Ovelacker
Ovelacker (also Overlacker or Ufelacker ) is the name of a Westphalian knight dynasty that belongs to the ancient nobility of the county of Mark .
history
The family provided the castle men in various castles in the county of Mark . Some members were also knights of the Teutonic Order . A branch of the family still lived in Riga in the 17th century .
The oldest testimony dates from 1266 , when Count Dietrich von Altena-Isenberg testifies that the widow and children of the knight Heinrich Uvelacker transferred their ancestral home , today the Niederschultenhof or Maihof in Langendreer , to the Elsey monastery . Later they lived on the knight's seat in Niedernhof near Herdecke , which is now covered by the Hengsteysee . They also owned the Temminghoven house in the 15th century .
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows a black lion jumping to the right in silver. On the helmet with black and silver covers and a black and silver bead, two silver feathers between two black bear paws .
Members
- Eberhard Ovelacker (also: Evert) († 1537) was a Landsknechtsführer
Individual evidence
- ^ Clemens Kreuzer: 1100 years Langendreer-Werne. Becoming and changing a suburb of the district. Bochum: Heinrich Pöppinghaus Verlag GmbH. 1987
- ^ Max von Spießen: Book of Arms of the Westphalian Nobility, Book 1, Görlitz 1901-1903
literature
- Max von Spießen : Book of Arms of the Westphalian Nobility, Görlitz 1901–1903
- Clemens Kreuzer: 1100 years of Langendreer-Werne. Becoming and changing a suburb of the district. Bochum: Heinrich Pöppinghaus Verlag GmbH. 1987