent from 1258 - † January 1289
- Johann I. The Blind Men, Regent from 1289 - † September 29, 1312
- Gerlach II the Elder, regent from 1312 - † April 14, 1355
- Gerlach III. the Younger, regent from 1355 - 1365 †
- John II, regent from 1365 - 1406 †
Demarcation of the same gender
The family of the lords of Limburg Limburg an der Lahn is not to be confused with a native of Limburg an der Weser Counts and later Dukes of Limburg, according to which the present provinces of Limburg in Belgium and Limburg are named in the Netherlands. Furthermore, named after the Dukes in the female line of them -derived branch of the Counts of Berg- Altena, the Westphalian Counts of Limburg on High Limburg. For Dutch Duke and the Westphalian Graf house were no kinship connections.