Origin Illustrious Rhineland family of ministries of the Holy Roman Empire
Origin
Illustrious Rhineland family of ministries of the Holy Roman Empire. Based in Kerpen on Erft (near Cologne), the first known representative is a Werner Carpania (Kerpen) mentioned between 1065 and 1071 in several acts of ownership. The Emperor Frederick Barbarossa (1152 – 1190), during one of his stays at Aix-la-Chapelle and later during his stay from early 1174, wanted to strengthen his imperial authority in the region and control more effectively the road connecting Aix-la-Chapelle with Frankfurt and entrusted the management of his estate in Echtz to his Minister Werner Carpania probably a descendant of the former. At this time it was usual to call someone by his place of residence and Werner Carpania ought to be called “Echtz”. But between 1174 and 1180, this Werner (I) appears in his quality of minister as witness in several acts under the name “Wernerus of Rode”. Some historians believe the name Merode comes from the deforestation activity (Roden in German) that Werner started to install the castle at the foot of the Eifel, a few kilometers from Echtz. In 1218 there is again a written trace from a Werner (II) also Minister of the Emperor and probably son of the above (all known acts confirm this hypothesis). His alleged son, Werner (III), is the first proven ancestor of the House of Merode. Minister of the Emperor in 1275, he was appointed the official representative (Schultheiß) of Emperor Rudolf of Habsburg in Aix-la-Chapelle and he negotiated in June of the same year, with the approval of the Emperor, an alliance between him and the Archbishop of Cologne, Siegfried von Westerburg. He died in battle, with two of his sons, during the attack of Aix-la-Chapelle by Count William of Jülich in the famous night of 16 to 17 March 1278 called “Gertrudisnacht” named after the liturgical calendar of the saints.
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