Daun (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the city and the Daun family

The Daun were several noble families who originally came from the Rhineland and u. a. provided several important Austrian military leaders.

history

Wirich Graf Daun
Leopold Count Daun

The family named themselves after the town of Daun in what is now the Vulkaneifel district ( Rhineland-Palatinate ), south of the High Eifel on the Lieser River . The lineage of the later imperial counts and Austrian princes begins around 1450 after the older free lords of the von Daun family died out in 1163 and a servant of this family, Richardus de Duna , took over the name of his former lords and the coat of arms with the Daun lattice would have. For centuries they ruled from the Dauner Burg under the suzerainty of the Trier Elector over numerous localities in the Eifel-Moselle region.

Rhineland

In 1250, the Dauners married into the family of the Lords of Oberstein at Bosselstein Castle and, next to them, formed their own family line called Daun-Oberstein . They resided at Oberstein Castle in Idar-Oberstein . At the beginning of the 16th century, Wirich von Daun-Oberstein (* around 1473; † 1546) made a name for himself as a diplomat and military commander and expanded the influence of his family considerably. He was a son of Melchior von Daun-Oberstein and nephew of Cologne Archbishop Philipp von Daun-Oberstein . Through descent, marriage and his own merits, he became the master and owner of the dominions Oberstein , Falkenstein , Linnep , Broich and Bürgel and also owned a share in the county of Limburg . Emperor Maximilian I raised Wirich's rule of Falkenstein to a county in 1518, whereupon Wirich and his descendants called themselves the "Lords of Daun-Falkenstein ". It was not until Wilhelm Wirich von Daun-Falkenstein sold the County of Falkenstein in 1667 to Duke Charles IV of Lorraine . With his death in 1682 this line was extinguished in the male line .

Austria

Wilhelm Johann Anton Count Daun (1621–1706) from the line of imperial counts since 1643 and 1655 entered Austrian service in 1657 and in 1694 became field marshal . His sons were Heinrich Dietrich Martin Joseph Graf Daun (1678–1761; later Field Marshal and Court War Councilor ) and Heinrich Richard Lorenz Graf Daun (1673–1729; later Lieutenant Field Marshal ) and Wirich Graf Daun (1669–1741; later also Field Marshal), who served as his military Career began in his father's regiment. In 1657 the Daun received the Lower Austrian gentry, in 1684 the Bohemian Inkolat, in 1686 the Lower Austrian old gentry, and in 1688 the Hungarian indigenous. Wirich Graf Daun was raised to Prince of Teano (today in the province of Caserta ) for his military services in 1711 and was named Spanish Grandee and awarded the Golden Fleece . His son Leopold (1705–1766) received the first Grand Cross of the Maria Theresa Order for his military services . Wirich and Leopold Graf Daun maintained close contacts with the imperial family and after their death they were buried in the St. George's Chapel in Vienna's Augustinian Church.

After the male line of Austrian Daun became extinct, their property was inherited by a branch of the Nikolai line of Count Pálffy von Erdőd in 1851 . They then obtained the name and coat of arms association Pálffy-Daun von Erdőd in 1853 and in 1876 the Austrian approval to continue the title of Prince of Teano . The Hungarian permission to continue this princely title was given in 1879.

possession

Rhineland branch

Austrian branch

coat of arms

Coat of arms of those of Daun, Siebmacher's Wappenbuch 1918

The older generation of the Lords of Daun is said to have had the coat of arms with the Daun lattice. After this family died out in 1163, Richardus de Duna , a former servant of this family, took over the name and the coat of arms of his former masters.

Coat of arms of the Counts of Daun, Siebmacher 1918

The "Lords of Daun-Falkenstein " led the red slanting grid from the Daun city coat of arms, square with the coat of arms of the County of Falkenstein .

The coat of arms of the Imperial Counts of Daun was quartered with a crowned golden heart shield: in it in a red diagonal grid (= Daun family coat of arms); 1 and 4 divided. above in blue two silver lilies, below in black a golden crown of leaves; 2 and 3 in gold a black lion turned inwards (= Sassenheim ). Four helmets with black and silver covers: I crowned, as a crest ornament a black lion standing on the helmet crown (= Sassenheim); II as a crest a silver tucked black hat with three ostrich feathers (black-silver-black); III crowned, a silver swan with black wings as a crest ornament (= crest ornament of the family coat of arms), IV crowned, as a crest ornament a black flight covered with a golden crown of leaves.

According to the name and coat of arms association Pálffy-Daun von Erdőd , the Daun coat of arms was used as the background for the coat of arms of the Pálffy von Erdőd .

people

Well-known members of the family included:

literature

Web links

Commons : Daun  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gregor Brand, Leopold Joseph Graf Daun - Austrian general from the Eifler family , Eifel newspaper, July 4, 2012 (accessed on January 3, 2013)
  2. ↑ Website on Bosselstein Castle and the family history
  3. ^ Website on the history of the Obersteiners and Daun-Obersteiners