Eberstein

Machine-translated from the German article

Eberstein is the name of an old Franconian (Buchonian) noble family, named after their ancestral seat Eberstein on the Rhön, which was destroyed in 1282. The family first appears in documents in 1116, and the family line begins with Heinrich von Eberstein in 1239. In the 16th century, the family belonged to the ducal Franconian imperial knighthood in the Rhön-Werra and Baunach knightly cantons.