Müelte (noble family)
The noble family von Müelte was an old and powerful Burgmann and Bamberg family of vassals in the Merseburg Abbey , which became extinct in the 15th century and named itself after the place of the same name, Müelte in the Freyburg district .
history
For the first time in 1144 Anno, Bucco, Isenhart, Adelbrecht and Adalbrecht de Muchil , on August 8th, 1162 Otto de Mochile / Muchil , 1190 Albrecht de Muchele and 1194 Albertus de Můchele were mentioned in a document. In a document from the year 1197 of the widowed Margravine Hedwig, Anno de Muchele appears among the witnesses . In the middle of the 13th century a Heinrich von Muchele was listed as a castle man at the Rudelsburg . A document from 1239 proves that the Bishop of Bamberg referred to the Lords of Muechen as his servants. Since the 13th and 14th centuries, members of the von Müuellen family have been clergy at the cathedral monasteries in Merseburg and Naumburg. It is not clear whether they were more than coats of arms related to the Knuth . At least the v. Much earlier than the Knutonen mentioned.
At times representatives of the clan also call themselves lords of divorces ( castle divorces and church divorces ). The family had their estates and seats at the Müelte Castle, the Wasserburg in St. Ulrich, and in Albersrode, Burkersrode, Baumersrode, Schnellrode, Steigra, Ochlitz, Langeneichstedt, Zöbigker.
Whether the mentioned in the 18th century Hans Adam Victor von Müuellen, Prussian major and Ernst Heinrich von Müuellen, Prussian ensign a. D. Belonging to this family is not guaranteed.
coat of arms
The seals of Johann (1371) and Thieme von Scheidingen zu Müuellen (1368/79) probably show the family coat of arms: divided three times by black and white. The older seal of Thimo von Müuellen, otherwise known as von Scheidingen (1367/68): split, with bars at the front, three-fold at the back.
They are not to be confused with the original noble family of the same name from Müelte near Wettin , which was wealthy in the ore monastery of Magdeburg in the Saale district (Schwertz and Soolgüter in Halle (Saale) ), but also in the Saxon spa district (Rittergüter zu Graefenhainichen and Roitzsch). Their coat of arms contains two golden tournament lances placed in the red shield in the St. Andrew's cross with pointed, hanging white flags or just two crossed flags. On the helmet the helmet the shield figure. The blankets are red and white. A large, magnificent wooden death shield for Joh. Ernst von Müuellen (1657–1692) as well as a sandstone grave slab for Margaretha geb. von Müelte in the church of Graefenhainichen show the family's coat of arms.
literature
- GA v. Mülverstedt: The v. Müelte and v. Müelte-Scheidingen: at the same time a genealogical study , published in Berlin by Julius Sittenfeld, in: Der Deutsche Herold, 1896, No. 9, pp. 119–125 and 141–148
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Böttcher : Historical grave monuments and their inscriptions in the Dübener Heide . Ed .: AFD. No. 165 , August 2005, p. 80-81 .