Belcredi (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Counts of Belcredi after Tyroff

The Counts of Belcredi were an old noble family from Lombardy that made their home in the Habsburg Monarchy in Moravia in the 18th century .

history

The Belcredi are an originally Italian noble family who belong to the Lombard patrician nobility of the city of Pavia . In a document first appeared in 1226 Simone de Belcredo in Pavia. The safe trunk series begins with Riccardo Belcredi (1353).

Montalto Pavese Castle

In 1470 Antonio , nobleman at court , received the castle of Montalto as a fief from Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan . The full family name was then Belcredo Montallto Pavese di Castelo .

In Pavia, family members were members of the government and held high honorary positions until the middle of the 16th century, as a document from Emperor Charles V stored in Pavia attests.

On 13 May 1667 the brothers was Giovanni Domenico and Giovanni Battista Belcredi , both doctors, the latter also a professor of medicine at the University of Pavia, Emperor Leopold I in Laxenburg Palace in Vienna , the Roman imperial Palatinat and personal ceremony Eques® aureatus awarded .

On May 15, 1726, the Robbio , Vinzaglio , Casalino and Pizinengo fiefs were awarded to Don Carlo de Belcredi in Vienna to establish the Marchese title awarded on July 7, 1721. The wife of the Marchese Pio de Belcredi , Maria Ernestina von Lestwitz, gave her husband two sons. Gasparo and Antonio . Gasparo inherited the family property according to the firstborn law, the brother came away empty-handed.

Líšeň Castle near Brno
Jimramov Castle (Ingrowitz)

That is why Antonio decided in the middle of the 18th century to emigrate to Austria-Hungary , where he initially settled in Bohemia . On 27 October 1769, received kk  Colonel Sergeant ( Major ) Infantry Anton de Marchese Belcredi, married to Maria Theodora (Theodolinde) Baroness von Frey Rock, in Vienna the erbländisch-Bohemian count conditions. He inherited the Lösch (Líšeň) Castle (today in the city of Brno ) in Moravia through his wife , which belonged to the Belcredis until the confiscation in 1945 and was returned after 1989 due to the restitution laws in the Czech Republic .

The Belcredis acquired other goods in Moravia. In 1778 Marie Antonia von Waldorf sold the Ingrowitz estate to the Belcredi, who lived here until 1948 at the castle, which was transferred to them again in 1991. The Moravian castle Prödlitz (Brodek), which was also restored, comes from the inheritance of the Counts Kálnoky von Kőröspatak .

The treasurer and officer Eduard Graf Belcredi (* July 16, 1786; † September 5, 1838), son of Anton and married to Maria Countess von Fünfkirchen (1790–1860), was lord of the allodial lordships of Ingrowitz , Lösch and the Bosenitz estate . This connection gave birth to five children: Cölestine (1813–1901), Egbert (1816–1894), Almerie (1819–1914), married to Hugo, Prince of Thurn and Taxis , Edmund (1821–1896) and Richard (1823–1902) ). Edward's sister, Antonie , was married to Count Anton Braida († March 16, 1825).

In the 19th century, Richard Graf Belcredi (1823–1902), 1865–1867 Prime Minister of Austria, later President of the Imperial and Royal Administrative Court  , and his older brother Egbert (1816–1894), large landowner and member of parliament, stood out.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Counts of Belcredi with shield bearers
Belcredi coat of arms on the castle in the former Lösch near Brno

Shield of gold, red, and gold cut across; above, in gold, a black, crowned and gold-armored eagle; in the middle in red a gold and below in gold a red, crowned lion striding to the right. There are three crowned helmets above the count's crown. The one on the right, growing and facing inwards, carries the golden lion of the middle section of the shield, the middle one the eagle of the upper section and the one on the left the growing red lion of the lower section of the shield. The helmet covers are black and gold on the right, red and gold on the left. Two inward-looking silver griffins hold the shield. - The coat of arms often appears without the shield holder.

Personalities (Austria)

literature

Web links

Commons : Belcredi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heraldrys Institute of Rome link to heraldrysinstitute.com
  2. ↑ link to hotelbelcredi.cz
  3. ↑ GHdA Adelslexikon Vol. 1 (53), 1972, page 292
  4. ↑ a b Prof. Dr. Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: "German count houses of the present: in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation", 3rd volume AZ, Verlag TO Weigel, Leipzig 1854, p. 14 f.