Berg (Rhineland noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Berg-Durffendal

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

Coat of arms of the von Berg-Blens

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kremer, Akad .: Contributions to Jülich and Bergische history. Document p. 47
  2. ^ Johann Dietrich von Steinen : Westphalian history with many coppers. Part II, Lemgo, p. 1055

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