Revolt
The revolt was a ceremony used to confirm or increase the nobility . The correctness of the test person's information was solemnly confirmed by other nobles , who proved his nobility on the pedigree and other documents. This concerned the confirmation of the conjugal birth of all ancestors and their belonging to the nobility.
literature
- Hans Werner Langbrandtner: Ancestry test and revolt . In: Gudrun Gersmann, Hans Werner Langbrandtner (ed.): Noble living environments in the Rhineland. Annotated sources of the early modern period . Böhlau, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20251-4 , pp. 178-186.
- Andreas Müller: The knighthood in the Duchy of Westphalia 1651-1803. Revolt, internal structure and prosopography . Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Münster 2017, ISBN 978-3-402-15125-9 , pp. 149–264.