Botzheim (noble family)
Botzheim is the name of an old noble family from Upper and Middle Rhine . The lords of Botzheim had their headquarters in Bootzheim (also Boozheim ) near Schlettstadt in Alsace .
history
The family with Craft von Bozheim was first mentioned in a document in 1309. He died in 1335 as a canon of Basel . The progenitor of sex, Johannes dictus de Bozheim , resigned in city government of Schlettstadt on, was since 1338 chairman in Décapole and was built by Emperor Charles IV. With the Empire office of mayor to Schlettstadt invested , which exercised the family there later for a long time. When Johannes fell defending the city in 1352, he was given "his portrait in the whole of the Küriss" in his honor erected at the entrance to the cathedral gate.
In the following centuries the family expanded strongly in the county of Ortenau and later came into the city regiments of Strasbourg , Haguenau and Frankfurt am Main . There a Hans von Botzheim entered Alten Limpurg as a heir in 1556 . In 1631, after the death of his court marshal Johann Bernhard von Botzheim , Duke Wilhelm von Weimar had a special Ortstaler minted with the inscription "Treu Herr, treu Knecht" . At the beginning of the 18th century a branch of the family had become wealthy in West Prussia and Courland . The last branch was a Palatinate-Bavarian line that had been in the Palatinate court and administrative service for over two hundred years. There she received the Majorat Wachenheim near Worms in the 18th century .
The Lords of Botzheim belonged to the Upper and Middle Rhine Imperial Knighthood since the 16th century . In the 18th century, members of the family were members of the knight canton Upper Rhine of the Rhenish knight circle , the knight canton Odenwald of the Franconian knight circle and the knight canton Neckar-Black Forest of the Swabian knight circle .
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows in black a golden diagonal bar covered with three spur wheels (stars).
Since 1352 - as Reichsschultheissen zu Schlettstadt - the coat of arms in black shows a golden cross. On the helmet there is a growing (previously sitting) silver bracke between two golden buffalo horns . The helmet covers are black and gold.
Name bearer
- Albert Freiherr von Botzheim (1868–1955), German court official and heraldist
- Erich von Botzheim (1871–1958), German lieutenant general
- Friedrich Casimir von Botzheim (1672–1737), Prussian major general
- Friedrich Ludwig von Botzheim (1739–1802), Nassau statesman
- Hans Bernd von Botzheim († 1631), Saxon-Weimar court official
- Johannes von Botzheim (1480–1535), German humanist
Individual evidence
- ^ Document book of the city of Basel, Volume 4, Basel 1899, p. 11
- ^ Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book, plate 195
literature
- Otto Hupp : Munich Calendar 1920. Munich / Regensburg Publishing House 1920.
- Genealogical handbook of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume II, Volume 58 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1974, ISSN 0435-2408
