Edelsheim (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Edelsheim

The imperial barons of Edelsheim are originally a Hanau , later a Hessian noble family . Run back to the kurmainzischen privy , government and President of the Chamber of Hanau-Münzenberg , Johann Georg Seifert of Edelsheim , who in 1706 finally on 12 December 1673 at the nobility, in the realm baron was charged. In the 18th century, the family reached leading positions in Baden and in the 19th century in Hungary . The Hungarian-based line received the count status in 1906 .

history

Johann Georg Seiffert rose to the Hanau court of Count Friedrich Casimir . As a secretary he accompanied the count z. B. on his trip to the Regensburg Reichstag in 1664. Later he was the count's secret secretary.

Seiffert's rise was accelerated by the events of 1669 in the so-called Hanau “great year” . He stood on the side of the faction of the count's family, which emerged victorious from this power struggle. In 1673 he was raised to the nobility - probably on the initiative of the guardian government for Count Friedrich Casimir - and was now called Johann Georg Seiffert von Edelsheim [b].

family

He was married to Elisabeth von Speckhan (* September 18, 1637; † April 8, 1701), daughter of Statius von Speckhan (* 1599; † 1679). Among their descendants are a number of politicians, diplomats, and the military:

Edelsheim-Gyulai house

This branch was founded by the Austro-Hungarian General Leopold Wilhelm Freiherr von Edelsheim (* 1826; † 1893), adopted in 1866 by his cousin, Feldzeugmeister Ferencz Count Gyulay de Marosnémeth et Nádaska (* 1798; † 1868). Count Gyulai's parents were Maria Anna Julia von Edelsheim (* 1779, † 1830), a daughter of the Baden State and Foreign Minister Georg Ludwig Freiherr von Edelsheim , and Ignaz Graf Gyulay , since 1806 Ban (governor) of Croatia , Dalmatia and Slavonia . On January 4, 1882, Leopold Freiherr von Edelsheim received the title "Baron Edelsheim-Gyulai". He was married to the actress Friederike Kronau (* 1841; † 1918; later Princess Lobkowitz ) and was the highest commanding officer in Hungary from 1875 to 1886. The marriage came from Dr. jur. Leopold (Lipót) József Graf von Edelsheim-Gyulai von Marosnémeth and Nádaska (* 1863, † 1928), hereditary member of the Hungarian upper house. He had received the Hungarian count status in Vienna in 1906 and was married to Princess Irma Odescalchi de Szerém (* 1863, † 1924) since 1886 . His son Lipót Ferencz György Gyula (* 1888), who died in Cannes in 1981 , had three daughters from his first marriage with Countess Gabriella Pejacsevich de Verõcze (* 1894, † 1977). After the divorce in 1920 he married Ella Rothkugel von Rollershausen (* 1899). The youngest daughter, Countess Ilona von Edelsheim-Gyulai (* 1918), had been married to István Horthy since 1940 and was the daughter-in-law of Miklós Horthy , the head of state of Hungary. Her husband had been his deputy since 1941. On May 21, 2011 Ilona Countess Edelsheim-Gyulai was awarded the honorary citizenship of the Budapest Castle District .

Family archive

The family and manorial archives of Edelsheim of the family, who also come from Würzburg according to information from the Baden-Württemberg State Archives , is located in the General State Archives in Karlsruhe . It comprises around 126 documents, around 516 file fascicles and a family tree and ranges from 1348 to 1969. Franz Freiherr von Edelsheim (Münster) deposited the majority of the holdings in 1910. In the years 1922–1982, further deposits followed.

coat of arms

The imperial noble coat of arms from 1673 shows only the archer in the shield and only one helmet, on it the growing archer .

The baronial coat of arms from 1706 is split and shows on the right in gold a Hungarian archer in a short black skirt, red waist band, red trousers, gold boots and fur-trimmed black cap, holding bow and arrow ready to fire, on the left in silver a gold-crowned and reinforced archer black eagle at the crack. Two helmets , on the right the archer with black and gold blankets growing , on the left a black wing with black and silver blankets.

The Count's coat of arms from 1906 is quartered and covered with a split heart shield , like 1706; in field 1 in blue a crowned golden lion, in the front paws holding a helmet with three silver ostrich feathers between open black wings (Gyulai), fields 2 and 3 in red a silver dove turned inwards, ready to fly with an olive branch in its beak on a green one Berg, field 4 in blue a right arm clad in red, swinging a crooked saber in gold. Three helmets, on the right with red and gold covers the lion with the helmet in his paws, on the middle one with black and gold covers the archer growing, on the left with blue and silver covers a black wing.

Historical possession

View into the courtyard of the Edelsheimschen Palais in Hanau, which was destroyed in 1945.

The barons of Edelsheim initially owned numerous important Hanau fiefs , which were lent to them by their legal successors after the Hanau counts died out in 1736. Only with the upheavals in Napoleonic times is the family no longer located in southern Hesse. The former fiefdom included:

literature

Web links

Commons : Edelsheim (noble family)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Koltermann: The journey of Count Friedrich Casimir von Hanau to the Regensburg Reichstag 1664. In: Hanauer Geschichtsblätter. 20, 1965, pp. 129-146.
  2. ↑ Ferdinand Hahnzog : The Hanauer "great year" 1669. In: Hanauer Geschichtsblätter . 20, 1965, pp. 129-146.
  3. ↑ The spelling without a “b” at the end prevailed.
  4. ↑ Edelsheim, Elisabeth von (1637–1701)
  5. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch , New Prussian Adelslexicon , Volume 2, Leipzig 1836 ( digitized version )
  6. ↑ http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0001/bsb00016325/images/index.html?seite=381
  7. ^ Gyulay de Marosnémeth et Nádaska family
  8. ^ Gyulay de Marosnémeth et Nádaska family
  9. ↑ Edelsheim . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 5, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1906, pp.  370–371 .
  10. ↑ Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950
  11. ^ Small conversation lexicon: Edelsheim-Gyulai
  12. ^ Edelsheim-Gyulai family
  13. ^ Hungarianambiance on May 22, 2011: Countess Ilona Gyulai Edelsheim has become an honorary citizen of Budapest castle district
  14. ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg , Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe , 69 von Edelsheim: Family and rule archive of Edelsheim ( digitized version)
  15. ↑ Dieter Krieger: Hessisches Wappenbuch, 3rd part family coat of arms, Volume 1, CA Starke Verlag Limburg / Lahn 1999, p. 53 f.
  16. ↑ a b Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Vol. III, Volume 61 of the complete series, Limburg / Lahn 1975, p. 81
  17. ↑ http://www.rumpenheim.de/Geschichte/geschichte.html
  18. ↑ Kulturportal Hessen: Südhessen
  19. ^ Walther Möller: Genealogical contributions to the history of the Odenwald and the Bergstrasse (continuation). Archive for Hessian History and Archeology New Series, Volume XXIV, 1952, 2/3. Booklet, pp. 129–138 “ The one with the stag (Geiling, Krig, Mosbach, Synolt). ", Here: p. 137
  20. ↑ General State Archives Karlsruhe: Dept. 69, No. 226. House book v. Edelsheim (1682), p. 130. Cf. on the v. Family. Edelsheim also wrote the essay by Dr. Gertrud Großkopf: Imperial property and manorial rule in Rendel. In: Wetterauer Geschichtsblätter 28 (1979) pp. 25-57.