Mengersen (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Mengersen family

Mengersen (formerly also Mengersheim ) is the name of one of the oldest knight families in the Principality of Paderborn . The family's headquarters are Rheder near Brakel . The burial place is in the parish church of St. Katharina (Rheder) .

history

origin

Rheder Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

The original (no longer existing) Mengersen headquarters near Gehrden was mentioned in a document as early as 1185. According to Kneschke , Eberhard von Mengersen , who appeared in the 12th century, was part of the family. He is named as a witness in a comparison between Heinrich the Lion and Paderborn Abbey . On January 12, 1273, the family appears for the first time in a document with Hermann von Mengersen , with whom the family line begins. In the 13th century, the Mengersen, like the Ibsen, were lords of Borgholz Castle from Jews . In addition to the Rabe von Pappenheim , Rabe von Canstein and others, the Mengersen were also castle men at Wartberch Castle in Warburg , which belonged to the Paderborn Monastery. Hermann von Mengersen (1316–1346), Abbot of Marienmünster , had Vörden fortified, built Vörden Castle , and also fortified Bredenborn with the castle completed in 1332. Around 1400 they received Rheder Castle as a Paderborn fief.

Spread

In the Principality of Paderborn, the Mengersen rose to become one of the first families late and carried the honorary title of "Hereditary Gate Master". Unlike those from Asseburg , von Brenken , von Oeynhausen , von Spiegel and von Westphalen , they did not belong to the first row of the Paderborn knighthood in the 17th century . However, they obtained various benefices of the spiritual areas of northwest Germany, including the positions as Drost of the Samtamt Oldenburg and Schwalenberg as well as the Office of Lügde .

With Burchard Bruno von Mengersen , who played a more important political role as a Privy Councilor in the Prince Diocese of Münster , the situation changed. In 1700 he married Maria Therese von Hoerde zu Eringerfeld . On the other hand, Bruno's grandson Clemens August von Mengersen achieved a financial rise through his marriage to Maria Anna Felicitas von Westphalen. The von Westphalen family was one of the most influential and wealthiest in the bishopric . As a result, the Mengersen were able to expand their headquarters in Rheder in Upper Forest to an artistically and architecturally significant place. With Josef Bruno von Mengersen, the Rheder line died out in the male line in 1873 and Rheder Castle came by inheritance to the Barons Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim , who still own it today.

In 1584 the Landdrost Hermann von Mengersen was enfeoffed with the moated castle Hülsede , which has remained in the possession of his descendants to this day. Furthermore, the barons of Mengersen still manage the Helpensen estate near Hameln to this day .

In the 19th century there were other counts in the Merseburg administrative district of the Kingdom of Prussia and in the Kingdom of Hanover . Other lines have moved to Livonia with the Teutonic Order .

Status surveys

From the house of Rheder, Wilhelm Bruno Freiherr von Mengersen, royal Prussian chamberlain and landdrost , was elevated to the Prussian count status in Berlin on January 17, 1816 .

On February 3, 1912 in Vienna , Hermann Armin Freiherr von Mengersen auf Reelkirchen, kuk Rittmeister in the royal Hungarian bodyguard, received Hungarian recognition of the baronate and, on May 30, 1913, a princely Lippe confirmation of the use of the title of baron for the descent of his father August Freiherr von Mengersen († 1907), retired royal Hungarian colonel .

Victor Freiherr von Mengersen (born November 5, 1956 - August 18, 2012 in Bad Vilbel ) from the House of Helpensen received on January 25, 1951 a non-objection under nobility law regarding the use of the baron title by resolution of the committee for nobility law issues of the German aristocratic associations .

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows an open red flight in gold, the wings of which are held together by a gold ring. The shield image on the helmet with red and gold covers .

Family tribe list

selection 

Christian von Mengersen
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+--Christian Falcko von Mengersen
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   +--Burchard Bruno von Mengersen zu Rheder (1670–1730) ∞ Maria Therese von Hörde zu Eringerfeld
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      +--Franz Joseph Maria von Mengersen zu Rheder (1705–1780) ∞ Maria Sophie Antoinette von Spiegel
      |  |
      |  +--Clemens August Bruno von Mengersen  zu Rheder (1742–1800) ∞ Maria Anna Felicitas von Westphalen zu Fürstenberg
      |     |
      |     +--Friedrich Wilhelm Bruno von Mengersen zu Rheder (1777–1836) ∞ Therese von Bender und Loitha (1785–1844)
      |        |
      |        +--Joseph Bruno von Mengersen (1804–1873)
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      +--Ferdinand Moritz Falco Franz von Mengersen (1709–1783)
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      +--Friedrich Christian von Mengersen
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      +--Clemens August von Mengersen (1719–1801)
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      +--Johann Wilhelm von Mengersen
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      +--Moritz Wilhelm von Mengersen

Significant namesake

See also

literature

  • Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1997, ISSN  0435-2408
  • Detlev Hellfaier: nobility, crypt and monument preservation. Investigations to secure the hereditary burial in the church in Schwalenberg in the years 1922–1925 and to the history of the von Mengersen family. In: Hans-Otto Pollmann, Imke Tappe-Pollmann (Hrsg.): Life with history. Festschrift for Friedrich Hohenschwert . (= Series of publications of the Lipp. Landesmuseum. Volume 5). Detmold 1996, pp. 135-154.
  • Ida Countess von Holnstein, b. von Mengersen: The story of the von Mengersen family. Paderborn 1903. (digitized version)
  • Friedrich Keinemann: The Paderborn Monastery at the end of the 18th century . 1996, ISBN 3-8196-0405-7 (3 volumes). ; Volume II, p. 305ff (Die Freiherren von Mengersen).
  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 5, Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1864, p. 24. (digitized version)
  • AH Mengersen: Draft of a family tree of the von Mengersen family. Jena 1899.
  • J. Meyer: History of the Mengersen family. (= Contributions to German family history. 15). Leipzig 1937.
  • Ancestral list Goldacker in RzD, there by Mengersen, beginning of Volume 7, p. 54 and ff
  • Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Volume 3, Gebrüder Reichenbach, Leipzig 1837, pp. 392–393. (Digitized version)
  • Michael Mott : Wilhelm von Mengersen's oven plate found. In: beech leaves. Fulda newspaper. 64th year, No. 25, October 30, 1991, pp. 97, 98.

swell

  • Mengersen, von, Reelkirchen (deposit), family and estate archive (7 documents, loan letters, including 51 boxes), StA DT inventory L 4 N and L 114 von Mengersen

Web links

Commons : Mengersen family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 6, Page 233
  2. ↑ Westfälisches Urkundenbuch IV, No. 1299
  3. ^ New Prussian Adelslexikon Volume 3, page 393
  4. ↑ after Keinemann 1996 vol. 2: 387
  5. ↑ http://heinbruins.nl/Bismarck.html Descendants of Otto von Bismarck and Johanna von Puttkamer as of 2016