Feringa (noble clan)

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The noble family of the Feringa belonged to the early Bavarian families (Latin = genealogiae ) of the later Agilolfingian period.

The still underage Bavarian Duke Tassilo III. In the year 750, according to a Freising tradition, at the request of Bishop Joseph von Verona, gave pasture grounds in the Erching area to the Hochstift Freising . Duke Tassilo III is the donor. up, the Feringa Alfrid with his brothers and the Fagana . The Duke donated the part of the property that belonged to the Feringas ( quicquid ad Feringas pertinebat ) to the diocese, with the consent of Alfrid and his brothers, while the part that belonged to the Fagana was given to the diocese by them. Ragino, Anulo, U (W) utti, U (W) urmhart and others ( et cuncti participes eorum ) appear as donors of this clan . From the fact that the duke gives the property of the Feringa to Freising and they only agree, it is concluded that Tassilo was the tribal head of the Feringa and that these were accordingly a sideline of the Agilolfinger.

"Feringa" (or later Föhring) is also the name of an important fiscal town and ducal farm at the old road crossing between Oberföhring and Unterföhring . This farm Feringa is 783 in a document Duke Tassilos III. called, which is part of the tradition book of the Upper Austrian monastery Mondsee . There is no further evidence of the Feringa.

The origin of the name of the Feringas is interpreted differently: On the one hand, they are seen as people at a "far" (= ford ) who guarded this passage on behalf of the duke and who were equipped with fiscal goods. On the other hand, the name is interpreted patronymically , the Feringa would be "descendants of a Fara". At the time of King Sigibert II (around 600) an Austrasian named Fara is mentioned, who was a son of Chrodoald ( de gente nobile Agylufingam ) and belongs to the Burgundofarones . This Fara had conspired against the Merovingians with the Thuringian Duke Radulf .

In Unterföhring reminiscent Feringasee still to this noble clan.

literature

  • Wilhelm Störmer : Early nobility. Studies on the political leadership in the Frankish-German Empire from the 8th to the 11th century. (= Monographs on the history of the Middle Ages ). Stuttgart, Hiersemann 1973, ISBN 3-7772-7307-4 .
  • Wilhelm Störmer: Nobility groups in early and high medieval Bavaria (= studies on the Bavarian constitutional and social history ). Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-7696-9877-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Störmer: Early nobility. Studies on the political leadership in the Frankish-German Empire. 1973, p. 48.
  2. ^ Joachim Jahn : Ducatus Baiuvariorum: The Bavarian Duchy of the Agilolfinger. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-7772-9108-0 , p. 234.
  3. ^ Wilhelm Störmer: Early nobility. Studies on the political leadership in the Frankish-German Empire. 1973, p. 49.