Bocholtz (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Bocholtz
Bocholt Castle

Bocholtz (also Bucholtz ) is the name of an old noble family from the Lower Rhine . The ancestral seat of the Lords of Bocholtz was the Bocholt Castle of the same name in Lobberich , today a district of Nettetal in the Viersen district .

history

Wibracht de Bocholte was one of the first representatives of the family to appear in a document in 1127 and 1131. He was a ministerial officer and feudal man of the Counts of Geldern . The uninterrupted trunk line begins in the 14th century.

Two tribes formed early on and settled mainly in areas on the Lower Rhine. One tribe kept the ancestral seat Burg Bocholtz until the 18th century and formed the branches to Waldniel , Lüttelforst , Busch and Ingenraed near Wachtendonk . The second trunk included the lines at Ingenhoven Castle in the Nettetal district of Lobberich , Broeck, Horst and Tongerlo. The main line from Bocholtz to Ingenhoven died out in the 18th century. Likewise the line to Broeck and Orey.

Reinhard von Bocholtz from the Ingenhoven family was Prince Abbot in the Corvey Monastery from 1555 to 1585 . In 1575 Dietrich von Bocholtz from the Ingenhoven house married Elisabeth von Hörde , heiress of Störmede Castle . This connection brought the Bocholtz to Westphalia . During the 18th century, other possessions fell to this line, including Alme bei Brilon through the marriage of the ancestor to the heir to the von Meschede family . From 1687 to 1820 Henneckenrode Castle near Hildesheim was owned by the family.

After the heir daughter of the Westphalian line of Asseburg was connected in 1793, her goods Hinnenburg near Brakel and Wallhausen am Kyffhäuser were also added; since 1803 this line was called Counts of Bocholtz-Asseburg .

The Sons of the year 1803 in the Prussian count conditions raised Barons Theodor Werner von Bocholtz to Alme, the baron title was customary law supported for some time, formed two more branches. The older one on Alme had the name Bocholtz-Meschede since 1793 and the younger one on Hinnenburg the name Bocholtz-Asseburg.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows three (2: 1) silver leopard heads in green with a red tongue that flaps out. On the helmet with green and silver covers a silver gooseneck .

  • Coat of arms of the von Bocholtz family in Siebmacher's coat of arms book from 1605

  • Coat of arms of the Counts of Bocholtz-Alme

  • Coat of arms of the Counts of Bocholtz-Asseburg

Well-known namesake

literature

  • Dietrich W. von Bocholtz-Alme: Report of the Count of Bocholtz to the knighthood of the Duchy of Westphalia about the complaints and wishes of the farmer and the point of view of agriculture . Menzel, 1830 ( digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf )
  • Anton Fahne : The dynasts, barons and current counts of Bocholtz. (Reprint of the edition from 1855) Zeller, Osnabrück; ISBN 3535015944 .
  • Otto Hupp : Munich calendar 1928. Munich / Regensburg publishing house 1928.
  • Anton Fahne : The dynasts, barons and counts of Bocholtz: along with genealogy of those families from which they took their wives . Heberle: Cöln ( digitized version )

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