Crousaz (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Crousaz

Crousaz is the name of an old Swiss noble family . The family belongs to the ancient nobility of Vaud and later acquired property and reputation in France and Prussia .

history

origin

The family is originally from the Meiern of Chexbres from. The family was first mentioned in a document in 1248 with Petrus dictus de Crousaz as minister de Chaibri . The uninterrupted line of trunks begins with Rodolphe de Cheybri dit de Chaibri , who appears in documents from 1279 and died in 1315.

Relatives called themselves since the end of the 13th century after their allodial goods from Crousaz and La Paleyre in Chexbres near Vevey . Pierre II, who appears in documents from 1368, built the family seat north of Chexbres. He was a Junker of Chexbres and from 1422 a citizen of Vevey.

Spread and personalities

According to Kneschke , members of the family were entrusted with the inheritance of the Ministerials of Chexbres from 1134 to 1300 . They often appear in documents from the Haut-Crêt Abbey and Hauterive Monastery .

The sons from the first marriage of Perrin von Crousaz-Chexbres († 1368), Jacob and Mermet, left the rulership rights of the House of Chexbres in the hamlet of the same name to their half-brothers from the father's second marriage to Margaretha von Crest, Peter and Amyon. Their descendants on the Lehn to Crousaz sided the gender oldest castle and Amtshauptmann Office of domination and castellany Glérolles (to Saint-Saphorin (Lavaux) duly) under the fürstbischöflich lausanneschen and later Bernese government. In the 16th century, members of the family were co- owners of the former parish of Glerolles and the local church of St. Saphorin, which they built around 1550. Before the introduction of the Reformation and the conquest of the diocese by the Bernese in 1535, they owned the patrimonial rights of the church and the parish of the city. In their areas they also owned some fiefs and income ( interest and tithe ). From the 16th to the 18th century, they often carried the panner lordship of St. Saphorin.

Jean Pierre de Crousaz
(* 1663; † 1750)

From the marriage of Claude von Crousaz Donzel von Chexbres with Pernette Maillardoz von Rue come the two sons Georg von Crousaz-Chexbres and Elias Crousaz Donzel von Chexbres. They were the founders of the two main lines of the St. Georg and Crosier family . Georg von Crousaz-Chexbres († 1631), the founder of the older main line, acquired in 1631 the Erbbürgerrecht the then free berner Street Lausanne and was landvogtlicher governor . Through his wife, Luise Loys von St. Georg, he received co-rulership of the village and was at the same time the progenitor of this line. His grandson David von Crousaz († 1733), Lord of Mezery , became mayor of Lausanne and the founder of the branch line to Mezery. Another grandson, Johann Peter von Crousaz (* 1663; † 1751), Lord of Lagrangette, was royal Swedish legation councilor and governor of Prince Friedrich von Hessen-Kassel . He was the founder of the branch to Lagrangette. From the Mezery branch came Anton von Crousaz, who died as a grand ducal chamberlain of Baden . His son Heinrich Meyer von Crousaz was in 1836 the chief forester in Hohenzollern-Hechingen . August Abraham von Crousaz came from the Lagrangette branch, who in 1794 received the regimental citizenship of the sovereign city of Bern. He was an artillery colonel and adjutant general of the Wattenwyl division in 1798 and was killed by mutineers when the French captured Bern. His marriage to Anna Catharina von Crousaz remained childless. His uncle Johann Philipp Freiherr von Crousaz (* 1717; † 1783) married Louise von Crousaz-Mezery's first marriage in 1742. Of his sons, Johann Friedrich Ludwig Julius died in 1806 as a royal Prussian captain out of service and Franz Ludwig in 1826 as a retired Dutch captain and retired royal Prussian forest inspector at Mansfeld . The latter married Luise von Schönfeld. The son from the second marriage of Baron Johann Philipp, Heinrich Freiherr von Crousaz called Cretét, became the general collector of the French bank and founder of the French branch that had converted to Catholicism .

The younger main line, Crousaz-Corsier, descends from Elias von Crousaz Donzel von Chexbres, governor and governor of Glerolles. He was the younger son of Claude von Crousaz Donzel von Chexbres. This line is called the Corsier line, as it also administered and resided in the administrative office of Corsier above Vavery in the 17th and 18th centuries. There was no tribal relationship to the Corsier family, known since 1608 and who owned the Corsier, Prelaz and Hermenches manors before the French Revolution . From this line came Daniel Ludwig von Crousaz (* 1746), who died as a royal Prussian major general of the infantry in 1811, and Stephan Andreas Franz von Crousaz, royal Prussian major . His sons Johann Ludwig Friedrich August and Friedrich Ludwig Benjamin were naturalized in Silesia and were also wealthy there. The latter became the Prussian district administrator in the former district of Groß Strehlitz in Upper Silesia . Adolf Friedrich Johannes von Crousaz (* 1813, † 1895) was a royal Prussian major at the disposition and a military writer. In the middle of the 19th century, August von Crousaz-Chexbres lived in Erfurt and was involved in editing the New Prussian Noble Lexicon.

The Swiss-based Crousaz expired in 1921 with the death of the pastor Victor de Cousaz (* 1836). He was the brother of Aymon de Crousaz (* 1835, † 1909), state archivist , to whom the establishment of the notary and civil status archive, the reorganization of the archives of the district and prefecture courts and the archive department for the State Council are to be owed. They were the sons of Pastor Jules Charles Auguste Henry de Crousaz.

Status surveys

Johann Philipp von Crousaz, royal Polish and Electoral Saxon court councilor , was raised to the status of imperial baron in 1742 .

Daniel de Crousaz, royal Prussian major in the Troschke battalion , received the Silesian incolate on October 22, 1786 in Berlin and his brother Andreas de Crousaz, royal Prussian major, also in Berlin on April 8, 1797 .

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a silver dove in red. On the helmet with red and silver helmet covers , a growing golden griffin .

In contrast to this, the coat of arms of the Crousaz von Corsier zu Lausanne shows a silver dove in blue, which stands on the tip of two golden rafters with a common leg.

Name bearer

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Paola Crivelli: de Crousaz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 13, 2011 , accessed June 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume II, Volume 58 of the complete series, page 374
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g New general German Adels Lexicon Volume 2, pages 368–369
  4. ^ New Prussian Adelslexicon Volume 1, Pages 382–383

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