Bellersheim (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Bellersheim (Black Tribe)

Bellersheim , also called Stürzelsheim , is the name of an old Hessian noble family . The family, some of which still exist today, originally belonged to the Uradel of the Wetterau .

history

origin

Grave slab of Conrad von Bellersheim († 1500) in the Wechselburg monastery

According to older literature, members of the family are said to have participated in tournaments as early as the 11th century and appear in some feudal letters during this time . The Bellersheim family archive was lost in the Thirty Years' War . The genealogist Johann Maximilian von Humbracht begins the ongoing series with Janinus von Bellersheim , who lived around 1080. His descendants are said to have bloomed in 22 lines, which differed only in their nicknames and small deviations in the coat of arms . One line was called von Fechenbach , but also had a belt and a unicorn in the coat of arms. According to the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , the family was first mentioned in a document as de Beldersheim in 1220. The uninterrupted line of trunks begins with the knight Johanne (s) de Beldersheim , who is mentioned in a document on February 26, 1294, together with Crapthone , Friderico and Dylemanno de Beldersheim . In 1431 Konrad von Beldersheim was Commander of the Teutonic Order in Elbing .

The ancestral seat of the family that gave its name is probably the village of Bellersheim , today a district of Hungen in the district of Gießen in Hesse. The village was first mentioned in a document as Baldratesheim in 769 . There is evidence of a castle in Bellersheim since the 12th century. It initially had several noble families located there. Later, the Knights of Bellersheim built three castles that Beller Heimer castles , two of which, the upper and middle castle, moated castles were.

Spread and personalities

The Bellersheim were initially castle men of the lords of Munzenberg and later became feudal people of the lords and counts of Hanau and other dynasts. The progenitor Johann von Bellersheim married Götzela von Düttelsheim . Their descendants owned several castles in the Wetterau, including the Stürzelsheim Castle , and were connected to the oldest noble families in the Middle Rhine region. The family also provided several castle men within the Burggrafschaft Friedberg . Benigne von Bellersheim was abbess in the Benedictine convent Patershausen near Heusenstamm on 1418 . Werner von Bellersheim († 1413) became prior on St. Jakobsberg in Mainz in 1407 . Johann Wilhelm von Bellersheim died in 1604 as the commander of the Johanniter in Frankfurt am Main and Wilhelm von Bellersheim died in 1627 as the Landgrave President of Hesse-Kassel in Marburg . Heinrich Eckard von Bellersheim lived around the same time, leaving behind two sons Johann Ernst and Johann Daniel. Johann Daniel von Bellersheim was electoral Mainz captain . Both were able to continue the male line , but only the line established by Johann Ernst von Bellersheim made it into more recent times.

Descendants of the line he founded owned in Upper Hesse zu Muschenheim , Bellersheim , Birklar and Münzenberg . In the Duchy of Nassau , the family was wealthy with grades and property in Reichelsheim . During the 18th century, the Lords of Bellersheim belonged to the imperial knighthood in the Rhenish knight circle and from 1801 to the old aristocratic inheritance of Alten Limpurg in Frankfurt am Main. Philipp Heinrich von Bellersheim (* 1685; † 1747), a grandson of Johann Ernst, became a Solms-Braunfels lieutenant colonel and chief forest master . He married Luise Augustine von Schwalbach († 1747) in 1707. The marriage resulted in the son Christoph Christian von Bellersheim (* 1720), who died in 1802 as a major in the Dutch service. From his marriage to Auguste Dorothea Elenore von Hofen († 1804) in 1753, son Carl Friedrich (* 1776; † 1826) emerged. From his descendants from his marriage to Sophia Auguste Freiin von Glauburg († 1843), Maximilian von Bellersheim (* 1813) became Doctor of Law, Imperial Consul and Princely Thurn and Taxic Postmaster in Lübeck . He married Rosalie von Fabrice in 1847. His older brother Friedrich von Bellersheim (* 1805) became a grand ducal Hessian chamberlain and captain. He married Luise von Fürstenrecht (* 1806) in 1839. In 1841 the twins Friedrich and Maximilian were born.

Status surveys

The twin brothers Friedrich and Maximilian von Bellersheim called Stürzelsheim received on February 5, 1910 in Darmstadt a grand-ducal-Hessian authorization to use the title of baron .

coat of arms

Blazon of the family coat of arms : "In black with a flat hanging bow, a silver stirrup girth (belt) with a golden buckle in the right, raised, overturned golden stirrup in the left upper corner and a gold-framed belt tip hanging down on the left, sprinkled with seven oblique golden shingles , one in the shield head, the other 2 : 1: 2: 1 (also 3: 3). On the helmet with silver-black covers a gold-horned and red-tongued silver unicorn body growing out of it . "The coat of arms was also carried with a similar, U-shaped belt (belt, Latin : balteus , cingulum ) in a red shield, sprinkled with golden crosses (also symmetrical, two above, five below); on the helmet a red or silver unicorn, with a red or golden mane and a golden or red-silver split horn.

  • Coat of arms of those of Bellersheim (Red Tribe), little cross symmetrically along the edge of the shield base

  • Coat of arms of those of Bellersheim (Red Tribe)

  • Reversed Bellersheim coat of arms as ancestral coat of arms on the epitaph of Christoffel Eitel von Schutzbar and wife from the Evangelical Church in Treis an der Lumda

literature

Web links

Commons : Bellersheim  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 1, pp. 289–290.
  2. ↑ Steen Clemmensen, Stuttgarter Wappenbuch , Farum, Denmark 2010, p. 42 (digitized version) (PDF; 912 kB)
  3. ↑ Original in princely rule solo archive in Lich and Ludwig Baur: Urkundenbuch the monastery Arend castle in the Wetterau. ; No. 9 (p. 6)
  4. ↑ a b c d e Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, p. 295.
  5. ↑ Original in the Darmstadt State Archive or Ludwig Baur: Hessian documents. Volume 5, No. 159 (p. 139)
  6. ↑ Joachim Stephan: The hand festivals of the Elbinger Commandery Book . In: Yearbook for the history of Central and Eastern Germany . Volume 54, Saur, Munich 2008, p. 110.
  7. ↑ a b c d e Otto Hupp : Munich Calendar 1934. P. 31.
  8. ↑ www.hungen.de
  9. ^ Gerhard Köbler : Historical Lexicon of the German Lands. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 , p. 56.
  10. ↑ Siebmacher (1605 successor), Hessische (Hessian Knighthood), plate 137 (digitized version)
  11. ↑ The coat of arms is possibly a talking coat of arms , as the Latin word balteus means belt, from which in Anglo-Saxon and English belt , in Danish baelte and Swedish baelt , and which von Bellersheim documented in the 13th century as Beldersheim . (Cf. Heinrich Meidinger, Comparative Etymological Dictionary of Gothic-Teutonic Dialects, Frankfurt a. M., 1836, p. 199 (digitized version) .)
  12. ↑ a b c d e Siebmacher from 1605, Reynlendische (Rhineland Knighthood), plate 126
  13. ↑ Hessisches Wappenbuch , approx. 1625, with copper engravings