Arnstein (noble family)
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The von Arnstein family ( ) was a noble noble family of the Middle Ages .
history
The noble free lords of Arnstein from the Swabian dynasty of Steußlingen built in 1135 in Aschersleben on Ostharz the castle Arnstein . Since the end of the 12th century they called themselves Counts von Arnstein. The leading names of the sex were Walther and Albrecht. In 1289 the noble Walter von Arnstein was burgrave of Freckleben .
The noble family owned real estate in Mühlingen , in the county of Mansfeld , in the Archbishopric of Magdeburg and in the Abbey of Quedlinburg (of which they were subordinates ).
Walther III. von Arnstein (* around 1150, † around 1196) married Gertrud, a granddaughter of Albrecht the Bear . Among their children were Gebhard von Arnstein , the progenitor of the Counts of Lindow-Ruppin , Walther IV, the progenitor of the Counts of Barby , and Wichmann von Arnstein , Dominicans and mystics .
The Counts of Mühlingen and probably also the Counts of Falkenstein are said to have descended from the family.
The noble family died out in 1292/96 with the entry of three brothers into the Teutonic Order . Johann Siebmacher puts the end of the family at the beginning of the 14th century, when Günther von Arnstein closed the family in 1321.
Their possessions went to the noble lords of Schraplau , the princes of Anhalt, the counts of Mansfeld and the archbishopric of Magdeburg.
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows a white eagle in black or red .
literature
- Anton Friedrich Büsching , Christoph Daniel Ebeling : Earth description: eighth part, which contains the Upper Saxon circle . 1792, p. 870
- Gerd Heinrich : The Counts of Arnstein , Böhlau Verlag, 1961.
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon , Volume 1, Leipzig 1859, p. 113.
- Leopold von Ledebur : The Counts of Valkenstein am Harze and their regular comrades: With 5 illustrations u. 2 Family Tables , 1847, p. 94.
- Christian Friedrich August von Meding : "Nachrichten von nobility Wapen", Volume 3, 1791, pp. 10-11.
- Karl Friedrich Pauli : General Prussian State History, except for the current government , Volume 1, 1761, p. 588 ff.
- Siebmacher Wappenbuch , VI · 06 · Dead nobility: Prussian Province of Saxony, p. 5; VI.11. Dead nobility: Anhalt, p. 4.
- Heinrich Leo, Lectures on the History of the German People and Empire , Volume 5, Part 2, pp. 1002f.