Engelbrecht (Alsatian noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Alsatian Engelbrecht

Engelbrecht , also Engelberti , is the name of an old Alsatian noble family that was probably extinct at the end of the Middle Ages .

There is no kinship to the by ennoblement came to the peerage family Engelbrecht from Stralsund and Engelbrecht consisting Nordhausen come. However, there is some coats of arms related to the latter, and there are also coats of arms similar to an older Limburg noble family of the same name Engelbrecht , which ended in the male line in the 17th century . A tribal relationship with the latter cannot at least not be ruled out.

history

The Engelbrecht were a medieval, aristocratic family who sat on the council of Strasbourg until 1433 and were knightly , members of the household from 1266 onwards. They had their fiefs from the bishops of Strasbourg , the counts of Württemberg , the lords of Lichtenberg and the Neuweiler abbey .

The coat of arms is related to the even older von Lampertheim, who also became members of the Strasbourg household in 1266 and were named after their ancestral home in Lampertheim near Strasbourg. A similarly designated shield, only differentiated by a mark , was used by those from Bolsenheim, which were documented from 1290 and named after Bolsenheim an der Scheer , near Benfeld . These were a line of those von Lampertheim and also called themselves von Lampertheim gen. Von Bolsenheim. As a rule, a tournament collar , like the one used by the Engelbrecht in the coat of arms, was used as a sign of a younger line of an entire family.

The family affiliation of the Dominican theologian Ulrich Engelbrecht († 1277) can only be assumed, as he had the first organ made in Strasbourg Cathedral in 1260, financed by his contemporaries of the same name, knight Ulrich Engelbrecht , which, however, burned in 1298 along with other church inventories. Knight Ulrich Engelbrecht is said to have been the son of Johann Engelbrecht (the elder).

There were also connections to the Dominicans later. On January 17, 1304, the Dominican Convention gave the sisters Ellekind and Katharina, daughters of Master Johann Engelbrecht, a house with land in Strasbourg for use and an apartment for life. Around 1316 the siblings Hugo, Adelheid and Katharina Engelbrecht were mentioned again in connection with a donation to the Strasbourg Dominican Convent, where Hugo Engelbrecht himself belonged to the convent. Clara Engelbrecht was the prioress of St. Nicholas in 1375 .

Today's Rue des Pucelles in Strasbourg borrowed its name from 1300–1339 after the above Magister Johann Engelbrecht, who had a house there, 1302 curia Engelberti . From 1300 to 1326 it was called Master Johannes Engelbrechtes Gasse , 1312 Vicus magistri Engilbreti and 1326 to 1339 Des Engelbrechtes Gasse . His daughter Heilka Engelbrecht was married to knight Nicolaus Zorn († 1356), whereupon he took the name Engelbrecht and moved to the Domus magistri Engelberti . The street was then called Vicus quondam Nicolai Engelberti milits in 1345 before it was called Jungfrowengasse for the first time in the same year .

As a representative of the nobility in 1349, Gosso Engelbrecht was one of the two noble Stettmeister in the Council of Strasbourg. Around 1350, Mr. Goß Engelbrecht of Strasbourg must have had lien on the Hellhof and the Riegelhof before Johannes von Windeck bought the goods again. Goße Engelbrecht was once again mentioned in a legal case on June 2, 1362. His son of the same name, Gosso Engelbrecht, Knight of Strasbourg , had lent Henselm Basler from Ruprechtsau a ferry in the Rhine , called the Niederfahr, for an interest of 40 pounds Strasbourg pfennigs until November 11, 1379 . On July 3, 1380, he acquired a pension from Johann Vetter. In 1389 he was the winner of the Basel tournament and consequently the organizer of the Strasbourg tournament of 1390, in which 295 guests, including 43 counts and 131 knights, took part.

In 1396, after the Battle of Nikopolis , in which the Prince of Burgundy was accompanied by knight Johann Engelbrecht, son of the knight Gozo Engelbrecht , his survival was completely uncertain, which is why Johann the Elder and Ludwig Herren zu Lichtenberg his on November 9th, 1397 Son Heinrich Engelbrecht guaranteed the paternal and grandfather's fief .

At first Gozo Engelbrecht's heirs held the fiefdom of the Rhine ferry. On October 25, 1437, Jakob Herr von Lichtenberg announced that the steadfast Heinrich Engelbrecht had given up the fiefs to which he was entitled, namely on the Rhine bridge and in the Ruprechtsau near Strasbourg, in order to join this fiefdom with the steady Heinz von Müllenheim to be used. In 1442 the knight Klaus von Großstein appeared as another joint tenant. Heinrich Engelbrecht had already died on December 15, 1445 and only his co-owners, but not his heirs, are named as owners of the Niederfahr fiefdom. On December 24th, 1484 the Niederfahr is mentioned for the last time in a document as a former fiefdom of Engelbrecht.

Trunk line

  • Johann Engelbrecht
    • Ulrich Engelbrecht, 1260 knight
      • Johann Engelbrecht († before 1345), 1302 and 1304 as Stettmeister (mayor) in the Council of Strasbourg
        • Hugo Engelbrecht, 1316 Dominican
        • Katharina Engelbrecht, mentioned in a document in 1304 and 1316
        • Adelheid (Heilke, Ellekind) Engelbrecht, mentioned in a document in 1304 and 1316, ⚭ Knight Nikolaus Zorn († 1356), he took the name Engelbrecht , which his children, some of whom also grandchildren, still used
        • Gosso Engelbrecht († after 1362), 1349 one of the two noble Stettmeister in the Council of Strasbourg
          • Gosso Engelbrecht († April 10, 1398), knight, 1389 winner of the Basel tournament, organizer of the Strasbourg tournament of 1390, ⚭ Minnelina Baumann († April 30, 1370), from 1266 in Strasbourg, belonging to the Alsatian knighthood
            • Johann Engelbrecht († 1401), knight, 1396 participant in the Battle of Nikopol, ⚭ Isabelle de Ligny
              • Heinrich Engelbrecht († before December 15, 1445), 1437 and 1442 tenant of the Lords of Lichtenberg on the Rhine bridge and in the Ruprechtsau near Strasbourg, ⚭ Agnes Büchsner (* 1420), from the Alsatian knighthood; documented as early as 1335 in Strasbourg
                • Agnes Engelbrecht († June 3, 1466) ⚭ Veltin Knobloch (* 1405; † 1473), councilor in Strasbourg, from the old ministerial family , which was documented as early as 1197; Belonged to the Alsatian knighthood, housemates in Strasbourg from 1266
              • (uncertain filiation, but belonging to the sex) Heinrich Engelbrecht and Bertha / Martha von Mülheim , as married couple documented in 1433. Wendel von Mülheim and Gose his brother [be] inherited the Engelbrecht and the von Greiffenstein in 1434

coat of arms

Coats of arms of the noble families to the group of coats of arms of the oblique crossing from gold to red: those of Lampertheim ; Coat of arms of magister Johannes Engelbrecht in the seal 1313 (3 cogwheels); Coat of arms of Engelbrecht in general (= Lampertheim with tournament collar as a sign ); Coat of arms of those of Lampertheim in Bolsenheim and also of those of Scholl of Lampertheim (= Lampertheim with star), coat of arms of those of Lampertheim called von Bolsenheim (= Lampertheim with black label, inside two silver fish).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Ignatius Woog: Elsässische Schaubühne or historical description of the Landgraviate of Alsace , Strasbourg 1784, p. 436 .
  2. ↑ GHdA-Lex , Vol. III, 1975, pp. 147-158.
  3. ^ Hermann Friedrich Macco : Aachen coat of arms and genealogies. Volume 1, Aachen 1907, pp. 116-119. ( Digitized version ).
  4. ^ A b c Julius Kindler von Knobloch : Das Goldene Buch von Straßburg , In: Jahrbuch der kkheraldische Gesellschaft Adler zu Wien, 1884–1885, 1st part: in the 11th year of the yearbook. Self-published, Vienna 1884, p. 94 f.
  5. ^ Johann Stephan Burgermeister : Status Equestris Caesaris et Imperii Romano-Germanici , 1709, p. 185 .
  6. ^ Bernhard Hertzog : Chronicon Alsatiae. Edelsasser Chronick , 1592, p. 165.
  7. ^ Bernhard Hertzog: Chronicon Alsatiae. Edelsasser Chronick , 1592, p. 184 f.
  8. ↑ Julius Kindler von Knobloch : Upper Baden gender book , Volume 2, Heidelberg 1905, p. 421.
  9. ^ Bernhard Hertzog: Chronicon Alsatiae. Edelsasser Chronick , 1592, p. 157 f.
  10. ↑ above a black star or a black plate with three silver fish
  11. ^ Maximilian Gritzner : The nobility in Alsace , Nuremberg 1871, p. 5 and plate 6.
  12. ↑ Julius Kindler von Knobloch: Upper Baden gender book , Volume 1, Heidelberg 1898, p. 141.
  13. ^ Ernst Alfred Stückelberg: The coat of arms in art and trade , Zurich 1901, p. 39.
  14. ↑ Oseas Schadaeus : Summum Argentoratensium templum (...) , Strasbourg 1617, p. 27 .
  15. ↑ J. Daguillon: Le frère Prêcheur Ulrich Engelbrecht at-il construit les premières orgues de la cathédrale de Strasbourg? Revue Catholique d'Alsace, 42, 1927, pp. 583-598.
  16. ↑ Frédéric Piton: Strasbourg illustré ou Panorama pittoresque, historique et statistique de Strasbourg et de ses environs , 1855, p. 334 (French).
  17. ^ Andrés Quero-Sánchez and Georg Steer (eds.): Meister Eckhart's Strasbourg decade. Volume 2, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-17-019539-4 , pp. 8-24 .
  18. ^ Adolph Seyboth (edit.): The old Strasbourg, from the 13th century to the year 1870; historical topography according to the documents and chronicles. Strasbourg 1890, pp. 247-248 .
  19. ↑ Frédéric Piton: Strasbourg illustré ou Panorama pittoresque, historique et statistique de Strasbourg et de ses environs , 1855, p. 72 (French).
  20. ^ Otto Gartner: Regesten der Herren von Windeck from 1350-1359. In: Die Ortenau: Journal of the Historical Association for Central Baden , 51st annual volume, 1971, p. 41 .
  21. ↑ Christoph Bühler: Geroldsecker Regesten, Part 2 (1301–1400) , p. 443, no. 666 (PDF; 897 kB).
  22. ↑ Friedrich Battenberg:  CERTIFICATES, MODERN COPIES AND EXTRACTS  (= Repertories of the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt ) inventory B 14; S. 134, No. 4083 (PDF; 3.29 MB). In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen), as of August 2006, accessed on September 20, 2016.
  23. ↑ No. 123 (PDF; 850 kB) see also: No. 180.
  24. ↑ Pierre Jacob: Strasbourg organize un tournoi , (online) ( Memento of the original of December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lyc-rudloff-strasbourg.ac-strasbourg.fr
  25. ^ Friedrich Ignatius Woog: Elsässische Schaubühne or historical description of the Landgraviate of Alsace , Strasbourg 1784, p. 286 .
  26. ↑ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt, inventory A 14, transcripts of documents, finding aid inventory A 14, p. 195, no. 4087.
  27. ↑ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt, inventory A 14, transcripts of documents, finding aid inventory A 14, p. 284, no. 4088. see also: no. 4308; 2542; 2544. .
  28. ↑ Family tree .
  29. ↑ Julius Kindler von Knobloch: Upper Baden gender book , Volume 1, Heidelberg 1898, p. 46 f.
  30. ^ Johann Siebmacher : Wappenbuch, Nürnberg 1605, plate 192 ; Of salvation. Rom. Reichs genealogical-historical Adels-Lexicon , 1719, p. 51 ; Johann Sinapius : Der Schlesische Adel , Volume 2, 1728, p. 514.
  31. ^ Johann Siebmacher: Wappenbuch, Nuremberg 1605, plate 192
  32. ^ Bernhard Hertzog: Chronicon Alsatiae. Edelsasser Chronick , 1592, p. 238 ; Maximilian Gritzner: The nobility in Alsace , Nuremberg 1871, p. 5 and plate 7.
  33. ↑ Julius Kindler von Knobloch: Upper Baden gender book , Volume 2, Heidelberg 1905, p. 314 and p. 319.
  34. ^ Johann Siebmacher's Wappenbuch, part 2, Nuremberg around 1701–1705, plate 130 , Bernhard Hertzog: Chronicon Alsatiae. Edelsasser Chronick , 1592, p. 182 f.
  35. ^ Bernhard Hertzog: Chronicon Alsatiae. Edelsasser Chronick , 1592, p. 47.
  36. ^ Bernhard Hertzog: Chronicon Alsatiae. Edelsasser Chronick , 1592, p. 165 and p. 262. Those von Greiffenstein were at the tournament in Zurich in 1165 and at the tournament in Strasbourg in 1390. See Bernhard Hertzog: Chronicon Alsatiae. Edelsasser Chronick , 1592, p. 170.