Merkingen (noble family)
The Lords of Merkingen were a knightly ministerial family of the Counts of Oettingen with their headquarters at Merkingen Castle in Dorfmerkingen .
history
Alamannic row graves in the Dorfmerkinger area and the ending -ingen indicate an Alemannic village and a leader by the name of Marko. It is quite possible that the Lords of Merkingen were descendants of this clan leader.
The oldest known person from the local nobility is Heinrich von Merkingen , provost of the St. Georg monastery in Augsburg . He is mentioned in a document from 1223 together with Sigeloch von Tannenberg , when they unsuccessfully asked for parts of the tithe of the Ohmenheim church.
From 1300 to 1380 the Lords of Merkingen owned the village of Wittelshofen including Wittelshofen Castle .
Henry III. von Merkingen was abbot of the Neresheim monastery from 1308 to 1329 .
In 1330 an Eggehardt from Merkingen zu Munningen is mentioned. On the basis of this mention, it can be assumed that the Merkingers, after they left their ancestral castle, lived in Munningen im Ries .
Eckard von Merkingen married Agnes from the Ahelfinger family and had a daughter named Anna.
In 1403 Barbara von Merkingen and her son Hermann II von Hornburg founded the Anhausen monastery near Satteldorf.
From the 14th century to 1416 Dennenlohe was owned by the von Merkingen family (Knight Echart von Merkingen is named by name in 1346) and then fell to the married Hermann von Hornburg .
coat of arms
The coat of arms of those of Merkingen is a half eagle on the left and a (whole) lion on the right.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Württembergisches Urkundenbuch , Volume III., No. 29, Pages 489 - 490
- ↑ Dinkelsbühl: the former district , Theresa Neumayer, page 118
- ^ New historical treatises of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , Volume 1, page 493
- ↑ Family table of the Ahelfinger family
- ↑ Anhausen Abbey on LEO-BW
- ↑ Dinkelsbühl: the former district , Theresa Neumayer, page 101
- ^ Correspondence sheet of the general association of German history and antiquity associations , Volume 19, 1871, page 35