Erligheim (noble family)

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Epitaph of Wipert von Erligheim († 1348), Neuburg Abbey near Heidelberg

The Lords of Erligheim are an extinct line of the lower nobility , who were mainly wealthy in today's Palatinate and Electoral Palatinate area.

history

The Lords of Erligheim already appear as ministerials in the vicinity of the Staufer and were related to the episcopal Speyer ministerial family of those of Kirrweiler . They apparently named themselves after the place Erligheim in today's Ludwigsburg district , but soon had their sphere of influence and their seats on the lower Neckar. From 1320 to 1515 at the latest, the family sat at Schwabeck Castle near Schwabenheim , and in the 14th century they also had castle fiefs at Stolzeneck Castle and the Strahlenburg .

The family hired officials at the Electoral Palatinate Court in Heidelberg , who were given important official functions. In order to achieve a deeper bond between the vassals and the Count Palatine , these ministerials were also given fiefs . The sex was closely related to the Benedictine nunnery in Neuburg near Heidelberg, to which it provided several abbesses and in which various family members are buried.

The family resigned in the 16th century. Hans von Erligheim († 1545), father of the last Erligheimer, sold the property in Schwabenheim in 1515 to the Lords of Handschuhsheim . The remaining fiefdoms of the male line of Erligheim, including Ilvesheim Castle , came to the Landschad von Steinach gentlemen through the marriage of Margarete von Erligheim with Hans IV. Landschad von Steinach .

coat of arms

As a coat of arms, the noble family carried an upright, silver lion on a green background.

Family members

literature

  • Karl-Heinz Spieß : Feudal law, feudal policy and feudal administration of the Count Palatine near the Rhine in the late Middle Ages , Wiesbaden 1978 (Historical regional studies, Vol. 18, ISBN 3-515-02744-0 )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernhard Theil: The oldest loan book of the Margraves of Baden (1381): Edition and investigations , W. Kohlhammer Verlag, 1974, page 119, ISBN 3170020234 ; Excerpt from the source
  2. Hans-Jürgen Breuer: The political orientation of ministeriality and lower nobility of the Worms area in the late Middle Ages , self-published by the Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt, 1997, page 341, ISBN 3884430637 ; Excerpt from the source
  3. ^ Koester: New Archive for the History of the City of Heidelberg and the Rhenish Palatinate , Volume 5, Page 195, 1903; Excerpt from the source
  4. Christian Burkhart: The Lords of Handschuhsheim and the Schwabenheimer Hof, today a district of the municipality of Dossenheim , in: District Association Handschuhsheim, Yearbook 1999 , Dossenheim 1999, pp. 17-23, here p. 19.
  5. Journal for the History of the Upper Rhine , Volume 141, Page 400, 1993; Excerpt from the source
  6. ^ Website of the Heidelberg History Association on Heinrich von Erligheim
  7. ^ Website of the Heidelberg History Association on Abbess Sophie von Erligheim