Engelbrecht (Limburg noble family)

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Engelbrecht , is the name of an old family from Limburg , which spread to Aachen and Cologne in the late Middle Ages, and later to Amsterdam , but was probably extinguished in the male line in the 17th century .

There is no tribal relationship to the also ennobled Engelbrecht from Stralsund and the Engelbrecht who originate in Nordhausen . There is, however, some coats of arms related to the latter, as well as to an older Alsatian noble family of the same name Engelbrecht , which was documented at least from 1260 to 1495. A tribal relationship with the latter cannot at least not be ruled out.

history

The Engelbrecht immigrated from Hergenrath to Aachen at the end of the 15th century , where they belonged to the patriciate and were organized in the guild of the nobles , the star guild, at the beginning of the 16th century . In the 16th century they owned the Hasselholz estate near Aachen. Via marriage in 1561, he was accepted into the Frankfurt nobility society Alten Limpurg . One branch of the family settled in Montjoie , another in Cologne.

Aachen Supplik to the Kaiser and the members of the Reichstag of April 10, 1559: The city is a member of the Reichstag, hence the imperial estate, and thus has the right to freely choose another denomination or to admit Protestants to the council offices. Second signature from Wilhelm Engelbrecht, former Mayor of Aachen; from him also a seal (the first preserved from the left).

One of the main reasons for the early move to Aachen was probably the copper mining and, as a result, the boom in the brass works. The Engelbrecht were among the leading and wealthiest copper masters and patrician families in Aachen . From Aachen, the family continued to expand. Anton Engelbrecht and Justian Engelbrecht settled in Hamburg after the Counter Reformation . The brothers Bonaventura Engelbrecht and Melchior Engelbrecht, sons of Simon Engelbrecht from Jülich , received from Emperor Ferdinand III on September 28, 1653 . in Regensburg the recognition of the imperial nobility plus an improvement in the coat of arms. The family finally flourished in Amsterdam , where several Engelbrecht siblings were mentioned in a document in 1695.

Relatives

Lineage of the Aachen-Amsterdam tribe

  1. Johann Engelbrecht, who owned the Haus zum Bär on Kolrum in Aachen, also acquired the Haus zum Lindwurm in 1495
    1. Wilhelm Engelbrecht († 1518), documented 1500–1516, member of the star guild (guild of aristocrats) and the buck guild (guild of scholars; founded in 1412 as a society by Lewenberg) in Aachen, 1516 aldermen in Aachen ⚭ NN Düppengiesser
      1. Simon Engelbrecht (1554 †), 1540–1541 Mayor of Aachen, 1530 lord of Gut Hasselholz, through marriage proportionally lord of Gut Hasselholz and ⚭I Katharina Wilreman, daughter of Nicolas Wilremann, lord of Hasselholz, ⚭II Mechthild Parys von Raboitrade (* 1508; † after 1555)
        1. Wilhelm Engelbrecht (* 1519; † between 1568/1571), 1553 rent master, 1554–1555 mayor of Aachen, ⚭ Agnes Parys von Raboitrade, († after 1578)
          1. Simon Engelbrecht (* 1532), 1590–1595 Mayor of Aachen, until 1574 lord of Gut Hasselholz, owner of Haus Lieck,
            1. Mechthild Engelbrecht ⚭ before 1602 Stefan de Blanche († before 1631)
            2. Hans Leonhard Engelbrecht († after 1598)
            3. Casper Engelbrecht († after 1627)
              1. ? Susanna Engelbrecht
              2. Simon Engelbrecht (* 1606, † after 1655), wealthy silk merchant, lived in Keysersgracht (most expensive / best street in Amsterdam) as early as 1631 , 1637 / 38–1642 / 1644 director of Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam , ⚭ 1631 Allegonda (Aaltje) Schabanck (Schaafbanck) ) (* 1602)
                1. Anna Maria Engelbrecht (* 1632; † before 1695)
                2. Elisabeth Engelbrecht (* 1636; † after 1695), ⚭ 1665 Caspar Wachtendorp (* Lienden 1639; † after 1695), pastor in Deurne and Vlierden North Brabant
                3. Anna Engelbrecht (* 1638; † after 1695)
                4. Casper Engelbrecht (* 1640; † 1669)
                5. Allegonde Engelbrecht (* 1645; † before 1695)
                6. Simon Engelbrecht (* 1648; † after 1695)
                7. Susanna Engelbrecht (* 1652; † after 1695)
                8. Maria Engelbrecht (* 1655; † after 1695), ⚭ 1679 Andries de Wit (* 1650; † before 1695), merchant
                9. Johanna Engelbrecht (* 1557; † before 1695)
            4. Jakob Engelbrecht († 1621), member of the star guild in Aachen, businessman in Amsterdam, ⚭ Ottilia Düppengießer
              1. Johann Engelbrecht (* 1602), ⚭I Margarethe Danckers (* 1607; † before 1642), (⚭II before 1642 Anna Schurings)
                1. Odilia Engelbrecht (* 1630, † before 1681), ⚭ 1653 Johannes Hoogvelt (* 1626)
                2. Elisabeth Engelbrecht (* 1631), ⚭ 1653 Elias Nolet (* 1630; † 1690)
                3. ? Johannes Engelbrecht (* 1642)
              2. Johann Adolf Engelbrecht (* 1613)
          2. Gerhard Engelbrecht, (after † 1572), ⚭ Lucia
          3. Katharina Engelbrecht, ⚭ Peter Kern, († after 1578)
        2. Simon Engelbrecht, 1577–1578 mayor of Aachen, 1581 rent master, 1572 lord of a proportion of Gut Haselholz, ⚭ Eva von Bree
        3. Leonhard Engelbrecht, 1581 wine master in Aachen, ⚭ Gertrud
        4. Kasper Engelbrecht († before 1581), member of the council in Aachen in 1576
    2. Johann Engelbrecht,
    3. Lorenz (Lenz) Engelbrecht († after 1509), compared in 1491 with the city of Aachen

Fragments and individuals

  1. Arnold Engelbrecht († 1577), 1542–1555 Canon of the Aachen Marienstift , 1559 Dr. jur., Syndikus von Frankfurt aM , ⚭ 1561 Maria Fichardt († 1568; age 27), daughter of the Frankfurt statesman Johann Fichard (1512–1581; 1541 imperial nobility letter), through this marriage in 1561 admission to the Frankfurt noble society Alten Limpurg (only one entitled to vote Representative of the family in it), ⚭II 1569 Christiane von Günterod
    1. The two sons from their first marriage, Arnold Engelbrecht (born September 26, 1566, † April 4, 1593) and Johann Sigismund Engelbrecht, who, according to their maternal grandfather, Johann von Fichard, had "such a stupid face" that they "neither did Trade and even less useful for municipal services, "said her grandfather Fichard in a will for life with a capital of 8,000 guilders, from the interest of which they were appropriately provided for.
  2. Simon Engelbrecht from Jülich
    1. Bonaventure Engelbrecht, 1605 dealer in Hamburg, 1641 in Wilna , 1653 imperial nobility confirmation with improvement of the coat of arms
    2. Leonhard Engelbrecht († before 1653)
    3. Melchior Engelbrecht, 1653 imperial nobility confirmation with improved coat of arms
      1. ? Melchior Engelbrecht (* 1641), studied in Leiden
  1. Anton Engelbrecht († before 1626), 1589–1612 deacon and elder of the Reformed community in Stade , cloth merchant in Hamburg ⚭ Margarethe Pels
    1. Bartholomäus Engelbrecht
    2. Wilhelm Engelbrecht

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a red St. Andrew's cross in yellow and a black boar's head in the upper corner . A black boar growing on the helmet with red and gold covers. Due to the improvement of the imperial coat of arms on September 28, 1653, the helmet crown and above it a black eagle flight were added, with the traditional growing boar in between.

literature

  • Hermann Friedrich Macco : Aachen coat of arms and genealogies. Volume 1, Aachen 1907, pp. 116–119 ( digitized version )
  • Hermann Kellenbenz : Corporate Forces in Hamburg's Portugal and Spain Trade 1590–1625 In: Publications, Volume 10, Wirtschaftsgeschichtliche Forschungsstelle e. V., Hamburg 1954, pp. 197-198

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GHdA-Lex, Vol. III, 1975, pp. 147-158
  2. ↑ Christian Quix , historical-topographical description of the city of Aachen and its surroundings , Aachen 1829, p. 148
  3. ↑ The hamlet of Hasselholz. In: From Aachen's prehistory. Notifications of the association for customers of the Aachner prehistory. No. 4, Volume Five, 1892, pp. 59–62
  4. ↑ Rud. Arthur Peltzer: History of the brass industry and artistic work in brass (Dinanderies) in Aachen and the countries between the Meuse and the Rhine from Roman times to the present. In: ZAGV 1908, p. 235 ff
  5. ^ Karl Friedrich von Frank: Status surveys and acts of grace for the German Empire and the Austrian hereditary lands until 1806 and imperial Austrian until 1823. Volume 1, Senftenegg Castle 1967, p. 276
  6. ↑ Christian Quix, historical-topographical description of the city of Aachen and its surroundings , Aachen 1829, p. 197
  7. ↑ Luise Freiin von Coels von der Brüggen: The lay judges of the royal chair of Aachen from the earliest times to the final repeal of the imperial city constitution in 1798. In: Zeitschrift des Aachener Geschichtsverein 50, 1928, p. 244
  8. ^ Christian Quix, Contributions to the history of the city and the empire of Aachen , p. 59
  9. ↑ A brief biography in The Frick Collection
  10. ↑ Rudolf Jung, Dr. Johann Fichard, 1512–1581 ( electronic edition 2010 )
  11. ^ The Frankfurt patriciate : Engelbrecht
  12. ^ The Frankfurt patriciate: Günderrode
  13. ↑ The Frankfurt patriciate: Arnold Engelbrecht ( Memento from August 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  14. ↑ Panel with coat of arms in the Erneurt and Vermehrten Wappenbuch 1701 (Siebmacher)