Idzinga

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Idzinga (also: Itzinga, Itsenga) is the name of one of the oldest East Frisian chief families, now extinct . This is to be distinguished from the Idsinga and Tjaerda van Idsinga families in the Netherlands, that is to say in the present-day provinces of Friesland and Groningen .

history

The Idzinga come from the north and had castles in Lintel (between today's north and north dike) and on the north market.

The oldest known bearer of this name was Hicco Ytzinga, mentioned in a document in 1278 under the "advocati et iudices terre Nordensis universis" and in 1277 as consul (Frisian: Redjeve ) of the Norderland.

In 1337 Poppo Ytzinga appeared among the "consulibus et advocatis terrae Nordensis". In 1340 a Hicko Itzinga was sealed again, who, if one follows the Frisian naming rules, was most likely a grandson of the above-mentioned Hicco, with “S. ADVOCATORV (M) ET CONSULUM TERRE NORDE ”. Hicko carried the first verifiable coat of arms of the Idzinga, an eagle soaring heraldically to the left. He probably married a Dyurled, with whom he had the son Evenardus and the daughter Idze. Idze married Eger, the son of the chief Hero Eylwernahm (Olde Hero) von Dornum and thus became the ancestor of the chief family of the Kankena von Dornum.

Evenardus Ytzengha appeared in 1367 together with Martin Zyertza ( Cirksena ) and Hylo Attana ( Attena ) as "advocati terre Nordensis". In the same year 1367, however, the same three called themselves "advocati et capitales terre Nordensis", with which they certified their rise to chiefs (capitales). Evenardus fell in 1372 and left only one heir, Djudelt (also spelled Diudleta, Djurled, Djulke or Dudelef), named after her grandmother.

Djudelt Itzingha married Liuward Abdena , Drost von Emden , who took his wife's name and sealed it with "S: LINWARDI ITZINGHA". In the seal image , under the image of Saint Liudger, two coats of arms can be seen, both of which show a lion , the first being the Abdena von Emden, who demonstrably carried this coat of arms, and the second being assigned to the Idzinga, from which it can be concluded that Djudelt's father Evenardus must have had a lion in the coat of arms.

Liuwards successor as chief to the north was his son Evenard, who fell as the last male Idzinga in 1414 at Farmsum in the battle with the Groningen. From his marriage to Sibbe Allena, the daughter of the chief of Osterhusen, Folkmar Allena , the heir Hima emerged, who married Udo Fockena, the son of Focko Ukenas . On a gold coin that Udo had minted between 1427 and 1430, you can see the Ukena lion in a three-pass, accompanied in each of the three corners by a heraldic shield, which shows a tail wheel. The tail wheel must be Hima's coat of arms, which she inherited from her father Evenard. These three tail wheels later found their way into the coat of arms of the city of Norden. Udo fell near Bargebur in 1433 and Hima died childless in 1439 in the Marienthal monastery . That was the end of the story of the Idzinga family.

Tradition ascribes a family coat of arms to the Idzinga: three golden tail wheels in blue (2: 1); however, there is no evidence that such a coat of arms was ever carried by an Idzinga.

The extent to which Enrico Ytsinga, mentioned in a document in Upgant in 1387, belongs to this relationship must remain open, as with the Itzen and Ytz, who also lived in Upgant in the sixteenth century.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Baptista Rietstap : De wapens van den tegenwoordigen en den vroegeren Nederlandschen nobility . Groningen 1890, p. 350.
  2. ↑ Pedigree of Simeon Petrus van Idsinga, died November 10, 1853
  3. ^ Johannes Baptista Rietstap : De wapens van den tegenwoordigen en den vroegeren Nederlandschen nobility . Groningen 1890, p. 403.
  4. ^ Ernst Friedländer : Ostfriesisches Urkundenbuch, vol. 2. Emden 1881, no. 1680.
  5. ↑ a b c Günther Möhlmann: Northern Annals. Aurich 1959.
  6. ↑ a b c d e Hajo van Lengen : The Frisian freedom of the Middle Ages. Aurich 2003, p. 105 f.
  7. ↑ a b c Almuth Salomon : The Attena. In: Emder Jahrbuch 83 (2003).
  8. ^ Ernst Friedländer : Ostfriesisches Urkundenbuch, Vol. 1. Emden 1878, No. 104.
  9. ↑ Ubbo Emmius : Frisian history. Frankfurt / Main 1980–1982, pp. 250 and 262.
  10. ^ Johannes Baptista Rietstap : Illustrated general coat of arms book. Lyon 1938.
  11. ^ Ernst Friedländer : Ostfriesisches Urkundenbuch, Vol. 1. Emden 1878, No. 157.
  12. ↑ Bernhard Koerner: German Gender Book , Vol. 103. Görlitz 1938.