Orphan of Fauerbach
The Wais von Fauerbach (also Waiß, Wayss, Weis von Feuerbach, Faurbach ) were a knightly noble family in the western Wetterau from Fauerbach , today part of the city of Friedberg in Hesse .
history
Since the early 13th century, a local lower aristocratic family can be found in Friedberg-Fauerbach , named after the town of Fauerbach . Only a few decades later, the name Wais was added. According to legend, the progenitor of this family is said to have been delivered by caesarean section from the dead wife of the last noblewoman "von Fauerbach", who also died, whereupon the latter took the surname orphani or orphan . This name can be traced for the first time around 1266.
A Wilhelm Wais von Fauerbach in 1249 and a Heinrich Wais von Fauerbach in 1254 are documented in studies of the Altenberg Monastery near Wetzlar as part of their founding activities .
The orphans of Fauerbach achieved great influence in the neighboring Reichsburg Friedberg , where they not only regularly provided several castle men, but also several burgraves over the course of history as the highest office of the immediately imperial burgrave Friedberg . In the beginning of the 16th century they got a free float in the Odenwald through marriage, especially in the area of the Umstadt condominium . Adam Wais von Fauerbach served as a colonel in the war with France. He died in 1577 as an Elector of Mainz in Steinheim . The family died out with his son Johann Caspar, who died in 1620.
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows a blue lion in silver with a knocked out tongue and a double tail. As Helmzier a used airplane .
Name bearer
- Eberhard Wais von Fauerbach ( Burgrave of Friedberg 1365–1385)
- Eberhard Wais von Fauerbach the Younger (Burgrave von Friedberg 1405 - ???)
- Henne Wais von Fauerbach (1410 bailiff von Nidda , 1419–1426 with the Archbishop of Mainz the city of Staufenberg in pledge possession, 1437 and 1438 in pledge possession of Hermannstein Castle )
- Gilbracht (also Gilbrecht) Wais von Fauerbach (called Burgmann in 1432, bailiff of Assenheim )
- Wilhelm Wais von Fauerbach (1436 mill master in Danzig , 1446 fish master in Putzig )
- Wilhelm Wais von Fauerbach the Younger (1466, enfeoffment with the village of Fronholz by Landgrave Heinrich III of Hesse)
- Hermann Wais von Fauerbach (Burgrave of Friedberg 1456–1459)
- Ludwig Wais von Fauerbach (Burgrave of Friedberg 1473 / 74–1483)
- Eberhard Wais von Fauerbach (Burgrave of Friedberg 1504–1526)
- Machar Wais von Fauerbach († 1509), 1490 to 1509 abbot of the Limburg monastery near Bad Dürkheim ; under him it was destroyed in 1504.
literature
- Heinrich Bingemer: The Frankfurt coat of arms booklet. 2nd edition, Kramer, Frankfurt 1987, ISBN 3-7829-0348-X , p. 33 plate 27.
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New General German Adels Lexicon , Volume 9, 1870; Reprint 1996, ISBN 3-89557-020-6 , pp. 438f.
- Klaus-Dieter Rack: "So do what you want". Review of the history of Fauerbach. In: Wetterauer Geschichtsblätter 52, 2003, pp. 85–93, especially pp. 87f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Thomas Doepner: The Premonstratensian Monastery of Altenberg in the High and Late Middle Ages: social and piety-historical studies , NG Elwert Kommissionsverlag, 1999, p. 306 and 308
- ↑ HStAD inventory B 9 no. EVIDENCE; Further records: "C 1 No. 39 Bl. 46v", dated February 16, 1410. In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen).
- ↑ CF Günther: Pictures from Hessian Prehistory , Darmstadt 1853, Vlg. G. Jonghaus, p. 365
- ^ Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History : German Department, Volume 95, Johnson Reprint Corp. 1978, pp. 88-95
- ^ Prussia: Communications of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research, Volumes 41-45, Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Commission Publishing House, Elwertsche Universitäts- und Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2003, p. 8