Apostles

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Acts gender or country apostles are those old noble families of Austria above and below the Enns called that at the time of Babenberger were already resident (976-1246) and the forecast for the first Mansion panel formed. Since there are 16 genders, the term apostle does not refer to the exact number of twelve , but to the ancient origin of these genders.

In 1620 these were the following sexes († then already extinct):

  1. Lords of Polhaim
  2. Lords of Liechtenstein
  3. Count of Salm
  4. Lords of Traun (today Abensperg and Traun )
  5. Lords of Losenstein
  6. Lords of Zelcking ( Zelkinger ) †
  7. Lords of Stubenberg
  8. Lords of Puechhaim ( Puchheim ) †
  9. Lords of Strein (Streun von Schwarzenau, Streun zu Schwarzenau)
  10. Lords of Stahrenberg ( Starhemberg , Starenberg)
  11. Lords of Scherffenberg ( Schärffenberg )
  12. Lords of the Wild and Rhine Counts
  13. Lords of Zinzendorf
  14. Counts of Fürstenberg
  15. Lords of Rappach
  16. Counts of Collalto

In what is now Austria's territory, only the Abensperg and Traun , Liechtenstein , Starhemberg , Stubenberg and Fürstenberg-Weitra families still live .

Important medieval families of Austria, which for various reasons do not belong to the Apostle families, are for example the Habsburgs , Walseers and Schaunberger .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Franz Karl Wißgrill : scene of the rural Lower Austrian nobility from the lords and knights of the XI. Century to the present day . tape 1 . Vienna 1794, p. 10–11 ( digitized version ).