Kransberg (noble family)
The Lords of Kransberg (also Cransberg , Cransperg , Cranichsberg ) were a noble family who named themselves after the Kransberg Castle and today's place Kransberg . Their property was mainly in the Taunus in the area of the city of Usingen and the western Wetterau .
history
The first name bearer was Eberwin von Kransberg , who appeared in 1220/22 as one of the first burgraves of the Reichsburg Friedberg . In 1227/28 he was the Reichsschultheiß of Frankfurt am Main , although both offices were often held in parallel by the Wetterau nobles in this early period . Probably his son of the same name Eberwin (II., Called Cranech von Cranechesberg ) exercised the office of burgrave around 1249/50. In 1252 he handed over his estates in Eberstadt to the Arnsburg monastery , which he owned as a fief of his cousins Gottfried and Gerhard von Eppstein .
Eberwin (Erwin) III. Cranich von Cranechsberg , called the Younger, is also documented as the Reichsschultheiß of Frankfurt (1298) and Friedberger Burggraf (1302). He seems to have been the last male representative of the sex. In 1310 he sold his possessions to Philip IV of Falkenstein . The rule of Cransberg now became part of the County of Königstein , which came to the Waldbott von Bassenheim via the Königstein line of the Lords of Eppstein, the County of Stolberg-Gedern and the Archdiocese of Mainz in the middle of the 17th century , with whom it remained until 1806.
The Löw von Steinfurth , with whom they share the coat of arms, are considered close relatives of the von Kransberg family . A further indication of this is earlier ownership of the Löw von Steinfurth in Kransberg and the common lead name Erwin.
coat of arms
A silver crane with raised wings, its right foot raised, on a blue background.
Name bearer
- Eberwin von Kransberg , Friedberger Burggraf 1220 to around 1222, Reichsschultheiß of Frankfurt 1227/28
- Eberwin II von Kransberg, Friedberg burgrave around 1249/50
- Eberwin III. (the younger) von Kransberg, Reichsschultheiß of Frankfurt around 1298, Friedberger Burggraf around 1302
literature
- Jost Kloft: Territorial history of the district Usingen. Elwert, Marburg 1971 ( Writings of the Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies 32 ), pp. 126-134.
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility Lexicon , Volume 2, 1860; Reprint 1996, ISBN 3-89557-014-1 , p. 350.
- JB Junker: Contributions to the history of the rule Cransberg am Taunus and the Counts of Bassenheim. In: Annals of the Association for Nassau antiquity and historical research 7/1, 1863, pp. 163–260.
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Möller: The seals of the oldest Frankfurt mayors and other Reich officials. In: Quarterly sheets of the historical association for the Grand Duchy of Hesse. New episode 6. Darmstadt 1922, p. 122
- ^ Ludwig Baur: Document book of the Arnsburg monastery in the Wetterau. Publishing house of the historical association for the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Darmstadt 1851, No. 63.
- ^ Ludwig Baur: Document book of the Arnsburg monastery in the Wetterau. Publishing house of the historical association for the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Darmstadt 1851, No. 1229.
- ^ Reimer Stobbe: Die Löw von Steinfurth. The story of the »Herrenhaus von Löw« in Steinfurth on the occasion of its restoration in 1994. Stuttgart 1994, p. 12f.