Allstedt (noble family)
The von Allstedt family was an old dynasty of the Reich ministerial who named themselves after the Palatinate Allstedt of the same name, on which they sat from the 12th to the middle of the 14th century and from which the Allstedt office emerged .
history
The von Allstedt are said to belong to the family of the Lords of Weimar. They are of the same tribe as the domini or advocati de Glizberg , who first came to Erfurt and Heinrich, Herr von Allstedt and Glizberk, Marshal von Kalden and Pappenheim ( with Walter von Glisberg, Marshal of Kalentin 1036 (Gleißberg, today Kunitzburg near Jena ) * 1138; † 1170) were mentioned. 1133 the noble free Liutoldus de Glizberg is mentioned in a Naumburg document . Walter von Weimar, who appears in 1154 as villicus von Allstedt among the witnesses of a royal charter (or his son of the same name) is mentioned in 1181 as Walter von Gleißberg.
In 1221 Bertholdus de Glizberg appears in a document and in 1239 is called Albert, Vogt von Allstedt. In 1256, knight Johann von Alstedt and milites Heinrich de Glisberg were named together and in 1265 dominus Heinricus advocatus de Glizberg (until 1299).
Maria Elisabeth (born von Kospoth ), who was made Countess of Alstädt in 1676, does not come from the "von Allstedt" family.
coat of arms
Coat of arms of those of Allstedt and Glisberg
The seal of Heinrich von Allstedt from 1286 shows a sloping beam bordered with two threads. On the helmet an open flight with the bar on the left or right side.
The seal of Albrecht von Allstedt shows three sloping beams.
The coat of arms of the von Allstedt and von Glisberg families shows four golden alarm clocks, one on top of the other, in red. On the helmet with red and gold covers a red open flight, the motif on each wing.
literature
- George Adalbert von Mülverstedt : The dead Prussian nobility, province of Saxony , in Siebmacher Wappenbücher, Verlag v. Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg, 1884