Welda (noble family)
Welda (also Wellede or Wellethe or "Welde") is the name of an old Westphalian noble family with the headquarters of the same name Welda (Wellethe) near Warburg . The founders of the sex were probably ministerials . The part of the family belonging to the Westphalian ( Paderborn ) knighthood died out in the male line around 1500.
history
The progenitor of the family was a knight Conrad, who was first mentioned in a document in 1188. The gender represented u. a. Burgmannen in the neighboring town of Warburg . In May 1357, Brobeck Castle was pledged by the Counts of Waldeck to Johann von Wellede. Some clergymen and women religious also came from the family. Around 1501, the male line died out .
In Welda (Sontra) there was a knight dynasty of the same name, which went out around the same time. It is not known if this family is a branch line.
coat of arms
The seal of gender has been handed down. It is shown and described in the "Book of Arms of the Westphalian Nobility", Plate 329:
Blazon : Two shuttles placed next to each other as stakes . Two shuttles on the helmet.
Famous pepole
- Friedrich von Welda, around 1400, Commander of Reval and Christburg and Supreme Trappist in the Teutonic Order of Livonia .
See also
literature
- Heidenreich, Friedrich: Warburger Stammtafeln: Genealogies of families of the city of Warburg a. their neighboring cities from the 14th to the 18th century; Aschendorff, Münster, 1986
- Bruno Hake: Welda: A village between the nobility and the church. Hermes Verlag, Warburg 1994, ISBN 3-922032-29-X
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ May 16, 1357: No recording of the von Padberg at Brobeck Castle against the Landgraves. Regest no. 1237. Regests of the Landgraves of Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).