Spies from Büllesheim
Spies von Büllesheim is the name of an ancient noble family from the Rhenish duchy of Jülich .
history
The family first appears in a document on September 28, 1319 with Ludewikus filius (son of) Christiani de Buellesheim . In the Duchy of Jülich, the family held the office of inheritance gift .
The line of trunks begins with the knight and ducal jülich court marshal Heinrich Ysaak von Büllesheim auf Büllesheim , documented from 1387 to 1369. In 1501 Pope Alexander VI orders. to settle the dispute within the Teutonic Order between the Lord Master, the Duke of Saxony and the Land Commander of Koblenz Wernher Spies in a bull to the Archbishop of Cologne . The dispute settlement ended with the (violent) death of Spies.
In the Duchy of Jülich, Kurköln , Luxembourg , the Palatinate and neighboring areas, several branches of the family were sworn up . B. because Satzvey Castle , Büllesheim, Oberehe , Schweinheim , Castle Allner , Burg Bubenheim , Frechen , Langenfeld, Untermaubach , household furniture (Düren) , Schönstein and Loersfeld .
The family is one of the founders of the Rhenish knighthood and has repeatedly provided their knight captain. The Maubach line died out with the son of the Prussian general Otto Spies von Büllesheim . The only line that still exists is that at Haus Hall in Ratheim , which emerged from the line at Schweinheim, later Rath. A branch of this line has been owned by the Metternich Castle near Euskirchen since 1895 ; in 1993 another took over the inheritance of the expired Barons von Vittinghoff-Schell at Schellenberg Castle near Essen and Kalbeck Castle on the Lower Rhine, which was now owned by Antoinette Baroness von Elverfeldt -Ulm, née Freiin Spies von Büllesheim, and her family are inhabited.
Former family possessions
Niederbolheim | Miel Castle | House Rath (Düren) | Loersfeld Castle | Untermaubach Castle | Kleeburg (Euskirchen) | Schweinheim Castle | Allner Castle | Merten Castle | Bubenheim Castle | Satzvey Castle | Castle Oberehe | Schönstein Castle | Bodendorf Castle | Castle Frechen Spies Castle | Dückeburg | Rott in Spich | Kasteel Erenstein NL | House Mozenborn | Großbüllesheim | Kleinbüllesheim | Rohr Castle (Blankenheim) | Lupenau | House Berg near Nideggen | Juntersdorf Castle | Kalbeck Castle
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows a crowned, two-tailed, left-turned, red armored golden lion (Palatinate or Brabant lion) accompanied by five golden pilgrim shells (2,2,1).
Name bearer
- Wilhelm Spies von Büllesheim, Abbot of Michaelsberg Abbey (Siegburg) (1419–1446)
- Wernher Spies von Büllesheim, Land Commander of the Teutonic Order (1486–1501)
- Wernher Spies von Büllesheim, Land Commander of the Teutonic Order (1639–1643)
- Klara Franziska Spies von Büllesheim, Abbess of the Gerresheim Monastery (1663–1685)
- Maria Sophia Spies von Büllesheim, Abbess of the Gerresheim Monastery (1685–1694)
- Catharina Ida Spies von Büllesheim († 1695) Abbess of Neuss Abbey (1679–1683)
- Maria Charlotte Spies von Büllesheim zu Satzvey and Allner (born von der Hees ; * 1723, † 1769)
- Jakob Ferdinand Spies von Büllesheim, Commander of the Teutonic Order Commander St. Aegidius in Aachen (1729–1734)
- Otto Spies von Büllesheim († 1904), royal Prussian general
- Ludwig Josef von Spies-Büllesheim (1785–1860), Prussian district administrator
- Adolf Freiherr Spies von Büllesheim (* 1929, † 2011) Member of the German Bundestag (1972–1987),
- Elisabeth Freifrau Spies von Büllesheim (* 1944) Vice-President and Superior General of the Malteser Aid Service (since 1996)
- Franz Leo Freiherr Spies von Büllesheim, knight captain of the cooperative of the Rhenish knightly nobility * 1933
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume XIII, Volume 128 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2002, ISSN 0435-2408
Web links
- House Hall and its owners
- Coat of arms of the Spies von Büllesheim in the coat of arms of the Westphalian nobility
Individual evidence
- ↑ Provincial Archives of Limburg in Maastricht, printed by G. de Franquinet, Oorkonden en Bescheiden van de Abdij Kloosterade, Maastricht 1869
- ^ Maria Charlotte Spies von Büllesheim from myheritage.de , accessed on February 20, 2017
- ↑ Burg Bodendorf from aw-wiki.de , accessed on February 20, 2017
- ^ "Profile" from NWZ Göppinger Kreisnachrichten from February 18, 2017