Fiegen (noble family)

Coat of arms of those of Fiegen

Fiegen or Fiege (historical notations also: . Mnd Vyghe and Vighe ) is the name of a uradeligen Lower Saxon noble family . The headquarters were originally Bruch near Aschwarden in Osterstade . The title of nobility was hereditary lord until the end of the German Empire in 1918. The noble estates were in Offenwarden and Recthebe in Osterstade.

history

Hagen Castle in the Bremen region

The aristocratic family has its origins in a elder colonization that can be traced back to the Lower Weser . Until the 12th century it was known as Holler or Holling because its relatives arose from Dutch colonists. They were in Easter Stade to reeve . In the 12th century they were Ministeriales of Henry the Lion . Of central importance among them was the imperial prince Archbishop Hartwig II of Bremen , who had built the original castle at Hagen in Bremen . From the 14th century there are records of various goods: Hetthorn , Hekelinghe, Uthlede, Bruch near Aschwarden Offenwarden and Rechtebe in the county of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst and the ore monastery of Bremen .

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people

Map of the Duchy of Bremen and Verden and the Counties of Oldenburg and Delmonhurst from 1720

• Knappe Alverick Vyghe (Fiege) sold the Hethorn manor to Carsten von Düring in 1382.
• Johan Vyghe (Fiege) bought Gut Hekelinghe in the county of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst in 1400.
• Hinric Vighe (Fiege) sold the Uthlede estate in Archbishopric Bremen in 1477.
• Claus Fiege: Vogt in Burg Stotel , Drost in Burg Morgenstern in Land Wursten and Weddewarden 1518.
• Henrich Fiege married Margareta von der Betten, daughter of Hermann von der Betten , councilor and mayor of Stade .
• Friedrich von Fiegen, heir to Bruch, married Becke von Bardenfleth, daughter of Addo von Bardenfleth , heir to Rectebe, the great-great-grandson of Count Johann V. von Oldenburg
• On April 20, 1692, Johann Albrecht Fiege paid homage to Charles XII of Sweden as the sovereign of that time .

literature

• Hartwig Fiege: About the Osterstader Junker family Fiege. Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund at the mouth of the Elbe and Weser. Jahrbuch, 57 (1978) pp. 83-108.

Web links

• Fiegen noblemen to break in the family register Bruch-Aschwarden
• The von Fiegen (Fiege) family in the Wildenfels Castle Archives
• Family von Fiegen (Fiege) Institute for German Aristocracy Research

Individual evidence

1. ^ Digitized , Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German nobility lexicon, third volume. 1861 p. 248.
2. ^ Digitized , Royal-Great Britain-Hanover State Calendar for the year 1819. p. 427.
3. ^ Digitized , archive of the Association for the History and Antiquities of the Duchies of Bremen and Verden and the State of Hadeln zu Stade
4. ↑ ^{a b} digitized , archive of the Association for History and Antiquities of the Duchies of Bremen and Verden and of the State of Hadeln zu Stade
5. ↑ ^{a b} digital copy , Bremisches Urkundenbuch; Documents from 1381 - 1410, NO. 257, p. 338
6. ↑ ^{a b} digitized , archive of the Association for History and Antiquities of the Duchies of Bremen and Verden and of the State of Hadeln zu Stade
7. ↑ ^{a b} Digital copy , Lower Saxony State Archives Stade, Rep. 3, photo no. 161 F
8. ^ Digitized , Pieken, Heinz A., Ascbrok and Stoltenbrok, The oldest elderberry colony in the Bremen area and its manor; Oldenburger Jahrbuch 108, 2008, p. 53f.
9. ↑ Art monuments and antiquities in Hanover Volume 5: Duchies of Bremen and Verden together with the land of Hadeln, Counties of Hoya and Diepholz. Hanover 1878, p. 28f.
10. ^ Digitized , Monumenta nobilitatis antiquae familiarum illustrium, in ducatibus Bremensi & Verdensi, p. 232
11. ^ Digitized , Monumenta nobilitatis antiquae familiarum illustrium, in ducatibus Bremensi & Verdensi, p. 232