Lentersheim (noble family)

The coat of arms of the Lendersheim family in Siebmacher's coat of arms book

The coat of arms of the Lendersheim family in Scheibler's book of arms

Ulrich von Lentersheim on the Horneck altarpiece

The von Lentersheim family , also Lendersheim , was a Franconian-Swabian noble family.

history

Lentersheim is the namesake headquarters , today incorporated into Ehingen . The ancestral castle probably stood on the Schlößleinsbuck, the eastern foothills of the Hesselberg , where a tower hill has been preserved in a rampart from the early Franconian period. The earliest news about individual gender members from the 10/11. Century can be assigned to the area of ​​legends. In the 12th century, historically verifiable, Margaretha von Lentersheim appears as the wife of Burckhard von Seinsheim . Around 1200 another woman of the sex was named Juta; she owned an estate in Lentersheim. A document from 1282 shows the noble family as ministerials of the Counts of Oettingen . Conrad von Lentersheim is regarded as the progenitor († around 1260); After returning from the 5th crusade and campaigns in Italy, he is said to have found his Lentersheim Castle completely destroyed and to have built a new castle in Neuenmuhr . With evidence from the last two decades of the 13th century, the news about the lower aristocratic family is growing, although the genealogical connections often remain unclear. Among other things, the following are mentioned for the Middle Ages :

• Heinrich von Lentersheim, Eichstätter canon (named 1270 and 1275),
• the brothers Conrad and Friedrich von Lentersheim (from 1271 they appear together several times as documentary witnesses),
• the brothers Craft, Ulrich and Conrad von Lentersheim (14th century),
• Konrad von Lentersheim and Kunz von Lentersheim, his cousin, each own a quarter of Wald Castle in 1350
• Craft von Lentersheim († 1359), councilor and servant at the court of Emperor Charles IV ,
• Hedwig von Lentersheim, abbess of Zimmer Kloster from 1374 ,
• Craft from Lentersheim to Neuenmuhr, Trendel and Berolzheim († October 24, 1412; grave slab in the church “Zum grau Kloster” in Berlin ); he had a validity and salary register of family property made, which was useful for centuries; he also took in the wake of the Nuremberg burgrave Friedrich VI. participated in several campaigns;
• his son Ulrich von Lentersheim († 1481), Teutonic Knight , from 1448 to 1455 Landkomtur of the Deutschordensballei Franconia in Ellingen , and from 1455 to 1479 German Master at Horneck Castle ,
• Sigmund von Lentersheim († 1460; memorial plaque in the Swan Knights Chapel in St. Gumbertus in Ansbach ),
• Elisabeth von Lentersheim, abbess of the Zimmer monastery from 1424.
• around 1495: Fr. Lentersheim, governor (around 1553 ) and court marshal in Neustadt an der Aisch , brother of an Eichstätter canon
• 1518 Veit von Lentersheim was to get the Wald castle back into a fief
• In 1610 the Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach lent Wald Castle, today Falkenhausen Castle , to the Lords of Lentersheim, but redeemed it in 1617.

Due to their possessions (mainly Oettingsche and Ansbach fiefs), the family was organized in the knightly canton of Altmühl . There were family members not only in the service of territorial lords, especially the Hohenzollern castles and margraves, but also in religious foundations, in cathedral chapters and in the Teutonic Order. In 1799 the male line died out.

coat of arms

Blazon of the coat of arms according to Scheibler's book of arms: divided diagonally to the right, silver-red in three rows above, black below. A flat hat adorned the crest, on which a closed flight tinged like the shield . Red and silver helmet covers.

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  Elements in the municipal coat of arms of Ehingen

See also

• List of Frankish knight families

literature

• Johann Gottfried Biedermann : genealogy The Reich Frey immediate knighthood country to Franken praiseworthy local Altmuhl (...) . Bayreuth 1748. Plate XXVI. to XLVII.
• Otto Rohn: The Lords of Lentersheim in the Middle Ages. In: Alt-Gunzenhausen 37 (1977), pp. 31-47.
• Otto Rohn: Ulrich von Lentersheim. In: Gunzenhäuser Heimat-Bote IX (1976/77), No. 17f.

archive

• Lentersheim Archives, Rammersdorf Castle of the Barons von Eyb (now as a depot in the Nuremberg State Archives)

Web links

Commons : Lentersheim  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Family history on the Lentersheim website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The description follows O. Rohn, The Lords of Lentersheim in the Middle Ages
2. ^ Frederick V (Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach)
3. ^ Max Döllner : History of the development of the city of Neustadt an der Aisch until 1933. Ph. CW Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1950, pp. 87 and 150.
4. ↑ The Biedermann information on the Lentersheimers deviate considerably from the sources in the Lentersheim archive, as emphasized by O. Rohn, Die Herren ..., p. 47.