Kobstädt and Malsleben

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Kobstädt and Malsleben are Thuringian noble families .

The place of origin of the sibling families of the "Scherensippe" is Eckartsburg, the ancestral castle of the landgraves' marshals.

history

A line of noble lords of Scharfenberg, cousins ​​of the Counts v. Wartberg. Afterwards, through the marriage of the heir's daughter to Kunemund the great von Eckartsberga, this came into possession of his descendants, the gentlemen v. Kobstädt and v. Malleben.

The two sons of Kunemund the Great, Walter auf Kobstädt (documented 1199) and Kunemund auf Malsleben (documented 1205), were the progenitors of the two lines. Whether the "Malsleibin" (today Molschleben ) , located 15 km north of "Cobinstete", was also owned by the von Scharfenberg family or of another gender or even by the Eckartsberga family cannot be answered according to the documents found so far. The historian Funkhänel believes that he discovered the Old High German form of Malsleben in the place name "Magoldesleibin" (= Magold's residence), dated 1111, which also refers to the name of the town's founder, Magold. His supposed descendant, Bardo von Magoldisleiben, is recorded in 1143.

At first both brothers carried the name "von Kobstädt" (de Cobinstete), only after the death of their father Kunemund called himself "von Malsleben". A strange situation arose after the division of the estate: The Walter line, which was named “v. Kobstädt ”did not inherit Kobstädt, but rather the Eckartsberga inheritance from his father. The maternal genetic Castle Kobstädt possessed of times life, but only to 1333, because they had to for financial reasons in Graf War sell looped castle with the burned-down village. Remains of the castle wall next to the church are still there today.

In the ancestral line of the Lords of Kobstädt, the names of at least two sons of Walter are missing, namely the first who continued the tribe in the Erfurt - Gotha area, and the second who moved to his relatives at Scharfenberg Castle near Ruhla . Around 1240 the local Scharfenbergs also died out, leaving the castle to their nephew von Kobstädt. The number of lords of the castle there has been documented since 1118, almost everyone with the lead name Hartung, a name that the von Malsleben family often used. This knight of Kobstädt at Scharfenberg Castle may have inherited a larger fortune with the property, because he began to expand the castle in 1248 and strengthen it so that it was besieged by the Hessian troops in 1260 without success.

Walter's four grandsons, all knights, still owned many villages between Gotha and Erfurt (Apfelstedt, Bindersleben, Dietmarsdorf, Frienstedt, Ingersleben, Mühlberg, Sottenstedt, Sulzbrück and Volsdorf), which were sold piece by piece by the following generations, so that the last of the Family, knight Ulrich III. and his son Ulrich IV. are mentioned in a document from 1467 without ownership. The last three generations are documented by only one person each.

The family table of those from Malsleben is more richly documented. But they too died out in the middle of the 16th century, although the last (14th) generation was still represented by two gentlemen. This line also owned considerable goods, apart from Kobstädt and Molschleben also farms in Camstädt, Gispersleben, Großrettbach, Hohenkirchen, Siebleben, Tröchtelborn, Ulleben, Wegese, Weißensee and Frienstedt together with their cousins ​​from Kobstädt. Apart from the sale of the Wegese (1305), Hohenkirchen (1306), Weißensee (1316) and Kobstädter Burggut (1333 to the Georgenthal monastery for 240 silver marks), no other reductions in their holdings are known. They were even bought in 1438 by Count Adolf v. Equals with Gispersleben (30 ½ hooves, "judgment over neck and hand", Vogtgeld, interest, services, hunting and fishing rights, etc.) additionally enfeoffed . After the death of the ultimus of the sex, Clauses (1558), the whole property reverted to the landgrave and the counts of equals. The Millwitz family and, after the death of Wolf von Millwitz, his sons-in-law Jakob von der Sachsen and Christoph von Reinbothen, were enfeoffed with the same share.

According to the reports in the documents, the gentlemen from Malsleben were the more successful. They could keep most of their possessions. As landgrave ministers, aldermen, bailiffs, knights and high-ranking priests, they played more active roles in knighthood, politics and the church than their cousins ​​von Kobstädt.

Personalities

  • N. v. Kobstädt (1248, 1260), approx. Ministeriale, Vogt on the Scharfenburg near Ruhla.
  • Kunemund I. v. Malsleben (1251–1253), aldermen in Gotha.
  • Kunemund II. Malsleben (1253–1257), landgräfl. Ministeriale.
  • Maxiomel v. Malsleben (1260, 1266), Teutonic Knight, Comthur zu Altenburg.
  • Eberhard I. v. Malsleben (1290-1316), landgräfl. Ministeriale, Burgmann zu Gotha.
  • Konrad senior v. Malsleben, 1323: Rector and Procurator of Reinhardsbrunn Abbey.
  • Kunemund IV. Malsleben (1337–1348), Teutonic Knight, carer in Eylon.
  • Dietrich III. v. Malsleben (1406–1419), Vogt of Gotha.
  • Hans v. Malsleben (1452), councilor in Erfurt.

Clergy

  • Heinrich II. Malsleben (1280–1287), canon of Sankt Marien in Erfurt.
  • Henry III. v. Malsleben (1313), Canon in Erfurt.
  • Heinrich V von Malsleben, 1315–1316 abbot of the Imperial Abbey of Hersfeld .

coat of arms

Both families carried the scissors coat of arms of the North Sea Germanic scissors clan . According to Siebmacher, the helmet decoration of the von Kobstädt family was the large feather cap , as with the gentlemen von Scharfenberg. According to "Ortschronik Molschleben", von Malsleben carried two scissors attached to the helmet as helmet decoration. The heraldic animal of the "von Magoldesleibin" family, largely unknown in aristocratic literature, was the great egret, according to the Erfurt heraldic book.

literature

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  • Fritz Fischer: Ancestral lines of the first noble families Wettiner Lande. 1973-99.
  • Otto Franke: The Red Book in Weimar. 1891.
  • Karl H. Funkhänel: On the history of old noble families in Thuringia. 1861.
  • Stefan Grathofn: Mainz castles. 2005.
  • Heinz Rudolf Keil: The Erfurt Wappenbuch. 2013.
  • Julius von Marschall: The Lords of Kobstedt and Molschleben. In: Erbmarschalle in Thuringia. Volume 3, 2009.
  • GAv Mühlverstedt: Siebmacher's coat of arms books - The extinct nobility in the province of Saxony.
  • Otto Posse: The seals of the nobility of the Wettin region until 1500. Dresden 1901–1917.
  • Eckart v. Stutterheim: Register collection of the Wettin nobility. (Private collection).
  • Pure: Thuringia sacra. History and Description of the door. Monasteries. Weimar 1863.
  • Hans Weinrich: Document book of the Hersfeld monastery. 1936.