Diederik II

Diederik II Count of Limburg Hohenlimburg (1276 - 9 August 1364) was a son of Everhard I and Agnes (possibly a daughter of Dietrich I of Volmarstein). Lifecycle Diederik married on September 16, 1297 to Irmgard of Greifenstein (widow of knight Hildeger Heinrich of Birklin, related to the family of Isenburg (not to be confused with Isenberg) daughter of Cracht of Greiffenstein. The castle was destroyed in 1298 by the counts of Nassau and Solms and not rebuilt. In 1315 Kraft (Cracht) of Greifenstein sold the ruined castle to the House of Habsburg. These ruins still exist. After his father Everhard I dies in 1308, he succeeds as Diederik II Count of Limburg Hohenlimburg. A heated conflict arises with the abbess. As a result, he and his wife Irmgard are excommunicated by the Archbishop of Cologne, Heinrich II of Virneburg. Only after some time do they receive absolution. Irmgard, who also had children from her first marriage, died in 1324. Nine years later Diederik remarries Elisabeth of Strünkede (widow of Hendrik of Friemersheim). Rights to Strünkede Castle, a fiefdom from Kleve, were bequeathed to her by Giselbert of Strünkede. Charters and deeds were written in the national language. 13 September 1333 Wi Dideric greue van Lymborch ende Lyse, onse wittelies wief, maken kont ende kenlic allen luden, die desen brief soelen sien of horen lesen, dat wi hebben ouerdraghen semelic mit enen moghenden man ende edelen Dideric greue van Cleue enre zuonen van aller aenspraec ende recht …. . Diederik also owed his office Amtmann of Recklinghausen to Elisabeth's legacy, “Theodericus comes de Limburg, tune temporis officialis in Recklinhusen”