Vogt of Elspe

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Coat of arms of the Vogt von Elspe

Vogt von Elspe , also Voigt von Elspe , is the name of an old, now extinct noble family of the Duchy of Westphalia .

history

The legend saw the origin of the bailiffs in a royal court in Elspe . The family of the bailiffs of Elspe is said to have emerged from the administrators of the farm. The first documentary mentions of people named "von Elspe" took place since the year 1000: Johann ab Elspa, Miles (soldier, warrior), was together with Gebhard von Mescheda ( Meschede ) Scheidsmann (arbitrator) in matters of Paderborn against the von Büren. In the year 1100, Henricus ab Elspe and Johann von Mescheda were divine men in this matter. Johann Dietrich von Steinen reports in "History of the Iserlohn Office" (VII. Piece) in the section Caspar Christian Freiherr Vogt von Elspe as follows:

5. Voigteyen, among others, was given by the great Emperor Carl , the Voigtey Elspe, to a very respectable family at that time with the Kayser. That too

6. From the time of such donation, said Voigtey obsessed with all righteousnesses, exercised all of her clinging sovereignty, and from it got the name Voigt von Elspe. What then

7. It follows that the Voigt von Elspe family should also be accorded the dignity that was assigned to them who were employed at the same time as Voigt. By now

8. Other Voigte have worn the Titul Barones . [...]

13. From this, because Carl the Great also ordered chairmen and free chairmen at the Westphalian court, and they had their free counties and free chairs at Elspe, Babenoel and Hundem , which was great at that time. "

In the 16th century there was still a line of the family that sat in the "castle" in the west of the village. Other side lines such as the Elspe zu Borghausen and zu Bamenohl still owned in Elspe.

From Elspe the family with castle lehen and alloden spread to Burg Schnellenberg , Haus Bamenohl , Burg Borghausen , the Waldenburg , Förde with the Peperburg , Bilstein and other places. Their focus was the area of ​​the middle Lenne around Attendorn and Bamenohl . Parts of the family were Protestant at least at times during the Reformation era.

From around 1540 the bailiffs of Elspe lived at Hof Borghausen, upgraded to the Borghausen manor in the Helden area . This line died out in 1721 with Konrad Wilhelm Vogt von Elspe zu Westhemmerde and Borghausen . When the line of the Lords of Plettenberg zu Bamenohl ("lower house") died out, this house came to the bailiffs of Elspe. According to the will of Herman von Plettenberg zu Bamenohl from 1580, his brother-in-law Bernhard Vogt von Elspe (the younger) zu Borghausen was appointed heir.

As a fiefdom of the Electorate of Cologne , part of Schnellenberg Castle was owned by the Elspe bailiffs. Bernhard Vogt von Elspe (1552–1638) had sold these rights together with the co-entitled Henneke Schüngel zu Berninghausen to the landdrosten Kaspar von Fürstenberg in 1594. Bernhard Christoph Vogt von Elspe came through his wife Walburg Lucie von Fürstenberg after 1645 into the possession of Haus Stirpe am Hellweg in the office of Erwitte . Their later son Caspar Christian Vogt von Elspe was a historian and electoral Drost . By marrying Mathilde Maria Elisabeth von Gaugreben in 1657 , the latter came into the possession of Haus Siedlinghausen .

As recently as 1746 there were several lineages of the sex. The last Vogt of Elspe was Gisbert Moritz Konrad Bernhard Georg called Voss zu Rodenberg (born June 27, 1719), chief steward in the Hague . He died childless on the night of March 11th to 12th, 1800 at the age of 80. His niece Anna Luise Gisbertine von Bodelschwingh (* 1766 at Haus Bodelschwingh ; † 1833 ibid.) Was the universal heiress . She was the daughter of the testator's sister, Catrina Sophia Louisa Theodora , married to Gisbert von und zu Bodelschwingh zu Westhemmerde , and in 1788 married Karl Wilhelm Georg von Plettenberg (* 1765 at Haus Heeren ; † 1850 at Gut Drais ). As a result, the goods Bamenohl, Borghausen, Oevinghausen , Rodenberg, Schwerte, Werl and Westhemmerde came into the possession of the von Plettenberg family.

The Stryk , which appeared in Livonia around 1500 , are related to the tribe of the Vogt von Elspe. In contrast to the ancestral family, the Stryk are currently in flower.

coat of arms

The coat of arms is split, heraldic right silver, left blue, on the helmet open flight, heraldic right blue, left silver. There is a similarity to the coat of arms of the noble family " von Plettenberg ", to which there were also close family ties.

people

Title copper for Caspar Christian Voigt von Elspe “Agnitio veritatis religionis” (Cologne, 1682). Voigt von Elspe is sitting in the carriage
  • Heinrich Vogt of Elspe was 1497-1505 Domküster in Münster
  • Caspar Christian Vogt von Elspe 1632–1703 Drost in the Duchy of Westphalia and historian
  • Anna Vogt von Elspe was abbess in the Premonstratensian monastery of Cappel from 1588 to 1591 and introduced the Reformation there
  • Gisbert Moritz Konrad, the last Vogt of Elspe, dies childless as chief steward of the Dutch court on the night of 11/12. March 1800

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Westphalian history by Johann Dietrich von Steinen , first part> the VII. Piece Geographical guide to the duchies of Engern and Westphalia, second book, historical-genealogical message from the Vouchten v. Elspe, page 1915.
  2. ↑ Gräflich Plettenberg's Archive House Heeren , archive part Bamenohl, edited by archive director Dr. Diestelkamp, ​​certificate 109a 99b.
  3. ↑ Adelslexikon Volume XIV, 2003, Volume 131 of the complete series, pp. 226–227
  4. ↑ Max von Spießen: Book of arms of the Westphalian nobility, with drawings by Professor Ad. M. Hildebrandt, p. 47, 1st volume, Görlitz 1901-1903

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