GERARD (-after 1163). The Vita Arniky, abbot of Averboden, in the Chronicle written by Nicolas Hogeland Abbot of Middelburg, names "Arnoldi…Conrardi…Emilii et Gerardi" as the four brothers of "Arnikius" who visited him at Averboden abbey[1640]. The Chronicon Diestense names “Arnoldum, Gerardum, Heilwigem et Hildegundem” as the children of “Arnoldus vel Arnulphus dominus de Diest”[1641]. The Chronicon Diestense records that “Arnoldus II filius...Arnoldi...cum conjuge sua Clemencia, Gerardo fratre, Heilwige et Hildegunde suis sororibus” donated “ecclesiam parochialem sancti Sulpitii Diestensis” to Tongerloo monastery in 1163[1642]. Henri Bishop of Liège confirmed that “Helewidis nobilis mulier et filii eius Arnoldus cum uxore sua Clementia et eiusdem Arnoldi fratres Gerardus, Amicus, et eorum sorores Hildegardis, Heylwidis” had ceded rights over Diest church to Tongerloo, and noted other donations, by charter dated 1163[1643]. Pope Urban issued a bull dated 2 Jul [no year] which records that “Helewigis nobilis mulier et filii eius Arnoldus cum uxore sua Clementia et ipsius Arnoldi fratres Gerardus et Amicus, eorum sorores Helewigis et Hildewara” donated property to Diest[1644].
Bronnen:
[1640] Wouters (1849), Annexes, Vita B. Arniky, II, p. 155.
[1641] Raymaekers ‘Chronicon Diestense’ (1861), p. 397.
[1642] Raymaekers ‘Chronicon Diestense’ (1861), p. 397.
[1643] Raymaekers (1859), p. 15, footnote (1).
[1644] Messager des sciences historiques...de Belgique (1859), p. 26, footnote (1).
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There are two relevant and probably
intertwined contexts. A conjunction of the names Arnold and Gerhard is found in the lords
of Diest, a family domiciled in close proximity to Bree and Gruitrode. A Gerhard of Diest,
first mentioned in 1163, documents frequently in Ripuaria between 1184 and 1193(70).His
elder brother Arnold II was married to a Clementia,(71) surely a descendant of Clementia of
Poitou, whose second husband was Count Gerhard I of Geldern. Given the evident background of Arnold II's wife, he and his brother Gerhard both received names from their
paternal ancestry, for clearly their mother cannot belong to the Geldern line.
Gerhard of Diest bore a relationship with Gerhard of Müllenark, who as we saw above
was probably a younger son of Gerhard II of Geldern. In Archbishop Philip of Cologne's
list of acquisitions there is mention of the sisters Sophie and Jutta, heiresses of Müllenark.
When the archbishop acquired Müllenark castle it was arranged that Jutta, whose husband
was the lord of Kempenich, should hold estates at Thum until her death, after which those
estates would fall to Gerhard of Diest and his wife. Although it is often inferred that Gerhard
was married to Jutta's sister Sophie, his wife was probably their niece.(72) In any event, both
he and his wife are mentioned here essentially as heirs of the lord of Müllenark, which
tends to confirm Gerhard's descent from the Looz-Geldern family
70) Regesten der Erzbischöfe, II, nos. 1128, 1320-1, 1327, 1335, 1337, 1361, 1449.
71 Sources in Raymaekers, "Notice historique," 28-33; see further "Chronicon Diestense," 393-521.
72) Regesten der Erzbischöfe, II, no. 1386 § 42. Gerhard of Diest would meanwhile draw an equivalent
rent from estates at Lechenich. The most advanced discussion is by Matscha, Heinrich I. von Müllenark, 71-8, who on this point follows Möller, Stamm-Tafeln, II, 146. However, Gerhard of Diest's wife is unlikely to
be Sophie, since the source does not repeat her name in connection with him. Ermengarde, apparent wife of
Count Hermann of Saffenberg-Müllenark (both mentioned in the "Knechtstedener Mortuar," see Gosses,
"Knechsteden," 49, with erroneous attribution to thirteenth-century persons of non-comital rank), is
presumably a sister of Sophie and Jutta, and Gerhard of Diest's wife would be Ermengarde's daughter.
Geldern, Looz, and Public Succession
Door Donald C. Jackman
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