Warendorf (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Warendorf
Coat of arms of the von Warendorf-A family on the imperial confirmation of nobility in 1641

Warendorf , or Low German Warendorp , is the name of an aristocratic family originally from Warendorf in Westphalia , who belonged to the hereditary families in Münster , rose in the Lübeck patriciate and provided councilors and mayors in this city from 1183 to 1566 .

history

In Münster, where hereditary families like the Warendorp were already considered noble in the Middle Ages and ruled the city, B. Johann von Warendorp mayor 31 times between 1379 and 1418; there was his family, which, however, had two other family coats of arms, related to genders such as B. the Droste to Hülshoff . Due to the Hanseatic League, there were close ties to Lübeck.

In Lübeck this family was also called Warendorf-A to distinguish it in literature. In 1379 she did not belong to the group of founders of the exclusive circle society , but Brun Warendorp was accepted into it as early as 1428. In 1641 she belonged to the six Lübeck families of the society whose nobility was confirmed by the emperor.

The sex is to be distinguished from the unrelated, but also councilors in Lübeck in the 14th century, Warendorf-B, Warendorf-C and Warendorf-D. The distinction is made on the basis of the different family coats of arms.

coat of arms

The coat of arms is divided diagonally right six times by gold and blue. The middle blue bar is covered with three silver larks flying one behind the other . On the helmet two oval shields leaning diagonally inwards with the coat of arms, each decorated with (a bush of) five blue and gold changing ostrich feathers. The helmet covers are blue-gold.

A variant shows three blue bars (across) in gold, the middle, wider one is covered on the right with three flying golden larks. On the helmet an open golden flight studded with blue dots.

There are also two gold-spotted brown fallow deer shovels as a crest.

Mention in the literature

The writer Werner Bergengruen has a local councilor Henning von Warendorp appear in his novella "The Trial by Fire", which takes place in medieval Riga . It is possible that the Warendorp family was also represented in the Baltic States as part of the Hanseatic League .

Important representatives

Lübeck Council Line

Grave slab of Mayor Brun Warendorp († 1369) in Lübeck's Marienkirche

Canons of Lübeck

  • Johann Warendorff (1608–1680), canon since 1627, senior of the chapter and grand bailiff
  • Bruno Warendorff († 1659), Canon since 1636

Further

see list of members of the circle society

Possessions

Burial chapels and funerals

Lattice of the Warendorp Chapel in Lübeck Cathedral

In addition to the Warendorp chapel and the well-known grave slab in the Marienkirche, there are grave chapels ( Warendorp chapels ) of the family in the Jakobikirche on the south side of the nave and in the south aisle of the Lübeck Cathedral . The Warendorp Chapel in the cathedral was the burial chapel of the mayor Bruno Warendorp, who died in 1341, and his wife Helenburg Warendorp.

literature

  • Rafael Ehrhardt: Family and Memoria in the City. A case study on Lübeck in the late Middle Ages. Dissertation, Göttingen 2001. Full text with a prosopography of the council families von Alen, Darsow, Geverdes, Segeberg and Warendorf.
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line , Lübeck 1925.
  • Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns : The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Publishing house by Bernhard Nöhring: Lübeck 1920, pp. 71 ff. (Chapel in the cathedral); P. 233, 237/239 (tombstones and bronze tombstone in the cathedral). Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9

Web links

Wikisource: Saint Bruno (Lübsche Sage)  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ancestor Hermann von Warendorp († 1333), Mayor of Lübeck (1328-1333), cf. Fehling, Council Line No. 305, 352 (Mayor Tidemann Warendorp (1310-1366)) and 357 (Councilor Wedekin v. W.). Also the Schleswig Bishop Heinrich I von Warendorp (1343-1351).
  2. ↑ Fehling, Council Line No. 324
  3. ↑ Fehling, Council Line No. 287
  4. ↑ According to J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms. Part III, 3: The nobility of the Free Cities of Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck. Nuremberg: Bauer and Raspe 1871, p. 22; Fig. On plate 19
  5. ↑ So on the crowning of the Warendorp chapel in the cathedral, see BuK III, p. 71, two antlers can also be seen on the privilege of 1641
  6. ↑ Werner Bergengruen: The Trial by Fire - Novelle. Reclam 1953
  7. ↑ Fehling, Council Line No. 345
  8. ↑ Fehling, Council Line No. 668