Poppinga

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Poppinga is the name of an old housekeeping family from Brokmerland ( East Frisia ).

etymology

The name is derived from the first name Poppe / Poppo , a so-called Lallname, which can be derived from Robert , but also from Folkmar . The ending -inga results in a patronymic icon ( patronymic ) typical in East Frisian with the meaning: Children of Poppe. This name formation can be found in many East Frisian family names (Bene - Beninga , Idze - Idzinga , Ocke - Ockinga).

In general, surnames in East Frisia were only used in the 18th and 19th centuries. Introduced in the century; beforehand, the children received the genitive of the father's first name as their surname (e.g. father: Emmo Dieken, eldest son: Dieke Emmen). The Poppinga stand out here in that this family name has been traceable since the 13th century.

history

The Poppinga are among the oldest male families in East Frisia that are still thriving today . The oldest mention can be found in the Norder contract between the city of Bremen and the Norder Landesgemeinde from 1255, where an Adda Poppenga is mentioned. Nothing is said about his origin and position; Schomerus suspects him to be the church bailiff of Marienhafe . On the one hand, an Abbo Poppinga still held this post four hundred years later, on the other hand, since 1250, Marienhafe no longer belonged to the Provoste Hinte (Diocese of Münster), but to the newly founded Provoste Brokmania ( Brokmerland ). At the same time the Marienkirche was raised to the status of Sendkirche . The construction of the new brick church probably dragged on from 1210/1250 to 1280.

The next evidence comes from the 14th century, when a Juwo or Ubbo Poppinga was fined for manslaughter as a result of a skirmish between the eastern and western Fluita of Brokmerland (... Juwo Poppinga pro homicidio Tiamwardi octav ...).

Poppinga's old bakery

The family line of the Poppinga living today begins with Sonke Poppingha, who in 1555 with his brothers Luwe Poppingha and Boje Luwen divided up the paternal inheritance to Upgant (Poppinga certificate).

1671 died at the Upgant erbgesessene Hausmann , obscene and vulgar Extra deputy of the country (for the home state ) and Sielrichter Abbo Poppinga, great-grandson of the above Sonke. In 1660, at the head of the Brokmer Vogtei, Abbo had driven a troop of Emden tax collectors from Marienhafe on behalf of Count Georg Christian . His wife Renske Dieken was the great niece of the East Frisian scholar Ubbo Emmius . The oldest surviving depiction of the family coat of arms and the inscription can be found on his tombstone in St. Mary's Church in Marienhafe :

"Anno 1671. The 2nd of February the Ehrenveste Vorachtbare And Wohlfurnehmer Abbo Poppinga Erbgeseten zu Upgant And Kirchvorwalter zu Marienhove Ordinarius Et Extraordinarius Deputy and Sylrichter Blessed in the Lord's Sleeping Guardian All Believers A Devout Resident to the EWEGN Life His Age 44 Years"

In the second half of the 18th century Abbo Imels Poppinga (1752-1818) settled in Greetsiel . His descendants ran the bakery at the harbor until the 20th century, which today functions as a tea room under the name "Poppinga's old bakery".

Other Poppinga

The last name Poppinga also appears sporadically in other places, although a relationship does not necessarily have to be given.

In the 15th century there lived a chief at Hatzum , who called himself Remet Isempts Poppinga (d. 1483). Although there is no common ancestry of Poppinga and the chiefs can be constructed of Hatzum, it is noteworthy that Remets woman Jevsta, daughter of Addo (sic) of Bewingaborg from Siegelsum came, a neighboring Upgants.

Coat of arms on the tombstone of Esse Popinga zu Larrelt

In 1597 Esse Popinga, wife of Termunter chief Menno Houwerda, died in Larrelt . In 1568 they had to flee to Larrelt from the Groningen. Essa, however, apparently did not descend from the Brokmer Poppinga, but from the family of Tyddo Poppingha, Mayor of Appingedam . This family probably goes back to Tyde Poppinge, who was a farmer in Grolloo ( Drenthe ) around 1450 . However, the coat of arms of the Houwerda family is interesting here: a silver lion in the red field (compare the coat of arms of Poppinga).

Catharina Poppinga, wife of the knight Sicke Albada, who died in Poppingawier (Friesland) in 1432 , comes from the family of Popma von Terschelling . In contrast to the parent company on Terschelling, the Popma zu Poppingawier had the coat of arms: a red lion on silver (or blue), a golden shield border loaded with eight (or sixteen) castles.

The reformed preacher Tarquinius (Tjerk) Poppinga, who lived in Pietersbierum around 1680 , and his descendants of the same name in the Netherlands are descended from PierTaekes, who lived as a househusband in Tornwerd ( Wonseradeel ) in 1552 .

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows three (2: 1) five-pointed gold stars above blue shield feet, in silver a leoparded (striding) red, gold-armored and -tongued lion , between its front paws a floating five-pointed gold star; on the blue-gold-red-silver bulged stech helmet with a blue-gold helmet cover on the right and a red-silver helmet cover on the left, the lion growing with the star in its paws as a helmet ornament . The coat of arms is first proven on the tombstone of Abbo Poppinga (see above).

The split coat of arms indicates that the coats of arms of two families that were linked by marriage were joined together, with the lion's coat of arms belonging to the husband, as the corresponding crest was also retained. The star, which heraldically incorrectly shows metal on metal (gold on silver), will have been added to the family coat of arms later, probably to denote a branch line of the family that originally had coats of arms. This meaning of an added star is common in heraldry. However, as early as 1423, the church lord of Marienhafe issued a seal with a seal showing a five-pointed star under the Mother of God.

Lion coats of arms were widespread among the East Frisian chiefs . The chiefs to Westerhusen as well as those to Uphusen and Wolthusen also led a red lion on silver . In mixed up colors (silver on red) it can be found in the coat of arms of the Houwerda zu Termunten (see above) and the Beninga zu Werdenum (later to Grimersum ) from a neighboring town of Upgants. Confused or partially changed colors are traditionally often found to identify a family branch. Other people from the northern area who led a lion, but without the colors of the coat of arms being passed down, were:

Liudward Abdena , Drost von Emden and chief of the north (lived 1383), married to Diudleta Idzinga , the heiress of the north. He sealed: "S: LIUWARDI ITZINGHA". Two coats of arms can be seen on the seal, each showing a lion, which on the one hand can be assigned to the Abdena of Emden, who carried such a coat of arms, and on the other hand to the Idzinga from the north.

Egge Addinga (died 1391), chief of Westerwolde . He used a seal with a lion on it. He came from the Rheiderland , but the origin of his family is said to have been in the Norderland . To the south of the north, the field name Addinggaste has been preserved to this day ; the Addingaborg is said to have once stood here. So in 1322 Tyrling Addinga was one of the consuls in the Norderland. The coat of arms of the later Addinga comes from Egges wife Margaretha Ripperda , which his descendants adopted.

The three stars are reminiscent of the North coat of arms: In the blue field three golden tail wheels (2: 1). The chief family Cirksena , from which the counts and princes of East Friesland arose and who saw themselves as the heir of the Idzinga from the north, had included the tail wheels in their coat of arms; first in the head of the shield , later, increased to four, in the corners of the escutcheon. The Upganter family Agena, who were related by marriage to the Poppinga several times, also wore three stars in their coat of arms, accompanied by a claw wing. The Agena of Onno Jevessen (d. 1457), chief of Lintel and mayor of the north, took over this coat of arms.

In the coats of arms of West Frisian families, three gold stars on blue are widespread. B. with the Amama, Auckama, Grovestins, Oenema, Poppendam, Popta and Siarda, from which, however, no family relationship can be established.

Incidentally, Gudrun Schwichow published the hypothesis that the three stars were derived from the earlier coat of arms of the Premonstratensian order .

Name bearer

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johan Winkler: De nederlandsche slaughter names in oorsprong, geschiedenis en beteekenis. Haarlem 1885.
  2. ^ Bernhard Brons junior: Frisian names and communications about them. Emden 1877, reprint 1984.
  3. ^ Ernst Friedländer : Ostfriesisches Urkundenbuch, Vol. 1. Emden 1878, No. 26.
  4. ↑ Johann Gerhard Schomerus : The Marienkirche of Marienhafe. North 1993.
  5. ↑ Tileman Dothias Wiarda : arbitrariness of the brokmen. Berlin 1820, p. 18 f.
  6. ↑ Rudolf His : The criminal law of the Frisians in the Middle Ages. Leipzig 1901, p. 204.
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  8. ^ Tileman Dothias Wiarda : Ostfriesische Geschichte. Aurich 1791-1798.
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  10. ^ Gudrun Anne Decker: Ubbo Emmius. Norderstedt 2010.
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  13. ↑ Redmer Alma: De adeldom van de Mensema's. In: Mensen van adel. Edited by Arnold Gevers / Conrad Rietman. Hilversum 2007, p. 55 ff.
  14. ^ Foeke Buitenrust Hettema : Nomina geographica neerlandica, Vol. 4. Leiden 1899, p. 120.
  15. ↑ a b c d Johannes Baptista Rietstap : Illustrated general coat of arms book. Lyon 1938.
  16. ↑ Montanus de Haan Hettema & Arent van Halmael: Stamboek van den frieschen vroegeren en lateren adel, vol. 1. Leeuwarden 1846, p. 288.
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  18. ↑ Ernst Friedlaender: Ostfriesisches Urkundenbuch, Vol. 1. Emden 1878. No. 406.
  19. ^ Hajo van Lengen : The Frisian freedom of the Middle Ages. Aurich 2003.
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  21. ↑ Gretje Schreiber: The peasant-bourgeois class and its representatives in the northern part of the country. Aurich 1992.
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  24. ↑ Johannes Holtmanns: The coats of arms of the East Frisian families and the families related to them. In: Ostfriesisches monthly newspaper for provincial interests 8 (1880), p. 58.
  25. ↑ Montanus de Haan Hettema & Arent van Halmael: Stamboek van den frieschen vroegeren en lateren adel. Leeuwarden 1846.
  26. ↑ Gudrun Schwichow: The treasure in the tower. in: Ostfriesland-Magazin 7, H. 9 (1991).
  27. ↑ Jost Galle: Leffertus Thelenius (Leffert Thelen) Poppinga, in: Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland , Vol. 3. Aurich 2001.