Ehrenfelser (noble family)

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Equestrian seal of Konrad von Ehrenfels (1256)
Coat of arms of the Ehrenfelser
Ehrenfels Castle and Beratzhausen (early 17th century)

The Ehrenfelser were a ministerial family of the Hochstift Regensburg and a side branch of the Lords of Hohenfels , with whom they also shared the coat of arms (triangular shield with seven silver diamonds). The reason for a differentiation of the names seems to have been that a Konrad von Hohenfels moved to Ehrenfels Castle (founded around 1205) near Beratzhausen , while his brother Heinrich Hohenfels was left. From then on this Konrad called himself von Ehrenfels .

The name "Ehrenfels" is derived from Er = Lord and thus from "Lord's Rock". In a document from 1299 there is even the name "Hernfels"; the spelling "Ehrenfels" was introduced in 1579 by the Palatine judge Michael Silbermann and has since replaced the earlier name "Erenfels".

history

Konrad von Ehrenfels ( Chunradus de Ernuels ) appears for the first time in a deed of donation to the Pielenhofen monastery from April 25, 1256, in which he hands over his estate in Dettenhofen to redeem the tithe on all his possessions. It also mentions his mother Hedwig , who bequeathed a farm and a hut to the monastery in Anzenhofen near Pilsach in the Neumarkt district in Upper Palatinate on the condition that these should only become the property of the monastery after her death. In it he also names Bishop Albert as his master. Around this time, the Helfenberg rule , which had been awarded to Konrad von Hohenfels in 1232 , came to the Ehrenfels line. This may have something to do with the unsuccessful assassination attempt in Regensburg, which Konrad von Hohenfels carried out on the Roman-German King Konrad IV on behalf of Bishop Albert. After the Ehrenfels reign was sold to Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian in 1335, the Ehrenfels residents continued to live on Helfenberg.

Konrad von Ehrenfels is mentioned in 1265 as an adviser to the Regensburg Bishop Leo Thundorfer . In 1267 he testifies to the sale of two farms in Regensburg by Konrad von Hohenfels to the bishop, in 1268 he appears as an episcopal salmann at the agreement between Duke Ludwig and the bishop, and between 1276 and 1285 he mediates between the dukes Ludwig and Heinrich several times . In 1275 Konrad von Ehrenfels and Konrad von Hohenfels were appointed by the bishop in the dispute with the monastery of Sankt Emmeram , the monastery granaries were looted, Abbot Haimo and two monks were arrested and Wolfgang I. Sturm was appointed abbot.

In 1276 Konrad von Ehrenfels and Heinrich II. Von Rotteneck received the Brennberg Castle as a fief. Heinrich was the nephew of Konrad von Ehrenfels , who called him avunculus (brother of his mother). 1282 receives Konrad von Ehrenfels by his uncle Henry of Rotteneck the castle victory stone ; from 1320 it passed into the possession of Dietrich von der Au .

In 1280, at the instigation of King Rudolf I , Chunrad von Ehrenfels signed a document in the monasteryChecking , with important princes of the empire, such as the Bishop of Basel , the Count Palatine of the Rhine and the Burgrave of Nuremberg also signing.

In 1288 the sons Heinrich and Konrad are named, who at the instigation of Bishop Heinrich exchange goods with Duke Ludwig.

In 1290 it is reported that Konrad von Ehrenfels and his wife Osanna died and were buried in the Pielenhofen monastery. The sons of Konrad and Osana were Konrad , 1280 to 1298 provost of the St. Johann monastery , knight Heinrich von Ehrenfels , pastor Konrad von Oberwiesenacker and Konrad the Younger . This Konrad first appeared as a provost on March 15, 1280, in 1307 he was also canon of the cathedral in Passau and in 1337 in Freising, from 1312 to 1341 he also received the provost of the Freising collegiate monastery St. Andrä , he died in 1342. Konrad lived in Regensburg in so-called Ehrenfelser Hof (Schwarze-Bären-Straße 2). These four are also mentioned in a donation to the monastery. The Ehrenfelsers and the Hohenfelsers are involved in a feud between Bishop Heinrich and the Lords of Rain . At the same time, the Ehrenfelsers are in a feud with the Rohrenfelsern .

In 1299 Heinrich von Ehrenfels mediated for Bishop Konrad V von Lupburg because of the manslaughter of the weigant Chrätzel and his relatives.

Around 1300 Heinrich and Konrad Ehrenfels were paid like independent mercenaries by the Regensburg bishop, at the same time they were in the service of the Bavarian dukes. Both are significantly involved in the feud of Bishop Konrad against the Count of Hirschberg , the Count Palatine had to mediate in the dispute. Heinrich and Konrad von Ehrenfels , as councilors to Duke Ludwig IV, negotiate a settlement with the city of Regensburg. The relationship with the Wittelsbach family grew closer and closer and those with the Regensburg monastery looser. Nevertheless, they can not avert financial ruin, also because of generous endowments and various sales (1305 sale of the tithe of the Pettendorf parish to the Pielenhofen monastery, 1303 sale of the church in Illenschwang and Nattershofen , today Lauterhofen , to the Pielenhofen monastery).

In 1311 Heinrich von Ehrenfels zu Helfenberg was mayor of Regensburg. As such, he acquired a trade patent and a letter of protection for the Regensburg merchants from King Heinrich of Bohemia in 1312 . In 1312 he settled a dispute between King Otto and Bishop Konrad . In 1314 Heinrich was named at the forefront of the retinue of the Roman-German King Ludwig IV during his procession to Frankfurt to elect a king. In the same year he was a co-signer of the peace treaty between Rudolf I and his brother Ludwig the Bavarian on the one hand and Friedrich of Austria and his brothers on the other. His cousin Konrad von Ehrenfels also receives pay from the Bavarian duke. In 1317 Heinrich von Ehrenfels was a member of the ducal council and was appointed to a committee that was supposed to settle the dispute between the brothers Rudolf I and Ludwig the Bavarian. Heinrich von Ehrenfels dies in 1318.

In 1326 Konrad von Ehrenfels swore to the Regensburg Bishop Nikolaus von Ybbs allegiance and military service against payment; He promised to support the bishop with six soldiers and his Ehrenfels castle for 20 pounds of Regensburg pfennigs a year , except against King Ludwig of Bavaria. 1327 buys Abbot Herrmann from Kastl Abbey of Konrad von Ehrenfels the Bailiwick of two farms in Albertshofen in Velburg and two goods in free welding bei Kastl .

In 1330 Heinrich von Ehrenfels was paid by Bishop Nikolaus for his services. In 1332 Heinrich von Ehrenfels vows to serve the Regensburg bishop Nikolaus von Ybbs with six armed men and four shooters for 70 pounds pfennigs. This makes it clear that the Ehrenfelser had done away with their duty as servants and were now being paid for services to which they were actually obliged.

In 1331 Heinrich von Ehrenfels and Konrad von Ehrenfels are named as Regensburg canons . In 1333 Heinrich von Ehrenfels was a keeper on the Hohenburg . In 1344 Heinrich von Ehrenfels becomes mayor of Regensburg after the yoke of the Auer was shaken off.

In 1335 Heinrich von Ehrenfels was forced, due to debts, to sell Ehrenfels Castle and his possessions in Beratzhausen to Emperor Ludwig IV for 1100 pounds of Regensburg pfennigs in cash and 200 pounds of pfennigs on the salt tariffs at Riedenburg , Hemau and the suburbs in Regensburg, without that the bishop was asked for consent. Already in 1326 Konrad von Ehrenfels spoke of miner Vest ze Erenvels and ignored the fact that the castle was a loan from the bishop. The former service property has become personal property . Heinrich von Ehrenfels, sat in Helfenberg, died in July 1345. Ludwig the Bavarian sold the property to Dietrich von Stauff († after 1343) in the same year .

In 1353 Konrad von Ehrenfels confirmed the receipt of a payment to the Regensburg Bishop Nikolaus von Ybbs , which suggests the termination of the employment relationship.

In 1366 the Hohenfels people subordinate their fiefs to the King of Bohemia and Emperor Karl IV. In 1370 Hans von Ehrenfels on Helfenberg sold his estate in Allershofen. The certificate is also sealed by Peter von Ehrenfels . This year, Hans and Peter von Ehrenfels declare the feud to the city of Regensburg, but are referred to the competent court by Emperor Karl IV. (Emperor Karl IV. Ordered to refrain from doing it at the Reichshulden, but instead to do something or try to do it in Ireland to speak (would have to do ) such a thing at rainstorm before ir judges ).

From 1372 onwards, the Helfenberg rule began to be pledged piece by piece to the elector Rudolf I. Hans von Ehrenfels received the office of caretaker of Pfaffenhofen from the elector to secure his livelihood . After the death of Hans, the final sale was made by his widow Anna Marschällin von Biberbach for 8,000 guilders.

Conrad VI. Von Hohenfels donated the Utzenhofen church (today part of Kastl ) to the Pielenhofen monastery under Abbess Anna Parsbergerin in 1390 . In 1391 Konrad the Ehrenfelser ducal keeper in Schönberg and in 1394 in Cham .

In May 1393 , Chunrad von Ernvels and von Hohenvels and two Stauffer von Ehrenfels were named at the tournament that the Bavarian dukes Albrecht I of Lower Bavaria , Johann II of Upper Bavaria and his son Ernst organize in Regensburg .

1395–1403 is Anna, the abbess of Ehrenfels in the Pielenhofen monastery. In 1409 the Ehrenfels family died out with Konrad von Ehrenfels .

coat of arms

  • Ehrenfels coat of arms based on the equestrian seal of Heinrich von Ehrenfels from 1294

  • Coat of arms of the Stauffer von Ehrenfels

Tribe list

A complete list of tribe members is given in the Raitenbuchers , only individual people who can be assigned to the Ehrenfelser are named here.

  1. Konrad von Ehrenfels (Chunradus de Ernuels) † 1290 ⚭ Osana
  2. Heinrich von Ehrenfels, † 1318, ⚭ Kunigunde von Reicheneck
  3. Hedwig von Ehrenfels, nun in the Pielenhofen monastery (around 1300)
  4. Henry the Old
  5. Heinrich the boy
  6. K (C) onrad von Ehrenfels ⚭ 1359, Agnes Staufferin
  7. Hans von Ehrenfels ⚭ 1363, Dorothea von Sulzbürg-Wolfstein, daughter of Albrecht the Elder. Ä. from Sulzbürg-Wolfenstein
  8. Hans von Ehrenfels ⚭ Anna Marschällin von Biberbach
  9. Konrad
  10. Agnes
  11. Adelheid ⚭ Gift from Reicheneck

literature

  • Robert Dollinger: Eleven hundred years of Beratzhausen in the former empire-free rule of Ernfels. Josef Habbel, Regensburg 1966.
  • Manfred Jehle: New research results on the importance of Beratzhausen and the Ehrenfels rule in the medieval power structure of the Laber region. In Christine Riedl-Valder (ed.): 750 years of Ehrenfels Castle in Beratzhausen. Pp. 21-50. Verlag Hans Lassleben, Kallmünz 2012.
  • Christine Riedl-Valder (Ed.): 750 years Ehrenfels Castle in Beratzhausen. Verlag Hans Lassleben , Kallmünz 2012.
  • Christine Riedl-Valder: Ehrenfels Castle and Lordship from the 13th to the 16th century. A chronology of historical events. In Christine Riedl-Valder (ed.): 750 years of Ehrenfels Castle in Beratzhausen. Pp. 115-171. Verlag Hans Lassleben, Kallmünz 2012.
  • Franz Xaver Staudigl: Local history dictionary of the Beratzhausen market. Beratzhausen market, Beratzhausen 1996.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Xaver Staudigl: Local history dictionary of the Beratzhausen market. Markt Beratzhausen, Beratzhausen 1996, p. 112.
  2. ^ Robert Dollinger, 1966, p. 238.
  3. ↑ Manfred Jehle: Newer research results on the importance of Beratzhausen and the rule Ehrenfels in the medieval power structure of the Laber region. In Christine Riedl-Valder, 2012, pp. 21–50.
  4. ↑ Gustav Adelbert Seyler , J. Siebmacher's large and general Wappenbuch, VI. Volume, 1st section, 1st part, Deadly Bayrischer Adel, 1884, p. 34.