Gebizo of Ravensburg

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Gebizo donates the Weißenau monastery, miniature in the chronicle of the Weißenau monastery from around 1250 . Cantonal Library St. Gallen ( Vadiana Collection , Ms. 321)

Gebizo von Ravensburg also Gebizo von Beyenburg († 1153 in Ravensburg ) was a Welf ministerial and the founder of the Weissenau monastery .

It is named after the family residence Bisenburg or Beyenburg, of which individual traces could still be seen in the 18th century. She stood near Blitzenreute on the Schussental . In old scripts it is also called Bienburg , Bigenburg or Bisenburg .

Gebizo von Bisenburg was a son of Hermann the Rich. Together with his sister, he is considered the founder of the Weißenau monastery. As a Welf ministerial he is known under the name Gebizo von Ravensburg, probably because he had his headquarters there. He was stabbed to death by a farmer in 1153 on the market in Ravensburg during disputes between the market people that he wanted to arbitrate. Gebizo left no children. His sister Luitgard was married to the knight Heinrich von Esenhausen , their son Ortolf called himself von Bisenburg . Ortolf's sons, Heinrich and Johann, seem to have shared their paternal inheritance, the former Beyenburg, the latter the Rinkenburg . The Lords of Beyenburg also owned bailiff's rights and estates in Rinkenweiler , those of Rinkenburg those in the Baienbach area . One of these gentlemen from Beyenburg became Heinrich von Bienburc's chamberlain to King Philip of Swabia in 1201 .

In 1241 and 1246 a Heinrich von Baienburch appears ; In 1264 another Heinrich von Bienburg is treasurer, who donated the Commende zu Altshausen . His son Friedrich was apparently the last of the family and died before his father. The goods with the castle came through inheritance to the Schenken von Schmalegg with seat at Castle Schmalegg , whereby Heinrich, who calls himself von Beyenburg in 1286 , in another document from the same year as Heinrich Schenk von Schmalneck "with his sons Konrad and Heinrich von Bigenburg ” writes. The Beyenburgers now carried the Schmalnecker coat of arms, the black hook in the yellow field, and called themselves Schenken von Beienburg , a side branch of Schenken von Ittendorf . In 1301 Konrad and 1341 Albrecht appear as gifts from Beyenburg . The last member of the family was Ursula, Schenkin von Ittendorf who married the knight Ulrich von Hörningen around 1450. This Ulrich, "sat at Bygenburg," signed the deed of foundation of the noble society of donkeys in Ravensburg in 1397 . Due to debts, Ulrich and his son Heinrich sold everything he had gained through Ursula in 1404 to Weingarten Monastery . King Ruppert confirmed the purchase in 1404. According to a statement by the Ravensburg chronicler Johann Ludwig Schlaperiz , the von Hörningen were not ready to move out of the castle, which is why it was conquered and burned down.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Johann Daniel Georg von Memminger, community Blitzenreute and community Fronhofen . In: Description of the Oberamt Ravensburg. Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1836
personal data
SURNAME Gebizo of Ravensburg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gebizo of Beyenburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Monastery donors
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century or 12th century
DATE OF DEATH 1153
Place of death Ravensburg