Ecker (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Ecker von Egg
Egg Castle after an illustration by Pleickhard Stumpf (1852)

The Ecker (also written Eckher , Ekke , Egk , Eck , Ekk ) were ministerials of the Counts of Bogen . Some family members performed important functions for the dukes of Bavaria and owned a number of castles and court brands in Lower Bavaria .

Ecker zu Egg

The Ecker owned Schloss Egg from 1103 to 1403 . The first documented mention of this family is Thiemo de ecce , who was 1103-1108 at Egg Castle. He was followed by his son Jobst , who in addition to Egg also owned Lichtenegg Castle . His son Hainrich von Eck took part in the 10th tournament in 1165 that Welf V. organized in Zurich . A Dorothea von Eck , wife of Walther von Waldeck , is still mentioned in 1179 at the 11th tournament in Cologne, after which no information about the Eckern is available for about 100 years .

The next to be mentioned by Wiguleus Hund is Ulrich I. He took part in the tournament in Regensburg in 1284 . He died in 1310 and his grave was in the no longer existing Martinskirche in Metten ; his wife Viellib de Ekke is on Barbara's passed away the year 1312th His son Ulrich II. Was Duke's steward , he apparently died childless on 23 February 1329 and the estate passed to his brother Peter I on.

This Peter I is called miles ( Latin = knight). He was educator and court master of Duke Albert von Straubing-Holland and field captain of Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian . In 1323 he was also mentioned as the ducal judge of Deggendorf and later of Mitterfels . In 1344 he is Vice Cathedral of Straubing and, as the Duke's representative, also exercised the ban on blood . In 1326 Hilgartsberg Castle was awarded to him. In 1333 he was enfeoffed with the Natternberg Castle . With five other knights he took part in the negotiations for the division of the Duchy of Lower Bavaria by the dukes Heinrich XIV. , Otto IV. And Heinrich XV. part. Duke Albrecht II had lent 15,000 fles from him and pledged the Margraviate of Cham to him . However, for unknown reasons, he lost the ruler's favor and Johann , Landgrave von Leuchtenberg , was given the office of the important Vice-Cathedral of Straubing. An opportunity for satisfaction arose when the bailiff of the Donaustauf fortress , Rüdiger von Regensburg , who refused to surrender the castle to the emperor Karl IV , entrusted the castle to Peter von Ekk before his death . This opened the castle for the emperor, who was an enemy of the Wittelsbach family of Straubing. Then besieged Duke Stephan the castle Natternberg to which Peter Eck had retired. It was only when Emperor Karl IV. Moved with an army via Donaustauf against Natternberg that a peace was made in 1357 and Peter von Eck was able to leave Natternberg unmolested. He then retired to his Hilgartsberg castle , but was besieged by Duke Albrecht in the same year and had to give up the castle. Peter von Eck is often named as a seal witness. He was probably married twice; his first wife Gertrudis died on March 20, 1329. This Ekher was later accused of being a robber knight ; This myth is based on the fact that human bones were found in the so-called Hunger Tower at Egg Castle. However, these can easily be explained by the ban on blood that Peter I exercised on behalf of the Bavarian dukes.

The son Peter the Younger of Ekk is said to have died in the fighting against the Bohemians and Charles IV in 1347. Then the second son Albert , also known as miles , came into the possession of Egg from 1357 to 1369. He was again respected by the Bavarian dukes, was ducal councilor ( magister curiae ducis ), caretaker of Mitterfels and vice-domus of Straubing. He died on August 19, 1366. His wife Chunegundis had died shortly before him on July 2, 1366. There was also a third son named Peter of Peter I. With him Albert had to share his paternal inheritance in 1366. He had five sons ( Peter , Wusch , Weindl , Hanns , Ullrich ) and they sold their share in Egg to Wilhelm Fraunberger zum Hag , who was related by marriage to them ; this explains why the Frauenberger was able to grant inheritance rights to Eggersche property as early as 1398.

The Peter I succeeded by his son Ulrich III. after, 1369 to 1399 at Egg Castle. In 1377 he was a nurse in Landau . Due to his wealth he was able to acquire Eckmühl Castle from Hainrich Hautzendroffer zu Hautzendorf and his wife in 1386 , from then on he called himself Ulrich der Egkher zu Egkhmühl . Likewise, on December 21, 1378, he acquired the Saldenburg and Seldenaw Castle from Dukes Stephan , Friedrich and Johann as well as the Hofmark Rainding cum pertinentis for 32,000 fl for a four-year redemption; However, this did not take place and so Ulrich's two grandsons , Weimar and Albrecht , were able to sell Seldenaw to Georg von Aichperg in 1413 . Rainding came to Heinrich V von Ortenburg in 1427 after the death of Ulrich . Ulrich der Egkher zu Egkhmühl took part in the 22nd tournament in Regensburg in 1396. He was married to a Dorothea and the couple had their daughter Chunigunde , who became the wife of Hannsen von Frauenberg to Hag .

The last of the Ecker in a straight line is Georg , son of Ulrich III. He is referred to as miles strict, i.e. a determined or strict knight. He died in 1403 the evening before the feast of the Virgin Margaretha and was buried in Metten in the Martinskirche. His inheritance was sold or came to the Frauenbergers who were related to him .

coat of arms

The original coat of arms is divided by a line from the top right corner to the bottom left corner, the top field is black and the bottom white. Above the shield is a helmet and above this is a wing (wing), black and white like the shield. The following coat of arms is attributed to Petrus de Eckh : a helmet with five feathers fitted with a basket of feathers, divided crosswise with three alarm clocks .

Family coat of arms of the Ecker

Tribe list of Ecker

NN

  1. Thiemo de ecce, called 1103-1108
    1. Jobst
      1. Hainrich von Eck, named as a tournament participant in 1165
          1. Ulrich I, 1284–1310 owned Egg Castle, † January 21, 1310 ⚭ Viellib de Ekke, † December 4, 1312
            1. Ulrich II., 1310–1329 in possession of Egg Castle, † February 23, 1329
            2. Peter I. 1329–1357 owned by Egg Castle, ⚭ 1st marriage Gertrudis, † March 20, 1329, ⚭ 2nd marriage, NN
              1. Peter the Younger, killed in battle against the Bohemians († 1347)
              2. Peter
              3. Albert, Vicedomus von Straubing († August 19, 1366) ⚭ Chunegundis, † July 2, 1366
                1. Ulrich III., 1369–1399 owned by Egg Castle († 1427) ⚭ Dorothea
                  1. Chunigunde ⚭ Hannsen von Freudenberg to the Hag
                  2. Georg († July 19, 1403), ultimus familiae

More lines from Eckher

In Siebmacher's coat of arms and in the revision by von Hefner and Seyler, several aristocratic families with this name are listed in Bavaria (e.g. the Eckher von Kapfing or the Eck von Kelheim ), although family relationships are not necessarily given despite the same name.

As Eckher of Stefling one is Peter the Ecker called 1284, when he participates in the 15th tournament to Regensburg. In 1355 the brothers Heinrich and Peter settled in Stefling. The last of these Ekher is said to have been a Peter, dictus Chusnay , who left four daughters. One of them married Count Hainrich von Ortenburg and so Stefling came to the Ortenburgers until the end of the 15th century .

The Ecker von Eberding and the Ecker von Mässing are known as the old Bavarian nobility. The Ecker von Neuhaus also come from old Bavaria ; In 1440, Duke Heinrich hands over Neuhaus Castle near Schärding to Hans and Heinrich Ecker zu Pelhaim and their heirs. The Ecker von Eckheim are named as tribal members of the Ecker von Pöring and Neuhaus . From the Eckern zu Pöring in 1417 Hans is mentioned as a land clerk of Lower Bavaria ; in 1429 he prescribed the prince to open Pöring . The Eckher von Kapfing are related to the Ecker von Pöring ; from 1394 to 1562 they can be proven as the owner of the Hofmark Oberpöring . Of the Lower Bavarian nuts of Vilsöhl is Marx Ecker of Vilsöhl known, who died 1525th

The Ecker von Eckhofen , on the other hand, are a Silesian nobility who received the title of baron from the Bavarian king on May 22, 1817. From this family Hans Heinrich von Ecker and Eckhoffen and his brother Hans Karl von Ecker and Eckhoffen became known as Freemasons .

  • Coat of arms of the Ecker von Eberding

  • Coat of arms of the Ecker von Pöring

  • Coat of arms of the Ecker von Eckhofen

literature

  • Georg Müller: Egg Castle and its owners . Publisher M. Renner, Deggendorf 1885.
  • Otto Titan von Hefner; Gustav Adelbert Seyler: The coat of arms of the Bavarian nobility. Repro. J. Siebmacher's large book of arms. II. Volume. Nuremberg 1856 Volume 22, Dead Bavarian families. Bauer & Raspe, Neustadt an der Aisch, 1971, ISBN 3-87947-022-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Master list based on Georg Müller: Egg Castle and its owners . Publisher M. Renner, Deggendorf 1885.