Pfäffinger (noble family)

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Coat of arms of their Pfäffinger in Scheibler's book of arms
Coat of arms of the Pfäffinger family (around 1510)

Pfäffinger is the name of a noble and knightly Bavarian family whose beginnings go back to the Holy Roman Empire . Further spelling of namesake of this gender are Pfaffinger , Pfeffinger , Pfafinger or Phfaffinger .

history

After the Lords of Landsberg died out , the Pfäffingers held the office of Hereditary Marshal of Lower Bavaria from 1375 to 1519 . The office was probably inherited from the Landsberg family. Since then, in addition to their alleged family coat of arms (a silver lion with a golden inful on red), the family has also had the Landsberg coat of arms (half a black male with red tongues on gold).

Various members of the family can be found in the Raitenhaslach Book of the Dead , where the early Pfäffingers had their hereditary burial place. a. N. de Pfaffing Hereditary Marshal in Weyern (1213), Knight Bernhard Pfaffinger (1216), Johannes, Andres, uxor Agnes, Wilhemus, Christian & Georgius, Heinrich, Stephan, Johannes Senior, Andres, Johannes omnes de Pfaffing & Steg. The Pfäffingers achieved a high reputation as early as the time of Friedrich Barbarossa .

According to Koch-Sternfeld , these Pfaffingers were wealthy in Lower Bavaria at the time. A document from 1307 names the brothers Hans , Nikolas, Andreas and Christian von Pfaffing, an Ulrich von Pfaffing 1307 should be a cousin. These could be assigned to Pfaffing near Tittmoning , an indicator is your possession Guntzenberg (also Gunzenberg ) near Wiesmühl an der Alz and witnesses to the Lords of Törring are also mentioned. The "noble and strict" knight Andreas Pfaffinger called himself "zu Salmanskirchen" (near Ampfing ) around 1342 after he tore down the old dilapidated church, rebuilt it and then in honor of St. Johannes Baptist and Johannes the Elder. Evangelist was ordained.

A well-known member of the family was Gentiflor Pfäffinger , Herr auf Salmanskirchen and, from 1478, Hofmeister to Duke Ludwig the Rich of Bavaria-Landshut. His first marriage to Magdalena Huberin von Wildenheim came from among others Degenhart Pfäffinger , who had inherited the property from his father in 1503 and the last the hereditary marshal's office, from his mother the seat of Wildenheim. Degenhart, the most important representative of his family, was knighted by the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem in 1493 . He was also bearer of the Cypriot Order of the Sword and the Aragon Order of Pitchers . 1507 Elector gave him Frederick the Wise , the castle Waldsachsen bei Coburg half as claim fief. He died in 1519 in Frankfurt during the preparation of the meeting of the electors for the election of Charles V as German king, presumably of the plague.

The Pfäffinger family acquired numerous castles and estates, including the Salmanskirchen castles near Mühldorf am Inn , Steeg and Zangberg .

The Pfäffinger as the Lower Bavarian Hereditary Marshal

Outstanding members of the family

The marshal's office inherited in the family

The hereditary honorary position of a marshal in Lower Bavaria is undisputed, but only documented in a few sources. So far there is not the slightest evidence for the claim of the Pfäffingers that they had this office transferred "to the death of the siblings Freindt, the Landsberg," including the coat of arms. Wiguleus Hund even expressly emphasizes that he does not even know the Landsbergers.

On the other hand, it cannot be denied that members of the Pfäffinger family held the title of "Hereditary Marshal" in Lower Bavaria and that the respective dukes of Bavaria (Landshut) did not object to this. It is documented that Johannes II., Johannes III., Gentiflor and Degenhart Pfäffinger had designated themselves unchallenged as hereditary marshals in (Lower) Bavaria. However, other families seem to have claimed this office at the same time and their members have called themselves that, albeit with less success.

How the family got to the hereditary marshal's office is again uncertain. It is said that the Pfäffinger Emperor Ludwig the Bavarians vigorously supported Bavaria in his fight against the Habsburg counter-emperor Friedrich the Beautiful and that in the 1322 battle of Mühldorf even three family members remained on the battlefield; namely Wilhelm I., Hartpert I. and his son Albert III. As a result, the son of Wilhelm I Johannes II Pfäffinger would have called himself Hereditary Marshal of Lower Bavaria. However, this contradicts the otherwise rumored year 1375 for the elevation of grace.

The last holder of the office was Degenhart Pfäffinger , who inherited it from his father Gentiflor Pfäffinger in 1503 . Although with the end of the Landshut War of Succession from July 30, 1505, territory and rule fell to the Bayern-Munich line of the House of Wittelsbach and thus the House of Bavaria-Landshut and thus also the Duchy of Lower Bavaria ended, Degenhart Pfäffinger remained the undisputed Hereditary Marshal of until his death in 1519 Lower Bavaria. In November 1508 the Duke of Bavaria, namely the guardian Duke Wolfgang IV of Bavaria, decided expressly in a dispute: namely that Mr. Jörg von Gumpenberg Hereditary Marshal in Upper Bavaria (Bavaria-Munich) and Mr. Degenhart Pfäffinger Hereditary Marshal in Lower Bavaria ( Bayern-Landshut) are and should remain. This dichotomy persisted even after Degenhart's death. In December 1519, Duke Wolfgang IV inherited Mr Alban von Closen of the honorary post that had fallen back on his request.

Hans III. As heir to Degenhart, von Herzheim appropriated all of Degenhart's goods, dignities, titles and coats of arms in 1519, but he did not acquire the title of Hereditary Marshal. This although his financial resources secured him a good position in Bavaria.

Armaments expenditure for military service

In the 15th century, the Pfäffingers, like other noble families , provided horses for military service to the Duke, Heinrich XVI., The rich man of Bavaria-Landshut . This is impressive evidence of the wealth and importance of the family. This "placement of horses" meant the constant availability of war-ready and ready-to-go, fully equipped and equipped horses for war deployment at any time. Of course, the horses also included the care staff, i.e. at least one groom for every two horses. In addition, the horse's equipment (partial armor, harness, bridle, saddle, blankets, feed bags, water sack, replacement iron, etc.) had to be kept and maintained. If there was a war, the horses were taken out of the owner's business and brought along with their belongings by the serfs to the ruler's piles and accompanied through the campaign.

The Pfäffinger zu Salmanskirchen (Christian line) provided 4 horses, the Pfäffinger zum Steeg (Wilhelmine line) 3. A similar obligation can be assumed from the Pfäffinger zu Drechselsried (Hartpertin line), but no specific number is known.

Pfäffinger possessions

Salmanskirchen Castle, engraving by Michael Wening from 1723.
  • open Hofmark and Steeg Castle near Buchbach
  • open Hofmark and Salmanskirchen Castle (burned down, today only the Salmanskirchen church is left)
  • open Hofmark Drechselsried
  • Hofmark zu Landsberg
  • Deutenkofen Castle
  • Seldenau Castle
  • Hallenberg Castle
  • Wildenheim Castle
  • Zangberg Castle (1/2)
  • Waldsachsen Castle near Coburg (1/2, entitlement loan)
  • Dandlhof zu Hörmetsham near Freutsmoos, Palling parish, until 1419
  • a farm in Ramsdorf (near Kay)
  • two goods to book (probably Oberbuch)
  • Independent Hube to Pfaffing near Kirchheim, Tittmoning municipality, until 1375
  • an estate at Walthaiming (Obing municipality)
  • individual farms in Veicht (Neumarkt an der Rott), Pulspach (judicial district Biburg, Amt Velden), Brand, Gunzenberg near Tittmoning, near Laufen, in Rotenhub (place not yet identified), in Öd (municipality of Fridolfing), in Klebham (municipality of Fridolfing ), Meggenthal,

coat of arms

As Lower Bavarian hereditary marshals, in addition to the alleged family coat of arms (a silver lion with a golden inful on red), they also carried the Landsberg coat of arms (half a red-tongued black male or wolf in gold). The helmet decorating the family was a besteckte with peacock feathers on a drum pad for males Crest and infulierten lion to lion shield.

Gentiflor Pfäffinger († 1503), Hereditary Marshal of Lower Bavaria, with coat of arms, stained glass window, Salmanskirchen church .

It is not certain that the lion coat of arms is the family coat of arms. Apart from Degenhart, only Berchtold still lists it as part of his quartered shield, as evidenced by his no longer existing tomb in the parish church of Linz, Upper Austria. Berchtold, however, already seals with this coat of arms around 1460.

Degenhart Pfäffinger achieved an improvement in the coat of arms of Emperor Maximilian I and from then on had a four-piece coat of arms with the male coat of arms in the 1st and 4th and the gilded lion in the 2nd and 3rd field, with the corresponding helmets above the 1st and 2nd fields. Field. A second improvement in the coat of arms after the acquisition of Zangberg Castle again showed the male coat of arms in the 1st and 4th fields, but for Zangberg now in fields 2 and 3 a red tong on silver and the lion's coat of arms as a heart shield.

After Degenhart's death, Hans III. von Herzheim incorporated the male coat of arms into his own, apparently for the Salmanskirchen property he inherited. This again seems strange because this coat of arms is associated with the Bavarian marshal dignity, so for Salmanskirchen the lion's coat of arms should rather stand. The explanation for this is likely to lie in the time and its customs, in very pragmatic considerations of the reputation associated with the mark, in the documentation of the (supposed) claim to the marshal's office that is implicitly made, or simply in a personal preference.

  • so-called family coat of arms of the Pfäffinger family

  • Male coat of arms of the Pfäffinger (allegedly the ancestral coat of arms of the † Landsberger, the immediate predecessor in the hereditary marshal dignity)

  • Coat of arms of Degenhart Pfäffinger from 1511

Filiation

Family tree of the Pfäffingers, presumably from Wilhelm Pätzold, called " Meister von Mühldorf ", around 1510.

According to Wiguleus Hund , the Pfäffinger family tree with additions is as follows:

The series begins with Mengenwart Pfäffinger. He had the following offspring:

  • A1. Sigboto Pfäffinger
    • B1. Ashwin
    • B2. Pabo Pfäffinger
    • B3. Dietrich Pfäffinger
    • B4. Pilgrim
    • B5. Wernher I. Pfäffinger ⚭ Anna Kuchlar (1203 near Steeg)
      • C1. Altmann Pfäffinger
      • C2. Brigitta Pfäffinger
      • C3. Othmar I. Pfäffinger ⚭ Elisabeth von Aheim (1227 near Salmannskirchen)
        • D1. Othmar II. Pfäffinger ⚭ Anna von Clammenstein
          • E1. Heinrich I. Pfäffinger ⚭ Barbara Grans von Uttendorf
            • F1. Albert I. Pfäffinger
            • F2. to F5. four other sons who died young
        • D2. Ursula I. Pfäffinger
        • D3. Erasmus Pfäffinger
          • E1. Johannes I. Pfäffinger ⚭ Barbara Graf
            • F1. Friedrich Pfäffinger
            • F2. Sigismund Pfäffinger
            • F3. Albert II. Pfäffinger ⚭ N. of Paulsdorf
              • G1. Wernher II. Pfäffinger
                • H1. Stephan Pfäffinger
                  • I1. Christian I. Pfäffinger zu Salmanskirchen
                    • J1. Andreas II. Pfäffinger zu Salmanskirchen ⚭ 1. Agnes NN ⚭ 2. Margaretha Harskircher
                      • K1. (1) Ursula II. Pfäffinger zu Salmanskirchen ⚭ Wilhelm Rohrbeck
                      • K2. (2) Wilhelm II. Pfäffinger zu Salmanskirchen
                        • L1. Caspar I. Pfäffinger zu Salmanskirchen (⚭ 1. Catherina Pellkofer von Hohenbuchbach , † 1436) ⚭ 2. Elisabeth von Trennbeck (also Trennbach); all children come from the 2nd marriage
                          • M1. Veronica Pfäffinger zu Salmanskirchen (+ June 18, 1477 in Passau, Bavaria) ⚭ Georg I von Herzheim (* before 1444, + April 4, 1480)
                            • (- Hans III. Von Herzheim (* December 27, 1464, † 1532 in Salmanskirchen), tenant of the imperial salt shelf in Bad Aussee, ⚭ April 1, 1498 Ehrentraud von Wagingen (+ October 25, 1511), ⚭ 2. 2 July 1512 Walburga von und zu Trauttmansdorff (+ September 25, 1520 in Salmanskirchen), ⚭ 3. 1522 Ursula Schneeweiß)
                            • (- Sigmund II of Herzheim (* around 1469, † 1474))
                          • M2. Sybille (called Biblis ) Pfäffinger zu Salmanskirchen († 1469 in Salzburg), convent woman on the Nonnberg in Salzburg
                          • M3. Tobias Pfäffinger zu Salmanskirchen († 1444)
                          • M4. Caspar II. Pfäffinger zu Salmanskirchen († 1454)
                          • M5. Ursula III. Pfäffinger zu Salmanskirchen, convent wife of Riedenburg in Passau
                          • M6. Gentiflor Pfäffinger zu Salmanskirchen († 1503), court master of Duke Ludwigs of Duke Ludwig of Bavaria-Landshut ⚭ Magdalena Huberin von Wildenheim († 1482)
                            • N1. Bernhard IV. Pfäffinger zu Salmanskirchen zu Salmanskirchen (* before 1471, † 1482)
                            • N2. Degenhart Pfäffinger zu Salmanskirchen (1471–1519), knight, lord of Salmanskirchen and Zangberg, hereditary marshal of Lower Bavaria, inner treasurer and councilor in Electoral Saxony
                            • N3. Regina Pfäffinger zu Salmanskirchen (* before 1463, † 1516), from 1503 to 1514 abbess of the Benedictine women's monastery in Nonnberg in Salzburg
                            • N4. Maria Pfäffinger zu Salmanskirchen (* 1463, † 1528), as Ursula from 1494 to 1528 abbess of the Frauenchiemsee monastery
                            • N5. Anna Pfäffinger zu Salmanskirchen († 1482)
                            • (N6.Johannes V. Pfäffinger zu Salmanskirchen; its existence is not certain and must be doubted)
                        • L2. Georg Pfäffinger
                        • L3. Balthasar Pfäffinger
                      • K3. (2) Peter I. Pfäffinger († 1367); Provost of the Augustinian Canons of Berchtesgaden 1357–1362
                      • K4. (2) Barbara Pfäffinger zu Salmanskirchen ⚭ Wolfard von Ueberackern
                        • (- Matthäus Ueberackern)
                        • (- Virgil Ueberackern)
                      • K5. (2) Margarete Pfäffinger zu Salmanskirchen ⚭ Alrand Harskircher
                  • I2. Wilhelm I. Pfäffinger zum Steeg († 1322, Ampfing) ⚭ Anna Schwertferser
                    • J1. Johannes II. Pfäffinger zum Steeg ⚭ Gertrude von Löberskirchen
                      • K1. John III Pfäffinger zum Steeg ⚭ Lucia Wildbrecht
                        • L1. Walburga Pfäffinger to Steeg
                        • L2. Johannes V. Pfäffinger to Steeg
                  • I3. Hartpert I. Pfäffinger zu Drechselsried († 1322, Ampfing)
                    • J1. Albert III Pfäffinger zu Drechselsried († 1322, Ampfing)
                    • J2 Hartpert II. Pfäffinger zu Drechselsried
                    • J3. Friedrich I. Pfäffinger zu Drechselsried ⚭ N. von Degenberg
                      • K1. Peter Pfäffinger zu Drechselsried ⚭ Margerita von Kalmberg vorm Wald
                        • L1. Berchtold I. Pfäffinger zu Drechselsried ⚭ Agnes Göttinger
                          • M1. Berchtold II. Pfäffinger zu Drechselsried (* before 1443, † after 1480 in Linz an der Donau, Upper Austria)
                          • M2. Otto Pfäffinger in Drechselsried
                          • M3. Johannes IV. Pfäffinger to Drechselsried
                          • M4. a daughter
                          • M5. Margarete Pfäffinger zu Drechselsried ⚭ Egidius Puechpeckh von Puchbach
                          • M6. two daughters
                        • L2. Barbara Pfäffinger zu Drechselsried ⚭ Albrecht von Wildenforst to the cleaning
                • H2. Wernher III. Pfaffinger
                • H3. Sigismund Pfäffinger
                • H4. Catharina Pfäffinger ⚭ Johannes Stahel from Staheleck
                • H5. Barbara Pfäffinger ⚭ Adam von Frauenhofen
                • H6. Agnes Pfäffinger ⚭ Heinrich von Otting
                • H7. Irmgard Pfäffinger

literature

  • Family chronicle of the Pfaffinger from 1515 , Bavarian Main State Archive: From 1200 years
  • Alois J. Weichselgartner : Salmanskirchen , p. 15 Staehleder, Mühldorf, p. 183
  • Johann Siebmacher : Wappenbuch , see Volume 22: The coats of arms of the Bavarian nobility , p. 116
  • Knight Jos. Ernst von Koch-Sternfeld: History of the Principality of Berchtesgaden and its Salt Mines - First Book, Part Two, p. 18
  • Upper Bavarian Archive for Patriotic History , Volume 10, Page 187 ff
  • Johann Nepomuk Gottfried von Krenner : Instructions to the closer knowledge of the Bavarian state parliaments of the Middle Ages , Munich, 1804, p. 73 f
  • Wiguleus Hund : Bayrisch Stammenbuch , Ingolstadt from 1585.
  • Carl F. Pfaffinger: Die Pfa / effinger , unpublished. Manuscript and material collection, Vienna 1994.
  • Beatrix Ettelt-Schönewald: Chancellery, council and government of Duke Ludwig the Rich of Bavaria-Landshut (1450-1479) , Part 1, CH Beck, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-406-10681-1 .
  • Upper Bavarian Archive for Patriotic History, Volume 4, p. 306
  • Heinz Lieberich: Landherren and Country People , 1964, p. 140 on the Pfaffinger family
  • Franz von Krenner : Baierische Landtag actions in the years 1429 to 1513. , Volume 13, from p. 76
  • Maximilian Prokop von Freyberg: History of the Bavarian Estates and Their Negotiations , Volume 1
  • G. Franz: Sources and discussions on Bavarian and German history , Volume 6, 1861

Web links

Commons : Pfäffinger  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monumenta Boica III, Journal for Bavarian State History, Volume 73, fol. 191, 196, 216, 226, from p. 699
  2. ↑ Heiner Hofmann, The Traditions, Deeds and Urbare des Stift Gars (Sources and Discussions on Bavarian History), 1983, Deeds from 1340, NF 31, No. 53, No. 58
  3. ↑ Church leader Ampfing (pdf) ( Memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. Jump up ↑ Letter from the Lower Bavarian Hereditary Marschallenamt from 1508. in: Johann Nepomuk Gottfried von Krenner : Instructions for a more detailed understanding of the Bavarian state parliaments of the Middle Ages , Num. XXII, p. 188 ff.
  5. ↑ Excerpt from the fiefdom of the Baiern-Landshut hereditary land marshal office granted to those of Closen zu Haydenburg, 1519. in: Johann Nepomuk Gottfried von Krenner: Instructions for the closer knowledge of the Baierischen Landtag of the Middle Ages , Num. XXIII, p. 192 f.
  6. ↑ HStAA Munich, KÄA 3905, fol. 78
  7. ↑ Christoph von Stinglhaim: 'The extinct and still blooming old-Adelichen Bavarian families', 1798, p. 150
  8. ↑ HAB Laufen, pp. 689, 694, 695, 698, 700, 709, 718, 722
  9. ↑ a b c d e GU Tittmoning 69
  10. ↑ RUB No. 438, 439, 528
  11. ^ Krausen: Germania Sacra , pp. 214, 264
  12. ↑ Wiguleus Hund : Bavarian Family Book III. Part, p. 530 ff. Based on the Pfäffinger family record