Kerkring

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Kerkring , also Kerckring , Kirchring is the name of an aristocratic family originally from Westphalia , who first belonged to the ministry of the monastery of Münster , then to the hereditary men (the patriciate ) of the city of Münster , and which subsequently branched out to Lübeck and belonged to the patriciate there . In Lübeck, councilors and mayors for generations made it out of the exclusive circle society . Because of the name-like, but probably not tribe-related, also from Westphalia, see under Kerckerinck .

history

The family was originally called von Tilbeck , probably after the still existing Gutshof Haus Tilbeck near Havixbeck , which borders the city of Münster in Westphalia, and belonged to the ministry of the bishopric of Münster. In the course of the 14th century, members gained access to the Münster City Council and thus came to the gender group of heirs . In Münster, a part of the von Tilbeck family takes on the name Kerkring, at the same time there are also Tilbeck branches, as can be seen from the fact that two well-known heirs had joined the Anabaptists : one, the mayor Hermann Tilbeck , who it Jan van Leyden to the court marshal of the Anabaptist King and was killed by the bishop during the reconquest of the city, and the judge Christian Kerckerinck , who was executed after his capture in 1535, but not publicly out of consideration for his gender. The first demonstrable representative of the sex in Lübeck, where the city of Münster had good connections because of the Hanseatic League , was Wedekin Kerkring , who was elected to the council in 1350; he was followed by Bertold Kerkring , who was elected to the council in 1385 and died in 1405. He lived in a house on the north side of the upper Johannisstrasse . Two members of the family were among the founders of the circle society; a total of 34 family members belonged to her, and 14 were councilors in Lübeck; the last to be elected to the council was the mayor Gotthard Kerkring's son Heinrich Diederich von Kerkring, who died on April 12, 1703 in 1701 . With his brother Gotthard Heinrich († 1736), who left two daughters, the Lübeck branch of the male line died out.

Possessions

coat of arms

In a red bordered golden field a crowned black double-tailed lion ascending to the right . The helmet covers are black and gold. On the helmet a red-bridled black camel body .

  • Heraldic plaque in the St. Anne's Museum

  • Family coat of arms in a window in the Jakobikirche (1667)

  • Alliance coat of arms (1731) Anton von Lüneburg and Gotthard Heinrich von Kerkring (right) on the portal of the von Höveln gangway

  • Coat of arms Kerkring in Max von Spießen, Book of arms of the Westphalian nobility , 2nd (picture) volume Görlitz 1903, drawn by Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt , partly in different colors

  • Coat of arms Kerkring in the style of the coat of arms of the Westphalian nobility, in whichever color it was depicted in the past (golden camel body, which was also brown)

  • Family coat of arms on the imperial confirmation of nobility in 1641

Important representatives

Gotthard Kerkring (c. 1576–1645) went to Amsterdam , initially as a factor in the Riga drivers . He stayed here and became a successful merchant in the Levante trade and the progenitor of the Dutch line. His son Dirck (Theodor) also became a merchant and captain, whose son of the same name was the anatomist Theodor Kerckring (1638–1693).

Further

see list of members of the circle society

Foundations and works of art

  • Kerckring Altar (1520)

  • Young scholar from the Kerkring family (c. 1673)

  • Epitaph for Heinrich Kerkring (1695) in St. Marien with portrait of Godfrey Kneller (1676), destroyed in 1942

  • Epitaph for Gotthardt Kerkring (1707) by Thomas Quellinus

literature

Web links

Commons : Kerkring family  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Die Kerkringe (Lübsche Sage)  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage Gutshof Haus Tilbeck , accessed on May 23, 2019.
  2. ↑ Helmut Lahrkamp, Das Patriziat in Münster , in: Deutsches Patriziat 1430 - 1740 (Büdinger lectures 1965), (Writings on the problems of the German leadership classes in modern times, Volume 3 of the complete series, on behalf of the Ranke Society, Association for History in Public Leben), edited by Hellmuth Rössler , CA Starke Verlag Limburg / Lahn 1968, pp. 195–207, here p. 196: "[...] Of course, the transition from ministerials to Münster's citizenship has not yet been researched intensively enough In Prinz's opinion, only a few families of ministerial heirloom families can be clearly identified in terms of their origin; after all, he names the Buck, von Drolshagen, von der Wieck, von Emesbroke, vondeckebrock (Droste-Hülshoff), von Tilbeck , von Bocholt called Stuterslo, von Jüdefeld, who come from the episcopal ministry, find access to the council and thus enter the gender group of heirs. Zuhorn shows a further number of knightly families in Münster first citizenship, the Kragerügge, von Grolle, Bisterwechsel, Buckstorp, Lunne called Brusere and takes the view that the importance of this ministerial element in the bourgeoisie is considerably underestimated. [...] "and further, p. 204 (footnote part):" 6a. The strong Westphalian underground of the bourgeoisie of Lübeck is still perfectly recognizable. Muenster's hereditary names include: the Kerkring (of the Tilbeck tribe) , the Klever (Clevorn), Travelmann and Warendorp, who were involved in large numbers in the city regiment and also belonged to the Junker Society (or Circular Company) that had existed since 1359; see. Ms. v. Klocke, Westphalia and the German East, Münster 1940, p. 49 ff. I refer to C. Wehrmann, Das Lübeckische Patriziat, in: Zeitschrift d. Ver. for Lübeckische Gesch. and Altertumskunde 5, 1913, pp. 293 to 392 and G. Fink, The question of the Luebeckian patriciate in the light of research, ibid. 29, 1938, pp. 257-279. "
  3. ↑ Lahrkamp, the patricians in Muenster , p 200
  4. ↑ Lahrkamp, the patricians in Muenster , p 197
  5. ↑ Fehling, Council Line No. 821
  6. ^ Fragments of the Kerkring Genealogy (Dutch), accessed on July 19, 2010