Siegfried von Hanxleden lived as knight in Hanxleden and took part in the Fifth Crusade from 1217 to 1221. After his return he founded,together with his neighbour, the Lord of Sögtrop, a church and a rectorate on the common estate boundary, from which the village of Kirchrarbach developed. Albert von Hanxleden, was mentioned about 1216 and may have been his son. Johann I von Hanxleden was mentioned in 1326 and may have been a grandson of Albert von Hanxledens. Goddert I von Hanxleden was 1327-1358 mentioned. He was Lord of Grevenstein, Fredeburg and Schwarzenberg as well as bailiff of Attendorn. His wife was called Cunigunde. Johann II von Hanxleden was bailiff and Lord of Fredeburg. He was married to Catharina von Plettenberg-Bamenohl. Goddert II von Hanxleden was Lord of Grevenstein and Fredeburg, Drost in Nyle in the Duchy of Jülich. About 1390 he married Catharina von Hatzfeld zu Wildenburg. Hunold von Hanxleden was bailiff of Fredeburg and Lord of Bödefeld. In 1410 he was granted permission by the Electorate of Cologne to build the castle of Bödefeld. Construction lasted from 1425 to 1428. His first marriage was to Beleke von Huckelheim and his second was to Gertrude von der Elpe. In 1452 he died and was buried in the Church of St Walburga in Meschede. Johann III von Hanxleden, second son of Hunold and Beleke, was Lord of Körtlinghausen and in Kallenhardt as well as the Drost of Brilon. In about 1448 he married Margarethe von Hatzfeld. Wigand von Hanxleden was Lord of Kallenhardt, Drost of Erwitte and on the Electorate of Cologne in 1483. His wife was Elisabeth von Hörde. Johann IV von Hanxleden, Lord of Körtlinghausen was married to Elisabeth von Kettler, heiress of Kettelburg and Herdringen Manor. He had the Hanxleden manor house built there about 1501 on an artificial island south of the bailey of the now ruined Kettelburg castle. In 1536 the County of Waldeck pledged the Assinghauser Grund to Hanxleden. This pledge expired 15 years later. Wigand II. von Hanxleden, Lord of Körtlinghausen and Herdringen, was married in 1543 to Gertrude von Schorlemmer. The pair had seven children. Georg Rombert von Hanxleden their eldest son, was marshal of the Teutonic Knights in Marburg in 1562, 'Komtur in 1581 in Ottmarsheim and Landkomtur of the Westphalian chapter of the Teutonic Knights in 1582. Elisabeth von Hanxleden, daughter from Georg Rombert's marriage to Walburga auf der Ham, married 1599 in Mülheim an der Möhne the Rentmeister'' of Bilstein, Ludwig von Stockhausen.
Hanxleden of Bödefeld (line extinct)
Dietrich von Hanxleden, son of Hunold von Hanxleden's second marriage to Gertrude von der Elpe, inherited Bödefeld Castle and married Anna von Bruch about 1470. Their successor Johann von Hanxleden was the last knight of the castle. About 1540 he founded the village of "Lichtenscheid", today Altastenberg, part of Winterberg, where he settled charcoal burners and herdsmen. As a result, he ended up in conflict with the townsfolk of Winterberg, who claimed the land. The region paid taxes to the Electorate of Cologne until it was dissolved. Johann had a daughter Anna and an illegitimate sonJürgen. After his death in about 1550 the castle was enfeoffed to the family of his son-in-law, the Knight von Dersch.
Johann von Hanxleden of Anröchte took over the estate of Haus Ostwig, today part of the municipality of Bestwig, in 1539. The family had their seat there and built the house in the 17th century into an impressive manor. In 1771 the Ostwig line of the Hanxledens died out and the estate went to the family of the barons von Lüninck.
