Etzdorff (noble family)

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Etzdorff , also Etzdorf or Ezdorff , is the name of an old Saxon - Thuringian noble family . The lords of Etzdorff belong to the Eastern nobility. They later came to be owned and respected in Bavaria and Franconia . Branches of the family still exist today.

The sex is related to the tribal line established by Heinrich von Etzdorf († 1511), lord of Nimritz . He left eight children with Barbara Weber († 1542). The tribe series begins with his son Moritz Etzdorf (* after 1507; † 1589), official school in Rehmen (now part of Oppurg ) . His descendant Rüdiger Etzdorf , initially a royal Prussian district administrator in the district of Elbing , was raised to the Prussian nobility on June 2, 1899. His brother Ulrich Etzdorf , royal Prussian lieutenant general and inspector of the 2nd engineering inspection, received the Prussian nobility on May 13, 1910 in Potsdam Neues Palais through the highest cabinet order , diploma issued on October 31, 1910 there. A Prussian coat of arms was changed by the highest cabinet order on September 25, 1910 and by a diploma from October 31, 1910 at Potsdam New Palace for Rüdiger von Etzdorf, now royal Prussian secret government councilor and lecturer in the Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests.

history

Gottlieb Ignaz von Ezdorf
(1743–1806)
Hasso von Etzdorf
(1900-1989)
Marga von Etzdorf
(1907–1933)

origin

The family was first mentioned in a document in 1219 with Dietrich von Ezelisdorf . After Kneschke , the knight Heinrich von Ezelsdorf also belongs to the family, who appears as a witness in a document in 1270. In 1274 he left his two farms in Eisenberg to Landgrave Albrecht of Thuringia , who wanted to donate them to the Eisenberg monastery.

The name changed in the course of time from the form Etzelsdorf in Etzdorff and Ezdorff, which was still common in the 15th century, and later the spelling Etzdorf was also used. Etzdorf, the original and name-giving ancestral seat of the family, is now part of the Thuringian municipality of Heideland in the Saale-Holzland district .

Expansion and possessions

In 1547 the brothers Hans Heinrich and Melchior von Etzdorff owned the goods Behmen in Saxe-Weimar and Herschdorf in the county of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt . In 1575 Melchior's sons, Joachim and Wilibald, sign a contract for these properties. At this time Heinrich von Etzdorff was Saxe-Coburg councilor and rentmaster . Friedrich von Etzdorff was 1588 captain to Jena and Christoph von Etzdorff the same year bailiff to Römhild . Hans Wilhelm von Etzdorff died in 1640 as Graflich-Stolberg caretaker and forester.

Around 1670 Georg Friedrich von Etzdorff was the ducal Saxon-Gotha chief tax collector and chief war commissioner . Johann Georg von Etzdorff, one of his numerous descendants, settled in Bavaria and married Anna von Weise. In Bavaria, the Weihenstephan estate near Landshut was first owned by the family, and later Pfettrach (now part of Altdorf ) was also acquired.

From the baronial line came Franz Gottlieb Baron Etzdorff, kurbayerischer chamberlain , secret and Government to Straubing later Kurmainzer and princely ellwangscher Councilor and Vicedom to Ellwangen , in the on June 7, 1780 Reichsritterschaft in Ritter Canton Odenwald of the Frankish knights circle was recorded. In 1785 Johann Nepomuk Joseph Freiherr von Etzdorff, Electoral Palatinate-Bavarian treasurer, secretary and government councilor of Landshut , was enrolled there . Both were raised to the rank of count in 1790 .

The count's line could be continued permanently in Bavaria. Ludwig Adam Graf von Etzdorff (* 1739) was a privy councilor of Bavaria, senior and jubilee of the Regensburg bishopric . His nephews were Joseph Maria Graf von Etzdorff, Lord of Pfettrach, royal Bavarian chamberlain and councilor of Landshut and Carl Wilhelm Graf von Etzdorff, royal Bavarian chamberlain and captain . Franz Xaver Graf von Etzdorff left behind the two sons Carl and Joseph Maria from his first marriage with Maria Countess von Fugger-Göttersdorf . Carl Graf von Etzdorff (* 1766) became a royal Bavarian treasurer and captain à la suite , his brother Joseph Maria Graf von Etzdorff († 1848) was a royal Bavarian treasurer and councilor. His first marriage was Maria Theresa Countess Hörl von Wattersdorf. From this marriage came the Countess Caroline, who married Carl Theodor Graf von Holnstein in 1817 . From his second marriage to his maid Maria Anna Nagl came the illegitimate born and legitimized Joseph Graf von Etzdorff (* 1807), royal Bavarian chamberlain . He married Countess Adriana von Balbi in 1843.

Carl von Etzdorff came from the aristocratic line, served as major general in the royal Württemberg army and died in 1837 as a pensioner. Other members of the family became officers in the Prussian army . One Etzdorff fell in 1813 as the captain and commander of a detachment of the 7th Infantry Regiment, another was a captain in the 26th Infantry Regiment. He resigned from active service as a major in 1821 .

Status surveys

Georg Carl von Etzdorff, Electoral Bavarian Government to Landshut, received on June 23, 1682 to Vienna to erbländisch-Austrian baron. An electoral Bavarian recognition took place on March 26, 1683.

On August 19, 1790 in Munich , the brothers Johann Nepomuk Joseph Freiherr von Etzdorff, Electoral Palatinate Bavarian Chamberlain, Real Privy Councilor of Landshut and Carer of Kirchberg, Ludwig Freiherr von Etzdorff, Cathedral Capitular of Freising and Regensburg and Gottlieb Freiherr von Etzdorff, Electoral Mainz and electoral Palatinate Privy Councilor and Vicedom zu Ellwangen raised by Elector Karl Theodor von Pfalzbayern as imperial vicar to the status of imperial count .

Josef Maria Graf von Etzdorff, auf Pfettrach, royal Bavarian treasurer, together with his siblings, cousins ​​and bases, was registered in the count class of the nobility register in the Kingdom of Bavaria on December 16, 1813.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Barons of Etzdorff

The family coat of arms shows a jumping red stag in silver on a green three-mountain . On the helmet with red and silver helmet covers a mace quartered in black and silver .

Name bearer (chronological)

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume III, Volume 61 of the complete series; Page 192
  2. ↑ Codex diplomaticus Saxoniae regiae IA 3, 1898, No. 266
  3. ↑ a b c New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 3, pages 170–171
  4. ^ Letter from Countess Caroline von Holnstein from Bavaria, b. Countess von Etzdorf (1797–1859), to King Ludwig I of Bavaria on June 15, 1840 / Martin Irl, Holnstein Archive, Schwarzenfeld
  5. ↑ Joint War Edition. Czernowitzer Allgemeine Zeitung / Tagblatt. Thursday, November 7, 1918, p. 1