Chamerauer (noble family)
The Chamerauer were from 11 to the end of the 15th century an important Bavarian noble family in the Upper Bavarian Forest . They must originally be viewed as the Diepoldinger ministerials . Their ancestral seat was Chamerau Castle , which was built to monitor the traffic route between Cham and Kötzting and the ford over the rain .
history
A Puchard de Chamerave is one of the first of the Chamerau family to be mentioned in a document in 1180 . Very early - probably in 1204 - the Chamerau moved to Haidstein Castle , which was given as a fief of the Wittelsbach family , after the Diepoldinger line of Cham died out . Chamerau or Lengau, as the Hofmark was called earlier, was then administered by its own keepers . The St. Anna Chapel in Chammünster was built between 1367 and 1393 as a burial place for the Knights of Chamerau. Historical grave slabs with the Chamerau coat of arms are preserved inside the chapel.
In the course of time, the Chamerauer owned many possessions: After 1368, Niederviehhausen Castle came into the holdings of the Hiltprant Chamerauer as pledge from the Bavarian duke. This was also held by Oberviehhausen . In 1389, however, Hiltprand the Chamerauer moved the castle to Hadamar VI. the younger von Laber . In 1361 the knight Heinrich von Steim (n) sold the Grafentraubach fortress to Peter Chammerauer zu Heilstein. On October 16, 1367, the provost of Grafentraubach appears here as the next Albrecht. Also the Wörth Castle was in 1345 pledged to the Chamerauer.
The Chamerauer appear mainly in the tournament books of the herald Georg Rüxner ( "Now they are coming from Cammeraw with the red wild saw" ): The knight Wunbold is said to have participated in the 6th tournament in Trier 1019 and will then be in the 7th tournament in Hall in Tirol 1042 named as the tournament bailiff, was responsible for the proper course of the tournament and determined the winners at the end of the tournament. Leonhard Chamerau took part in the tournament in Augsburg in 1080 , Georg von Chamerau was named at the tournament in Worms in 1209 , Peter Chamerau as well as Udalricus and Conrad competed in 1396 in Regensburg , in 1439 a Chamerauer appeared at the tournament in Landshut and Ulrich der Chamerau was in 1487 Tournament called Regensburg.
The heyday of the Chamerau family comes from the time when Albrecht I , son of Emperor Ludwig of Bavaria , became Duke of Straubing-Holland (1353 to 1385) when Bavaria was partitioned and spent most of his reign in Holland. The administration of Lower Bavaria-Straubing was in the hands of the Chamerau people for many years. Four brothers should be mentioned here: the chamber master (1375) Peter der Chamerauer, the captain in Bavaria Heinrich der Chamerauer (1358), the vice dom Ulrich der Chamerauer (1304) and the court master Friedrich der Chamerauer. In 1365 they lost all these high offices for infidelity and evasion of revenue. It is unclear whether these accusations were justified; in any case, they were gradually rehabilitated. Before her marriage in 1437, a Barbara Chamerauer, née von Camer, held the position of court maid; Ursula Charmerauer was abbess of the Seligenthal monastery in 1434 .
The Chamerauer sat at Castle Chameregg from 1352 . An iron kingdom of Chameregg can be found in a document in 1322, Chameregg Castle itself was not mentioned for the first time until 1352. At that time Konrad von Chameregg from the Chamerauer family is the owner. The last of the Chamerauers who owned Chamerau Castle was Peter der Chamerau († 1452). After his death, believers moved into his castle. Ulrich VI. the Chamerauer was the last one at Haidstein Castle, with him the Chamerauer family died out. Via his daughter, Haidstein then fell to the emergency department on Runding .
Around the middle of the 15th century, the Chamerau family became impoverished. Since the Chamerauers could no longer cover their great expense with the income from their estates, they started robbing roads following the example of many other nobles of the Bavarian Forest. Wiguleus Hund wrote in his parent book: “1446. After Reuterey and Raieley took over in the north of the gau in front of the forest, Duke Albrecht, Count zu Vohburg, had eleven of them caught and beheaded in Straubing. Among them are two Chamerauer. Were not mentioned by name. "
Trivia
The municipality of Chamerau still uses the "golden armored red boar body" from the Chamerau coat of arms as the municipality's coat of arms.
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf Ottlinger: Sinzing from the beginnings to the present. Municipality of Sinzing 2005, p. 211.
- ^ Negotiations of the Historical Association for Lower Bavaria, Volume 1
- ↑ History of Chamerau ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Historically unsecured family tree of the Chamerauer, compiled by Johann Herman Seibert
- ↑ Chameregg on Burgseite.de
- ^ House of Bavarian History, Chamerau community
