Diederick IV, Count of Limburg Hohenlimburg Broich

Her father bannerlord Hendrik of Wisch and mother Elisabeth of Bronkhorst belonged to the most important nobility in Gelre.

On 21 February 1430 Dietrich IV became for Duke Adolf of Cleves of der Mark, Ambtman of Mülheim, [4] successor of Henrick Stecke.

Besides the daily management of the seigniory with guarding the borders and game track, he was the recipient of the ducal income and annuities.

Opponents were the Duke of Berg with allies Gerhard of Cleves, brother of Adolf, Dietrich of Mors and the Archbishop of Cologne.

Around 1430 there was an armed conflict in the border area between Cleves and Cologne, in which Count Dietrich IV of Limburg was involved.

Brother Dietrich dedicated the allodial lordship with Broich castle, the high and low jurisdiction, lands and fishing rights on the Ruhr to Cleves to receive it back as a fief from Duke Adolf.

Gerhard of Cleves, brother of Adolf, Frederik of Mörs and Saarwenden, Goswin Stecke and Wesel of der Loe act as mediators.

[10] Duke Adolf of Gullick-Berg, the other interested party in that area, was unable to oppose the Cologne ambitions due to lack of money and authority.

From Ruhrort he invaded the country of Heinzberg with his sergeants, took prisoners in Brakel and returned with them by ship via Düsseldorf through the area of Angermund to Broich Castle.

The Ambtman of Angermund, Adolf Quadt, reported on this in a letter dated December 4, 1441, to Duke Gerard Of Gullick-Berg.

Now that Broich was in the hands of the Cologne-Berg alliance, they started repairing the destroyed walls and restoring defences.

The von Limburgs had to leave Broich castle and were assigned the Schloss Hackhausen in a wooded area in the district of Ohligs on the edge of the Ohligser Heide as their domicile.

[13] Their brothers Everhard, canon in Cologne and Johan, provost of Werden, are not mentioned in that letter, although they were involved in the conflict in the background.

The archbishop of Cologne, Dietrich of Mörs, also transferred his share of Broich with the Kerspel Mühlheim to eldest son Willem II of Limburg on 11 April 1446.

At the age of fifty years around 1468 Johan left the monastery and concluded a secret marriage with Anna Borckhartz of de Schenkenbusch [17] for mayors, aldermen of Essen and judge Ruthger of Galen, known as Halswick.

Eldest son Count Willem II of Limburg became lord of Broich castle with the seigniory and also became an Amtman.

In 1446 Duke Gerhard of Gullick-Berg gave him his share back from Broich in exchange for the return of the House of Hackhausen.

Dietrich IV count of Limburg Ambtman Mülheim c. 1375-16 January 1444, married on 3 February 1415 Henrica of Wisch, who died in 1459.