Heldrungen (noble family)
The noble lords of Heldrungen were an old Thuringian ministerial family that named themselves after the place Heldrungen in Thuringia.
history
The family with Hartmann von Heldrungen was first mentioned in 1128, the presumed builder of Heldrungen Castle . The following are named: Helmbold von Heldrungen 1157, Helmbold, Arnold, Gundeloch von Heldrungen 1158, Henricus de Heldrungen 1169, Knight Hartung von Heldrungen 1193, Heinrich von Heldrungen 1203, Gerlach von Heldrungen as Canon of Naumburg (1196–1216), Gerlach von Heldrungen , his brother Heinrich and his sons Hartmann and Theoderich 1208, Hartmann von Heldrungen 1214 and 1225 with his son Heinrich.
The hereditary funeral of the Lords of Heldrungen was in the church of Schulpforte . Donations from the Lords of Heldrungen to the Pforta monastery are documented between 1208 and 1236. The last to be mentioned are Friedrich, Noble Herr von Heldrungen († 1413), Noble Heinrich von Heldrungen in 1417 and Agnes, Noble von Heldrungen in 1430. Because of the support of the insurgent Flegler in the Flegler War , Frederick V of Heldrungen was made by Margrave Wilhelm II of 1412 Meissen removed from his dominions. In the following year he was stabbed to death by some farmers from Mackenrode . With Friedrich's sons, the lords of Heldrungen appear to have died out around 1443.
The rule of Heldrungen with Wiehe came to Count Heinrich von Hohnstein on January 8, 1413 . However, the Counts of Hohnstein only remained in possession of the rule until 1482. Heinrich's son Johann von Hohnstein-Heldrungen already sold the Heldrungen castle and rule in 1484 for 18,000 Rhenish guilders to the Counts of Mansfeld , the last lords of Heldrungen.
Personalities
- Hartmann von Heldrungen (* around 1210; † 1282), 1273–1282 Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
- Friedrich V von Heldrungen († 1413), leader of the insurgent Flegler in the Flegler War of 1412
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows a golden crowned lion in blue, covered with an oblique right bar in two rows of silver and red. The lion is growing on the helmet with the blue and gold blankets , and on top with three (silver, red and silver) ostrich feathers.
literature
- Helge Wittmann: The Lords of Heldrungen. In: In the shadow of the landgraves: Studies on aristocratic rule formation in high medieval Thuringia , Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2008
- Louis Ferdinand von Eberstein: Historical news about the market town of Gehofen, which belonged to the mansfeld rule of Heldrungen, and the offices of Leinungen and Morungen in the Landgraviate of Thuringia. Baensch, Berlin 1889 ( digitized version )
