Cleen (noble family)
The lords of Cleen (more rarely lords of Kleen or Clebe ) were a noble family that named themselves after the present-day places Ober- , Niederkleen and Cleeberg (municipality of Langgöns ). Their property was mainly in the Wetterau . They were one of the more important families within the burgraviate Friedberg , in which they provided three burgraves in the high and late Middle Ages .
history
Konrad von Cleen is first mentioned in a document in 1253 on the occasion of a certificate issued in Cleeberg, which attests to the sale of goods in Ginnheim . At that time, however, the family must have existed for a longer period.
The lords of Cleen can be identified as heirs of the Reifenberg and Staden castles , as well as castle men in Cleeberg , Hanau and in the Friedberger castle team . In Ockstadt near Friedberg, the Lords of Cleen had owned land since 1374. Gottfried von Cleen , who was previously in the service of the Hessian Landgrave , built Ockstadt Castle until 1495 and took it as a fiefdom from the Emperor. Wenzel von Cleen inherited a substantial part of the property of the Lords of Praunheim-Sachsenhausen . As a result , the family owned an important farm in Sachsenhausen , called the Cleeische Haus . This later came into the possession of the Lords of Frankenstein ( Frankensteinischer Hof , today Frankensteiner Platz ) through inheritance .
The last male representatives of the family were Gottfried von Cleen, around 1489 bailiff of Darmstadt († after 1520), another Gottfried von Cleen as the son of Oyger von Cleen, who died in 1522 at a young age, and the German master Dietrich von Cleen († 1531) .
The family tree of the von Cleen family was revised and supplemented in 2017 by Dieter Wolf (historian) .
coat of arms
The coat of arms of the Lords of Cleen shows three red shamrocks or hearts on a golden background , which come together in the middle of the shield (the two upper ones placed at an angle, the lower one overturned ). The crest shows a bracke between a red and gold flight on which the shamrock motif is repeated. The coat of arms came with Irmel von Cleen, sister of the German master Dietrich von Cleen and Oygers von Cleen, together with the property of the family to the Lords of Frankenstein . It is located in the second and third field of the increased Frankenstein coat of arms and in the first and sixth field of the barons von Frankenstein's coat of arms.
Coat of arms of Niederkleen , Langgöns municipality
Coat of arms of Oberkleen , municipality of Langgöns
Coat of arms of Philipp Anton von Franckenstein with the red clover leaves in the first and last field.
Name bearer
- Konrad von Cleen, Burgrave of Friedberg 1298
- Wenzel and Werner von Cleen, Burgrave von Friedberg 1316–1318
- Wenzel von Cleen , († 1473) Stadtschultheiß of Frankfurt am Main 1445–1455
- Rudolf von Cleen, Burgrave of Friedberg 1462–1466
- Dietrich von Cleen , around 1455–1531, knight of the order, German master
literature
- Heinrich Bingemer: The Frankfurt coat of arms booklet. 2nd edition, Kramer, Frankfurt 1987, ISBN 3-7829-0348-X , p. 15 plate 9.
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility Lexicon , Volume 2, 1860; Reprint 1996, ISBN 3-89557-014-1 , p. 286.
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Reimer : Hessisches Urkundenbuch. Section 2, document book on the history of the Lords of Hanau and the former province of Hanau. Vol. 1. 767-1300. Hirzel, Leipzig 1891 ( publications from the royal Prussian state archives 48 ) No. 289.
- ↑ Ders., Ockstadt in the Middle Ages. An attempt at an overview . In: From Hucchenstat to Ockstadt. 1200 years of history of a village . Friedberg 2017, p. 79 ff.
- ^ Coat of arms on the east wing of the Teutonic Order Coming in Marburg .