Ringers from Gamburg

Beringer von Gamburg (* before 1139, † around 1170) was lord of the castle Gamburg and one of the four founders of the Bronnbach monastery .

Gamburg Castle

The name Beringer von Gamburg is mentioned in a Würzburg document from 1139 together with that of his brother Trageboto von Gamburg. Already at the time of Bishop Erlung von Würzburg (1105–1121), however, a "Beringerus de Damminburc" is already mentioned; a typographical error is suspected here. But before the Mainz era, this noble family was probably already wealthy in Gamburg .

In 1157 Beringer I. von Gamburg received the "castrum Gamburg" from Archbishop Arnold von Selenhofen as a fief . In exchange for this, Beringer von Gamburg gave the "villula Brunnenbach" (today's Schafhof bei Bronnbach ) to the archbishop, who left it to the Cistercians .

His son Beringer II von Gamburg (* around 1170, † 1219) took part in the entourage of Bishop Gottfried von Würzburg in the third crusade of Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa . After 1190 he returned to his homeland. In May 1194 he moved with Emperor Heinrich VI. to Italy to win the Sicilian legacy of Empress Konstanze for the empire. He was married to a niece of the later Archbishop of Mainz, Siegfried II von Eppstein . Around 1205 he had the Gamburg palace decorated by the building works of the Bronnbach Monastery and wall paintings ( Secco painting ), which were uncovered at the end of the 1980s. They show a group of horsemen, presumably at the head of the bishop Gottfried, who are moving towards a town, presumably Iconium , in whose capture the bishop and his Frankish knights played a leading role in May 1190.

The family died out at the end of the 13th century, after which the fiefdom fell back to the Archbishopric of Mainz .

literature

• Leonhard Scherg : The Cistercian Abbey Bronnbach in the Middle Ages. Würzburg 1876, p. 241 (Mainfränkische Studien 14)
• Peter Müller (Ed.): Bronnbach Monastery 1153–1803. 650 years of the Cistercians in the Taubertal. 2nd Edition. Archive group Main-Tauber, Wertheim Aisch 2007, ISBN 3-87707-607-6 , pp. 11–35
• Volker Rödel: The Gamburg. Family and castle occupation in the 12th and 13th centuries according to written sources. In: Castles and early palaces in Thuringia and its neighboring countries. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-06263-7 , pp. 231–242 ( Research on castles and palaces. Volume 5)
• Helga Fabritius: The medieval wall paintings of the Gamburg. In: Castles and early palaces in Thuringia and its neighboring countries. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-06263-7 , pp. 253–264 ( research on castles and palaces . Volume 5)
• Peter Rückert: The noble free from Lauda, ​​Zimmer and Gamburg. In: High medieval noble families in old Bavaria, Franconia and Swabia. Edited by Ferdinand Kramer and Wilhelm Störmer. Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7696-6874-X , pp. 591–642, here p. 628 (Studies on Bavarian Constitutional and Social History XX)
  (On Beringer's participation in the crusade)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gamburger history
2. ^ Foreword to the inventory of the Gamburg community archive, Vol. 1, 1997
3. ^ History of Gamburg