Buer (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Buer

The lords of Buer (also: Bure , Buir , Buyr , Buyre , Buyren and from the 16th century also Bawyr , Bawir , Bavier , Baur ) were originally Ministeriale of Werden . Like the lords of Landsberg, they descended from the lords of Werden , who in the 13th century appointed the Werden city bailiff, who in turn descended from the lords of Bornheim from Bornheim (Rhineland) .

Naming

The family derived its name from their ancestral home, Burg Buer, in today's Gelsenkirchen-Buer . Until 1400 they owned Buer as a fief of the Werden monastery. As early as the end of the 16th century, the family members no longer knew the origin of the name and "translated" the Low German Buer / Buir into the High German Bawyr / Baur , although the place name Buer remained unchanged.

history

Old customs house, remainder of the Bawyrschen Hof in Deidesheim

The family name appears for the first time in 1292 with an Electoral Cologne ministerial ... dicto Schillinc de Bure , who is probably to be equated with the knight Wilhelm Schilling, son of the Werden Vogts Wessel von Werden. The secured lineage of the lords von Buer begins with Wilhelm's presumed son, knight Johann von Buer ( domini Iohannis de Bure, militis ), documented 1292-1333, who had at least six sons: Everhard, Rotger, Friedrich, Ludekin, Johann and Werner. A vestic line originates from Friedrich , which can be traced back to 1497. Ludekin's son of the same name founded the Bergische Line . This flourished until the 19th century.

In 1681 Johann Friedrich von Bawyr (* approx. 1636, † 1689) zu Böckum, Jülich-Bergischer Hofkammerrat, colonel of the cavalry, bailiff zu Löwenburg / Lülsdorf , was awarded the coat of arms, which had been augmented by the coat of arms of the Lords of Frankenberg, through an imperial confirmation. In 1713, his children from his first marriage to Anna Maria Katharina von Weichs († 1672), 2 daughters and 3 sons, who were still alive at that time, were raised to the rank of count. The sons remained childless, so that this branch of the Bergisch line died out in the male line.

The last person of the noble family to have the family name was Maria Anna von Bawyr , she died on January 8, 1813 in Deidesheim in the Palatinate. Her brother Carl von Bawyr , a royal Bavarian major, was the last of the male line. He died on August 15, 1809. They were children of the Elector Palatine captain Franz von Bawyr zu Caspersbroich and Johanna Katharina geb. Leyser from Lambsheim . This couple is characterized as having "an irrepressible temperament, quick-tempered temper and great lust for argument" . Both were also possessed by an enormous passion for hunting, which ultimately led to the husband († 1779) committing a hunting crime and manslaughter , for which he was severely punished by Emperor Franz I in 1764. They lived in the "Bawyrschen Hof" in Deidesheim, which the French revolutionaries cremated in 1794. All that still exists is the summer house, popularly known as the Old Customs House.

Possessions

In addition to the village and castle Buer, the above-mentioned Vestische Linie also owned in Stiepel , Rechen, Kirchhellen and especially Hattingen . The Bergische Line owned the following houses and goods, among others:

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a silver grid on a red bar in gold. On the helmet a golden brackish head with a collar like the bar on the shield. The helmet cover in red and gold.

Increased coat of arms of Messrs Bawyr von Frankenberg

Part of the Bergische Line, namely the one who sat on the houses of Böckum and Rommeljan, took the name Frankenberg ( Bawyr von Frankenberg ) after the Frankenberg Castle in the 17th century and increased the coat of arms with the coat of arms of the Lords of Merode- Frankenberg showing 5-4-3-2-1 gold coins in black. The background was an inheritance dispute with the Merode-Hoffalize family over the bailiwick over the Burtscheid Abbey.

Personalities

  • Ludekin (Sen.) de Bure (documented 1343–1361), Drost of Werden Abbey
  • Ludekin (Jun.) De Bure (documented 1354–1412), Drost of Werden Abbey
  • Johann Hermann von Bawyr zu Böckum, Rommeljans, Hohenholz and Frankenberg (* 1585, † 1647), Vogt of the Burtscheid Abbey, Land Commissioner, Chamberlain, Deputy of the Duchy of Berg, Brandenburg Commissioner to Kleve
  • Johann Christoph von Bawyr (* 1598, † 1676), court master of the Palatinate-Neuburg region, stable master of Ludwig I. Prince of Anhalt-Köthen
  • Johann von Bawyr zu Böckum, Rommeljans, Hohenholz and Frankenberg (* 1609, † 1647), Vogt of the Burtscheid Abbey, Bergischer Marshal
  • Friedrich von Bawyr zu Caspersbroich (* around 1600, † 1667), lieutenant general of the Elector of Brandenburg
  • Johann Friedrich von Bawyr (* approx. 1636, † 1689), Jülich-Bergischer Hofkammerrat, colonel of the cavalry, bailiff of Löwenberg / Lülsdorf
  • Friedrich Ferdinand Ignatz Graf (Bawyr) von Frankenberg (* 1662, † 1726), bailiff Löwenberg / Lülsdorf, Bergischer Pfennigmeister, lieutenant general of the cavalry
  • Maria Sophia Clara Evergisla Countess (Bawyr) von Frankenberg (* 1667, † 1737), Abbess St. Caecilien Cologne
  • Franz Anton Graf (Bawyr) von Frankenberg (* 1668, † 1735), councilor of the Electoral Palatinate, bailiff Löwenberg / Lülsdorf, lieutenant general, interim governor of Düsseldorf, governor of Jülich

literature

  • Dietmar Ahlemann: The Lords of Buer - A Vestisches ministerial family with noble roots in the Rhineland , in: Vestische Zeitschrift, Volume 105, year 2014/15, Recklinghausen 2015, pp. 151–198.
  • Dietmar Ahlemann: The originally dynastic family association Bornheim-Werden-Landsberg-Buer , in: Our Buer - Contributions to History, Volume 31, year 2012/13, Gelsenkirchen-Buer 2013, pp. 5–30.
  • Dietmar Ahlemann: The Lords of Buer - A West German Family History from the High Middle Ages to the 19th Century. In: West German Society for Family Studies eV (Ed.): Yearbook 2012, Volume 274, Cologne 2012, pp. 213-300.
  • Dietmar Ahlemann, Bernd Braun: The family from Bawyr zu Böckum, Rommeljan and Hohenholz - two letters and a legal dispute from the year 1661. In: Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein (Hrsg.): Düsseldorfer Jahrbuch - Contributions to the history of the Lower Rhine. Volume 82, Essen 2012, pp. 183-195.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Moritz von Frankenberg-Ludwigsdorff: Notes on the family of the counts, barons and lords von Frankenberg-Proschlitz, Ludwigsdorff and Lüttwitz , Darmstadt 1878, p. 8. ( Google books )