History
The first recorded person in the Scheidt/Scheyde gt. Weschpfennig family line is Johann vame Scheyde geheissen von Burchenauwe (Bülgenauel), who is officially recorded in 1378, 1407, 1408 and 1441. Bülgenauel is a place in what is nowadays called Hennef near Stadt Blankenberg. Johann was Married to Agnes von Hondenberg. also known as von Hunnenberg, and was stepfather to her son and daughter Johann and Christine (styna) von Hunnenberg. Lacquer seals on historic documents show Johann vame Scheyde to be the earliest in the von Scheidt gen. Weschpfennig family line.
The second recorded person that shows no relation as of yet with aforementioned Johann is Engelbert vame Scheyde genannt Wispennynck, born in 1402 in Scheid, who married Barbara Elisa von Mirbach at house Buergel in 1434. In 1438 he was mentioned as Vogt and Schult-eis of the city of Much. Duke Gerhard von Jülich-Berg gave him the rights of the properties in the Kirchspiel of Ruppichteroth, including the Schoenenberg chapel in 1442. After his participation in the Hubertus-war at November 3, 1444 he was honoured with the order of Hubertus. He died in 1469.
Engelberts eldest son Johann, born in 1441, married Agnes Anna Sabina von Leyen at Leyen . He died in 1498 at the property in Broel . In 1470 one Wilhelm von Scheidt genannt Weschpfennig is recorded as Rentmeister in Blankenberg.
Between 1474 and 1617 the family became the lords of the Freusburg castle. Later on in time there was a long legal battle about who owns the property. It can be seen as one of the longest legal quarrels in German history, lasting several centuries. The last to have been sued was emperor Wilhelm II.
Johann Heinrich Scheidt genannt Weschpfennig was born in Scheid in 1476. He married Bona Greta von Seelbach of Menden in 1511 and died in Scheid in 1544. His brother Engelbert was born 1479 and was lord of Broel and 'Amtmann' of Schoenenberg. He and his wife Anna von Schnellenberg donated the chapel of Schoenenberg to Ruppichteroth. Inscriptions there indicate that he died in 1546.
His brothers son Rorich von Scheide genannt Weschpfennig was born in 1518 and married his second wife Anna von Kaldenbach zu Overbach in 1541 in Much. He died 1565. The other sons Gerhard Gottfried and Johann died around 1542/4 in Hungary in the war against the Turkish armies.
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