Grenzau Feud

[1] Processions and memorial services to commemorate the fallen citizens were held in the churches of Koblenz on the Friday after Easter annually until about 1800.

After mass in the Church of Our Lady, a citizen of Koblenz used to climb a stone block on a house opposite (then the parsonage) and told the story of the feud..[2] The Grenzau Feud is classified as one of the warlike conflicts surrounding the election of Charles IV.

After 1340, however, the German electors increasingly distanced themselves from Louis and in 1346 elected Charles IV as counter-king.

The election of Charles IV marked the beginning of a civil war between king and counter-king.

But Gerlach rejected this, because he was only obliged to remain loyal to Baldwin if the feud did not go against the Reich, the Archbishop and the Landgrave.