Flehingen (noble family)

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The coat of arms of the Lords of Flehingen by Johann Siebmacher
Coat of arms of the formerly independent municipality of Flehingen

The Lords of Flehingen were a lower nobility gender and came from Flehingen . From 1396 to 1637 they owned the place Flehingen as a fiefdom of the Electoral Palatinate . The relationship with the in the 18th century knight county Schwaben belonging Empire Knights of Flehingen is not unique.

Family members

  • Ludwig Wolff von Flehingen built the Flehingen Castle in 1368.
  • Ulrich von Flehingen († 1421) was married to Adelheid von Venningen .
  • Reinhart von Flehingen 1440 Waldfaut in the episcopal Speyrer Bienwald (near Lauterburg / Alsace).
  • Ulrich von Flehingen († 1459), son of the aforementioned, was married to Anna Kerstlin von Dirmstein .
  • Ulrich von Flehingen, son of the aforementioned and court master of Württemberg , he lost Flehingen in 1499
  • Erpff Ulrich von Flehingen († 1542) was from 1508 Vogt at the Oberamt Bretten .
  • Ulrich Wolf von Flehingen (* 1479; † 1553), son of the aforementioned, got Flehingen again. Until 1538 he was Vogt at the Oberamt Bretten .
  • Ludwig Wolf von Flehingen (* 1517; † 1600) was court judge of the Electoral Palatinate in Heidelberg . With his son, the male line died out. He built the moated castle in Flehingen. The tomb of Ludwig Wolf is in the Protestant parish church of Flehingen.

literature

  • Otto Beuttenmüller : The bailiffs in the Oberamt Bretten . In: Brettener Jahrbuch , Volume 5, 1972/73, pp. 89-96.
  • 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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Weis Hallows and orders Palatinate Mark use cooperatives and Großwaldungen, ed. A. Friedmann, Speyer 2013, p 55