Saddle bow (noble family)

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Family coat of arms according to Siebmacher's coat of arms book

The Lords of Sattelbogen , also called Satlboger or Satlpoger , were one of the most powerful, influential and respected knight families in the Bavarian Forest .

history

origin

As early as the 10th century, a so-called castle stable was set up as a small fortress in Sattelbogen . The expansion of this old castle complex can still be seen today, although not a stone of the former fortified walls can be seen. The only witness of the distant past, the moat set up for fortification at the time, reveals the location and the enormous dimensions of the fortification.

The first mention of the gentlemen from Sattelbogen goes back to the year 948 when they took part in the tournament in Constance. The first documentary evidence dates back to the year 1130, when "Albert von Satlpogen" was present as a witness in a "Handover of Duke Hainrichs von Bayrn und Sachsen". The numerous mentions about participating in tournaments such as B. in Zurich in the year 1165, suggest that it was a combatable and contentious knight family.

Further development

As ministerials, the Sattelbogers served the Counts of Bogen in Bogen and the dukes. In the northwest, Sattelbogen was the ministerial castle that was closest to the Mark Cham . The affinity of those from Sattelbogen to the Counts to Bogen is not only evident in the name, but also the triple cross-sectional division of the coat of arms was influenced by the Bogener who carried three yellow bows on a blue background on their shield.

Albert von Sattelbogen was identified as a ducal ministerial. In 1229 Duke Ludwig called Albert von Sattelbogen his ministerial. It is therefore obvious that this ministerial family served both the dukes and the counts of Bogen. It is very likely that the founding of the Nikolauskirche in Sattelbogen can be assigned to this family.

As witnesses or as co-sealers in contracts or sales, they appeared frequently in the period that followed. In the year 1311 Konrad von Satlpogen got the so called Ottonische Handfeste the Hofmarkrechte and with it the lower jurisdiction. His brother Albrecht was a judge in Viechtach. The Satlpogers were held in high esteem throughout the Bavarian Forest as administrative and judicial officials. Friedrich der Satlpoger was a keeper from 1318 to 1331 (comparable to current district administrators) in Cham. He was one of the richest and most skilful knights of his century and, as such, developed a great deal of splendor in the administration of his office in Cham.

distribution

With the expansion of the family, the property expanded, partly through marriage, partly through purchase or inheritance. Numerous documents and certificates from the first half of the 14th century testify to the influence and wealth of the Sattelboger, who not only held high positions of honor as judges, carers , vicarage and provosts in various places , but also owned palaces and court marks of the Bavarian Forest .

While the Sattelboger wrote “von Satlpogen” on their ancestral castle, the other family members named themselves according to the castles and seats they occupied. The descendants of Albrecht founded the Sattelbogen line, Friedrich the Neuhaus line and Heinrich the Geltolfing line. The family of Heinrichs von Sattelbogen settled permanently in the Netherlands in the wake of the Dukes of Straubing-Holland. The castles and estates of Schönberg, Sallach, Miltach and Bleibach had been transferred to an Albrecht von Satlpogen as pledges from the Bavarian princes in 1321.

Members of the Satlpoger dynasty also held the following castles and mansions:

The Konzell , Roßhaupten and Ränkam estates were temporarily owned by the Sattelboger. The enumeration makes it clear how powerful and influential the family of the Sattelboger was at that time. In some coats of arms you can still see the connection to Sattelbogen, as here in the coat of arms of Arnschwang.

Personalities

The name Sattelbogen had a good reputation in the Bavarian Forest and beyond in the 14th and 15th centuries. The quarrels and feuds that the Sattelboger had waged everywhere a century earlier had just as little damage to their reputation as the robber barons to which they fell during the "terrible imperial times" of the interregnum from 1254 to 1273.

In addition to all this, however, they did not forget to take care of their souls, as we generally find great benefactors for church purposes among the Lords of Sattelbogen. It is therefore not surprising that important representatives of the clergy can also be found among the saddle arches. Martin von Satlpogen obtained the vice cathedral office of Lower Bavaria in 1406 and another Satlpogen was pastor of Altendorf. Margarethe von Satlpogen died in 1435 as abbess of Obermünster in Regensburg ; a Sattelbogener Strasse in Regensburg still reminds of it today. Erhard von Satlpogen was elected Bishop of Regensburg in 1428 , but he relinquished this dignity in favor of Konrad von Soest . Furthermore, the necrologies of Windeberg and Oberaltaich list various satlpogers as convent brothers.

In 1375 Heinrich sold half the Veste Sattelbogen to Rainer von Rain, the husband of his sister Agnes. The other half was brought into the marriage by the second sister Anastasia to her husband Karl Ramsberger von Altransberg, who wrote himself in 1395 "on saddle arch". However, he soon died and Anastasia married the knight Dietrich von Lobenstein and Sünching, which means that first half of the castle and later the entire castle in Sattelbogen came to the Hofers .

In the time of Sigmund von Sattelbogen, the Löwlerbund was founded in 1489. Two years later, the Bund rebelled against Duke Albrecht . In 1493 peace was concluded.

Sigmund von Sattelbogen was the last knight in the family. After his only son had died after being married three times, he became tired of incessant fighting and entered the Oberalteich monastery as a lay brother . On Martin's Day in 1537 he was the last of his tribe and name to close his eyes forever. His grave slab is on the western wall of the cemetery in Oberaltaich .

See also

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  • State Archives Munich-Amberg
  • Co-op Schmid 1904 "Hofmark Saddle Arch"
  • Festschrift "100th anniversary of the foundation of the voluntary fire brigade Sattelbogen"; Article by Mrs. Cäcilie Karl