GENERATION I:

HESSEN

I.1WIGAND von BENEHUSIN

doc. 1162 - 1187
CHRONOLOGY:
born: circa 1110
died: before 1169
1162-1187: During this period Wigand is listed as a witness for the ministerial of the Hersfeld monastery, Ludeger von Dorndorfs agreement to yearly pay his servant Berthold six denare.COMMENT: 
1179:  If Wigand and his wife were the parents of Rubbertus II.1, then they were dead at this date, since Rubbertus made a contribution to the Herzfeld Monastery for Masses, to be said for their souls.
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PICTURES of BEENHAUSEN in the 19th & 20th CENTURIES:

The Parsonage in Approximately 1890

The Local Inn in 1952

A View of the Old Village Center (1890)

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