Scherenberg (noble family)

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Family coat of arms
Epitaph altar of Rudolf II von Scherenberg in Würzburg Cathedral made by Tilman Riemenschneider

Scherenberg is the name of a Franconian noble family that appeared between 1212 and 1495 .

history

The von Scherenberg family was a ministerial family in the Würzburg bishopric with goods in the Steigerwald (see also list of Frankish knight families ). The main seat was the Scherenburg ( 49 ° 57 ′  N , 10 ° 28 ′  E ) between the Gangolfsberg and the Zabelstein in the northern Steigerwald. The family with Hartmut von Scherenberg is first mentioned in 1212.

They were related by blood to the Lords of Zabelstein - the Zabelstein ruins are about two kilometers from Scherenberg - and, like them, wore the scissors in their coat of arms. The family split into the lines of Scherenberger, Zabelsteiner and Donnersdorfer. Born von Scherenberg were also the mothers of the Würzburg bishops Wolfram Wolfskeel von Grumbach and Otto II von Wolfskeel . With the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg Rudolf II von Scherenberg (* approx. 1401; † April 29, 1495 at the Marienberg Fortress ), the male line dies.

coat of arms

The Scherenberg coat of arms shows open red scissors in gold . On the helmet with red and gold covers a crowned silver lion head with a neck.

There is no evidence of a relationship with the Thuringian noble family Schernberg , which also had the coat of arms.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bellbach 1826, or Gropp Monum. sepulch. 81
  2. ↑ http://fraenkische-wappenrolle.kleeberg.biz/s/s153.html
  3. ↑ J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms, VI. Volume, 1st section, 1st part; Dead Bavarian nobility; Author: GA Seyler; Publication: Nuremberg: Bauer & Raspe, 1884, p. 55

Web links

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