Berlepsch (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Berlepsch

Berlepsch is the name of an old, originally Lower Saxon noble family . The family, some of which still exist today, belongs to the ancient nobility in Leinegau . Later, the von Berlepsch gentlemen gained possession and prestige mainly in Hesse , but also in Thuringia , Saxony and Westphalia . The family members with real estate in Hessen are still enrolled in the old Hessen knighthood .

history

origin

Berlepsch Castle

The sex with Cunradus de Berleibisin is mentioned for the first time in a document issued on February 25, 1233. In it, Konrad is one of the witnesses to the consent given by Landgrave Konrad von Thuringia that the Spieskappel monastery leases goods to Leimsfeld and in what is now the desert Snegelbiz according to forest law and exempts the goods located in the landgrave's jurisdiction from certain services. The uninterrupted line of the family begins with the knights Konrad von Berlepsch († 1271) and Theodrich von Berlepsch († before 1266), his brother's son. In a documentary waiver of 1284, in accordance with the act of an affliction of the Convention of the convent white stone through both Ritter ( of Berleipse ) for one and two half- tenth (to Oberwehlheiden , Niedervellmar and upper Always Hausen preceded) include a count Albert Wallenstein , Count Burchard von Ziegenberg , Conrad von Wehren , Eckehard von Felsberg , Theoderich von Elben , Heinrich von Rengshausen , Conrad von Bartherode , Ludwig von Blumenstein , Conrad von Weimar and Wernher von Geismar were named as Siegler or witnesses. Older spellings of the name were also Berleibisin, Berleybischin and Berlevessen.

Schannat (1683–1739) assumes that the noble family Berlepsch emerged from the families of Berlips and of Berleves (Berleywes) and that their coats of arms were united, with morals belonging to the coat of arms of the first sex and rafters to the coat of arms of the second. Von Meding assumes ( Nachrichten von noble Wapen , 1786–1791) that both coats of arms came from the same sex. After Happel and Letzner (1531–1613) the family was called Bernewizko and was based in Moravia on the Hungarian border. From there it came to Lower Saxony under King Heinrich (a great-grandfather of Barbarossa ) in the 11th century and from there to Hesse. Valentin König leads the lineage of the family with the brothers Heinrich and Dietrich von Bernewizko , who came to the court of Duke Otto of Saxony in 1070 and from there settled in Göttingen in 1079 to Jühnde .

The parent company that gave it its name was Berlevessen, today Barlissen , a district of the Jühnde municipality in southern Lower Saxony in the Göttingen district . Later ancestral seat was Berlepsch Castle near Witzenhausen an der Werra , which was built in 1370 and is still owned by the family today.

Spread and personalities

In 1369 Arnold von Berlepsch received the hereditary office of treasurer of the Landgraves of Hesse through Heinrich II , which is still in the family to this day. Since this year the oldest Berlepsch resident in Hesse has held the office of Chamberlain of Hesse , one of the four highest court offices in the Hessian nobility.

Johann ( Hans Sittich von Berlepsch ) was in command of the Wartburg when Martin Luther was brought to safety by the Worms Reichstag on his return journey . As a privy councilor of three Saxon electors , he received several embassies, which he carried out so skilfully that Emperor Maximilian declared at the Reichstag that “he wanted to fill his entire Reichsrat with such wise and brave Berlepschen” .

In 1525, Caspar von Berlepsch acquired Wolfsburg, a handsome property in Marburg. His son Erich Volkmar von Berlepsch († 1589) was also electoral privy councilor, chief captain in Thuringia and chief court judge in Leipzig . His youngest brother Curt Thilo von Berlepsch died in 1589 as a councilor and supervisor of the county of Mansfeld . Parakeet von Berlepsch, Herr auf Thomasbrücken, descended from him. He had four sons, the youngest of whom, Wilhelm Ludwig von Berlepsch, died in 1679. From his marriage to Gertrud Wolff von Gudenberg came the sons Parakeet Herbold and Peter Philipp. After Wilhelm Ludwig's death, Gertrud (Maria Josephe Gertrud) came to Düsseldorf and was in the highest favor with Princess Maria Anna of the Palatinate Neuburg . After the wedding of the princess to Charles II of Spain , she went to Spain with them and there gained great influence on the government of the kingdom. After the death of King Charles II, she bought the imperial-free rule and Myllendonk Castle near Mönchengladbach from the Count of Croy and was raised to the rank of imperial count with her two sons in 1705 . In 1706 she became the prince abbess of the secular women's monastery in Prague's New Town .

Seebach Castle

Her son Peter Philipp von Berlepsch, which is already on 8 August 1695 together with his mother and his brother in the kingdom baron had been raised was 1697 Imperial Councilor and in 1699 royal Spanish ambassador at the imperial court. He received a rich abbey in Sicily from King Charles II of Spain , but died in 1720 at the age of 46. His brother Sittig Herbold von Berlepsch received the rule of Myllendonk from his mother and became imperial chamberlain .

Ludwig Hermann von Berlepsch (* January 25, 1782, † April 5, 1845) was Kurhessischer Major General and Erbkämmerer. His daughter, Karoline von Berlepsch (* 1820, † 1877), from her marriage to Melusine von Kruse, married the Elector Wilhelm II of Hesse-Kassel in a morganatic marriage . She received the title of Baroness of Bergen from the Elector in 1844 and the Austrian title of Countess of Bergen in 1846.

The family was wealthy, especially in Kurhessen. In Göttingen was Streulehn family owned. In the later Prussian province of Hanover , members of the family in the Northeim district owned property. In the Kingdom of Saxony , Proschwitz (now part of Meißen ) was owned or partially owned by the family. In the later Prussian province of Saxony in the district of Langensalza there was an estate in Welsbach and Seebach Castle was family-owned from 1527; the ornithologist Hans von Berlepsch founded the first bird sanctuary there in 1877. From 1602 to 1624, the Rammelburg office with the Rammelburg castle belonged to Caspar von Berlepsch.

The gender association of the counts and barons of Berlepsch holds family days every two years.

Status surveys

The status surveys already mentioned are no longer listed here.

On August 27, 1869 in Berlin , Karl Friedrich von Berlepsch received the Prussian count status under the law of the firstborn ( primogeniture ) in the possession of the Berlepsch Majorate . On September 18, 1878 at Potsdam Neues Palais , the descendant of the first count was allowed to hold the title of baron by means of the highest cabinet orders.

Hans von Berlepsch, royal Prussian district administrator and later state minister , received together with his brother Richard von Berlepsch, royal Saxon prime lieutenant out of service , on February 24, 1876 in Berlin through heraldry rescript , a Prussian recognition for the use of the title of baron. Rudolf von Berlepsch in Seebach and Großgottern in the district of Langensalza also received Prussian recognition for holding the title of baron, on October 5, 1881 in Baden-Baden by the highest cabinet order.

On February 26, 1909 in Dresden , Hans von Berlepsch, royal Saxon chamberlain , major at disposition and court marshal of Prince Johann Georg of Saxony , was raised to the royal Saxon baron class. An entry in the Saxon nobility book under number 341 was made on November 12, 1910. On November 15, 1910, Otto Berlepsch, railway master , was entered in the royal Saxon nobility book under number 342.

coat of arms

Family coat of arms at Siebmacher , 1605

Family coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows five (2: 2: 1) red armored green parakeets with red collars in gold . On the helmet with red and gold covers there are two red rods (gouges) that are composed to a point at the bottom, each of which carries a silver ball with seven black rooster feathers at the top.

Rafter coat of arms

According to Schannat, the rafter was part of the Berleves line, which was united with the Berlips line with its coat of arms. According to v. Meding already belonged together when the coats of arms were united.

The Berlips line (parakeet coat of arms) therefore included Hans Sittich von Berlepsch (bailiff on Wartburg), Thilo von Berlepsch (on Ziegenberg , 14th century) and Konrad von Berlepsch ( Cunradus de Berleibisin ), the founder of the parakeet coat of arms. - to the line of Berleves (rafter coats of arms) dated to the middle of the 14th century ( Fratres de Berleves ) Tilo and Arnold ( Tylo & Arnoldus ) and Hans (Ioannes) von Berlepsch ( de Berleves ), as well as Theodrich von Berlepsch, the founder of the rafter coat of arms (13th century). Arnold was the first treasurer of Hesse, Hans was his only son, of whom the register of the Althessian knighthood lists his daughter Mechthild (⚭ Hans von dem Hagen ) as the only child. The only Tilo in Arnold's line (14th century) is the grandson (Thilo) of his older brother Thidericus or son of Theodrich von Schartenberg, dated 1383 . Since in "Fuldischer Lehnhof" (Schannat) in "Tylo & Arnoldus" the year "accipiunt 1350" is also listed, it is unclear whether "Tylo" is not, for example, the one dated between 1320 and 1328 (dates of his older and younger brother), Thilo auf Ziegenberg, who belonged to the Berlips line and took possession of Berlepsch Castle in 1392 after Arnold's son Hans had died.

Berlepsch coat of arms between 1900 and 1920

Quartered coat of arms

Later, a quartered coat of arms with two helmets became common. 1 and 4 the family coat of arms, 2 and 3 in black three gold rafters one above the other. On the right the trunk helmet, on the left helmet with black and gold helmet covers two black buffalo horns , each covered with the three gold rafters.

The fourth coat of arms did not appear until the 17th century. Erich Volkmar von Berlepsch († 1589) still had the original coat of arms. Even Johann Siebmacher shows only the simple coat of arms in its first edition of the crest book (1605).

Legend

A legend about the creation of the coat of arms goes like this:

"When Emperor Barbarossa encountered a knight von Berlepsch with tamed birds and reprimanded him for this game that was not fitting for a knight, Berlepsch is said to have replied that he never denied his knightly allegiance to the rich and that he had these birds from his voyage to the holy Country "brought with him, whereupon the emperor ordered him to carry these birds in his coat of arms from now on"

Another source of the legend begins like this:

“According to the legend of the coat of arms, Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa spent the night on his travels through the country, according to the custom at the time, in a Berlevessen castle (it was not until the fifteenth century that Berlevessen became Berlepsch). When he observed his host in Kurzweil the next morning with unknown green birds, he reprimanded him for the fact that it was unseemly occupation for a knight. [...] "

Known members of the sex

Written tradition

The archive of the von Berlepsch family is kept in the Hessian State Archive in Marburg as a deposit and comprises 311 documents with a term from 1369 to 1829 (Best. Document 92) and 24 linear meters of documents with a term from the 14th century to the early 20th century (Best. 340 from Berlepsch). The inventory is fully indexed and can be researched online.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Photo of the certificate on the website of the noble family. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Register of the Old Hessen Knighthood . Klaunig ( uni-goettingen.de [accessed August 1, 2020]).
  3. ↑ HStAM inventory document 41 No. 45 - Conrad, Ritter, and Theoder ... - Arcinsys detail page. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, page 344
  5. ↑ Christian Friedrich August von Meding: Messages from noble arms . Reuss, 1788 ( google.de [accessed July 6, 2020]).
  6. ^ History of the von Berlepsch family. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
  7. ^ German biography: Letzner, Johannes - German biography. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
  8. ^ Knut Görich: Friedrich Barbarossa: A biography . CH Beck, 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-62149-9 ( google.de [accessed July 8, 2020]).
  9. ^ Johann Huebner: Johann Huebners ... Genealogical tables: together with the related genealogical questions to explain the political history; Carried together with strange diligence And continued from the beginning to this day . Gleditsch, 1733 ( google.de [accessed on July 6, 2020]).
  10. ↑ Necessary Supplements to the Great Complete UNIVERSAL LEXICON of All Sciences and Arts , Which have been invented and improved so far by human understanding and wit. tape 3 . Leipzig 1752, p. 841–846 (1508 pp., Google.de [accessed on August 3, 2020]).
  11. ↑ a b c d e f New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 6, Pages 353–355
  12. ↑ Otto Hupp : Munich Calendar 1915. Page 27
  13. ↑ www.v.berlepsch.de
  14. ^ History of the von Berlepsch family. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  15. ^ Studbook of the Old Hessen Knighthood . Klaunig ( uni-goettingen.de [accessed August 1, 2020]).
  16. ^ Schannat, Johann Friedrich: Ioannis Friderici Schannat Fuldischer Lehn-Hof, Sive De Clientela Fuldensi Beneficiaria Nobili Et Equestri Tractatus Historico-Juridicus . Ed .: Schannat, Johann Friedrich. Joh. Benj. Andreae & Henr. Hort, Frankfurt am Main 1726, p. 46 (Latin, Digitale-sammlungen.de - page number in the MDZ reader: 110).
  17. ^ Dieter Krieger: Hessisches Wappenbuch . CA Starke Verlag , Limburg 1999, ISBN 3-96528-002-3 (208 pages).
  18. ↑ Berlepsch Castle - Werra Burgen Steig. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  19. ^ Georg Landau: Description of the Electorate of Hesse . Fischer, 1842 ( google.de [accessed on August 6, 2020]).
  20. ↑ Explanation of the individual parts of the coat of arms. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
  21. ↑ My ornithological résumé. Retrieved April 26, 2020 .