Esch (noble family)

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Seal impression of the knight Wolther von Esch

von Esch was the name of two Rhineland nobility - or noble families , who had their headquarters in the area of ​​today's Esch district of the city of Elsdorf at different times . These families are not related to other noble houses of the same name, e.g. B. the Lords of Esch (on the Salm) or Esch (on the Sauer) .

history

Rudolf Schieffer assumes that the noble free Godefridus de Ascha mentioned in 1131 can be assigned to the noble family von Esch (which was therefore already existing at that time). This assignment is probably related to the thesis that the ancestral seat of Count Palatine Hezelin (Hermann) was in the area of ​​what is now the Esch district of the city of Elsdorf . Hezelin was the brother of Ezzo of Lorraine , who was married to Mathilde , daughter of Emperor Otto II .

A low-nobility von Esch family can be identified for the first time at the end of the 13th century with the knight Udo von Esch. This was mentioned as a witness in 1248 along with Heinrich von Desdorf and Johann von Reifferscheid . One thesis assumes that the progenitor of this noble family was the Cologne Ministeriale Herimann cum Barba. In the first half of the 12th century, the monastery of St. Pantaleon commissioned him to manage the Fronhof in Esch. Herimann cum Barba was first documented in 1131. It is not known when this family was raised to the nobility.

In the area around Elsdorf and Bergheim there were not only the Knights of Esch but also other noble families, whose coat of arms depicted three ravens on a black crossbar in a silver (= white) field. The families von Giesendorf , von Troisdorf , von Ousheim (Aussem) and von Reuschenberg belonged to a clan association according to a thesis by Bernd Reuschenberg . Heinz Andermahr contradicts this thesis, since the mentioned references (geographical proximity and coat of arms) do not represent a basis for a thesis for him.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the von Esch family (12th century) is not known.

The coat of arms of the knight Wolther von Esch shows three black ravens on a white or silver field over a black crossbar. The center of the bar is provided with a white, stylized lily .

literature

  • Heinz Andermahr: The beginnings of the Lords of Reuschenberg in Elsdorf - a response to Bernd Reuschenberg. In: Yearbook of the Bergheim History Association. Volume 25, Bergheim 2016, pp. 96–113.
  • Benno Hilliger (Hrsg.): Rheinische Urbare: Collection of Urbaren and other sources on Rhenish economic history: The Urbare of St. Pantaleon in Cologne, Volume 1. (= Publications of the Society for Rheinische Geschichtskunde. Volume 20/1). Bonn 1902
  • Bernd Reuschenberg: Origin of the Reuschenberg Family in: Elsdorfer Stories , Yearbook of the Elsdorf History Association, Vol. 5/2012, Kreuzau 2012, pp. 35–48.
  • Bernd Reuschenberg: Rise of the von Reuschenberg family - the prehistory. In: Messages from the Baesweiler Geschichtsverein e. V. No. 42/2012, pp. 6 and 7.
  • Bernd Reuschenberg: Rise of the von Reuschenberg family - the prehistory (continued). In: Messages from the Baesweiler Geschichtsverein e. V. No. 43/2013, pp. 8 and 9.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Schieffer: The name of the Salier in: Franz-Reiner Erkens and Hartmut Wolf (eds.): From Sacerdotium and Regnum. Spiritual and secular violence in the early and high Middle Ages , Cologne 2002, p. 359.
  2. ↑ Josef Gülpers: Church patrons in the former district of Bergheim: Origin and meaning of patronage. Grevenbroich-Langwaden 2005, p. 86.
  3. ↑ Thomas Bohn: Countess Mechthild von Sayn (1200 / 03-1285). A study on Rhenish history and culture. (= Rheinisches Archiv. Volume 140). Cologne 2002, p. 598.
  4. ↑ a b Bernd Reuschenberg: Rise of the von Reuschenberg family - the prehistory (continued). In: Messages from the Baesweiler Geschichtsverein e. V. No. 43/2013, p. 8.
  5. ↑ Heinz Andermahr: The beginnings of the Lords of Reuschenberg in Elsdorf - a response to Bernd Reuschenberg. In: Yearbook of the Bergheim History Association. Volume 25, Bergheim 2016, p. 112.
  6. ↑ Fahne, Anton : History of the Cologne, Jülichschen and Bergisch families in family tables, coats of arms, seals and documents. Part 1: Family tree and heraldic book. A-Z . Heberle, Cologne and Bonn 1848, plate 2