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destroyed the Castle (Alt-) Dernbach, the headquarters of the
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Not much is known about the fighting itself, but presumably it followed the usual pattern of feuds: essentially the looting and devastation of enemy possessions. At the beginning of the feud, according to tradition, Nassau destroyed a castle of the
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The cause of the feud was the ambition of Nassau to curtail or take away the rights (including mining, hunting, and customs rights) and possessions (forests and ore mines in the
Schelderwald) of the local aristocracy. The Landgraves of Thuringia and later of Hesse supported the local nobility. The
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and 13 courts in smaller villages. In 1334 Henry III of Nassau-Dillenburg was finally given
Wallenfels Castle by Landgrave Henry II. On 30 July, a contract was once more concluded between Nassau and the Dernbachers, in which questions about the rights from the first peace treaty were clarified.
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On June 26, 1312, Landgrave Otto I concluded an agreement with several members of the House of Nassau. It committed both sides in the future to no longer build castles against each other, and the
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Afterwards the feud seems to have cooled somewhat, because by 1325 Nassau had bought some of the possessions of the
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bases in the disputed territory and so in 1326 built the new
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Burgfahrten an der alten Grenze von Hessen und Nassau - Die Burgen: Dernbach, Bicken, Wallenfels, Hessenwald, Murstein-Tringenstein (Castle rides on the old border between Hessen and Nassau - The
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On 21 May 1336 an agreement was also concluded between the Lords of Bicken and Nassau, in which they sold
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Otto undertook to further expand the castle, to bring the city under its protection to prevent it from falling into the hands of Nassau. Apparently, this allowed the
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leading figures of the lower nobility against Nassau were the Lords of Dernbach. Parallel with this conflict, Count Henry II was also fighting a vendetta against the Knight of
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