Bernefuer

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Coat of arms of those of Bernefuer

Bernefuer (alternatively Bernefür , Bernefüer , Bernefeur or Bernefeuer , also written in front with "a" and at the beginning of the final syllable with "v") is the name of a Westphalian noble family that emerged from ministerials who were in the service of the county of Oldenburg . In addition to the former county of Oldenburg, traces of those of Bernefuer can be found in the former Niederstift Münster and the former Hochstift Osnabrück .

Name meaning

In High German , the Low German word Bernefuer means “burning fire”.

history

The first member of the noble family mentioned in a document is Nikolaus von Bernefuer, born around 1245. The family reached its first high point of importance under Rembert I (approx. 1405 to approx. 1488). This Drost of the Count of Oldenburg with official residence in Wildeshausen married Mette von Wulfsflete, a natural daughter of Count Dietrich , in 1431 . Rembert I was a member of the Regency Council for the underage sons of his father-in-law in 1440 and for the sons of Count Gerd, who was in Denmark . At that time the family lived south of the city of Oldenburg .

Around 1500 the family was so wealthy that Rembert's son Johann (approx. 1442 to approx. 1492), Drost zu Delmenhorst , was able to stand up for Christian von Oldenburg as a guarantor in 1492 . Among other things, she owned the Barnführer Holz bei Sandkrug , a forest that was named after the family in the 15th century. It was not until 1513 that the debts that the Counts of Oldenburg had with the Bernefuers were completely paid off.

During this time, a branch of the family moved the main focus of life from Wardenburg to Brockdorf in what was then Niederstift Münster, where the Querlenburg farm was converted into a moated castle around 1550. Vinzenz von Bernefuer (1482 to 1580), Rembert's great-grandson, is referred to as the first “Lord of Querlenburg” in documents. Nevertheless, Rembert III was also. (approx. 1505 to approx. 1568) Drost of the Counts of Oldenburg. After the death of Rembert IV (born approx. 1537) around 1600, the rule over Querlenburg initially passed to his son-in-law from the Dorgelo family , and later to the von Jemgum and von Galen families . After the Oldenburg Vechta attacked in 1538 and burned the Augustinian monastery there , Vinzenz von Bernefuer had a new monastery built for the nuns. In return, he was allowed to build a house for his family on the Schagenburg site in Vechta, which Jobst von Bernefuer lived in in 1615.

Vincent's brother Joest or Jobst (approx. 1480 to 1562) settled in the city of Osnabrück , where he was mayor in 1542 and 1556. Joest's son Erdwin (approx. 1517 to 1589) was also the mayor of Osnabrück, as evidenced in 1587.

The family died out around 1630.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a shield with an unknown tincture that has been changed eight times . On the helmet with blankets two ostrich feathers.

Mecklenburg family

A noble family from Mecklenburg called Barnefuer (mostly written with "a", but occasionally also Bernefuer) died out around 1500. Since this sex had a different coat of arms (namely five burning torches tied to one another, the middle one being slightly longer than the others), it is very probably not tribal related to the Westphalian Bernefuers.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jochen Wortelker: by Bernefuer Rembert
  2. ↑ Bernd Josef Jansen: Genealogical website ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Sheet 37 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berndjosefjansen.de
  3. ^ Walter Barton: Gramberg's ballad from the Oldenburger Wunderhorn . Oldenburg yearbook . Volume 101, p. 2001, p. 83
  4. ^ Clemens Pagenstert: Querlenburg. Good in Brockdorf . 1927
  5. ^ Carl Heinrich Nieberding: History of the former Niederstift Munster and the adjacent counties . CH Fauvel, Vechta 1840, p. 296
  6. ↑ Max von Spießen , Book of Arms of the Westphalian Nobility, with drawings by Professor Ad. M. Hildebrandt , Volume 1, Görlitz 1901-1903, p. 11
  7. ↑ Otto Gruber: The coats of arms of the South Oldenburg nobility . In: Yearbook for the Oldenburger Münsterland 1971 . Vechta 1970, p. 15
  8. ↑ Christoph Otto von Gamm : Directory of the families that died out in the duchies of Meklenburg, together with an indication of the time when they died out and what kind of coat of arms they had . In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology , Volume 11 (1846), p. 429