Bevern (noble family)
Bevern is the name of a Westphalian noble family ( Ministerialadel ). Their headquarters was in the area of the communities Ostbevern and Westbevern in the Warendorf district in the Münsterland .
history
The von Bevern family emerged from the family of the noble lords of von Meinhövel , who had built a castle in the Münsterland as early as the 8th century and who fought several times with the developing episcopal city of Münster and the bishops. Around 1115 Hermann von Meinhövel ( de Dulle ) was again in feud with Münster.
His son Ludbert von Meinhövel (* around 1075), mentioned in 1139, first had the addition of Bevern , now Ostbevern . This place is mentioned as early as 1088 in a document in which the transfer of a farm located in Bevern to the Iburg monastery is reported. The Bever , which flows through Ostbevern , probably gave its name to both the settlement and the aristocratic seat of Bevern. From the house Bevern still remains at are Bever present. The Rochus Chapel was part of this property. It can be assumed that Ludbert received the place as a fief at the end of the centuries-old dispute with the Münster bishopric. The episcopal fiefdom was hereditary and, among other things, had its own jurisdiction ( patrimonial court ). The authority of the judiciary extended far: the judge punished the smallest offenses and was entitled to impose the death penalty. In addition to Hamm, there was only a separate jurisdiction of this type in Bevern.
Ludbert's son Lubbert was the head of the family around 1139-1152 and introduced the family name of Bevern, Herr zu Bevern . In 1142 he donated the Hohenholte Monastery , now part of Havixbeck .
Lubbert's son from his first marriage, Wolter, married around 1170. At that time, the parish of Bevern was established under Bishop Hermann by parish of Telgte .
This was followed by Wolter's son Lubbert II. Urk. 1204-1245, whose son Lubbert III. urk. 1223–1253 and his son Nikolaus, urk. 1254–1277 as a knight , castle man and mayor of Bentheim .
Nikolaus' son Gerlach, urk. 1272–1312, was a knight in 1273 and also lord of Bevern and Burgmann of Bentheim. He married Jutta around 1294. A branch of the family of the descendants of Gerlach and Jutta von Bevern as Burgmann zu Bentheim, Gerlach of the same name and his wife Gerberga von Hane founded the noble estate of Beversundern near Lingen (Ems) in 1428. The aristocratic seat remained through his son Gottfried. In 1543 his son Johann von Bevern sold the property to the Lingen rentmaster and nobleman Adolf von Limburg (Adolph van Lymborch). The Beversundern estate still exists today and the renowned [(Golfclub Emstal eV)] in the immediate vicinity uses the area as a golf course. Bevern was then divided into the parishes of Ost- and Westbevern. The Ostbevern parish church was renewed in stone, which is reminiscent of the quarry stones in its lower tower masonry.
Their son Hermann was only the master of Westbevern and was mentioned as a squire in 1294. He married Gertrud Vollenspit around 1300 and died in 1305.
Hermann's son Hermann II. Herr zu Westbevern, was mentioned 1328-1363 and was married to Ida N.
Their son Johann married Adelheid (Aleke) N. around 1360. They had a daughter, Ida, but no son, so that this branch of the family died out in the male line. Ida became the heiress of Bevern. In 1372 she first married Godeke von Vechtrup . In 1388 she married the Münster hereditary marshal Gerhard Morrien , Lord of Nordkirchen and Botzlar, as a second marriage .
The Ostbeverner branch continued, however, and in the 17th century the Lords of Bevern were among the most important noble families in Westphalia. Your family coat of arms was shown in Siebmacher's coat of arms book in 1605 as one of 75 coat of arms of Westphalian knights and lords. The remaining property of the von Bevern family later passed through marriage to the Schencking and Droste zu Vischering families . The office of judge was exercised by the von Bevern gentlemen in Ostbevern until 1809.
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows two horizontal red zigzag bars in gold. On the helmet with red and gold covers a gold column, with four (or six) black ostrich feathers.
The coat of arms was later adopted by the municipality of Ostbevern and supplemented by the figure of a beaver (Low German: Bever ).
literature
- Max von Spießen: Book of Arms of the Westphalian Nobility, Görlitz 1901–1903, Volume 1, p. 12 digitized
- Bartmann, Karl: On the history of the Bartmann family from Herbern, Wuppertal 1992