Della Scala (Austrian noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Counts Della Scala 1816

The Counts della Scala from Bukovina , related to the Scaligers , are an Italian and Austrian noble family .

history

Guido Graf Della Scala (1923)
Mastino Count Della Scala (1923)

The Della Scala (Scaliger) family , who ruled the fortunes of Verona from 1261 to 1387 , were not only represented there. A branch of the family was also mentioned in Lodi and Piacenza . The branch from Lodi acquired the knighthood in 1534 and was raised to the rank of count by the diploma of King Charles II of Spain and Duke of Milan on September 7, 1672.

By the very highest resolution of Emperor Franz I of December 10, 1816, Count Klaudius (Claudio) della Scala, residing in Lodi, as well as his son Hanibal and his brother Franz, confirmed the old nobility and allowed them to use the title of count in Austria.

The older son married the Bukovinian Parasca von Gojan (Goian). Over time, the family acquired the goods Berbestie (Berbeşti), Kalinestie / Cz in the duchy. (Călineşti) and parts of Zadowa (Jadova) and in Galicia Landestreu (Selenyj Jar) , Brigidau (Laniwka) and Hniliczki.

Of his two sons, Balthasar (1803–1880), a dragoon officer in Lemberg, married Helene (1811–1876), daughter of the knight Stefan von Wassilko (1772–1843). Balthasar's son Hieronymus (1840–1914) married Eugenie (1864–1928), daughter of Leon Ritter von Wassilko. Hieronymus (Jerome) recommended the farmers of Hliniczki, since they had not received a Catholic clergyman, to register the formal conversion to the Orthodox faith, which caused considerable tension.

The sons Guido and Mastino were both k. u. k. Cavalry Captain . While Guido settled in Salzburg and was one of the founding members of the Salzburg Officers Association in 1957, his brother Mastino (born October 18, 1885 in Zeleneu; † December 8, 1963 in Mainz ) joined the Romanian army as a cavalry officer. October 1922 in Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) Princess Dorothea zu Sayn - Wittgenstein (born November 27, 1904 in Druzhnoselie ( Saint Petersburg governorate ), † April 9, 1970 in Darmstadt ) and managed his estate Kalinestie / Cz. (Călineşti). Queen Maria of Romania , the wife of King Ferdinand I of Romania , was the godmother of Mastinos daughter Maria (born November 27, 1923 in Călineşti, Bukowina, † December 22, 1991 in Darmstadt). In 1962, after years of persecution in the People's Republic of Romania , the family managed to leave this country and move to Germany , where Mastino soon died.

This branch of the della Scala family will extinguish in the male line. The last male member of this branch of the family, Mastinos son Heinrich Hieronymus (born January 27, 1939), lives in Canada .

coat of arms

The talking coat of arms shows under a golden shield head , in it a red-armored black eagle ( badge of the Italian partisans of the Ghibellines loyal to the emperor ), in red a golden four- or five-rung ladder ( scale ), held by two inwardly erect, silver bracken ( mastinos ) with golden Collar. A count's crown above the shield .

Picture gallery

  • Queen Maria of Romania (middle and left), godmother of Maria Della Scala in 1923

  • Mastino Graf Della Scala at the Călinești estate before 1940

  • Mastino Count Della Scala at the Calinesti estate in 1941

  • Count Mastino della Scala and wife Dorothea, b. Princess zu Sayn-Wittgenstein 1943

  • Mastino Della Scala as best man of Count Georg Wassilko von Serecki in 1943

literature

  • Adelslexikon des Österreichischen Kaisertums 1804-1918 "- Directory of acts of grace, status surveys, recognitions and confirmations of nobility that are available in the Austrian State Archives in Vienna, Herder, Vienna 1989; name indices 1804-1822
  • Erich Prokopowitsch: The nobility in the Bukowina, Südostdeutscher Verlag, Munich, 1983

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Erich Prokopowitsch: The nobility in Bukowina. Südostdeutscher Verlag, Munich, 1983, p. 138.
  2. ↑ Peter Frank-Döfering: Adelslexikon des Österreichischen Kaisertums 1804-1918. Directory of acts of mercy, status surveys, recognitions and confirmations of nobility that are available in the Austrian State Archives in Vienna, Herder, Vienna 1989; Name indexes 1804–1822.
  3. ↑ Erich Prokopowitsch: The nobility in Bukowina. Südostdeutscher Verlag, Munich, 1983, p. 141 f.
  4. ^ Yearbook of the Society for the History of Protestantism in Austria. Publishing house of the Evangelical Press Association in Austria, 1967, p. 140.
  5. ↑ Dmitrii Markov: The Russian and Ukrainian Idea in Austria. Verlag CW Stern 1908, p. 17.

Web links

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