Frieling (stand)
Fri (e) ling or Vriling is an old Saxon trade name. Frielinge were free or freed in contrast to Lassen / Laten / Liten or noble free (Ethelinge, Adalinge, Edelinge).
Localities
The Frilinge gave the names of the towns they founded. Old documents speak for example of Vrilinctorpe, the later farmers Frentrop , whose name can be traced back to the settlement of Saxon Frilinge in the seventh century. An urn cemetery opened in Frentrop in 1927 provides impeccable information that the urn cemetery here as early as 700 BC. Resident Celts were displaced from the area by Germanic tribes . Shortly after 300, during the third Celtic migration, the Teutons spread from the northeast, following the course of the Lippe , to the Rhine . It was the Germanic tribes, later combined under the name Ingäwonen and Istäwonen, who took possession of the villages and farmhouses of the Celts for themselves. The Istawons included the Usipeter on the lower lip, the Brukterer in the Münsterland and the Martians between Lippe and Ruhr . Brukterer and Saxons are the progenitors of the Westphalian population.
In the records of the Benedictine abbey of Werden (Ruhr) monastery, which was founded during the Saxon Wars in 789, it is noted that a certain Dagubracht bequeathed possessions and income from Meronhlare (today: Marl ) to the monastery for the benefit of his soul . Further entries in the Werdener Heberegisters allow conclusions to be drawn about the later farming communities Oelde (Ulithi), Drewer (Threviri), Frentrop (Vrilinctorpe), Herne (Scranni) and Bossendorf (Bodsnippi). A branch of the Frielinge family has been recorded in the Westphalian town of Oelde for centuries and is still based there today.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Friedrich König: Teutsche Letters, written in the prison in Emden. Ms. Rakebrand, Emden 1837, p. 158f