Hertingshausen (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Hertingshausen, according to Siebmacher's book of arms

Hertingshausen is the name of an old Hessian knight family that was first mentioned in 1257 and became extinct in the male line in 1689. It was named after its headquarters in the village of Hertingshausen , which has been part of Baunatal in northern Hesse since 1971 . Members of the sex played important roles in Hessian history for 400 years, especially as feudal men and officials of the Hessian landgraves .

Known members of the sex

The first member of the family known by name is Ludwig I von Hertingshausen, mentioned in the " Limburg Chronicle " by Tilemann Elhen von Wolfhagen , who in 1257 attested to a certificate issued in nearby Felsberg . Last of the sex in the male line was the 1689 different Ludwig Wilhelm von Hertingshausen, landgrave-Hessian hereditary kitchen master .

The most famous member of the family was Friedrich III. von Hertingshausen († 1422), who on June 5, 1400 at Kleinenglis, together with his friend Konrad (Kunzmann) von Falkenberg and Count Heinrich VII. von Waldeck, killed Duke Friedrich von Braunschweig and Lüneburg, who was traveling home from the Prince's Day in Frankfurt .

His grandson Friedrich IV von Hertingshausen (1423 – before 1467) was known as a feudal knight. He and his uncle Reinhard von Dalwigk (by marriage) had many quarrels with other nobles in the area, with the feud of the federal rulers, which lasted around a decade and a half, being the climax. Twice, in 1443 and 1448, were Dalwigk and Hertingshausen after they had repeatedly devastated villages or even burned, as peace breakers by troops of the Landgrave Ludwig II. And the Archbishop of Mainz Dietrich forced into submission and punished by deprivation of fiefs, but without this at lasting peace. It was not until the end of 1454 that the bloody feud, which was particularly destructive for the rural population, was ended.

Georg Bernhard von Hertingshausen († November 18, 1646) was one of the closest confidants of Landgrave Ludwig V of Hesse-Darmstadt from his youth . In 1602 he became his chief hunter and forest master, later also bailiff zu Kelsterbach , princely council and secret war commissioner. As an extremely greedy chief hunter, he was extremely unpopular with the population because he burdened them with heavy and harassing slave hunting services when they were not useful to him with money and / or supplies of goods. When the Marburg succession dispute was settled in 1627 , Georg Bernhard von Hertingshausen received the court office of the Hessian hereditary kitchen master . He received a written promise and assurance in January 1629, but the actual mortgage was not given because of the chaos of the war, and he died without any male heirs. It was not until 1680 that his great-nephew Ludwig Wilhelm was formally hereditary with the office.

His brother Friedrich Balthasar von Hertingshausen (* August 4, 1579; † April 29, 1615) was a special favorite of Landgrave Moritz von Hessen-Kassel . In 1606 he became a chamberlain , 1608 stable master , 1615 court marshal and privy councilor . On April 29, 1615 he was murdered by the court junker Rudolf von Eckartsberg . Eckartsberg was publicly executed in the most cruel manner four days later.

Friedrich von Balthasar son Maurice of Hertingshausen (* 1613, † November 17, 1678) grew up with his uncle Georg Bernhard in Darmstadt, kicked his studies at the University in Marburg in Hesse-Darmstadt urban services, where he soon became the Privy Council became. In 1656 at the latest, he was court marshal of Landgrave Georg II and Oberamtmann zu Darmstadt, and he held these offices during the entire reign of his son and successor Ludwig VI. inside.

coat of arms

The family's coat of arms showed a vertically divided shield , the right field blue with a half silver eagle , the left golden with two black slanting bars rising to the right . The golden crest , a closed eagle flight, was also decorated with two slanted black bars. The blankets were black and gold.

Tribe list

  1. Ludwig I. (mentioned 1257)
    1. John (mentioned 1310)
    2. Friedrich I. (mentioned 1303-1312)
      1. Irmengard (mentioned 1337)
      2. Otto (1346–1352 mentioned, † 1352)
      3. Friedrich II. (Mentioned 1346, 1366, 1376, † soon after 1381)
      4. Ludwig II. († 1352)
      5. Hermann I (1346–1352, 1366, 1367 mentioned, † soon after 1369)
        1. Friedrich III. (1366, 1376 mentioned, † 1422), ⚭ Lukarde von Spiegel zum Desenberg
          1. Agnes (Nesa, Nese), ⚭ 1412 Reinhard von Dalwigk
          2. Hermann II. (Mentioned 1397, 1411, † around 1430)
          3. Otto († before 1400)
          4. Berthold (1421, 1422 mentioned, † probably 1431), ⚭ Kunigunde
            1. Friedrich IV. (* December 1423, † before 1467), ⚭ Dorothea
              1. Margarethe, ⚭ Hans von Bischoffshausen , ⚭ 1488 Burghard von Boyneburg
              2. Friedrich V (mentioned 1479, † after 1531), ⚭ Agnes Schenck zu Schweinsberg
                1. Philip
                2. Friedrich VI. († probably before 1531)
                3. Hermann III. († probably before 1525)
                4. Dorothea, ⚭ 1507 Johann von Wildungen
                5. Burghard (mentioned 1544, † March 29, 1570), ⚭ Magdalena von Düdelsheim
                  1. Balthazar
                  2. Daughter NN, ⚭ Kurt von Radenhausen
                  3. Daughter NN, ⚭ Hans Hermann von Buseck called Münch
                6. Bernhard (mentioned 1544, † before 1556), ⚭ 1533 Barbara von Baumbach zu Tannenberg
                  1. Ewald († 1571)
                7. Johann (1535, mentioned 1544, † 1553), ⚭ 1535 Ida von Steinbach
                  1. Friedrich VII. (Mentioned 1556–1595), ⚭ 1559 Anne Rodung called von Wehrda zu Bürgeln , 1595 ⚭ Walpurge Salomone von Weißensee
                  2. Johann Burghard (mentioned 1556–1590)
                    1. Philipp Wilhelm († before 1606)
                    2. Wilhelm Moritz († December 1601)
                    3. Otto Werner († before 1606)
                  3. Johann (1556, mentioned 1574, † December 23, 1590), ⚭ Maria von Dernbach
                    1. Johann Philipp (mentioned 1622), ⚭ Catharina Heest zu Rethwisch
                      1. Catharina Dorothea (February 2, 1637 - March 6, 1684)
                      2. Augusta Eleonora, ⚭ Hans Georg von Osterhausen (* 1603, † after 1660)
                    2. Georg Bernhard († November 18, 1646), ⚭ Anna von Bredow († 1651)
                      1. Agnes († 1691), ⚭ Georg von Wangenheim (* October 2, 1606, † March 20, 1660)
                      2. Philipp Friedrich († October 4, 1631)
                      3. Eleonora, ⚭ NN Streiff von Lauenstein
                      4. Daughter NN, ⚭ Heinrich von Bohlen zu Bohlendorf
                    3. Friedrich Balthasar (* August 4, 1579; † April 29, 1615), ⚭ Margaretha Elisabeth Quadt zu Landskron
                      1. Ulrich Christian (* 1608) ⚭ Maria Scherff adH Bolsiersma
                      2. Dorothea Elisabeth ⚭ Arnold Herman Scherff adH Bolsiersma (* 1609; † 1657)
                      3. Moritz (* 1613; † November 17, 1678), ⚭ Anna Amalia Schütz von Holzhausen
                        1. Johann Burckhard (born April 1, 1660)
                        2. Johann Friedrich († 1680)
                        3. Ludwig Wilhelm († 1689)

Reputation of the name

Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I , the last sovereign of Hesse-Kassel , appointed Otto (1823-1907) and Eduard Lehmann (1827-1896), the two sons of his morganatic wife Gertrude Lehmann from her divorced marriage to Lieutenant Karl Lehmann, in 1835 Lords of Hertingshausen, but then as Lords of Scholley in 1837 and elevated them to Electorate Hessian barons in 1846 .

Footnotes

  1. ^ Georg Landau: History of hunting and falconry in both Hesse , (contributions to the history of hunting and falconry in Germany), Fischer, Kassel, 1849, pp. 168–169
  2. ↑ August Friedrich Gfrörer: Gustav Adolph: King of Sweden and his time. 3rd edition, Adolph Krabbe, Stuttgart, 1852, p. 465
  3. ^ Johann Philipp Kuchenbecker: Founded treatise by those Erb-Hof-Aemtern of the Landgraviate of Hesse. Philipp Casimir Müller, Marburg, 1744, p. 88
  4. ↑ The list is largely based on Georg Landau's account in Die Hessischen Ritterburgen und their owners (Second Volume, Kassel, 1833, pp. 218-250) and therefore contains only a few female members of the sex. Offspring are not necessarily listed in the order of their birth within their generation.
  5. ↑ Also Burkard, Burckhard
  6. ↑ Knight of the Teutonic Order . His grave slab showing him in plate armor was used as an altar plate in the Protestant church of Wichdorf , presumably since the 17th century , after the raised parts of the depiction had previously been removed. The altar was removed when the church was rebuilt in 1907 and the whereabouts of the tombstone is unknown. (Karl Alhard von Drach: The architectural and art monuments in the Cassel administrative district: Fritzlar district , Volume 2, Elwert, Marburg, 1909, p. 205, note 2)
  7. ^ Probably Hans Jakob (Jean Jaques) Streiff von Lauenstein, Hofmeister in Gießen († 1642)

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