Beichlingen (noble family)

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Heraldic shield of the Counts of Beichlingen

The Counts of Beichlingen were a Thuringian noble family that had their ancestral seat at Beichlingen Castle ; In 1519 they sold their county to the von Werthern family and in 1567 they became extinct.

In 1700, a family of the same name from Kölleda was granted the status of imperial count, but was already extinguished in the second generation in 1735.

history

The Counts of Beichlingen

The headquarters of Burg Beichlingen , sold to the von Werthern family in 1519 and expanded by them.
The Krayenburg , from 1516 to 1567 the last residence of the Beichling counts

Thietmar von Merseburg first mentioned a Reinhilde von Beichlingen in 1014 , probably a daughter of the Saxon Duke Hermann Billung . Then there is a gap; the property in Beichling then seems to have come to Otto I of Weimar , Margrave of Meißen , because his daughter Kunigunde of Weimar-Orlamünde († around 1117) received it as a dowry. In her first marriage she married a prince from the house of the Rurikids , probably Jaropolk von Wladimir and Turow , in her second marriage around 1088 Kuno von Northeim from the house of the Counts of Northeim , son of Duke Otto of Bavaria . Kuno then called himself Count von Beichlingen , but was murdered in 1103. Not his four daughters, but a presumed daughter of Kunigunde from his first marriage, Mechthilde, then inherited Beichlingen. Kunigunde founded the Benedictine monastery of Oldisleben in 1089 as the burial place for the Beichling counts.

Mechthilde's first marriage was a Count Günther, probably a Käfernburger . A Count Friedrich von Beichlingen , whose origin cannot be proven, is considered the son of Mechthilde and Count Günther. Count Friedrich von Beichlingen later sold his share in the Giechburg along with other goods in Radenzgau that had come to him through his mother to Bishop Eberhard von Bamberg (who was in office from 1146 to 1170) . Friedrich von Beichlingen founded the family of the Counts of Beichlingen with his wife Hilenburg, a daughter of Count Ernst von Gleichen .

The Counts of Beichlingen, like the Käfernburger and the Counts of Schwarzburg , probably form a line of the Sizzonen . The people of Beichling owned large areas of the Hainleite , the Kyffhäuser , the southern Harz and the Goldenen Aue . Kölleda , Kelbra and bridges belonged to the early possessions of the Beichlingers. Albrecht von Beichlingen († 1371) was auxiliary bishop in Erfurt . From the middle of the 14th century, the Counts of Beichlingen lost their influence; so they sold Heringen Castle around 1330 .

In 1516, Count Adam von Beichlingen bought the Krayenburg . In 1519, in debt, he sold the entire county of Beichlingen and the family's ancestral palace to the knight and keeper of the Imperial Chamber of Commerce , Hans von Werthern auf Wiehe , whose family stayed there until 1945. The last residence of the Counts of Beichlingen was Krayenburg and Gebesee Castle as a Saxon fief until 1567 . Since the seven sons of Count Adam von Beichlingen remained childless, the male line of the Count von Beichlingen died out with the death of the last, Bartholomäus Friedrich († 1567).

Margarete von Beichlingen, Princess Abbess of Essen from 1525 , on the altarpiece she commissioned

Well-known namesake

coat of arms

Blazon : Two silver bars on red or four times divided by red and white. On the crowned helmet with red and silver covers, a high, pointed hat, drawn and tinged like the shield, which is decorated with a peacock mirror or five spindles tinged like the shield.

The Beichlingen from Kölleda

The long tradition of the Counts of Beichlingen was followed by a family from Kölleda who tried in the 17th century to derive their origins from this count family. Gottfried Hermann von Beichlingen (1638–1703), who in 1671 had acquired the Zschorna and Dallwitz estates by marrying Perpetua Margaretha von Lüttichau , had Emperor Leopold confirm his descent in 1700 and “renew” the count.

His son Wolf Dietrich von Beichlingen was Grand Chancellor and Oberhofmarschall of Elector Friedrich August I of Saxony and was one of the largest landowners in Saxony, including as lord of the Hoyerswerda class and the Bernsdorf estate, 15 kilometers southwest of Hoyerswerda Castle . He had the Beichlingen Palace built in Dresden in 1712–15 . With the death of his nephew († 1735), the lieutenant captain Adolph Siegfried von Beichlingen, this male family died out. In the cemetery of the former monastery church of St. Johannes zu Kölleda there are Rococo tombstones of the Beichlingen counts.

See also: Beichlingscher Ordenstaler

Well-known namesake

literature

  • W. Rein: The last counts of Beichlingen , in: Journal of the Association for Thuringian History and Antiquity , 1854, 1st volume, pp. 381–387.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Counts of Beichlingen (genealogy)