Berka (noble family)

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Berka is the name of a noble family from Thuringia who came from Bad Berka and held the county of Berka from 1172 to 1270/73 . In addition to the county, the Berkaers had foreign goods in Graefenhain and Tambuchshof (or Tambach ) near Ohrdruf , Mittelhausen , Nissa and Tiefthal near Erfurt as well as Ehringsdorf and Schwarza in the immediate vicinity of the county.

history

The sex probably came from the Ludowingers ( Ludwig the Bearded ) and was closely related to the Counts of Lohra and Linderbach . Therefore, the historiography of the 19th century sometimes assumed a connection with the place Berka near Sondershausen, which, however, cannot be proven and contradicts other places that appear in the Berkaer documents such as Hetschburg and Troistedt , which are clearly Bad Berka an der Ilm assign.

In addition to the four successive ruling Counts Dietrich / Theoderich von Berka, the subsequent changing owners of the Berka lordship sometimes called themselves "von Berka" without any kinship lines in the male line that would be a prerequisite for a continuous noble family of the same name. Older mentions of nobles "von Berka" dating from before 1154 cannot be assigned to this noble family with certainty, as the tradition is relatively incomplete and several places with this name exist in a narrow area (in addition to Berka an der Ilm, also Berka an der Werra , Berka vor dem Hainich and Berka an der Wipper as well as Berga am Kyffhäuser and Berga an der Elster, founded a little later ).

The Counts of Berka died out between 1270 and 1273 with Count Dietrich (IV.) In the male line.

Tribe list

In 1868, Constantin Elle gives the following list of the counts of Berka. The parentage about the Counts of Linderbach comes from uncertain information in the Reinhardsbrunn annals.

ancestry

  • Ludwig the Bearded ∞ Cäcilie von Sangerhausen
    • Uta ∞ Dietrich von Linderbach
      • Beringer von Lohra / Linderbach ∞ Geva von Seeburg
  1. Ludwig I of Lohra
  2. Dietrich I of Lohra

Counts of Berka

  1. Dietrich I. ∞ Geva von Seeburg
    1. Dietrich II. ∞ daughter of Erwin II. Von Gleichen (Tonna)
      1. Dietrich III. ∞ Heilwig von Lobdeburg (Burgau)
        1. Dietrich IV.
        2. Lockpick
        3. Heilwig ∞ Hermann von Mansfeld - Osterfeld (Burgrave of Neuchâtel )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elle, p. 75
  2. ↑ According to Elle Beringer von Linderbach, according to Schwennicke Beringer von Lohra.
  3. ↑ a b Elle assigns Geva as the wife of Dietrich I, with Schwennicke she appears as the wife of Beringer and thus Dietrich I's mother. Elle therefore does not name Beringer's wife, with Schwennicke that Dietrich I.

literature

  • Constantin Elle: The old rule (county) Berka ad Ilm . Section V., in: Otto Dorbencker (ed.): Journal of the Association for Thuringian History and Archeology. Sixth volume. The entire set, twenty-fourth volume, published by Gustav Fischer, Jena 1905. pp. 65–122 (Part I).
  • Constantin Elle: The old rule (county) Berka ad Ilm . Section V., in: Otto Dorbencker (ed.): Journal of the Association for Thuringian History and Archeology. Sixth volume. The complete set of the twenty-fourth volume, published by Gustav Fischer, Jena 1906. pp. 261–302 (Part II).
  • Detlev Schwennicke : European Family Tables , New Series, Volume XVII, Frankfurt am Main 1998, Plate 89 The Counts of Lohra, of Berka and of Grieben (near Tangerhütte).