Berninghausen

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Coat of arms of those of Berninghausen

The von Berninghausen family or Beringhausen was an old Westphalian noble family with a focus on the county of Arnsberg and the Duchy of Westphalia .

history

Remains of the Beringhausen castle house

It is named after the knight seat Beringhausen in the county of Arnsberg in the parish of Remblinghausen . A Heinrich von Berninghausen was the first known name bearer around 1313. He was a feudal man of the Counts of Arnsberg and appears in Count Wilhelm von Arnsberg's list of properties . An Arnold Berninghausen was listed in Gottfried IV's list of goods from 1338. A Noldekin von Beringhausen played an important mediating role in the sale of the county of Arnsberg to the Archbishopric of Cologne in 1368 . He was possibly administrator or Drost von Eversberg . In the following hundred years there are numerous documented documents for the family, which speaks for a relatively great importance.

The Beringhausen manor itself included not only property in Beringhausen itself, but also in other places. It reached to the borders of Wehrstapel and Velmede . It was therefore quite a stately property. The sex divided into different branches. In addition to the headquarters, they also owned Laer Castle , knights' seats in Estinghausen , Antfeld , Eickelborn , Menzel , Meschede , Warmecke and Gevelinghausen , at least for a time . A branch of the family resident in the Rüthen area also had Burgmannslehen of Rüthen Castle and municipal offices. They also held clanships in Altenrüthen .

As part of the nobility , a number of clergymen also belonged to the family. Until the conversion into a collegiate monastery of male canons in 1310, female members of the Kanonissen family were in the Meschede monastery . Albert von Berninghausen was canon in Münster until 1418 . Another Albert was provost of the collegiate monastery in Meschede between 1392 and 1432. An Arnold was provost there from 1433 to 1470. Georg von Berninghausen was canon in Paderborn and Münster at the beginning of the 16th century . One Arnold was the abbot of the Grafschaft monastery and one Konrad von Berninghausen was a canon in Xanten . A Dietrich von Berninghausen was abbot in Corvey between 1585 and 1616 .

The last important representative of the line was Henneke von Berninghausen. Among other things, he acquired Laer Castle and died in 1483. Since he had no male heirs, he and his wife donated part of the allodial property to the Galilee Monastery .

According to more recent information, the branch of the family at the headquarters already went out in the 16th century and not in the 17th century. The property came to the von Schnellenberg family through a daughter Amalia . After various intermediate stops, the von Gaugreben zu Alme family inherited them in 1737 .

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows three (2: 1) red mallets in gold. On the helmet with red and gold blankets and a bead, a red-clad, gold-crowned doll, which supports two gold shepherd's or pilgrim's staffs on the bead.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Wrede: Register for historical news about noble seats and manors in the Duchy of Westphalia and their owners. Münster 2006 digitized version (PDF; 3.8 MB)
  2. ^ Josef Bender: History of the city of dogs. Werl, Arnsberg, 1848 p. 438
  3. ^ Wilhelm Kohl: The cathedral monastery St. Paulus in Münster. Vol. 2 Berlin, New York, 1982 pp. 563, 586
  4. ↑ Manfred Wolf: The Beringhauser Klause. In: Sauerland 16/2006, p. 14
  5. ↑ State Archives Münster

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