Vellberg (noble family)
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The von Vellberg family was a southern German noble family with possessions in the knightly canton of Odenwald .
origin
The eponymous place Vellberg is today a town in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in north-eastern Baden-Württemberg . Heinrich von Vellberg appeared for the first time in a document on May 3, 1102. The family castle that gave it its name was probably built at the end of the 11th century. Apparently, then took a jam fisches Ministerialengeschlecht the name Vellberg, as evidenced from the 1263rd They were in the service of the bishops of Würzburg and the margraves of Brandenburg . The family died out in 1592 with Konrad von Vellberg, who had achieved the greatest area-wise expansion.
distribution
The von Vellbergs came into the possession of the neighboring Leofels Castle in 1399 , which they kept until 1592. In 1545 they were briefly at Bichishausen Castle with Wolf von Vellberg .
In the 15th century they were the patron saints in Lendsiedel . They held the patronage for the church in Gründelhardt and introduced the Reformation in 1556 .
The Swabian Federation destroyed the castle in 1523 because of support for the robber baron Hans Thomas von Absberg . Wilhelm von Vellberg's share in the Ganerbeburg was broken off and he rebuilt it between 1543 and 1546.
There were family ties to the Hohenstaufen . In the Knight's Hall of Schloss Grumbach in Rimpar a large coat of arms frieze bears witness to the marriage of Konrad von Grumbach with Salome of Vellberg.
Personalities
- Ehrenfried von Vellberg , Abbot of the Ellwangen Monastery (1309-1311)
literature
- Cord Ulrichs: From the feudal court to the imperial knighthood - structures of the Franconian lower nobility at the transition from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period (list of the canton Odenwald from 1550, StAL B 583 Bü 191.) . Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07109-1 . Pp. 214/215.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.kirchberg-jagst.de/data/lendsiedel.php
- ↑ see church district Blaufelden # Kirchengemeinde Lendsiedel
- ↑ see church district Crailsheim # Kirchengemeinde Gründelhardt
- ↑ see Wandereisen woodcuts from 1523
- ↑ see Fürstpropstei Ellwangen