Bissing (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Bissing / Bessing

Bissing (also Bissingen , Bessing and Bessingen ) is the name of an old Thuringian noble family that first appeared around 1216 with Dietrich von Bessing (Dob. II 1716). The ancestral seat with castle that gave it its name was probably the place Freienbessingen and / or Abtsbessingen northeast of Langensalza , where they still had possessions in the 15th century. The family was widespread, including in Thuringia, Saxony, Anhalt, Bavaria, Württemberg, Bohemia, Silesia, Austria and Hungary.

history

For the first time a ministerial family from Bissingen appears at Bissingen Castle in Swabia around 1140 in the service of the noble lords of Hohenburg (at Hohenburg Castle ). A relationship to the Thuringian family described here is not known.

Furthermore, a family from Besingen appears , also from Besing in 1216 with Theoderico de Besingen (UB Walkenried I No. 95, p. 82) at Besingen. The village of Besingen, about 3.2 km south of the old castle of Osterode in the district of Göttingen , was first referred to as Beisingen, Beysingen in 979 and as desolate as early as 1477. It is not known whether this is the same Dietrich von Bessing, i.e. the Duderstädtische sideline of those von Bissin (en). A later Dietrich carried a cauldron-like figure as a seal in 1318, the upper half of which is opened by two flaps opened and to the side and on top of it two goblets or goblet-shaped glasses. The last of Besinge is said to have died in 1358.

The family was divided into three tribes 1. “von Bissing” in Saxony, Anhalt and Thuringia and “von Bissingen” in 2. Bohemia, Austria, Hungary, Silesia and 3. in Swabia.

Ancestor in Saxony is Hans von Bißing on Seelingstädt near Trebsen (Mulde) . The descendants of his son Cornelius settled in Anhalt. There in 1644 raised to the baron status. Later they had goods in the Saalkreis including Löberitz , Grötz, Rödigen (today to Bitterfeld-Wolfen ), Wadendorf (today to Zörbig ). Wilhelm Ludwig von Bissing built the Kreckow mansion in Mecklenburg-Strelitz in 1744 .

In 1595 the manor Klepzig near Landsberg was sold by Heinrich von Bissing to Hieronymus von Dieskau .

Status surveys

On June 14, 1647, Johann Friedrich von Bissingen , kuk war council, vice judge, colonel and commanders in Rottweil ( Baden-Württemberg ) was raised to the status of imperial baron .

On August 5, 1746, the barons Joseph Ferdinand von Bissingen and his brother's son Joseph Cajetan von Bissingen were raised to the hereditary count, with the addition of "Edler von" , including the Nippenburg name and coat of arms. The barons and counts of Bissingen-Nippenburg owned Grundsheim from 1636 to 1789 as an Austrian fief. Karl Gottfried and Johann Heinrich von Bissingen were raised to the Bohemian count status in 1747. In 1765, Anton Joseph and Johann Christoph von Bissingen were raised to the rank of imperial knighthood in Austria with the addition of "Edler von". The son of Joseph Ferdinand, Ferdinand von Bissingen-Nippenburg, received the indigenous state of the Kingdom of Hungary on November 13, 1819 .

In the von Bissing family , the Prussian chamberlain and landowner Willibald von Bissing , lord of the Klein Ellgut near Nimptsch and Rosenbach near Gnadenfrei in the district of Reichenbach (Eulengebirge) ( Lower Silesia ), was raised to the Prussian baron status on September 13, 1851.

On July 17, 1852, the brothers Adolph , Lord of the Ober and Nieder Beerberg estates near Marklissa in the Lauban district (Lower Silesia), and Moritz von Bissing (1802–1860), Lord of the Ober and Nieder Bellmannsdorf estates in the Lauban district, in the Prussian baron class ( Primogenitur ) raised. Only a few years later this Primogenitur survey was extended to all descendants of both brothers - on March 19, 1855 for the descendants of Adolph and on March 31, 1858 for the descendants of his brother Moritz von Bissing .

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows two turned, upright golden controversial scythes in blue. There are three (red, silver, red) ostrich feathers on the helmet with its red and silver covers.

The barons wield a square shield. In fields one and four the family coat of arms, in fields two and three an eagle.

The Counts of Bissingen-Nippenburg bear the following coat of arms: Split and divided twice across into six fields. In the first the family coat of arms; in the second also blue two silver wings curved outwards; in the third and sixth black field on a green hill a golden griffin with a shining sword; in the fourth red field a armored arm emerging from clouds and holding a golden pear; and in the fifth field, also red, a golden crown decorated with two silver ostrich feathers. The shield is covered by the count's crown, which is covered with four crowned helmets. The first with a red and silver blanket is covered with one silver and two red ostrich feathers; the second with a blue and silver blanket grows a crowned maiden clad in blue, from which two silver wings grow instead of arms; the third with a red and silver cover carries a blue tartsche lined with gold, which is set with twelve red standards - each one in gold F III; and the fourth with a black and gold cover shows the golden griffin growing with the sword. Shield holder two golden griffins.

The Bissing, who were raised to the Prussian baron status, wielded a crown between the scythe blades.

Name bearer

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