Berg (Rhineland noble family)
Berg or Berge is the name of an extinct Rhineland noble family .
history
The family belongs to the ancient Jülich nobility and had its headquarters in Dürffenthal near Ülpenich . The family was first mentioned in a document in 1357 with Christian von Durffendale , with whom the secured line of tribe begins. The mountain split already in the Middle Ages into two separate tribes.
- Mountain called Durffendal
These were named after their parent company Dürffenthal , which was to remain with the family until 1808. At the beginning of the 15th century Daniel von und zu Berg was named as Herr zu Dürffenthal. A Balduin von Berg called Durffendal donated a tithe of Druffendal to the Marienwald monastery in 1502 . In 1594 a Gerhard von Berg named Durffendal owned the "Chimney House" in Cologne . He was married to Maria von Frentz and had a son Balduin , who in turn was married to Carda von Hoemer . The great-great-grandson of Wilhelm Adolph von Berg called Durffendal , Johann Balduin Christoph Wolfgang von Berg called Durffendal, swore by the Jülich knighthood in 1781. In 1827 he was accepted into the baron class. According to Kneschke , he is said to have owned the Seinsfeld castle and manor , which, however, according to another source, was sold in 1794 by a baron Ernst von Berg . Last named were Freiherr Ernst auf Mellich and Freiherr Franz Georg Edmund Maria Hubert von Berg called Dürffendhal , who was accepted into the knighthood register of the barons' class on July 10, 1829 in Rheinbach (No. 30).
- Mountain called Blens
These were named Burg Blens after their ancestral home . Baldwin von Berg called Blens was in the years 1444–1473, like his son Gerhard later in the years 1466–1473, was a royal Jülicher councilor. Above the archway of Irnich Castle is the coat of arms of the mountains of Blens , which indicates a construction time before 1491 and of course that the castle was owned to that extent. Another Gerhard († 1520) was court master of the Jülich duke and left a son Wilhelm from his marriage to Barbara von Frankenberg , who in turn married Eva von Hetzingen . Since the beginning of the 16th century, the mountain called Blens also owned Burg Hausen until it came to the Kolff von Vettelhofen by marriage and inheritance before 1571 . Lüppenau near Düren also belonged to the family .
A Berg family called Gülich without a secure connection or affiliation to the above-mentioned owned the Berge and Hausdorf estates in the 17th century.
coat of arms
Blazon : The family coat of arms shows a shield in silver and a black crossbar , adorned with a black bird with red feet and a similar beak. On the helmet with black and silver ceiling , led the mountain called Durffendal a black, silver whipped pointed hat , adorned with a silver, black and ringed bebandetem hunting horn ; the mountain called Blens, on the other hand, has a black, silver ringed and banded hip horn.
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1972, ISSN 0435-2408 . P. 331.
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Arligen Häuser (A) Gotha 1922, p. 65ff ( family and older genealogy), until 1937 (continuations)
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Leipzig 1859, Volume 1, p. 336
- Leopold von Ledebur : Nobility Lexicon of the Prussian Monarchy . Berlin 1854, Volume 1, p. 51
Individual evidence
- ^ Kremer, Akad .: Contributions to Jülich and Bergische history. Document p. 47
- ^ Johann Dietrich von Steinen : Westphalian history with many coppers. Part II, Lemgo, p. 1055