Dalwigk

The von Dalwigk family belonged to the ancient nobility of Hesse and Waldeck and took its name from the village of Dalwigk southeast of Korbach, first mentioned in 1036 and abandoned after the Thirty Years' War. First documented with Rabodo de Dalewic in 1167, its members were ministeriales of Corvey Abbey and held Lichtenfels Castle in Dalwigksthal as its castle garrison.

Dietrich and Reinhard von Dalwigk served as abbots of Corvey between 1336 and 1369, and the knight Bernhard V fought in the Mainz and Hesse feuds around 1400. From Johann von Dalwigk zu Lichtenfels, marshal of Count Otto IV of Waldeck in 1470, descend the baronial lines of Dalwigk zu Lichtenfels and Dalwigk zu Schauenburg.