Ebersberg (Thuringian noble family)

The knight dynasty von Ebersberg is a family from 1240–1562 documented from the Scherinburg, with the Marshal von Eckartsberga-Ebersberg closely related line.

history

Ebersberg Castle

Older historians such as Georg Fabricius , Petrus Albinus , Paulus Jovius , Johann Hübner or Hans Basilius von Gleichenstein report on a pre-Franconian Gau Ebersberg, unfortunately without any documentary evidence. Albinus even tells stories about a Jodocus junior, Herr von Werthern, who served as a knight under Emperors Otto I and II and was slain by the Saracens in Italy in 983 . His first wife is said to have been a daughter of Hagen, the second one of Ebersberg. Hübner took over these fabulous figures of the three noble families in his "Genealogical Tables", but Alfred von Werthern renounced 1902 in his "History of the Family of Counts and Barons v. Werthern ”on this unrecorded, apparently invented legend of his family.

The fact that there was an early medieval Gau Ebersberg in the then almost uninhabited mountainous forest landscape is also controversial. But that a castle Ebersberg already existed here before 1189, with a castellan who possibly named himself after the castle, testifies to a document from the Archbishop of Mainz, who gave the area to Landgrave Ludwig III in 1189 . Thuringia gave a fiefdom, which after renovation his closest confidante, Heinrich II. Marshal von Eckartsberga-Ebersberg, left as bailiff . So one could explain why a knight dynasty "von Ebersberg", also bearing the scissors coat of arms, appeared at the same time as the "Marshals von Ebersberg".

Family of Ebersberg

In 1250 the son of Heinrich III. Marschall, heir of the Ebersburg, return to the Eckartsburg because the Ebersburg became Anhalt . The von Ebersbergs followed him and were compensated by the Landgrave for their lost Ebersberg possessions. This is rarely mentioned in aristocratic literature, but in the 13th-16th centuries. Well-known, wealthy and influential family also inherited Sulza when the line of Marshal von Sulza-Trebra died out around 1350. The sex closely associated with the Marshal also carried the scissors coat of arms, in three variants:

Knight Hans sealed with the double scissors in 1352,
Knight Gerhard 1398 with the "speaking coat of arms", in front a pair of scissors, in the back a boar ,
Heinrich 1379, Friedrich 1400 and Hermann 1425, a pair of scissors in front and three lilies in the back.

The coat of arms with the three lilies also carried Helwig Marschall von Goldbach and this led Otto Posse to believe that the von Ebersberg were his descendants. But apart from the fact that Helwig's only son inherited his father's name, the first notarized by Ebersberg, Burchard (dated 1240–1254), was of the same age as Helwig.

Due to the previously known documents, only a sketchy history of those of Ebersberg can be put together. These registers are not sufficient for drawing up their family tree because there are no references to family relationships.

Their close relatives and their joint activities with the marshals, such as witnessing, surety, giving, lending money, receiving loans, document more than half of the total of 24 regesta. Her succession was also secured in time when Hermann von Ebersberg was also enfeoffed during the lifetime of Rudolf II , the Ultimus of the Marshal of Sulza-Trebra on Sulza. They also possessed allodies , such as Osford and Damsla , some of the latter's hooves as multiple donations.

Hermann (1251), Heinrich (1266) and Gangolf (1268) von Ebersberg may have been brothers and / or cousins of Burchard, who was notarized in 1240 and 1254. All were witnesses with Heinrich and Hermann Marschall von Ebersberg in landgrave documents. Hermann II on Damsla (1272, 1292) certainly belonged to the next generation, and Hermann III. (1378), Gerhard (1378, 1398) and Heinrich II. (1379) to the 3rd or 4th generation. They are recorded as witnesses with Gerhard IV. And Gerhard V. Marschall von Gosserstedt.

Friedrich the Elder († 1416) and Hermann IV (1420 witness of the Landgrave) von Ebersberg are the sure representatives of the 4th generation. You and the Marschalle von Gosserstedt were very rich in the 15th century, in the opinion of the genealogist Fritz Fischer from spoils of war. They vouched for the landgrave and lent considerable sums to the counts of Schwarzburg and various cities. Margarethe, the widow of Friedrich the Elder, too. Ä. von Ebersberg, was able to lend the city of Jena 500 Rhenish guilders on January 13, 1430 , although her only income was the personal items on Sulza. Since the Counts of Schwarzburg could not repay the entire loan, they left goods to the Marschallen and the Ebersbergers as allodies in the Arnstadt area. They were inherited from Rudolf Marschall auf Wülfershausen, great-grandson of Gerhard IV. In his "Chronicon", Paulus Jovius reports on the godparents of Countess Margarethe von Schwarzburg in 1421: they were Margarethe von Ebersberg and Gerhard V. Marshal von Gosserstedt.

On December 21, 1434, Friedrich the Younger von Ebersberg and Dietrich Marschall von Gosserstedt again vouched for the Landgrave and in 1439 Friedrich and Wilhelm, Dukes of Saxony, sold the castle and town of Orlamünde to Margarethe von Ebersberg, their children Friedrich and Margarethe as well as for 500 marks in silver the Gerhard Marshal von Gosserstedt. After this single indication of safe filiation, there are again individual messages without details of the family connections:

1454: Knight Friedrich von Ebersberg and his sisters Else and Martha are witnesses

1501–1504: Hans and Günther von Ebersberg are students of the Pforta Monastery,

1520: Knight Heinrich von Ebersberg is a witness in the will of Hans and Anna Tümpling,

1549: Christoph von Ebersberg requests permission for a brewery from Sulza city council,

1562: The guardians of Christoph's orphaned children are Hans von Denstedt and Moritz Vitzthum von Apolda. These unnamed children were the last Ebersberger.

The Sulza manor was first bought by the von Denstedt family, the von Tümpling family in 1598, Wolf Dietrich von Schleinitz in 1692, the von Raschau family in 1719, the von Beust family in 1774. From 1898 until the expropriation in 1945, the estate was owned by the von Gerstenbergk Edler von Zech family.

Personalities

Friedrich the Elder Ä. von Ebersberg was the council of the Counts of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt,
Friedrich the Elder J. von Ebersberg was also a privy councilor of the Counts of Schwarzburg,
Christoph von Ebersberg was a brewery owner. In 1549 he asked the Sulza city council to be allowed to brew beer as often as he wanted. The council gave its approval, but the beer was not allowed to be sold, "... unless to the council, if the beer is good."

literature

Fritz Fischer: "On the genealogy of the Marschall von Altengottern family ..." (1977) and "corrections ..." to it (1999).
Paulus Jovius : "Chronikon Schwarzburg" (....) p. 427.
Posse, Otto: "The seals of the nobility of the Wettin region until 1500" (1901–1917)
Regest of the Marschall's collection of documents in Altengottern (1850).
Regest of the history of Bad Sulza.
Rein, Wilhelm: "Thuringia sacra" (Vol. II. 288 No. 317)
Carl Reitzenstein: "Regest of the Counts of Orlamünde" (1869–1871).
Document book of the city of Jena (vol. I. 1182–1405, vol. II. 1406–1525 and addendum vol. III, 890–1525).