Manninga

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Chief in courtly costume, from the house book of Unico Manninga begun in 1561

The Manninga were an important East Frisian chief family . In the course of the 15th and 16th centuries, the Manninga developed into the most respected aristocratic families in the country following the later relatives of the East Frisian count family Cirksena . Through their clever marriage policy, they also had connections to the nobility in the neighboring regions, that is, the Groninger Land, the Emsland and the Bentheimer Grafschaft.

Tomb of Unico Manninga in the Ludgeri Church in the north

history

The origins of the family are unclear. Presumably the family emerged from the association of the Beninga of the Emsigerland and had its seat on the Manningaburg in Pewsum as well as a branch in Westeel . It had to relocate it to Lütetsburg Castle in 1374 after major land losses in the area of ​​the later Leybucht due to the First Dionysius Flood . There Dido Manninga († 1494) founded a branch line, the last male member of which, Unico Manninga , died in 1588. After his death, his only daughter Hyma inherited the castle. Through her marriage to the imperial baron Wilhelm zu Inn- und Knyphausen, Lütetsburg came into the possession of the Knyphausen family (today Counts of Innhausen and Knyphausen ), who are still the owners of Lütetsburg Castle with its park and forest.

The Pewsumer line of the family expanded their position under Dido's brother Poppo Manninga. He acquired control of the neighboring village of Woquard . Later the Cirksena also gave the Pewsum branch the glory of Jennelt . The heavily indebted Hoyko Manninga , who died in 1568 as the last male representative of the Pewsumer line, had to sell all these possessions .

A third line of Manninga goes back to the Lütetsburg branch. A brother of Unico Manninga, Hayo (1518 / 1519–1599) was its founder. By marriage he came into the possession of the chief's castle tho Dijcke , later Dijksterhuis , in the Groningen Ommelanden . He took part in the Dutch uprising against Philip II . When the Spaniards recaptured the northeastern Netherlands in 1580, he went to East Frisia, where he probably moved into the nave in the Westermarsch . After the conquest by Moritz of Orange , Groningen and the surrounding areas became part of the Republic of the United Netherlands in 1594 . In the same year Hayo returned to his old possessions in the Ommelanden, where the family died out at the end of the 17th century.

coat of arms

Shield: a red-tongued and armored, silver crowned lion in a green and black split shield. Helmet sign: a golden pelican with young in the nest and seven (four to the right and three to the left), pointed, flying flags on golden poles, divided by green and black. Helmet cover: black and silver.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hidde Feenstra: MANNINGA <Fam.> . In: Martin Tielke (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland , Ostfries. Scenic Verl.- u. Vertriebsges. Aurich, Vol. 1 ISBN 3-925365-75-3 (1993), Vol. 2 ISBN 3-932206-00-2 (1997), Vol. 3 ISBN 3-932206-22-3 (2001). Volume III. Aurich 2001, pp. 278-280
  2. ↑ Gerhard Canzler: The Knyphausen family for 400 years at Lütetsburg Castle . In: Ostfriesischer Kurier of June 4, 1988. Quoted here from: schlosspark-luetetsburg.de: Press review ( memento from March 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 5, 2016.
  3. ↑ see description under: Innhausen and Knyphausen # Freiherrliches und Gräfliches Wappen