Aichelburg

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Family coat of arms of those of Aichelburg

Aichelburg is the name of an old noble family from Carinthia with headquarters in Aichelburg in Carinthia and branches in Carniola, Görz and Gradiska, Styria, Lower Austria, Bohemia, Hungary and Italy.

history

The name comes from the Aichelburg , the ancestral seat of the family in the Carinthian Gailtal , with which Christoph Viertaler, son of Jörg Viertaler († 1468) was enfeoffed on September 3, 1500. On February 16, 1501 confirmation of his nobility and name from Aichelburg.

On October 8, 1655, the siblings Georg Christoph, Adam Seyfried and Maria Salome von und zu Aichelburg were raised to the imperial baron status , with the addition “on Bodenhof and Greifenstein ” and an improvement in the coat of arms. The ancestral castle near St. Stefan in the Gailtal was abandoned after the earthquake of December 4, 1690.

On February 3, 1787, the family was raised to the status of hereditary-Austrian count with a renewed improvement in the coat of arms. on March 22, 1884, the Austrian name and coat of arms were combined with those of the Venetian Conte Labia for the brothers Leopold and Franz Freiherrn von Aichelburg , the adoptive sons of their aunt Fanny von Labia .

From 1500 the family owned the rule of Aichelburg with a regional court and the nearby, later built castles Bodenhof , Greifenstein, Zossenegg and Bichlhof in the Gail Valley.

Incolates in Carniola on March 21, 1670, Gorizia and Gradiska on December 15, 1791, Styria on December 17, 1796, Lower Austria on April 2, 1814, in Bohemia on March 27, 1831, indigenous people in Hungary on August 31, 1843 Italian branch of the family bears the name "di Aichelburg".

coat of arms

Blazon : The family coat of arms shows in a split shield on the right in gold a naked moor who holds a green branch with three acorns in his right. Split three times to the left of black and gold. The naked Moor growing on the crowned helmet with black and gold blankets .

Name bearer

literature

  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch , Gräfliches Handbuch 1829 to 1941
  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch, Freiherren 1855 to 1939
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, pp. 25-27, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1972, ISSN  0435-2408
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Vol. 23 (1960), 48 (1970) and 12 (1988).
  • Almanac Ceskych slechickych rodu, Praha 1996–2017
  • Wladimir Aichelburg: Gentlemen, barons and counts von und zu Aichelburg 1500–2000, Half a millennium of a European family in its highs and lows, attempt at a family history , self-published Vienna 2004.

See also

Web links

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