Landesbergen (noble family)

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The noble lords and later lords of Landesbergen were a Lower Saxon - Westphalian noble family that died out in 1881.

origin

The family v. Landesbergen (also Landesberg) comes from Westphalia and appears for the first time in the 12th century. Presumably, as claimed in older sources, the family already existed around 1096, but the first known member of the family was not a "Landfried v. Landesbergen ", but Everhard v. Landerbergen, b. 1140, the founder of one of the two main lines of the family. He performed with his brother and cousins, all noblemen, in Minden in 1160 and 1165. Everhard's son Rothard and his grandson Ulrich I or his descendants and his brother Heinrich II. Landesberg settled in the Minden area. Despite their origins from Westphalia, the family is not with the Landsberg families of the same name from the Rhinelandnot to be confused with the Barons Landsberg (noble family) from Erwitte, the Schenk von Landsberg from Brandenburg or the Landßberge from southern Germany or Alsace ; a connection to these is not assigned.

history

The family split into two main lines, the former died out at the end of the 14th century. The second main line, apparently with Geroldus I. v. Landesberg beginning in the early 13th century, died with the Reichstag member of the Guelph Party , Arthur von Landesberg in 1881. While the first branch was more oriented towards Westphalia and appeared as noblemen and members of the gentry until 1288, the second line, which was oriented towards Lower Saxony, shows that from 1230 it is part of the knighthood from now on. They appear as Burgmannen zu Stolzenau and are wealthy in 1302 and 1317 in Landesbergen . Presumably Geroldus I v. Landesbergen, b. after 1200, the marriage of a free one with a non-free one from a ministerial family, so that the descendants were freed and were no longer free noblemen, but exclusively only unfree ministerials of the Bishop of Minden. Gerold's grandson Gerold II then appears as a vassal in 1260, his brothers Thetwicus and Burchard as knights, as well as his son Dietrich II and his descendants from then on.

In this context we find the family in the wake of the Counts of Wunstorf , v. Roden and v. Hoya , v. Stoltenbroke, the noblemen v. Hodenberg and v. Brüninghausen. Nevertheless, we encounter long after the Entfreiung, probably to commemorate their birth, even family members with the title of baron, nobleman or baron, such as the Verden and Hildesheim Bishop Berthold II. Of Landsberg , who in 1476 the convent Rosengarten Verden donated , Died in 1502 and is still dubbed Freiherr in 1582, or the cathedral canon Barthold v. L. The family was with the families of the noble v. Loh, the Freiherr Scheele on Schelenburg, the v. Münchhausen , the v. Old as well as with the v. Veltheim , the v. Zerssen, v. House (noble family from Lower Saxony) and other knight families by marriage. To the v. Alten-Nordheim then also passed the legacy of Arthur v. Landesbergen over.

The family gave the place Landesbergen near Stolzenau an der Weser, not the other way around. Presumably, the Bishop of Minden Anno von Landsberg 1185 was decisive in this, that the former place Nord-Sullede was renamed in Landesbergen. The participation of some family members in the German colonization in the east, such as Konrads v. It is thanks to Landesbergen, a son of Gerold I, as a Teutonic Knight, that Landsberg near Königsberg (today Górowo Iławeckie ) was named after the family in the former East Prussia and still bears its coat of arms. The family was given the at least formally existing gift office of the Wunstorf Abbey through a fiefdom in the 14th century, they were there, but also wealthy in Stadthagen, Wormsthal, Rinteln, Bad Münder and Loccum, where they supported the Loccum monastery with many donations. The family's corpse stones can still be found there today. In addition, in the 16th century, the family provided the Count of Schaumburg Councilor Christoph v. Landesbergen, the Minden canon Dietrich v. Landesberg 1509 and then the lawyer Heinrich Arnold v. Landesbergen. Ottrabe v. Landesberg studied in 1605 at the University of Helmstedt . Furthermore, funeral sermons exist in written form, written in 1698 for Rinteln by Jobst Georg v. Landesberg personally, and another from 1621 about the deceased Cordraben v. Landesbergen. In the 18th century the family is represented by the court marshal Albrecht v. L. and his son Philipp Ernst, both secret councilors in Schaumburg. Philipp married a Baron von Weinbach, his daughter Therese in turn a Baron Knigge. Louis V died in the 19th century. Landesberg in the German War 1866.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the v. Landesbergen, still today the coat of arms of the village of Landesbergen on the Weser , shows a red fox. It is also attached to the former Landesbergschen Freihof, now the library, in Stadthagen . Variations of the coat of arms with a grid or bar below the fox exist, although these elements were once due to the marriage with the noble v. Loh were taken from their coat of arms.

literature

  • Kneschke, Ernst, Neues Allgemeine Deutsches Adels-Lexikon, 1864, p. 373
  • Fischer, Fritz, Ahnenreihenwerk Geschwister Fischer, Volume 7, 1969/1971, p. 7ff
  • Deking, Günther, et al., Landesbergen 1055-2005, Das Buch zum Fest! 2005, pp. 14-35
  • Otto, Rudolf, 93 generations, from the present to the ancient Greeks, 2006
  • Ledebur, Leopold Freiherr v., Dynastische Forschungen, 1853–55, issue 2
  • Ledebur, Leopold Freiherr v., Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy, Vol. II, 1854
  • Freitag, Friedrich, Rund um Landesbergen, historical pictures between Meerbach and Weser, 1971, p. 49f
  • Oyenhausen, Julius Graf v., The Lords of Landsberg, in: Journal of the historical association for Lower Saxony, 1881, p. 151f
  • Gotha, Genealogisches Taschenbuch d. Noble houses, German nobility, 1920, p. 495
  • Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility, Noble Houses, B, Volume 18, 1989
  • Lokers, Jan, résumés between Elbe and Weser, a biographical lexicon, vol. 1, p. 40
  • Mindener Geschichtsverein, Mindener Jahrbuch, Volume VIII, p. 101, 1936
  • Gauhe, Johann, Des Heiligen Römischen Reichs Genealogisch-Historisches Adels-Lexicon, 1791, p. 1151
  • Würdtwein, Stephan, Nova Subsidia Dipl., 1792, p. 166f

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gotha, Genealogisches Taschenbuch d. Noble houses, German nobility, 1920, p. 495
  2. ^ Gauhe, Johann, Des Heiligen Römischen Reichs Genealogisch-Historisches Adels-Lexicon, 1791, p. 1151
  3. ^ Oyenhausen, Julius Graf v., The Lords of Landsberg, in: Journal of the historical association for Lower Saxony, 1881, p. 151f
  4. ↑ Lokers, Jan, life courses between the Elbe and Weser, a biographical lexicon, vol. 1, p. 40
  5. ^ Fischer, Fritz, Ahnenreihenwerk Geschwister Fischer, Volume 7, 1969/1971, p. 7ff
  6. ↑ Kneschke, Ernst, Neues Allgemeine Deutsches Adels-Lexikon, 1864, p. 373
  7. ↑ Deking, Günther, et al., Landesbergen 1055-2005, Das Buch zum Fest! 2005, pp. 14-35
  8. ↑ Freitag, Friedrich, Rund um Landesbergen, historical images between Meerbach and Weser, 1971, p. 49f
  9. ↑ Dienwiebel, Herbert, String, Brigitte , History gazetteer of the counties Hoya and Diepholz, Vol. 4, letters LZ, p 362, 1993
  10. Jump up ↑ Fahne, Anton, History of the Westphälische GENERALS, with special consideration of their relocation to Prussia, Curland and Liefland, Cologne, 1858
  11. ↑ Siebmacher, Johann, large and general Wappenbuch: in a new, fully ordered and richly increased edition, heraldic and historical-genealogical explanations, vol. II, plate 12