Cottenau (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Kuttenau / Cottenau

The von Cottenau or Kottenau family was a Franconian nobility .

The family name comes in different variants, including Cottenau, Kot (t) enau or Kut (t) enau. The first known documented mention of gender and place occurs with Ortlof von Kotenauwe in 1289 as a witness of a donation to the Langheim monastery . Cottenau with Cottenau Castle can be assumed as the headquarters . Karl Hahn formulates here cautiously, since the Wirsbergers did not appear in Wirsberg either . The Cottenau already appear at the time of the Walpots and the mentions or non-mentions in the rows of witnesses or the like suggest that they were initially not followers or ministers of the Andechs-Meranians or the bishops of Bamberg . In 1489 Heintz von Cottenau sold his parent farm in Cottenau to the later Wirsberg bailiff Sebastian von Waldenfels , who in 1495 subordinated this free property to his employer. Around 1500 the von Cottenau no longer appear in their home country. With a Bamberg fief, they continue to exist in Großalbersdorf, today part of the city of Sulzbach-Rosenberg . They can be traced there from 1474 to 1506.

In Siebmacher's coat of arms and nobility lexica , the Kuttenau von Maurn or Kuttenauer are handed down as primeval nobility from the Nordgau and are already listed as the Bavarian nobility . Jorg Kuttenauer appears in the fief book of Elector Friedrich I of the Palatinate for the Albershof . From 1544 to 1585 they held the imperial rulership within walls . Depending on the level of knowledge, different first mentions and different information about the death of the sex are given. The latest date of the family's extinction is given as 1614.

coat of arms

Coat of arms from Siebmacher's coat of arms book from 1605

The coat of arms is divided by gold and black. In the black field a silver diamond. On the helmet with black and gold blankets, a gold hat with attached cock feathers and a black brim, with the diamond on it.

literature

  • Karl Hahn: Market Wirsberg - House and Family Chronicle - Volume 3 , Wirsberg. Pp. 277-282.
  • J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms, VI. Volume, 1st section, 1st part; Dead Bavarian nobility; Author: GA Seyler; Publication: Nuremberg: Bauer & Raspe, 1884, p. 5, plate 3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hahn, p. 277.
  2. ↑ Hahn, p. 281.
  3. ↑ Hahn, p. 282.
  4. ↑ Hahn, p. 282.
  5. ↑ History of the coat of arms of walls from the House of Bavarian History