Book (Thuringian noble family)
The Counts of Buch were a noble family with an ancestral seat of the same name in Bucha . It is not identical to the Uckermark nobility from Buch .
history
The small (bailiwick) county of Bug, Buh, Buoh, Buc (= hill, Bucha) was located in the easternmost part of the Wigsezi district . Possessions of the county were in the Scheidinger Mark, in the lower part of the district Wigesezi and Einzelbesitzungen in Gau Engilin and Husitin . The rulership rights of the counts were based on the bailiwick of the Memleben monastery and the Bibra monastery and hardly went beyond that. They also held a court in Bucha.
Heinrich von Buch is mentioned for the first time in 1147 in a document from the Bibra monastery and on March 8, 1154 as Heinricus comes de Buch in a document from the Pforta monastery and also on August 11, 1157. He is said to have been married to a daughter of Siegbodos von Schwarzfeld, according to other reports with the daughter of Sizzo III. from Käfernburg . Heinrich was also the advocate of the Memleben monastery until 1190. His sons were: Hugold, Heinrich II. (1183 chairman of the court in Gernstedt) and Christian von Buch. Christian was provost of Merseburg , Chancellor of Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa and Archbishop of Mainz (1165 † August 25, 1183). On November 15, 1199, Hugoldus comes de Buch is listed in a Eckartsberga document, in 1200 Count Heinrich and his son Hugold II von Buch in a Pfortenser and the same Count Hugold von Buch on August 9, 1210 in a Magdeburg document.
The counts were guardians of the Memleben monastery and had the bailiff over the Bibra monastery. There are various details about the extinction of the family: 1255 with Count Heinrich, 1259 with Otto von Buch, 1264 with Count Heinrich who sold his bailiwick rights, 1291 with the Naumburg canon Otto II von Buch or only after 1332.
Personalities
- Christian I. Graf von Buch (approx. 1130–1183), Archbishop of Mainz and Arch Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire .
Coat of arms of the older line
The coat of arms shows two golden rafters on blue.
Coat of arms of the younger line
The younger line of the counts, descended from the Kevernburger - Rabenswalder line, had a gold crowned red lion as a coat of arms in gold.
literature
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon , Vol. 2, Leipzig 1860, p. 119 digitized
- Helge Wittmann: The counts of book. In: In the shadow of the landgraves: Studies on aristocratic rule formation in high medieval Thuringia. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar 2008.