Eberhard Booe

Eberhard Booe (Buob) (b. 1298) was a free Imperial Knight of the village of Villingen under the reign of Louis IV, the Holy Roman Emperor. Lord Eberhard was born 1298 in Villingen as was his his father Konrad (Booe) Buob the III.
Some documents list Lord Eberhards father, Lord Konrad the III as the BUTCHER of Horb as well as the Ratsherr zu Villingen (Lord to Villingen).
Lord Eberhard and the Buob name is documented as far back as 1270 being a family of nobility in Villingen and many other Villages. As of 2008 no other documents have been found (that can be proved) that give more info on this family before 1270 in Villingen, documents have been found for Oberschwaben and Ostrach before 1270.
Lord Eberhard and the family name is from a Swabia, Suabia, or Svebia descendent.
Lord Eberhard's great grandson was listed as The Kinght Buob and was the Imperial Knight over Upper Rhine, District Ortenau, Kocher and many other Villages.
The Father of Lord Eberhard was of nobility and a large land owner.
Eberhard (Buob) Booe being a free Imperial Knight of the Holy Roman Empire not to be confused with the Roman Empire carried the shield and crest of his family name which was the crescent with stars which is true family shields and crest and can be used for personal display and or battle by any person that is a direct descendent and true (Buob) Booe name bearer .
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The ancient weathervane which was brought from Germany by Philip Jacob (Buob) Booe to be placed atop the Heidelberg Evangelical Lutheran Church steeple is believed to have been passed down through the family since the early 1300s. Some believe the weathervane was removed from Imperial Knight (Bernhar) Eberhard (Booe) Buob stronghold by his great grandson Lord Hans Buob after Eberhard stronghold burned down. The weathervane is displayed in the Rowan County Museum in Salisbury, North Carolina.
The (Buob / Bock) court is named after the old Horb, Rottweil noble family (Buob / Bock) whose house stood on the north-east corner of the town. The powder tower is also called (Buob / Bock) court tower.
The (Buob / Bock) Buob family of Horb in order of knights acquire more property taking half and whole villages. The (Buob / Bock) Buob families of the imperial towns kelp themselves secure with close marriages.
The Free Imperial Knights arose in the 14th century, the fusion of the remnants of the old free lords (Edelfrei) and the stronger elements of the unfree ministeriales that had won noble status.
Around 1300 the manorial economy suffered contraction due to the fluctuati on in the price of agricultural foodstuffs. Ministeriales who were in a stronger economic position were better able to survive the weakening of their basis as landowners. The vast majority languished in poverty, resorting to selling lands to the Church, or to brigandage.
The minority of ministeriales rich enough to weather the crises soon came to be identified with the remnants of the free nobility, and were thus seen as constituting one noble order. By 1422 some of these nobles had achieved jurisdictional autonomy under the emperor ('immediacy'), and the corporation of free imperial knights was born. The other ministeriales that did not manage to receive the status of immediate vassals of the emperor were gradually transformed into a titled nobility of free status: the Freiherren. By 1577 the Imperial Knights achieved the status of a noble corporate body within the empire: the corpus equestre.
The Free Imperial Knights, or the Knights of the Empire (German: Reichsritter) was an Organisation of free nobles of the Holy Roman Empire, whose direct overlord was the Emperor, remnants of the medieval free nobility (Edelfrei) and the ministeriales. To protect their rights, they organized them selves into three unions (Partheien) in the late 15th century and into a single Corpus in 1577, and fought to win recognition. As a noble corporation within the jurisdiction of the Empire, yet subject to the emperor alone (immediate subjects), the Imperial Knights exercised a limited form of sovereignty within their territories.
Source: SWDB11. X, Mitteilungsblatt Sept. 1950, S. 9; G. Todt.
Source C.G.A. 36 p. 124 and n ° 52 p. 175 November, 2001
Familie schon seit 1270 ratsgesessen in Villingen nachweisbar. Wappen v on 1525.
Sammlung Liefländischer Monumente..." Vol. 4, part 1 (of 2).
The Crest and shield of Imperial Knight Eberhard (Bernhard) Buob (Booe)
Eberhard's father, Konrad Booe the III carried a shield into battle which displayed a goat, as did his father Konrad II von Villingen. This shield was related to an area and not a family shield. Konrad Booe III was a member of the order of the Teutonic Knights. He would have carried the shield of that order, white with a black cross, in addition to the family arms.
Eberhard carried a coat-of-arms that displayed a crescent, inverted and centered on the shield with three six-pointed stars, one centered over the crescent and one below each point of the crescent. The coat-of-arms existed well before the Holy Roman Empire as a family crest and shield. The colors of the shield are uncertain as it was found on a seal which is pressed into wax. The crest is said to have been the same as the shield with no more detail other then a few lines and perhaps some ambiguous characteristics around the edge. No documents show that Eberhard carried the goat shield nor that of the Teutonic Order, which he did not join. The shield and crest which he did carry was tried and proved in court during the 1400s to qualify for a marriage between nobles and was documented by researchers in the 1700s.

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Kings and other notable ancestors and descendants of Eberhard Booe
* Michael (Booe) Buob born 1738 in Baldenheim was the justice of the peace chosen by Louis XVI of France himself. He was chosen partly because Michael Buob had helped to compose the de la police confideration, where he had great influence. The king knew he could count on Michael for his safety. Michael Buob set out to arrest those that would oppose the king insisting they were dangerous vagabonds and seditious. Following the imprisonment of king Louis the 16th and the queen Maria Antonia, Michael Buob sent his agents to give word to the palace on an hourly basis on the progress of the insurrection. At the end, he came to the palace himself to give word that all who were attached to the king were being watched. Michael Buob left the palace for the abbey where the mass killing began. In the days that followed, the killing continued. It became known as the (thirty eight hours of agony). At this point, Michael Buob and Bosquillon, both justices of the peace chosen by the king, were charged with the crime of liberticide for trying to prosecute those responsible for the invasion of the Tuileries. Michael Buob, Bosquillon and others were brought out and hacked to death.
* Georg Buob was the abbot of Sankt Blasien Abbey in the Black Forest from 1493-1519.
*Margaretha III Buob was the abbesses of Wienhausen Abbey 1318-1319.
* Konrad III Knight with the Goat Buob was a member of the order of the Knights of Malta. It is believed that the writer Konrad von Stoffeln wrote the play The knight with the Goat based in part on Konrad in the late 1200s.
* Hermann I von Wulfingen Buob, Lord Knight of the count of castle Poppenburg, born 1159. Knight to Wulfingen and Salzhemmendorf, he also went on crusade in 1197.
* Nikolaus Buob, born 1360, was the Catholic bishop to Roman Catholic Diocese of Kammin 1398-1410.
Source: Records or the Roman Catholic Diocese.
Source: SWDB11. X, Mitteilungsblatt Sept. 1950, S. 9; G. Todt.
Source C.G.A. 36 p.124 and n ° 52 p.175 November, 2001
Wappen von 1525.
Sammlung Liefländischer Monumente..." Vol. 4, part 1 (of 2)
* Casper Buob, born 1330, was a Teutonic Knight.
* Siegfried Buob was the Catholic bishop to Roman Catholic Diocese of Kammin 1424-1449.
* Baron Hartmann Buob was the Knight and Judge in Wildberg 1439-1453. In 1439 he received seals to wild mountain in the Saint Gallustag and in 1455 he was also known as the Forest Knight to Bulach.
* Michael Buob, born 1490 in Colmar, held the title of senator and guildmaster under the guild of Lowen for 30 years and was the Oberbürgermeister for 8 years starting in 1539.
* Jacob Buob, born 1531, took the office of his father, Michael Buob, in 1597 and was the guildmaster under the Holderbaum guild for 18 years and the Oberbürgermeister for 3 years.
* Jean Buob was mayor of Colmar 1799-1800 and 1815-1816.
* Johannes Hans Buob. 1398 to 1417 Hans Buob was Imperia Knight and magistrate and mayor (Ratsherr) of Villingen. Since the 1400s Hans Buob was called the knight Bock. He had acquired the title of nobility, he owned the Bock wood on the mountain Bock, half of the later village Briel with the Hardthaus, the steward's right in village Villingen, the village das Dorf Stett eno. R. and the village Feckenhausen.
* Michael Hans Buob, born 1596 in Unteroewisheim, was the lord mayor (Ratsherr) of Esslingen. He was listed as Imperial General Count Buob in the 30 Years War.
* Thomas Jacob Buob married Catharina Breitschwert in 1530. This marriage links the Buob family to the kings of the Holy Roman Empire.
The rise and fall of Imperial Knight (Bernhar) Eberhard (Booe) Buob's noble family name
Gen #1. Hermann I Von Wulfingen born 1155 in Wulfingen was the Lord, Knight of the count of castle poppenburg and Knight to Wulfingen and Salzhemmendorf. Hermann went on crusade in 1197. Hermann died in 1217.
Gen #2. Konrad I Von Hildwsheim born 1201 in Wulfingen was Knight to Wulfingen and Hildwsheim. Konrad I died in 1240.
Gen #3. Konrad II Von Villingen born 1235 in Wulfinghausen was Knight to Wulfingen and Villingen. Konrad I died 1260 in Villingen.
Gen #4. Konrad III (Knight With Goat) the BUTCHER of Horb born 1260 in Villingen was Knight to Villingen. Konrad III was a Malta knight and died in battle at Jerusalem by the hands of attacking Muslims as he was defending the walls.
Gen #5. Imperial Knight Eberhard (Bernhar) Buob born 1298 in Villingen was the free Imperial Knight to the Village of Villingen under the reign of Louis IV, the Holy Roman Emperor. Eberhard died 1393 in Villingen.
Gen #6. Imperial Knight Conrad 4th (Konrad) Buob born 1340 in Villingen was the free Imperial Knight to the Village of Villingen. Conrad was married to his sister Margaretha Buob born 1355.
Gen #7. Imperial Knight Conrad 5th (Konrad) Buob born 1370 in Villingen was the free Imperial Knight to the Village of Villingen. Conrad I died 1450 in Villingen.
Gen #8. Lord Hans (Johannes) Buob born 1395 in Villingen was the Imperial Knight to the Village of Villingen. Hans was called (knight Buob), the title he acquired of nobility, he owned the Buob/Bock wood on the mountain in Buob/Bock, half of the later village Briel with the Hardthaus, the in village Villingen, the village das Dorf Stetteno. R. and the village Feckenhausen. Hans I died 1459 in Horb.
Gen #9. Imperial Knight Hans II (Johannes) Buob born 1420 in Horb was Knight to Wulfingen and Villingen. From 1398 to 1417 Hans was alternately knight and mayor of Rottweil. Hans II owned the Buob/Bock wood on the mountain Blon, half of the later come away village Briel with the Hardthaus, the steward's right in village Villingen, the village Stetten supra R. and the village Feckenhausen. Hans I died 1465 in Horb.
Gen #10. Imperial Knight Bernhard I Buob born 1445 in Esslingen, Horb, Neckar was the Imperial Knight, Mayor, Lord of (Ratsherr zu) Esslingen. Bernhard married Margarete Ifflinger daughter of Konrad Ifflinger Of the Baron Iffliger Von Graneck Family. Documents list the Ifflinger family of Horb had come in 1457 to Rottweil. In 1465 they acquired low chess with the castle grain corner and now were called Ifflinger from and to grain corner. 1480 acquired them of the family Bletz the village Horgen, in 1513 varnish village and Stetten which they had received already in 1445 from the family Buob by the marriage of his daughter as a dowry. Bernhard died in 1503.
Gen #11. Lord Knight Michael Buob born 1470 in Esslingen was the Knight, Mayor, Lord of (Ratsherr zu) Esslingen. Michael’s gravestone is in the Church of Our Lady. Michael died in 1524 in Esslingen.
Gen #12. Bernhard Ruob Buob born 1500 in Esslingen was the Mayor, Lord of (Ratsherr zu) Esslingen. Bernhard is listed as Sir Bernhard Buob (The Ruob). Bernhard died in 1571 in Esslingen.
Gen #13. Lord Thomas Jacob born 1535 in Esslingen was the Mayor, Lord of (Ratsherr zu) Esslingen. Thomas died in 1588 in Esslingen.
Gen #14. Baron Johans Friedrich Buob born 1569 in Esslingen was the Lord Superior of the court in Wildburg. He acquired the title of nobility from Father and mothers families which are a direct line back to the great kings of the Holy Roman Empire. On the steeple of the Wendish-German double church there a plaque which honours the memory of the lower Sorbian poet Hans Bock/Buob, who was born in Vetschau in 1569. Johans died in 1658 in Wildberg.
Gen #15. Imperial General Count Michael Hans Buob born 1596 in Unteroewisheim was the Mayor, Lord of (Ratsherr zu) Esslingen.
Michael not only fought in the Thirty Year War (1618-1648) as did his father Duke Johans Friedrich Buob and his brothers but was in fact a Imperial General. This was a religious war principally fought in Germany, where it involved most of the European powers. The conflict began between Protestants and Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire, but gradually developed into a general, political war involving most of Europe. The Thirty Year War was a continuation of the France-Habsburg rivalry for European political pre-eminence, and in turn led to further warfare between France and the Habsburg powers. The major impact of the Thirty Years' War, fought mostly by mercenary armies, was the extensive destruction of entire regions, denuded by the foraging armies. Episodes of famine and disease significantly decreased the populace of the German while bankrupting most of the combatant powers. Over the course of the war, the population of the German states was reduced by about 30%. In the territory of Brandenburg, the losses had amounted to half, while in some areas an estimated two-thirds of the population died. The male population of the German states was reduced by almost half. The Swedish armies alone destroyed 2,000 castles, 18,000 villages and 1,500 towns in Germany, one-third of all German towns. Duke Michael Buob lost many brothers and children in the 30 year war which. It is believed that large portions of their land were also lost at this time which leads to them leaving their villages and moving on to other areas. Not all families left this area as many Buob's live in these same areas even today which are descendents of this family . Sources Gerhard Zeller, Vorfahren von Gerhard Zeller und Ortrud Karla geb .Fiala; Manuskript Juni 2005. Source: SWDB11 X, Mitteilungsblatt Sept. 1950; G. Todt.
Michael died in 1668 in Unteroewisheim.
Source: The History of the life of Leonard Torstenson.
Gen #16. Baron Michael Hans II Buob born 1639 in Unteroewisheim, Kraichtal, Baden. Michael was listed as Baron in early documents of his life which leads some to believe the vast amount of the Buob lands where lost when he was a child. Michael died in 1668 in Unteroewisheim.
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Gen #17. Philip Jacob (Buob) Booe. born July the 4th 1683 in Unteroewisheim, Karlsruhe, Baden.
Due to wars, lost of lands and to protect his family moved to Weissenstein which is in Switzerland where he lived for about 20 years. After this he took his some of his family and joined a ship to the new land which is now the US. By order of King George Jacob’s name was changed from Buob to Booe.
Phillip Jacob married Maria Margretha Stemmler, on the 30th of January 1701 in Weissenstein. He asked for manumission as a citizen of Ispringen, Karlsruhe. Apparently he and his wife left in without permission and his property was confiscated that same year.
[Hacker #1225/1227] - Jacob Buob ( I) of Ispringen, and his wife, nee Stemmler, moved to Pennsylvania some years ago. Permission is granted to sell her property, with some to be distributed to her three brothers named Stemmler, 1759.
[Hacker #8801] . . . Stemmler, the wife or widow of Jacob Buob of Ispringen, is in Pennsylvania. The officials are to proceed with the sale of her confiscated property and distribute the proceeds after deducting costs and fees to her three brothers Stemmler.
The first indication of the family of Booes in America comes from the Philadelphia passenger record of Strasburgers Vol. 1 page 233. This record is as follows: Palantines imported in the "Snow Fox" Charles Ware Commande from Rotterdam but last from Plymouth in old England. Qualified October 12, 1738. Phillip Jacob and his family arrived in Philadelphia on October 12, 1738 aboard the Snow Fox, a type of two-masted sailing vessel common in the 18th century. They remained in Pennsylvania for some time and became a part of the Pennsylvania Dutch Society. Jacob died in 1770 in Unteroewisheim Union Co., PA.

Gen #18. Christopher (Buob) Booe, Philips son, left Pennsylvania and was in Rowan County, North Carolina by 1756.
The descendents of Christopher (Buob) Booe acquired vast amounts of property, owned many slaves and built large plantations in a germen area known [http://www.booe.info/Forks%20of%20the%20Yadkin%20in%20the%201700s.htm Dutchman’s creek] in the forks of the Yadkin River in Rowan County, North Carolina receiving land grants from King George but by the end of the American Civil War the vast amounts of lands and riches had been lost leading some to leave their homes for the American west. The Old Dutch meeting house and graveyard as well many of the (Buob) Booe homes from the 1700s remain some still being owned by the Booe descendents.
Many other descendents of Imperial Knight Eberhard (Bernhar) Buob remain in the very towns and areas of Germany where the Buob family was once knights, lords and kings.

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