Portner of Augsburg (noble family)
The Portner von Augsburg are one of several families in Bavaria with the name Portner . The family name is derived from porta ( Latin for door) and indicates a gatekeeper; this task is also expressed in the family coat of arms with the three keys.
Portnerstrasse were Augsburger Erbportner (= guard the city gates), which used them Unterportner were paid by the city. Johannes (1323) and Heinrich Portner (1324) are named as princely city keepers . Heinrich the Elder sold the Wellenburg estate in 1348 . The latter was expelled from the city with his son in 1349. One Heinrich Portner is the bailiff's administrator in Augsburg in 1392, he had two sons Peter and Heinrich . Peter Portner is mentioned in 1420; he was then ostracized for manslaughter. In the years that followed, both of them had to swear to avoid the city and its surroundings for life within three miles.
But there was also a patrician family with this name in Regensburg ; whose first known member was an Oudalric de Pergetor (also known as De Porta , ante portam or juxta Porta ) around 1130 . This family temporarily provided the Regensburg mayor, but died out in 1313 with an Albert Portner . It is noteworthy that the Regensburg family also had a coat of arms with the three keys in a silver shield. This gender is not related to the other Upper Palatinate Portners , who became known as operators of iron hammers .
literature
- Rudolf Gerstenhöfer: The Portner family and its significance for the Upper Palatinate. in Die Oberpfalz , 1967, Vol. 55, 61–63, 79–82, 111–116, 127–129, 156–158, 175–177.
- Otto Titan von Hefner; Gustav Adelbert Seyler: The coat of arms of the Bavarian nobility. Repro. J. Siebmacher's large book of arms. II. Volume. Nuremberg 1856 Volume 22, Bauer & Raspe, Neustadt an der Aisch, 1971. ISBN 3-87947-022-7 .