Edling (noble family)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The counts, barons and noble lords of Edling , completely Edling von Laussenbach , were an Austro- Slovenian noble family in the county of Gorizia , which today belongs partly to Italy and partly to Slovenia . The headquarters were Haidenschaft / Ajdovščina . It is to be distinguished from the Pomeranian noble family Edeling , which was sometimes also written Edling .

history

The family came from Swabia , but settled in Gorizia very early on . Guido von Edling received the state estate here on February 20, 1501 . At the same time confirmed Emperor Maximilian I. the old aristocratic family and crest.

In 1565 a Johann Jacob von Edling appeared in Görz, and in 1567 Georg von Edling appeared as sovereign commissioner for the issuing of the investitures . Johann Jacob von Edling applied for the office of provincial administrator in 1585, and appeared in 1618 as the sovereign commissioner for the execution of the peace conditions at the conclusion of the peace with Venice . In the 17th century the family gained the hereditary baron status .

The family had three branches, of which the two on Haidenschaft / Ajdovščina and Ungersbach / Vogrsko were raised to the status of imperial count by Emperor Leopold in 1697 . The third branch was nicknamed the Barons of Salcano (Solkan, Nova Gorica ).

When paying homage to Emperor Charles VI. In 1728 Jacob Graf von Edling appears as the Land Marshal's representative . In 1763, Count Philipp von Edling was an imperial colonel and chamberlain to Archduke Ferdinand.

Count Rudolph Joseph von Edling, the second Prince Archbishop of Gorizia, is an important member of the family . Appointed archbishop in 1774, von Gorizia refused to announce the patent of tolerance issued by Emperor Joseph II in his archbishopric. He was then summoned to Vienna in 1782. In 1783 the diocese was abolished. Edling received a pension and went to Rome, where Pope Pius VI. appointed Papal Assistant to the Throne . In 1787 he moved to Lodi , where he died in 1803.

Another important member of the family was Albert Cajetan Count Edling (1772–1841), Oberhofmarschall at the court of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach , 1815–1819 Minister of State and temporarily successor to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as director of the court theater.

The Ungersbach branch died out with Philipp Graf Edling (* 1734 - 13 September 1817), who lived in Vienna. In 1870 the sex is listed as extinct .

coat of arms

coat of arms

In the first and fourth field, divided by gold and black diagonally right in the middle, the quartered shield shows a black hook placed on the left with a clover-leaf-shaped golden handle, i.e. of alternating colors ( above in gold a hook placed on the dividing line obliquely to the left, below in black one half golden rose connected to the dividing line ); in the second and third field in silver a diagonal, red bar, accompanied by a black eagle's claw at the top and an open, black flight at the bottom .

Name bearer

literature

Web links

Commons : Edling (noble family)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Message about accidental death , Oesterreichischer Beobachter of September 17, 1817, p. 1344
  2. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogical Pocket Book of the Count's Houses. 1870, p. 1289
  3. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogical Pocket Book of the Count's Houses. 1870, p. 1289
  4. ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Edling, Rudolph Joseph Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 3rd part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1858, p. 429 ( digitized version ).
  5. ^ Necrology