Drachenfels (noble family)
Drachenfels is the name of a Rhineland Uradelsgeschlechts that from the 12th to the 16th century with the hereditary Burggrafenamt the same castle in the Seven Mountains was invested and a Baltic noble family the same coat of arms. An agnatic connection between the two sexes was documented in the 19th century by the historians Anton Fahne and Leopold von Ledebur , but it cannot be reliably proven in documents.
history
Gottfried (I.) von Drachenfels († after 1176), son of Burgrave Rudolf von Wolkenburg, is considered to be the founder of the Rhenish family of Drachenfels. The burgraves of Drachenfels Castle in the Siebengebirge were (each after the first documentary mention): 1176 Godart (Gottfried) von Drachenfels, 1225 Heinrich von Drachenfels, 1258 Godart von Drachenfels, 1280 Heinrich von Drachenfels, 1308 Rutger von Drachenfels, 1331 Heinrich von Drachenfels, 1388 Godart von Drachenfels, 1432 Johann von Drachenfels, 1455 Godart von Drachenfels and Olbrück , 1457 Heinrich von Drachenfels and Olbrück, 1476 Claus von Drachenfels and Olbrück, 1526 Heinrich von Drachenfels and Olbrück, with whom the Rhenish family died out.
Around 1477 Apollonia, sister of Clais von Drachenfels, married Otto Waldbott von Bassenheim . The Waldbott received inheritance claims to the hereditary castle county of Drachenfels and the Drachenfelser Land. By inheritance, they initially got the Drachenfelser seats Burg Gudenau and Burg Olbrück as well as half of the income from the Drachenfelser Land. When the Rhenish burgraves of Drachenfels died out in the male line on May 3, 1530, there were long inheritance disputes between the von Myllendonk and the Waldbott until they were divided equally in 1616. It was not until 1642 that Ferdinand Waldbott received the rest of the Drachenfels area from the Archbishopric of Cologne as hereditary castle count to fiefdom. However, in 1695 a settlement had to be paid to the Dukes of Croÿ .
The Baltic dynasty or the Baltic branch line of those of Drachenfels was first mentioned in a document on March 22, 1467 with Henricus Drakenfelt among the vassals of the Teutonic Order , with which the uninterrupted line of tribes begins.
coat of arms
The coat of arms of both sexes shows a fire-breathing silver dragon in red . On the helmet with red and silver covers the dragon with red wings growing.
Coat of arms in the large coat of arms collection
Coat of arms in the Baltic heraldic book
Coat of arms graphic by Otto Hupp in the Munich calendar of 1923
Known family members
- Gottfried von Drachenfels (13th century), burgrave at Drachenfels Castle in the Siebengebirge
- Friedrich Adolf von Drachenfels (1795–1863), diplomat from Hessen-Darmstadt
- Peter von Drachenfels (1795–1879), district marshal of Courland
- Rudolf von Drachenfels (1582–1656), German administrative officer and occasional poet
literature
- Anton Fahne : History of the Cologne, Jülich and Bergisch families in family tables, 1848, page 83
- Leopold von Ledebur , The noblemen, burgraves and barons of Drachenfels, Berlin, 1865, digitized , family tables
- Maximilian Gritzner , J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms, III. Volume, 11th section, 1st part; The nobility of the Russian Baltic provinces, Nuremberg 1898, p. 141
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume III, Volume 61 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1975, ISSN 0435-2408 , pp. 12-13
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leopold von Ledebur, The Noble Lords, Burgraves and Barons von Drachenfels, Berlin, 1865
- ↑ see literature: Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume III
- ↑ Bernhard Peter, Die Walpoden und die Waldbott von Bassenheim (accessed on March 11, 2018)
- ↑ Livonian Goods Documents, Volume 1, Riga 1908, No. 438