Beninga

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Beninga coat of arms

The Beninga were one of the oldest and most respected East Frisian chief families . The Beninga family died out in the male line with the Dornumer line in the early 18th century.

history

Beninga to Werdenum and Grimersum

The family initially had their seat on the Beningaburg in Werdenum . This was destroyed in 1426 by the Hamburgers. The family then moved their residence to Grimersum , where a new castle was built; the old Grimersum Castle was destroyed in 1379. Another Beningaburg in Grimersum can be found on the Langwurt; it was only built in the late Middle Ages and was built on this spot after the old ancestral seat of the Beninga had been destroyed.

The most famous offspring of the family was the Frisian historian Eggerik Beninga (1490–1562), buried in the church of Grimersum , who came from a line of the last heir, Heberich Beninga, the last chief of the family; she married Imel Allena . Aild, provost in Hinte, who took his mother's family name, comes from this connection. The name Beninga is still common today as a family name in East Frisia.

Beninga to Groothusen

The Osterburg (Groothusen)

The Oster , Middel and Westerburg zu Groothusen came to the Beninga by inheritance in the early 15th century. The Middelsteburg was built by the chief Udo Tiadekana in the second half of the 14th century. The Westerburg was destroyed by the Hamburgers in 1435. The reconstruction of the Westerburg began in 1452 after the return of Chief Redward II Haitadisna Beninga. His daughter Tiada Beninga (1425–1483) also inherited the Osterburgstelle from the Visquard Tiade Canal line. With her father's two castles, all three castles were in the hands of the Beninga in 1465. Only the Osterburg - rebuilt around 1490 - has survived to this day. The Osterburg came after 1516 through the marriage of a nomna Beninga von Groothusen (1490-1560) to Wiard Meckena von Jemgum. Since then, the castle has been inherited by various families and the current owners, the Kempe, can look back on more than 500 years of ownership continuity; the ancestral gallery shows portraits from five centuries.

Beninga to Dornum

The Beningaburg in Dornum

In Dornum , too, there were three chief castles around 1400 , the Westerburg , Norderburg and Osterburg - the later Beningaburg . The latter fell around 1545 from Remmer Kankena to his sister Nona, who was married to Folkmar I. Beninga von Grimersum . In 1512 both died of the plague. Their son Garrelt, who married Cäcilie von Closter in 1533, followed as the new owner, but died in 1546. His son Folkmar II. Beninga († 1572) inherited the Dornum property. The Dornum line of the Beninga family shaped the history of the castle for almost 200 years - until 1717. The successor was the Lantzius-Beninga family.

Lantzius-Beninga

The last male Beninga from the line of provost Aild Beninga was court judge Folkmar Eger Beninga (1670-1717). His two heir daughters were married to two brothers of the Lantzius family, who from then on called themselves Lantzius-Beninga and, through their connection to the Beninga family, demanded that their family belong to the East Frisian knighthood. The knighthood complained against it. The result of the trials was that the Lantzius-Beninga were allowed to use the name and coat of arms of the Beninga, but did not belong to the knighthood and nobility . Beatrix Dorothea Beninga had brought the Osterburg in Dornum into her marriage to Erhard Thomas Lantzius (1712–1780) . After the death of their son Eger Carl Christian Lantzius-Beninga (1744–1798), the Dornum Castle lost its status as a knight's seat and was sold. The Lantzius-Beninga took up residence in the Stikelkamp estate , which Eger Carl Christian's wife Isabella Kettwig brought into the marriage and which they owned until 1971. The Lantzius-Beninga bought the nearby bog settlement Louwermans Vehn in 1788 , which is how it got its name Lantzius-Beningafehn, today Beningafehn .

Beninga to Upleward

Coat of arms of the Beninga to Upleward (of the Tidena tribe)

The castle Upleward belonged to the 1,469-mentioned Ubbo Tidena which Hebrich Beninga of Grimersum married. From then on, their descendants were nicknamed Beninga, although they were not Beninga in the male line . After the death of the last descendant of the Upleward family, Tido Beninga, Wilhelm zu Inn- and Knyphausen inherited the castle and lordship of Upleward around 1600; the later ownership of the barons of Bremervörde was broken off in 1782.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the Beninga family in Grimersum was a silver lion on a red background. Crest: a silver lily. The coat of arms found its way into that of the formerly independent municipality of Arle as well as into the coat of arms of Loppersums and Werdenums . The descendants of Imel Allena, who continued to call themselves Beninga, chiefs of Grimersum, adopted the Allena's coat of arms: a golden eagle in blue. Crest: a golden eagle head.

The coat of arms of the Beninga zu Upleward , also Frisian chiefs who came from the male line of the chief family Tidena, is to be distinguished from it; it shows a black dragon with outspread wings (and a gold neck ring) in the silver shield; on the helmet with black and silver covers the dragon (growing). The coat of arms of the Beninga zu Upleward, now extinct in the male line, found its way into the multi-field coat of arms of the baronial, count and princely house of Innhausen and Knyphausen .

Known family members

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Weßels: Gut Stikelkamp. From the Johanniter convent to the “parlor” of the Leer district. East Frisian Landscape, Aurich 2002, ISBN 3-932206-28-2 .