Lenthe (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Lenthe

Lenthe is the name of an old noble family from Lower Saxony . Lenthe , the family seat of the same name, is now a town in the Hanover region in Lower Saxony.

history

The family belonged to the landed gentry of the county of Wunstorf . Olricus de Lenten appears as the first member of the family in 1225 . In 1244 and 1247 another Ulrich and from 1245 to 1259 an Engelbert were named as a knight in documents. The uninterrupted line of the family begins with Engelbert .

The descendants of Ulrich II were feudal men of the bishops of Minden zu Lenthe and had half a goat as their coat of arms . Engelbert's descendants owned Counts Wunstorfsche, later also Minden feudal estates in Lenthe and wore a branch as a shield figure in their coat of arms. The two lines are expressly than 1280 blood relatives ( consanguinei called). The same first names were initially given in both lines and the nepotism that was effective for the succession was maintained for a long time .

As early as the 13th century, the first line with the Bocks coat of arms changed into a knightly noble line that died around 1530, and into one especially in Hanover , Stadthagen , Lübeck (from 1460) and Königsberg in Prussia (since the end of the 16th century ) divided urban line. In 1360 two feudal farms on Burgstrasse in Hanover were in the feudal possession of the von Lenthe family, while the von Alten were enfeoffed with seven other Burgmann farms there.

The second line with the branch coat of arms also formed several lines, most of them extinct in the 15th and 16th centuries, all of them aristocratic lines. Until about 1500 there were four saddle farms in Lenthe, of which only two still exist today, the so-called Obergut and the Untergut . Only the Eichhof zu Lenthe branch was able to get up to the present day, namely in its older branch line, which is still located on the Lenthe estate and also on the Schwarmstedt and Wrestedt manors in the Lüneburg Heath. The line on the Untergut expired in 1907 in the male line, it fell to the von Richthofen family , who still own it. The Luttringhausen manor also belonged to the Untergut line. Significant members of the public, court and officer positions arose from both lines.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a slanted, mutilated blue branch in silver with three branches above and two below. There are two branches on the helmet like in the shield. The helmet covers are blue-silver.

  • Coat of arms of the Lower Saxony municipality of Lenthe

  • Coat of arms of the von Lenthe family from Siebmacher's coat of arms book from 1605

Name bearer

literature

  • Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume VII, Volume 97 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1989, ISSN  0435-2408
  • Genealogical handbook of the nobility, noble houses volume XXXIII, volume 152 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2012, ISSN  0435-2408
  • Otto Hupp : Munich Calendar 1932 . Book u. Art Print AG, Munich / Regensburg 1932
  • Kurd von Lenthe (ed.), Hans Mahrenholtz , Hans-Erich Wilhelm (author), Gebhard von Lenthe , Hans Jürgen Frhr. von Richthofen (co-author): The manors of the von Lenthe family in the principalities of Calenberg-Göttingen-Grubenhagen and Lüneburg, the diocese of Hildesheim and the county of Hoya. Addition from Hans-Erich Wilhelm: Family table of the von Lenthe family. Lenthe / Gehrden 2000

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Westphalian Document Book VI, document of the Diocese of Minden, No. 151
  2. ^ Helmut Plath : Hanover in the 11th century. In: History of the City of Hanover , Vol. 1, From the beginnings to the beginning of the 19th century , ed. by Klaus Mlynek and Waldemar R. Röhrbein , Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei GmbH & Co., 1992, ISBN 3-87706-351-9 , pp. 17ff .; here: p. 19