Opener (noble family)
The opener (also Opener ) were originally a Frankish noble family that had owned in Lower Saxony later.
history
The family comes from Franconia and was already mentioned at the tournament in Worms in 1209. Its seat was once near Rothenburg ob der Tauber . In 1418 Hans Opener owned the Habelsheim estate as a fiefdom of the Würzburg family, which is why the family was later accepted into the Franconian knight circle . A Wolf Opener was chancellor of the Margrave in Ansbach in 1528 . His son of the same name, Wolf Opener, was involved in numerous feuds , lost his property in Insingen and was beheaded on March 23, 1558 in Schwäbisch Hall . During the Thirty Years' War Georg Friedrich Openner settled near Braunschweig and sold the Franconian goods. His son of the same name was lieutenant general in Hanover and fell in the battle of Landen in 1693 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerd Wunder: The citizenship of the imperial city Hall from 1395 to 1600 , Stuttgart 1956, chronicle part.
literature
- J. Brandmüller: Newly augmented historical and geographical general lexicon , Vol. 5, Basel 1744, p. 416.