Böddenstedt (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Knights of Böddenstedt
Coat of arms in the upper part of a window in Lüne Monastery

Böddenstedt (also Bodenstedt , Bodenstede ) is the name of an extinct Lüneburg-Mecklenburg noble family .

history

The knightly family of the von Böddenstedt were resident in the Lüneburg Heath , Mecklenburg and Altmark . In the 13th and 14th centuries, the von Böddenstedt u. a. Properties in the village of the same name Böddenstedt . In addition, the brothers Jordan and Heinrich von Bodenstede were enfeoffed from the Michaeliskloster zu Lüneburg with the village Michelsdorf in the lordship Werle . This was still in the possession of the heirs in 1295. The mentioned brothers were sons of the knight Burchard von Bodenstede . In the Lüneburg region they carried possessions occupied by the Counts of Schwerin as fiefs. In the Landbuch der Mark Brandenburg the Böddenstedt are also mentioned as the owner of the Neustädter Mühle (near Salzwedel ) and in 1226 - in the fiefdom register of those von Meinersen - with three farms and a mill in Sickte. The family relationships of the different bearers of the name are unclear. According Siebmacher the Knights of Böddenstedt possibly the same strain are similar to those of the Knesebeck extinguished and in the 16th century.

coat of arms

Boldwin von dem Knesebeck described the coat of arms as follows: "In the silver field a jumping, half, red unicorn ." With the approval of the provincial government of Hanover, the former municipality of Böddenstedt carried the von Böddenstedt unicorn in theirs from 1937 based on this coat of arms Seal.

Personalities

  • Burchard von Böddenstedt (* around 1220), knight and Count Schwerin vassal in Lüneburg
  • Dietrich von Böddenstedt (* around 1240), Count Schwerin vassal in Lüneburg
  • Heinrich von Böddenstedt, Burgmann in Salzwedel (1316)
  • Heinrich Bodenstede, provost in Lüneburg (1412–1433)
  • Jordan von Böddenstedt (* around 1245), knight and vassal of the monastery in Lüneburg

literature

  • Tilman Grottian: History of the Suderburg community. Festschrift for the 1000th anniversary in 2004. Edition Anderweit, Suderburg-Hösseringen 2004, ISBN 3-931824-33-0 .
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Boldwin Ferdinand von dem Knesebeck (ed.): Regesten and certificates of uradeligen sex of the Lords of the Knesebeck. Huth, Göttingen 1866.
  • George Adalbert von Mülverstedt : J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms. VI. Band, dead nobility: Mecklenburg Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg 1858.