Banz (Wroclaw patrician family)

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The patrician family Banz (also Bancz, Bansch, de Banch ) was one of the oldest German patrician families in Breslau .

history

The patrician family Banz probably came from a ministerial family of the Franconian Benedictine monastery of Banz . Family members held high offices in the Wroclaw Council as well as ecclesiastical and monastic positions in the dioceses of Wroclaw and Lebus . It became extinct in the male line in the second half of the 14th century and is not identical to the Wroclaw patrician family Banck . First known family member was

  1. Albert / Albertus von Banz , first mentioned in a document in 1252. 1257 documented as a citizen of Wroclaw, 1266 member of the Wroclaw Council. He left four sons and two daughters:
    1. Heinrich "von Bhanz" was Albert's successor in the Wroclaw Council; Proven as a citizen of Wroclaw and documentary witness in 1266. In 1268 he appears in the sources as Heinrich de Bansche , Vogt of Breslau. In 1276 he was subordinate bailiff of Glogau , 1286 hereditary bailiff of Breslau, and in 1287 he was recorded as the fourth lay judge. From 1289 to 1297 he held the office of councilor, in addition he was an elder in 1290/1291 and 1294/1295. As early as 1292 he was called "senior et concivis Wratislaviensis". He was married to Sophia von Haugwitz , with whom he had five sons and two daughters:
      1. Gertrud , ∞ with councilor Hermann Colner
      2. Hedwig , ∞ with Gerko von Mühlheim
      3. Hermann , until 1302 lord of Heinersdorf , which he gave to the Magdalen convent in Beuthen an der Oder , which was founded before 1296 . In 1341 he belonged to the retinue of Duke Bolko II from Münsterberg .
    2. Tilo , 1290 locator from Groß Mochbern
    3. Arnold ("de Banch"), with his brother Tilo Lokator from Groß Mochbern
    4. Bernhard , attested as a citizen of Breslau in 1302
    5. Elisabeth and
    6. Anka , both 1302 nuns in Bytom .

Other known family members

  1. Johann von Banz , abbot of the Benedictine monastery of Orlau , canon in Breslau
  2. Paul von Banz († 1321), Cistercian in Leubus as well as auxiliary bishop in Breslau and titular bishop of Tiberias
  3. Heinrich von Banz († 1336), Cistercian and 1330 canon in Breslau
  4. Nikolaus von Banz (* in Breslau; † September 1, 1344), Lord of Kosel and Klettendorf and of Kaltenstein Castle ; Administrator of the Diocese of Wroclaw
  5. Heinrich von Banz († 1365/66), 1353 to 1365/66 Bishop of Lebus
  6. Apetzco (Apeczko) von Banz († after 1345), 1345 occupied as a citizen of Breslau as well as Mr. on Schmiedefeld near Breslau
    1. Dorothea , 1345 nun in the Klarenkloster Weißenfels
    2. Kunigunde , who was married to the patrician Zacharias Rulke, inherited Schmiedefeld

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Family entry NDB
  2. ↑ A mixture of both sexes while riddling about the name in Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch , Neues Prussisches Adelslexikon , Volume 1, Leipzig 1836, p. 171 f.
  3. ↑ Only Hermann is named in the source
  4. ↑ Hugo Weczerka (Ed.): Handbook of historical sites . Volume: Silesia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 316). Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-31601-3 , p. 25.
  5. ↑ now Kuźniki in the Wrocław-Fabryczna district