Eyb (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Eyb

Eyb is the name of an old Franconian noble family . Eyb , the family seat of the same name, is now part of the city of Ansbach in Middle Franconia . The name of the sex alternated between Iwe, Ywe, Ibe, Eib and Eyb.

history

The family first appears in a document in 1165 with Tiederich de Iwe . The Lords of Eyb had their fiefs from the Burgraves of Nuremberg (later the Margraves of Brandenburg ) and the Prince-Bishops of Eichstätt . Members of the sex gained great influence and high offices mainly in the religious field over time.

Gabriel von Eyb (1455–1535), Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt, with the hll. Willibald and Walburga, panel painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder

Ludwig von Eyb († 1438) accompanied the Margrave Friedrich von Brandenburg to the Council of Constance in 1415 . Albrecht von Eyb († 1475) was canon of Bamberg , Würzburg and Eichstätt and an important contemporary writer and early humanist in Germany. Among other things, he wrote the Margarita poetica . His nephew Ludwig von Eyb the Younger (1450–1521) was a court official, military leader and writer who wrote a war book around 1500 and later wrote down the life story of Wilwolt von Schaumberg. Gabriel von Eyb was bishop of Eichstätt from 1494 to 1535 as was Johann Martin von Eyb from 1697 to 1704. Martin von Eyb was elected bishop of Bamberg in 1580 , until his death in 1583. Other canons in Eichstätt were, besides Albrecht von Eyb, following family members: Wilhelm († 1453), Johannes († 1466), Albert († 1475), Sigismund († 1483) (all mentioned on a community epitaph in the mortuary of Eichstätter Cathedral ) and Christoph Gustav von Eyb († 1797).

1595 or 1597 bought Friedrich von Eyb to Eybburg for 47,000  guilders the Cronheim Castle including the parish and matins of the local Church of St. Mary Magdalene . He built the first school in Cronheim in 1602, voluntarily and at his own expense . He also expanded Cronheim Castle into a four-wing complex. With the construction he got so much in debt that in 1604 he had to pledge Cronheim to his brother-in-law Geyer von Giebelstadt zu Goldbach. Veit Erasmus von Eyb sold Cronheim Castle to Johann Philipp Fuchs von Bimmbach in 1617 .

In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Lords of Eyb belonged to the imperial knighthood in the knightly canton of Odenwald because of the ownership or partial ownership of Dörzbach , Hobbach and Messbach and to the knightly canton of Altmühl des during the 16th to 18th centuries because of Wiedersbach , Rammersdorf , Neuendettelsau and Vestenberg Franconian knight circle . In addition, in the 16th and 17th centuries they were registered in the knight cantons Neckar , Danube and Kocher of the Swabian knight circle, because of the ownership or partial ownership of Riet, Burtenbach, Reisensburg, Mühlhausen am Neckar and Freudental.

In the Principality of Brandenburg-Ansbach , the dynasty was granted the dignity of hereditary chamberlain and in the Hochstift Eichstätt the dignity of inheritance . Heinrich Ludwig von Eyb received by Emperor Leopold I on 23 August 1694 the Reich baron . In the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1813 all lines that were still in bloom and their descendants were entered in the aristocratic registers of the baron class. By owning the Dörzbach lordship (today a municipality in the Hohenlohe district ), the lords of Eyb also belonged to the knightly nobility of the Kingdom of Württemberg .

  • Rammersdorf Castle (owned by the family since the 16th century)

  • Dörzbach Castle (owned by the family since 1601)

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows three (2.1) red shells in silver , with the joint turned upwards. On the crowned helmet, between two silver wings, is the head and neck of a naturally colored peacock with a golden beak and neck ring. The helmet cover is red-silver.

Heraldic saga

The coat of arms of the Lords of Eyb consisted of a peacock neck on a helmet and shield until 1352. Only Ludwig II of Eyb, who made a pilgrimage to the promised land in 1341, received after his return from the emperor at his request, since he was the last of his tribe, the permission to use a new coat of arms for himself and his descendants: three sea clams in Silver because he had moved to Palestine, a gold crown on his helmet because he was the emperor's loyal servant, and in the crown half a peacock with swan wings. The empress, whose court master he was, honored him on this occasion with a ring with a turquoise and indicated to him that the peacock on the helmet should wear the ring around his neck as a permanent souvenir.

Coat of arms images

Coat of arms

The red scallop shell from the family coat of arms still appears today in some Franconian local coats of arms.

Name bearer

See also

literature

  • Eberhard Freiherr von Eyb: The imperial knightly family of the barons of Eyb. Commission publisher Degener (1984); ISBN 3-7686-5072-3 .
  • Heinrich Graesse: German aristocratic history. (Reprint of the 1876 edition) Reprint-Verlag, Leipzig 1999; ISBN 3-8262-0704-1 .
  • Heinrich Grimm:  Eyb, Franconian noble family. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 705 ( digitized version ).
  • Otto Hupp : Munich Calendar 1916 . Book u. Art Print AG, Munich / Regensburg 1916.
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume III, Volume 61 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1975, ISSN  0435-2408
  • Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 .
  • Georg Muck: History of Heilsbronn Monastery from prehistoric times to modern times . tape 2 . For Kunstreprod. Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 1993, ISBN 3-923006-90-X , p. 187–195 (first edition: Beck, Nördlingen 1879).
  • Klaus Kreitmeir: The Bishops of Eichstätt , Eichstätt 1992: Verlag der Kirchenzeitung, pp. 66–69, 81f.

Web links

Commons : Eyb  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: The members of the Eibian family who were friends with Heilsbronn or who were buried there and their grave monuments. In: Georg Muck: History of Heilsbronn Monastery , Volume 2  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nuremberg City Archives , St. Gumbert Abbey in Ansbach, Rep. 157, Document No. 729
  2. ^ Karl Heinrich von Lang: Historical network of the Rezatkreis: that is: the city buildings, regional and ruling courts of the Rezatkreis. Nuremberg 1834, p. 31.
  3. ^ Franz Xaver Buchner : The Diocese of Eichstätt, historical-statistical description, based on the literature, the registry of the Episcopal Ordinariate Eichstätt and the parish reports, vol .: 1, Eichstätt, (1937)
  4. ↑ Microcosm of Cronheim: one village, three religions - page 48.
  5. ↑ Election of the City Council - 2020 municipal elections in the city of Würzburg - overall result. In: wuerzburg.de. March 15, 2020, accessed April 29, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Tim Eisenberger: City council election in Würzburg: AfD gets two seats . In: Mainpost . April 7, 2020 ( mainpost.de [accessed April 29, 2020]).