Regenstein (noble family)

Coat of arms from Siebmacher's coat of arms book

The von Regenstein family , also Reinstein , was a Lower Saxon count dynasty who belonged to the Harz counts and named themselves after the Regenstein Castle near Blankenburg in the Harz Mountains .

history

Cunradus Comes de Regenstein (Count of Regenstein), Konrad (the son of Count Poppo I von Blankenburg from the house of the Reginbodonen ) was first mentioned by name in 1162 , thus establishing the Reinstein- Blankenburg family . The Heimburg came into fiefdom at the beginning of the 14th century and founded the younger Reinstein line (- Heimburg ). Regenstein Castle (the Reinstein-Reinstein line) was abandoned in the middle of the 15th century in favor of Blankenburg and Derenburg .

Count Ernst I. († 1581) and Bodo II. Von Regenstein (1530 / 31–1594) signed the Concord Formula of 1577 and the Book of Concord from 1580.

The last male descendant of the noble family, Count Johann Ernst von Regenstein, died in 1599. Parts of the county developed into the principality of Blankenburg .

Possessions

Regenstein Castle , Heimburg in the foreground

• Regenstein Castle
• Westerburg Castle
• Heimburg Castle
• Roseburg (castle)
• Calvörde Castle
• Oschersleben Castle
• Blankenburg Castle (Harz)
• Kuxburg

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the count's line shows a (black) red, six-ended stag pole in silver . The later quartered plate shows in each silver (1: 4) in a black and (2: 3) a red-ended six Hirsch rod. Helmet: crowned, on the right a black, left a red six-ended stag pole. The helmet covers are black and silver on the right and red and silver on the left.

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  Back of a thaler with the family's coat of arms

Personalities

• Poppo I. von Regenstein-Blankenburg , ancestor of the family
• Richenza von Regenstein-Blankenburg (* around 1100; † before 1145), wife of Poppo I.
• Reinhard von Blankenburg († 1123), from 1107 to 1123 Bishop of Halberstadt
• Burchard II of Blankenburg († 1305), Archbishop of Magdeburg
• Albrecht II of Regenstein († 1349), Count of the County of Regenstein
• Ulrich X. von Regenstein-Blankenburg (1499–1551), Count
• Elisabeth von Regenstein-Blankenburg (1542–1584), Abbess of Quedlinburg

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  Portrait of the Abbess Elisabeth

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  Gravestone Ernst I. von Regenstein and his wife Barbara in the Bartholomäuskirche in Blankenburg

literature

• Rudolf Steinhoff: History of Graffschaft - resp. of the Principality of Blankenburg, the Graffschaft Regenstein and the Michaelstein Monastery. Vieweg, Blankenburg a / H. u. a. 1891, online .
• Rudolf Steinhoff: Family table of the Counts of Regenstein and Blankenburg from around 1400 to 1599. In: Journal of the Harz Association for History and Antiquity . Vol. 25, 1892, pp. 146-167.
• Lutz Fenske: On the history of the Counts of Regenstein from the 12th to the middle of the 14th century. In: Harz-Zeitschrift. 45, 1, 1993, ISSN  0073-0882 , pp. 7-34.
• Detlev Schwennicke: European family tables . New volume 17: Hesse and the tribal duchy of Saxony. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-465-02983-6 .
• Christof Römer : The counts of Regenstein-Blankenburg as the state of the empire and the Lower Saxony empire circle . In: Heinz A. Behrens (ed.): Between the claim to power and debt service. Contributions to the history of the County of Regenstein. Bussert and Stadeler, Jena 2004, ISBN 3-932906-48-9 , pp. 73-90.
• Johann Georg Leuckfeld: Genealogical and historical description of the counts of Blanckenburg who lived before the Hartz-Walde. Along with a short message from old Käyserl. Saxon. Pfaltz-City Wallhausen . Frankfurt and Leipzig 1708 ( full text ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The grave of Ernst I. von Regenstein and his wife Barbara von Hohenstein is in the mountain church of St. Bartholomäus in Blankenburg (Harz) .
2. ↑ See BSLK , p. 16 and p. 765.