Ringoltingen (patrician family)
The von Ringoltingen family was a Bernese patrician family .
history
The family's origins go back to the 14th century in the Simmental , where they worked as farmers. Heinrich Zigerli was a wealthy cheese merchant and became a citizen of Bern in 1351. In the 15th century the family bought some land, e.g. B. in Belp , in Muri near Bern and the Landshut Castle . The von Ringoltingen family began to call themselves around 1400 . In 1439 Rudolf von Ringoltingen became a junker and had a coat of arms. In 1483 the family died out with the death of Thuringia von Ringoltingen in the male line.
The Epiphany window donated by Rudolf and Thuringia von Ringoltingen around 1448/58 is located in the Bern Minster .
people
- Heinrich Zigerli († 1367), Burger von Bern 1341
- Heinrich Zigerli the Younger († after 1416), 1387 Grand Council of Bern
- Rudolf von Ringoltingen (1385–1456), 1409 Grand Council of Bern, 1435 to 1455 Small Council of Bern, 1448, 1451 and 1454 Schultheiss of Bern , 1416 to 1454 envoy
- Thuringia von Ringoltingen (1415–1483), 1467 Schultheiss Bern, translation of the novel Melusine
- Antonia von Ringoltingen († 1487), married Ludwig von Diesbach
literature
- Collection of Bernese Biographies , Vol. 2, Bern 1896, pp. 186–192.
- Roland Gerber: Gott ist Burger zu Bern , Bern 2001, pp. 285–287, 293, 307–310.
- Heinrich Türler: About the origin of the Zigerli from Ringoltingen and about Thuringia from Ringoltingen . In: Neues Berner Taschenbuch, Vol. 7 (1901) digitized
Web links
- Christian Müller: Ringoltingen, from. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .