Enslingen (noble family)
The Enslinger (wrongly also Emslinger) were a southern German noble family that died out in the male line in 1534.
Family history
The aristocratic family first appeared in the 13th century and named themselves after their ancestral seat, Burg Enslingen, which was near the village of Enslingen, which today belongs to Untermünkheim near Schwäbisch Hall . The castle no longer exists. The family was also wealthy in “Hurdelbach” or “Hurlebach”, today's Matheshörlebach , which is why a branch was called “von Hurdelbach”, “von Hörlebach” or “Enslingen called von Hurdelbach”.
They were ministerials , initially in the service of the Limpurg taverns , then the Hohenlohe family . Nikolaus von Enslingen, called von Hurdelbach, took part in the Council of Constance in 1415 as a representative of the imperial city Schwäbisch Hall . The sex died out in the male line in 1534. It had its main burial place in the Marienkirche Tüngental, which was destroyed in 1945 .
The Bebenburg near Rot am See belonged to the Enslingers from 1440.
The Electoral Palatinate Chancellor Florence von Venningen (1466–1538) and his sister, the Rosenthal abbess Margaretha von Venningen († 1505) had a mother from the von Enslingen family.
coat of arms
The family coat of arms is split lengthways. On the right (heraldic) it is red, on the left silver with two blue (sometimes black) crossbars. It has buffalo horns as a crest.
Demarcation
There was another noble family, the so-called Lords of Enslingen , with a completely different coat of arms (in red, three animal feet on a green Dreiberg), which comes from what is now Langenenslingen . Presumably there is only a name similarity, but no relationship. From this family comes Konrad von Enslingen († 1344), Abbot of Salem and Bishop of Gurk .
literature
- Enslingen. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 8, Leipzig 1734, column 1263 f.
- Otto Titan von Hefner : Register of the thriving and dead nobility in Germany . Volume 4. Regensburg, 1865, p. 286, books.google.de
- Georg Lenckner: The citizenship of the imperial city of Hall from 1395 to 1600: for the anniversary of the city of Schwäbisch Hall in 1956 , Volume 25 of: Württembergische Geschichtsquellen . Kohlhammer Verlag, 1956, p. 211, books.google.de
- Gabriele Isenberg, Barbara Scholkmann: The fortification of the medieval city . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, 1997, p. 113, ISBN 3-412-06797-0 ; books.google.de
Web links
- Website on the history of Enslingen with mention of the noble family
- Coat of arms of the old families of Schwäbisch Hall with 2 family coats of arms of those of Enslingen
- Website about coats of arms, etc. a. with description of the Enslinger coat of arms
Individual evidence
- ^ Felix Priebatsch: Elector Albrecht Achilles of Brandenburg . Volume 59 of: Publications from the k. Prussian State Archives , Volume 59, Berlin 1894, p. 478, books.google.de
- ↑ Kirrweiler's big son . In: Der Pilger , Speyer, August 25, 2011; Biographical article on Florence von Venningen
- ^ Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine , Volume 1, Karlsruhe, 1860, p. 155; books.google.de with reference to ancestry from the Enslingen family, Schwäbisch Hall
- ^ Karl Werner Steim: Langenenslingen . 2008, p. 29 and 405; books.google.de , books.google.de