Kere (noble family)

Family coat of arms in the Ingeram Codex

Depiction of the coat of arms in the vault of the cathedral cloister in the Würzburg Cathedral

The von der Kere family (also: Ker, Keer, Kehr, Keher) was a Thuringian-Franconian noble family.

As a retinue of the Counts of Henneberg , a family line provided the court office of the chief executive . The Truchseß von Henneberg with matches in the coat of arms emerged from the von der Kere family. From the 14th century, the family owned the castle in Schwickershausen (Grabfeld) , which was owned by female descendants (von Bronsart family ) until 1747 .

In Wuerzburg Cathedral are still epitaphs religious dignitaries of the family. In the nave of the cathedral, bronze panels by Martin von der Kere († 1507) and Richard von der Kere († 1583) are exhibited on the walls. The family provided several canons in the diocese .

The von der Kere family was enrolled in the knightly canton of Rhön-Werra . Members of the family belonged to the Society of Fürspänger .

coat of arms

The coat of arms is divided horizontally into silver and black. While the bird's claws can be seen in the lower part of the coat of arms, the upper part is followed by the black feathered leg approach, which ends in a bloody red stump. The helmet covers are red and black. The coat of arms is repeated in flight.

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  Schwickershausen Castle

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  Martin von der Kere, † 1507, Würzburg Cathedral

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  Richard von der Kere, Provost (1562–1583), Würzburg Cathedral

See also

• List of Frankish knight families
• List of Thuringian knight families

literature

• Cord Ulrichs: From feudal court to imperial knighthood - structures of the Franconian lower nobility at the transition from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07109-1 .