Bennenwil

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Bennenwil coat of arms (1527).

The Bennenwil were a ministerial family named after Beniwil, a hamlet in the village of Alterswil in what is now the canton of Friborg . They were wealthy in the Sense area and died out in this area in the 14th century. Branches existed in Moudon , Avenches and until the end of the 16th century in Bern .

history

The first representative of the family and the presumed progenitor was Peter von Bennenwil, who was named as a witness in a document in 1227. Around 1300 the family split into a branch, later called von Rueyres , and a Bern branch.

The apparently very wealthy Burkhard V von Bennenwil acquired an important position in the city ​​of Bern after 1318, when he was first mentioned , of which he was a citizen from 1331. After the change of regiment in 1319, when the mayor's office came back from the Münzer to the urban aristocratic families, he was one of the few "newcomers" to be promoted to the small council . In 1333 he and Anton von Blankenburg - also one of the climbers - guaranteed a larger loan, which the Schultheiss and Council had taken out on behalf of the city of Bern for Junker Gottfried von Eptingen, known as von Wildenstein. Three years later, together with his brother-in-law Laurenz Münzer, former mayor of Bern, and his brother Werner IV the Younger, he acquired the castle and the rule of Spiez from the two barons Johannes and Heinrich V. von Strättligen . In the Laupenkrieg in 1339 he defended together with the son of the Bernese mayor, Johannes III. the younger von Bubenberg , the town of Laupen . In 1340 he finally bought the Kastvogtei from Heinrich von Aeschi for 1000 pounds over the Cluniac priory in Rüeggisberg . Burkhard also owned goods in Kirchdorf , while his two sons acquired the village court of Gurzelen together with his son-in-law Niklaus (II) von Lindach in 1344 .

In addition to the marriage with the Münzer and the Lindach, there were family connections to other notable families of the city of Bern and to ministerial families of the Vaud.

Family table

  • Peter (adult 1227), presumably ancestor
  1. Burkhard I. (ext. 1231-1235)
    1. Burkhard II. (Ext. 1233–1252) ∞ Agnès (ext. 1248)
      1. Burkhard III. (exp. 1248–1285 / 1295)
        1. Johann I. (exp. 1294–1306) ∞ I. Unknown; II. ∞ Valenda von Chapelle (ext. 1306)
          1. I. Burkhard V. (ext. 1304–1335 / 1347), knight, councilor of the city of Bern ∞ Gepa Münzer (ext. 1329–1352), founder of the Bern branch
        2. Nicolas (adult 1294–1327)
        3. Jehannète (ext. 1319–1319) ∞ Hugo von Oron (ext. 1319)
        4. Richard († before 1337)
      2. Peter I (adult 1248–1297)
        1. Berthold (adults 1282-1313)
        2. Rudolf (adult 1294)
        3. Burkhard IV. Called von Rueyres (exp. 1297–1318) ∞ Katharina (exp. 1335), founder of the branch of Rueyres
        4. Agnelète (adult 1297)
        5. Margareta (ext. 1297–1328) ∞ Girard von La Molière (ext. 1328)
      3. Kuno (adults 1248–1297)
      4. Wilhelm I. (exp. 1248–1271) ∞ I. Béatrix († before 1271); ∞ II. Agnès (adult 1271–1276)
    2. Uldric (adult 1233)
    3. Berthe ∞ Burkhard von Diesse (adults 1253–1259)

Bern branch

  1. Burkhard V. (ext. 1304–1335 / 1347), knight, councilor of the city of Bern ∞ Gepa Münzer (ext. 1329–1352)
    1. Burkhard VI. (exp. 1329-1349)
      1. Burkhard VII. (Ext. 1360–1376) ∞ Johanna von Massonnens (ext. 1369–1369)
      2. Johanna (adult 1360)
      3. Katharina (ext. 1360) ∞ Perrod von Avenches (ext. 1360)
    2. Katharina (ext. 1356) ∞ Hugo III. Buwli (exp. 1334-1341 / 1356)
    3. Lorenz (exp. 1329–1362 / 1372) ∞ Antonia von Montpreveyre / von Avenches (exp. 1365)
      1. Johann III. (exp. 1360-1406), Junker
      2. Johann IV. (Adult 1363–1364), pastor of Kirchdorf
      3. Anna (ext. 1364–1387) ∞ Gerhard II. Von Grasburg (ext. 1352–1369)
    4. Daughter (ev. Katharina) ∞ Niklaus II. Von Lindach, court lord of Gurzelen (exp. 1322–1348)
    5. Clara (ext. 1337) ∞ Rudolf Fischer (ext. 1337)
    6. Daughter (exp. 1351) ∞ Jakob II. Von Seftigen (exp. 1360–1383), 1382 mayor of Bern

Ludwig von Seftigen († 1408), the richest Bernese of his time and like his father from 1393, mayor of the city of Bern, came from the marriage of Jakob II von Seftigen .

Called von Rueyres by Bennenwil

  1. Burkhard IV. Called von Rueyres (exp. 1297–1318) ∞ Katharina (exp. 1335)
    1. Jakob (exp. 1335–1360) ∞ Isabelle von Sliero (exp. 1360)
      1. William III. (exp. 1364–1401) ∞ I. Isabelle von Villa; ∞ II. Isabelle von Pont (exp. 1393–1402)
        1. I. Katharina († before 1403)
      2. Daughter (parentage uncertain) ∞ from Autigny (?)
    2. Peter II (ext. 1335-1360) ∞ Jehannète von Sliero (ext. 1360)
      1. Agnès ∞ Johann V. von Seftigen († before 1384)
    3. Isabelle (adult 1335)
    4. Wilhelm II. (Ext. 1335-1394) ∞ I. Alexie von Sliero (ext. 1360); ∞ II. Antonia of Moudon (exp. 1391–1424)
    5. Johann II (ext. 1373)

From the Freiburg branch

  1. Heinrich (adult 1418–1468), pastor of Kirchdorf, canon and provost of the Amsoldingen collegiate monastery
    1. Egidius (illegitimate)
  2. Gillanus (adult 1457–1472 / 1481), pastor of Marly, possibly Heinrich's brother

coat of arms

Blazon : Divided by silver with a growing black lion, and by red.

literature

  • Roland Gerber: Münzer versus Bubenberg. Relationships and factions in the Bern Council at the beginning of the 14th century . In: Bern journal for history . 68th volume, issue 4/2006, 2006, ISSN  0005-9420 , p. 179–234 ( bezg.ch [PDF; 798 kB ; accessed on January 9, 2013]).
  • Heinrich Riesen: The nobles of Bennenwil and their castle in Gurzelen in the 14th century , 2006.
  • Hubert de Vevey-L'Hardy: de Bennenwyl. Manuscript dated February 13, 1965 . Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire (BCU), Friborg 1965 ( doc.rero.ch [PDF; 86 kB ; accessed on January 16, 2013]).

Web links

Commons : Bennenwil family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Gerber 2006: p. 184 family tree, p. 207 table, p. 208, p. 217 family tree, p. 223 box.
  2. ^ Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de geographie (editor): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 3: Krailigen - Plentsch . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuenburg 1905, p. 58 f., Keyword Laupen (district)   ( scan of the lexicon page ).
  3. Gerber 2006: p. 217 family tree.