Flersheim
The sex of Flersheim counted in the Middle Ages and the early modern period to the lower nobility in south-west Germany . Most of his possessions were on the left bank of the Rhine in the historical Electoral Palatinate , which today belongs to the state of Rhineland-Palatinate .
origin
The genealogical connections of the Flersheimers at the beginning of the 14th century are very uncertain. According to their name, the family came from Flörsheim-Dalsheim, which was then in the Electoral Palatinate, today in Rhineland-Hesse, near today's border with the northeastern Palatinate .
The Flersheimers were probably originally ministerials to the bishops of Worms and administered property in today's Nieder-Flörsheim district, which is about 10 km west of Worms. In the 15th century they were primarily in the service of the Palatinate electors. For several generations they were their officials in Kaiserslautern . Her family name expired in 1655.
coat of arms
The family coat of arms is divided into blue-silver-red. On the helmet with blue-silver / red-silver helmet covers a growing virgin with a red robe and red headband, instead of the arms two blue-silver-red split wings.
Possessions
The family's possessions were mainly located on the left bank of the Rhine in what is now the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, and to a lesser extent on the right bank of the Rhine in Kraichgau in North Baden ( Baden-Württemberg ). The ancestral castle in Nieder-Flörsheim is referred to as a residential tower in 1597 . It has been privately owned with its current address at Alzeyer Str. 25 since the 19th century. A farm estate at Pfarrgasse 7, which has now been sold, also belonged to the local property . Additional property was acquired through marriage, inheritance or purchase, and the like. a. in the following localities:
- Ellerstadt ( local rule with blood jurisdiction )
- Grombach (local rule)
- Laumersheim ( Laumersheim Castle ; former moated castle)
- Mehlingen (former Sickingenscher Hof)
- Neuhemsbach (local rule)
- Trippstadt ( Wilenstein-Flörsheim Castle )
- Trippstadt-Aschbacherhof ( manor house )
Representative
Knight Friedrich (I.) von Flersheim
Friedrich (I) (around or before 1396 to 1473), married to Margarete von Randeck, served for several decades, at least from 1415 to after 1459, in the service of the Count Palatine of the Rhine and the Hungarian-German King and later Emperor Sigmund . From 1415 to 1417 Friedrich accompanied the Elector Ludwig III. to the Council of Constance , probably helped with the burning of the reformer Jan Hus (1415) and, according to his own statement, in 1416 with the transfer of the captured and deposed Pope John XXIII. from Heidelberg to Mannheim . At least twice, in 1421 and 1428, he fought against the Hussites in north-west Bohemia and in Moravia and was twice captured. In 1428/29 he was part of a complicated exchange of prisoners between Moravian Hussites and King Sigmund; he probably acted as his confidential mailman during negotiations. In 1428 in the battle of the Danube fortress Golubac (on the border with Romania in front of the Iron Gate ) against the Turks under Sultan Murad II , he made a name for himself as a follower and alleged savior of King Sigmund.
Friedrich accompanied Count Palatine Ludwig III. when he made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1426/27, where he was knighted by the Holy Sepulcher . According to his own statements, he fought in France in 1420 ( Melun and Bulgnéville in 1431 ) and on various occasions in Alsace , was at least four times with the Teutonic Order in Prussia, possibly also in Lithuania and Russia ( Novgorod and Pskow ) in 1428 , and twice as ambassador to the French Dauphin in 1444 and king because of the Armagnacs . On behalf of King Sigmund, he was supposed to help found a knight association like that of St. Jörgenschild in Wasgau and on the Upper Rhine in 1429 .
For about three decades, Friedrich was the Palatine bailiff and Burgmann in Kaiserslautern . Two of his four sons were Hans and Friedrich (II.), The others he procured church benefices in Worms and Trier. Friedrich's half-sister Adelheid von Langenau was married to Friedrich von Greiffenclau zu Volraths (1401–1462), a close friend and comrade of Friedrich, who, according to the Flersheim Chronicle , a manuscript with family history records (see section Literature ), became the ancestor of all later Greiffenclauers.
Friedrich was buried in the family grave in the Lauter collegiate church , for which there was an epitaph from Bishop Philipp von Flersheim, his grandson, from 1530, of which only two restored fragments are preserved in the basement of the parish hall.
Knight Friedrich (II.) Von Flersheim
Friedrich (II.) († 1477), one of the sons of Friedrich (I), was initially in the service of the Count Palatine of the Rhine and later of the Burgundian Duke Charles the Bold . He was its chamberlain and "bailli" (bailiff) in the Deutschordensballei Lorraine . He fought successfully with Karl on the Lower Rhine and, like him, fell in the battle of Nancy in 1477 . The debts of his father Friedrich (I) could be settled from his assets.
Knight Hans (I.) von Flersheim
Hans (I.) (* July 8, 1440; † 1519), also one of the sons of Friedrich (I), acted like his father for about three decades as an electoral Palatinate bailiff in the Lautern district , which administered today's Kaiserslautern and its surroundings. In addition, he held the post of Landkomtur in the Teutonic Order from 1477 to 1489 in the Ballei Lothringen, which extended into what is now the Vorderpfalz . After the death of his brother Friedrich (II.) He was for many years in the entourage of Emperor Maximilian ; shortly before his death in 1519, he gave him the valuable book Theuerdank .
In 1492 Hans had a moated castle built on the site of today 's Laumersheim Palace . The Upper Palatinate village was one of the ancestral seats of the family. Hans was married to Ottilie Kranich von Kirchheim . Among their children were the future Speyer Prince-Bishop Philipp (1481–1552) and his sister Hedwig von Flersheim († 1516), wife of the famous knight Franz von Sickingen .
Bishop Philipp von Flersheim
Philipp (1481–1552), son of Hans von Flersheim and Ottilie Kran (i) ch von Kirchheim, was bishop of Speyer from 1529 until his death and from 1546 also prince provost of the Weissenburg monastery . He served as an advisor to Emperor Maximilian and the Count Palatine near Rhine. He was the client of the Flersheim Chronicle, which he dictated for his relatives (see section on literature ).
Hedwig von Flersheim
Hedwig († 1516), daughter of Hans von Flersheim and Ottilie Kran (i) ch von Kirchheim, married the influential knight Franz von Sickingen around 1500 (various sources name 1498, 1499 and 1502) . She died giving birth to the seventh child.
Friedrich von Flersheim
Friedrich († 1575), Burgrave of Alzey , son of Bechtolf von Flersheim († 1547) and Elisabeth von Helmstatt , was the second cousin of Bishop Philipps von Flersheim and married Amalia Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler . The couple bought the Aschbacherhof near Trippstadt in 1564 . On the manor house there is a lintel with the year 1566 and the couple's alliance coat of arms.
Knight Gerhard von Flersheim
Gerhard, called "Monsheimer" (after the neighboring community ), more rarely also "Montzheimer", lived around 1492. He belonged to a branch of the Flersheimers and was the father of Hans von Flersheim, who was also called "Monsheimer".
Other noble families in the region
- Monkey stone
- Leiningen
- Lerch von Dirmstein
- Leyser from Lambsheim
- Nagel from Dirmstein
- Storm spring from Oppenweiler
- From the hoods
literature
- Philipp von Flersheim : The Flersheim Chronicle . In: Otto Waltz (Ed.): To the history of the XV. and XVI. Century . For the first time after full manuscripts edited by Dr. Otto Waltz. Hirzel, Leipzig 1874.
- Johann Maximilian von Humbracht : The highest ornament of Germany, and the excellence of the German nobility .. Knoch, Frankfurt am Main 1707 (family table 1).
- Walther Möller: Family tables of West German aristocratic families in the Middle Ages . New episode. First part. Self-published, Darmstadt 1950, p. 27 ff .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Coat of arms of the Moselle-Rhineland nobility. Coat of arms collection (7). Bernhard Peter, accessed on October 21, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Stefan Grathoff: Nieder-Flörsheim. (No longer available online.) Burgenlexikon.eu, archived from the original on October 21, 2013 ; Retrieved October 21, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Entry on the Niederflörsheim residential tower in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved September 16, 2015.
- ↑ The couple's genealogical website .
- ^ Year of birth according to Philipp von Flersheim : The Flersheim Chronicle . 1874.
- ^ Website on Hedwig von Flersheim ( Memento from August 17, 2004 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ 480 years ago. (No longer available online.) State Main Archive Rhineland-Palatinate, archived from the original on October 21, 2013 ; Retrieved October 21, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Gerhard Kaller: Sickingen, Franz von. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 10, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-062-X , Sp. 24-26.
- ^ Genealogical website on Friedrich von Flersheim and Amalia Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler.
