Sachsenkam (noble family)

Coat of arms of the Lords of Sachsenkam from the 14th century, today the coat of arms of the municipality of Sachsenkam

The Lords of Sachsenkam were a noble and noble Bavarian noble family from the Middle Ages . They named themselves after the castle Sachsenkam and their castle Grub or after their fiefdom in Klenau. The fact that they also issued fiefs themselves indicates the political importance of this noble family.

history

The first historically tangible family member is Adalpero von Sachsenkam , who is mentioned in the cartular of the Ebersberg monastery in 1010 . Adalpero von Sachsenkam and his son Heinrich appear at the top of the list of witnesses when the Udalschalk von Kühbach donated to the Tegernsee monastery . In addition, Adalpero was a vassal of the Counts of Ebersberg and appears several times as a top witness for Count Eberhard .

The Sachsenkamer were vassals and fief takers of church institutions and of three dynastic families. Mention should be made here of the Bishop of Brixen , to whom their possessions in Tyrol can be traced back; allode goods are accepted in Tyrol . Then the Sachsenkamer were vassals of the Counts of Kühbach . Noppo II and his son Eberhard are also named after Klenau , which belonged to the Kühbach family and later passed into the possession of the Counts of Scheyern . Noppo von Klenau and his son Eberhard are among the milites of Count Palatine Kuno von Rott-Vohburg .

The last member of the family was Adalpero's son , Bernhard von Sachsenkam, who died in 1102 . From 1068 he was Vogt of the Tegernsee Monastery and exercised this function until his death; he governed areas west of the Mangfall , while the Counts of Weyarn , who also acted as governors for the monastery, administered the eastern areas. The Sachsenkamer had been tied to this monastery for a long time, because the Sachsenkamer had their burial place in Tegernsee and several times handed over possessions to the monastery as devices for the soul . These include Unterzeismering , Langengeisling , Sauerlach , Thongräben , Kiens and Güter bei Bozen . Bernhard was probably also the Vogt of Polling Monastery , which can be deduced from his relationship with the diocese of Brixen .

The main inheritance of the Sachsenkamer went to Otto I. von Dachau-Valley via Adelheid von Weilheim , her brother Bernhard von Weilheim received the fiefdom around Brixen .

Tribe list

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• Adalpero of Sachsenkam (Adalpero de Sahsincheim), * around 1020, † 1066
• Noppo (Nordpert) I.
  • Noppo II of Klenau
    • Eberhard von Klenau († before 1085, killed during the investiture dispute )
    • Noppo III.
  • Bernhard von Sachsenkam († 1102) ∞ Adelheid (ultimus familiae)
  • Heinrich
  • NN, daughter ∞ Gebino I. von Weilheim
    • Adelheid von Weilheim
    • Bernhard von Weilheim

literature

• Ludwig Holzfurter: The Counts of Sachsenkam. In Ferdinand Kramer & Wilhelm Störmer (ed.), High Middle Ages Noble Families in Old Bavaria, Franconia and Swabia (= Studies on Bavarian Constitutional and Social History, Volume XX), pp. 303-318. Commission for Bavarian State History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 2005. ISBN 376966874X .

Web links

• Local history of the municipality of Sachsenkam , accessed October 2, 2019
• Sachsenkam parish in the House of Bavarian History

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ludwig Holzfurter, 2005, pp. 304f.