Fabrice (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Fabrice (1644)

Fabrice , also Fabricius, is the name of a German aristocratic family that, starting in Hesse , was able to spread through Mecklenburg and Saxony , and eventually also gained recognition in Prussia . Branches of the family persist to this day.

history

The Fabrice family is originally a Hessian clerks and scholars, whose established family line begins with the Count of Isenburg Council Weiprecht Schmidt called Fabricius (* 1551; † 1610). A relationship to the Koblenz born Sebastian Schmidt called Fabricius (* 1515; † 1553), since 1543 senior pastor in Potsdam and ancestor of the von Richthofen family , is not known, but it is obvious that they also have a crane in the joined coat of arms.

On November 19, 1644 the brothers Dr. jur. utr. Esaias (* 1579; † 1660), Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt Council and Vice Chancellor, and Dr. jur. utr. Philipp Ludwig (* 1599; † 1666), Landgrave of Hessen-Darmstadt Privy Councilor and Vice Chancellor (also Imperial Court Palatinate Count ) and their nephew Conrad , Landgrave of Hessen-Darmstädter Hofrat, later Chancellor, Jacob and Johann Reinhard , all sons of Philip , Counts of Isenburg Councilor and chancellery director, raised to the imperial nobility in Linz.

The line of the Hessen-Darmstadt Vice-Chancellor Esaias von Fabricius , acquired through his son, Johann Esaias von Fabricius , Imperial Councilor, Chancellor of the Wetterau Count College and Envoy of the Rhenish Knighthood at the Imperial Court, in 1660 the court Graß bei Hungen , became in 1662 by the Elector of Trier thus enfeoffed and then carried the name Fabricius von Graß , since about 1730 only the name von Graß , and in 1843 was recognized by the Duke of Nassau as a baron .

The line of the Hessen-Darmstadt Chancellor Conrad von Fabricius (* 1611, † 1675) later carried the name Fabrice von Westerfeld, so the sons Johann Philipp Martin senior (* 1642, † 1692) Hessen-Darmstadt Guardian and Comitial Envoy, and Johann Christoph Fabrice von Westerfeld (* 1648; † 1698), Counts of Hanau's government, judicial and consistorial councilor, each of whom married a daughter of the Hessen-Darmstadt Vice-Chancellor and envoy Nikolaus Martin von Drach. The feudal letter of the transfer of the feudal estates of those von Westerfeld dates from 1703.

Hanover

From Hesse, the family first spread to Kurhannover , where Weipart Ludwig von Fabrice (* 1640; † 1724), a son of the above-mentioned Philipp Ludwig Fabricius , was a Privy Councilor and President of the Court of Appeal . Of his sons, Johann Ludwig von Fabrice (* 1676; † 1733) was the Hanoverian Privy Councilor and Friedrich Ernst von Fabrice (* 1683; † 1750) the Hanover Chamberlain and later Landdrost . The latter enjoyed the special trust of the Elector and King of Great Britain George I , who is said to have died in his arms. The Hanoverian branch of the family found no further development and is extinct.

The Fabrice owned the Brockwinkel, Estorff, Langenhagen and Weihe goods in Hanover.

Mecklenburg

August Georg Maximilian von Fabrice , Drost and hereditary lord of Roggendorf , received the Mecklenburg indigenous population on November 11, 1801 . In addition to the estates, Roggendorf was the family's ancestral home in Mecklenburg, but also the estates Dutzow , Marienthal, Dorotheenhof and Klein Salitz, all of which were in the Gadebusch district and had been in the family since 1694. In 1737 and 1738, the Fabrice also owned the Harkensee and Rosenhagen estates in the Grevesmühlen office . Roggendorf stayed with the family until 1887.

In Einschreibebuch the monastery Dobbertin are ten entries of daughters of the family of Fabrice from 1816-1870 from Roggendorf, Burg Stargard and Neustrelitz for inclusion in the aristocratic convent in the monastery Dobbertin .

In 1822 this line also became part of the aristocratic inheritance of the Alten Limpurg family and thus of the patriciate of Frankfurt am Main (see below).

On June 20, 1882, the Mecklenburg-Strelitz naming association Fabrice-Falk came about , linked to the ownership of von Falk's money fideikommis whose beneficiary was Maximilian von Fabrice .

Saxony

From Mecklenburg the family went to Saxony , initially in military service. Sun joined Frederick Joseph Anton von Fabrice (* 1786, † 1850) in 1804 Saxon in royal service and was promoted in 1832 to Major General and Master of the Horse. His son Georg Friedrich Alfred von Fabrice (* 1818, † 1891 in Dresden) was a Saxon general of the cavalry and from 1876 until his death chairman of the entire Saxon ministry and thus Saxon Minister of War for more than 24 years. He was raised to the Saxon count on July 1, 1884 . On April 9, 1898, the Saxon baron came to his younger brother August Friedrich Oswald von Fabrice (* 1820; † 1898) . In 1844 he married Countess Helene von Reichenbach-Lessonitz (* 1825, † 1898), from the family of the Hessian electors . The only son Baron Wilhelm Friedrich Maximilian von Fabrice (* 1845, † 1914), was temporarily electoral Hessian chamberlain of the last elector Friedrich Wilhelm I and extraordinary Saxon envoy in Munich. With him the baronial line of the Fabrice found its beginning.

Frankfurt

Johann Philipp Martin Fabrice von Westerfeld junior was Imperial Real Councilor in the Free and Imperial City of Frankfurt , where his cousin Amalia Wilhelmina Fabrice von Westerfeld († 1769) belonged to the patrician society of Alten Limpurg , as she was married to Johann Adolph von Glauburg .

In 1822 the von Fabrice were accepted into the Frankfurt patrician society Alten Limpurg, founded by marrying into the member family von Günderrode in the years 1819: Luise Wilhelmine Rosalie Freiin von Günderrode (1800–1832) ∞ Georg Adolph August Friedrich von Fabrice (1784–1832) resp 1821: Marie Friederike Auguste Freiin von Günderrode (1797–1852) ∞ Christian von Fabrice (1782–1842). The lines received at that time expired in 1945/1966.

The Secret Sanitary Councilor Philipp Fabricius (* 1839; † 1911), a practicing doctor in Frankfurt / Main, received Prussian recognition of the nobility on May 27, 1889 as belonging to the family of Fabricius / von Fabrice. The Frankfurt doctor Heinrich Hoffmann named the figure Zappel-Philipp in his children's book Struwwelpeter from 1846 after him. Hoffmann was a colleague of his father's team at the Frankfurt Poor Hospital, the doctor Friedrich Wilhelm Fabricius .

coat of arms

  • The bourgeois family coat of arms only had a horizontally lying branch in the shield with a stem and leaf rose growing out of it. On the helmet the stalked rose between a flight, according to Dr. iur. Conrad Fabricius , Privy Councilor and Hessian Vice Chancellor of Darmstadt, in 1633, or a branch with three roses, so in 1635 with Dr. Philipp Ludwig Fabricius . However, around 1562 in Cologne, Walter Fabricius (also Gualtherus Fabritius) included a seahorse with a column on which a crane holding a snake stands in his signet . A relationship to this jurist and ducal Jülich council is not known, but since he was raised to the imperial nobility on October 20, 1578, this could explain why the crane was included in the coat of arms of the Hessian Fabricius when they received imperial nobility in 1644. In this context it should be mentioned that the coat of arms of 1564 and 1577 of the ennobled Fabricius (only called Schmidt since 1638 ) shows similarities, even if the bird above is supposed to represent a swan and the branch below is supposed to represent an olive branch. It is also worth mentioning that the Imperial Count Johann Georg Fabricius (* 1593; † 1668), Doctor of Philosophy and Medicine, already had a natural-colored crane in gold in fields 2 and 3 in the four-sided shield. The Nuremberg engraver Johann Pfann engraved his portrait in 1660 on behalf of Georg Fabricius (* 1632; † 1704). Throughout the graphic, right down to the crest, his coat of arms (apart from subtle differences in color, namely that the crane field is golden here and the arrangement of the fields is reversed) is the exact template for the coat of arms of the Imperial Court Council agent, who was ennobled in Vienna in 1731 Andreas Gottlieb Fabricius .
  • The coat of arms (1644) is divided , at the top a watchful, natural-colored crane in silver , each topped with a golden star, at the bottom in red a crumpled branch with a silver rose and two green leaves. On the helmet with red-silver covers the crane between an open flight divided by silver and red , whose silver places are each occupied by a gold star and whose red places are each occupied by a silver rose.
  • The Count's coat of arms (1884) is divided, above in silver a watchful, natural-colored crane, in the raised right claw holding a gray stone, on the right and left with a golden star, below in red a transverse brown branch with two leafy green stems, on it a gold-covered red rose. On the helmet with red-silver covers, the crane between an open flight divided by silver and blue, whose silver places are each occupied by a gold star and whose blue places are each occupied by a rose branch. Shield holder : two opposing golden lions .
  • The baron's coat of arms (1898) is divided, above in silver a crowned natural-colored crane, in the raised right claw holding a gold star and accompanied by two red stars, below in red a cut brown branch from which a silver rose between two green leaves grows. On the helmet with red-silver covers the crane between an open flight divided by silver and red, whose red places are each occupied with a rose and the silver places each with a red star.
  • The coat of arms of the sidelines of the Barons von Graß (formerly Fabricius von Graß ) is square with a heart shield embroidered in black and silver (ancestral coat of arms of the Westphalian nobility von Graes ). The main shield is reminiscent of the coat of arms of those of Fabricius (von Fabrice): in field 1 in silver a natural-colored heron inward, fields 2 and 3 in silver three red diagonal bars, field 4 in silver a six-petalled gold-inseminated red rose. Two helmets: on the right one with black and silver covers an open flight divided by black and silver over a corner (family coat of arms helmet von Graß, Graes), on the left with red and silver covers the herons between open flight divided by silver and black over a corner , the silver places with two red and the black places with two silver roses.

  • Coat of arms of the Fabrice family (1644)

  • Coat of arms on the tombstone for Johannetten Lucien Julianen von Fabrice (1674–1730), daughter of Weipart Ludwig von Schmidt called Fabricius

  • Coat of arms, as it was led by the Mecklenburg line around 1840

Relatives

Weipart von Fabrice, on the north side of the town church St. Marien in Celle

  • Weyprecht Schmidt, called Fabricius (1551-1610)
    • Esaias (1579–1660), lawyer and chancellor in Darmstadt
    • Philipp Ludwig (1599–1666), lawyer and Hessian chancellor, imperial court palace count

More families

There are other historical noble families known which used the name Fabrice , sometimes with an additional predicate, or Fabricius .

Bavaria I

Improved coat of arms from 1713 by those of Schmidt auf Altenstadt , who received an imperial coat of arms as Fabricius in 1564 and the imperial nobility under the same name in 1577

The imperial officer Johannes Fabricius , who came from the Upper Palatinate, received an imperial coat of arms letter with fiefdom article in Vienna in 1564. His sons Georg , auf Altenstadt and Sigritz, court masters of the imperial noble boys, Johann the Elder and Johann the Younger Fabricius received the knightly imperial nobility with an improved coat of arms in 1577. Wolfgang Fabricius , on Altenstadt and Sigritz, Germanized the name in Schmidt around 1638 . Johann Christoph Anton Schmidt , Imperial Chamber Councilor in Munich, and his cousins, the brothers Johann Georg , market manager and captain of the imperial city of Nuremberg, and Wolff Christoph Schmidt , margravial councilor of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, received a confirmation of imperial nobility in 1713 with an indication of Altenstatt and an improvement in the coat of arms.

Coat of arms (1564)

In red a green olive branch on which stands a silver swan ready to fly, on its head a green laurel wreath. On the crowned helmet with red and silver covers the swan on the olive branch.

Coat of arms (1577)

In a shield split by black and red, a stunted olive branch overgrown with a golden-leafed branch, on which a silver swan stands ready to fly, topped by a green laurel wreath, lies transversely. On the helmet with black and gold covers on the right and red and silver covers on the left, the swan on the branch.

Coat of arms (1713)

Divided: above as in 1577, below in a field split by red and black, a sword arm in armor emerging from a cloud. On the helmet with blankets like 1577, the swan and sword arm on the branch facing each other.

Bavaria II

Coat of arms of those of Fabrice, as it was given to the progenitor in 1731. The model was the coat of arms of the Imperial Palatine Count Johann Georg Fabricius (1593–1668), which was depicted in 1660 on a copper engraving.
Johann Georg Fabricius (1593–1668), Dr. of philosophy and medicine, physician, physicist in Nuremberg, since 1622 councilor of Nuremberg, personal physician of the Count Palatinate von Sulzbach and since May 27, 1659 ad personam Imperial Court Palatinate Count

The Imperial Court Council agent Andreas Gottlieb Fabricius was raised to knightly imperial nobility in Vienna on September 4, 1731. His grandson, the royal Bavarian regional court doctor Christian Erich von Fabrice (* 1773) was enrolled in the aristocratic class in the Kingdom of Bavaria on March 17, 1813 .

Coat of arms (1731)

The shield is quartered , 1 and 4 in blue, on a golden three-mountain a natural crane with a golden stone in the right claw, 2 and 3 in red, a growing crowned man in a blue skirt with a gold collar and belt, the one in the right with a turned back Sleeve a laurel wreath in the left hand holding up a golden staff of Asculapia. On the helmet with blue-silver-red-gold covers the man between an open blue flight covered on both sides with the crane turned inwards.

Rhineland

On March 24, 1774, a diploma from the Electorate of the Palatinate for a Fabricius family from which Anna Maria Ernestina von Fabricius was registered on June 24, 1829 in the nobility register of the Prussian Rhine Province (No. 106). Casper Ludwig Franz von Fabricius was the heir to the Rothe Erde estate near Aachen in 1836 .

Coat of arms (1774)

The shield is quartered, 1 and 4 in red a black anvil, 2 and 3 in silver an arm clad in black and opened in gold, emerging from the outer edge of the shield, holding an iron hammer with a green handle in the fist.

Bohemia I

The poet and philosopher Georg Fabricius (* 1516; † 1571) was raised to imperial nobility in 1571. His grandson Philipp Fabricius , secret secretary of the Lieutenancy, received a renewal diploma as Fabricius von Hohenfall in Prague in 1618 . He was directly affected by the Prague window lintel , which he survived.

Bohemia II

Georg Fabrici was ennobled on December 29, 1654 as Fabricius von Lauenburg in the Bohemian aristocracy and knighthood. His relative Valerian Fabricius received a knighthood diploma as Fabricius von Levenburg on May 19, 1674 . The family also flourished in Silesia in the 18th century .

coat of arms

The shield is divided lengthways, on the right a red anchor cross in gold , on the left a red crab in blue .

Saxe-Gotha

Friedrich Fabricius , also called Fabriti Schmidt , doctor of both rights, received as an emissary of the Franconian knighthood in 1626 the knightly imperial nobility and in 1629 a confirmation of it. In 1639 he and Georg Adam Fuchs von Bimbach zu Burgpreppach signed a settlement agreement concerning a farm and the tavern in Zeilitzheim. In 1640 he was given an imperial passport and escort letter as Friedrich Fabritius von Ebersbach called Schmidt . In 1646 he acquired the villages of Dörflis and Kottenbrunn , about which Duke Ernst I of Saxe-Gotha had him issue a fiefdom in 1650. In 1651 it was recognized as a Saxon state.

literature

Web links

Commons : Fabrice family  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Adelslexikon , Volume III, 1975, pp. 208-210.
  2. ↑ GHdA Adelslexikon Volume XI, Volume 122 of the complete series, Limburg (Lahn) 2000, p. 391 ff.
  3. ↑ Printed funeral sermon for Philipp Ludwig Fabricius, Comes Palatinus Caesareus, Princely Hessen-Darmstädtischer Privy Council and Chancellor, Darmstadt 1666
  4. ↑ GHdA, Adelslexikon Volume IV, Volume 67 of the complete series, Limburg (Lahn) 1978, p. 237 f.
  5. ^ Fabricius, Conrad Jacob von. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  6. ^ Günther Meinert:  Fabrice. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , pp. 729-731 ( digitized version )., Here: p. 729
  7. ^ A b Fabrice von Westerfeld, Johann Philipp Martin. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  8. ↑ Drach, Nikolaus Martin. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  9. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Leipzig 1861, Volume III, pp. 186-188. Wrongly writes Fabrice von Westerstetten
  10. ^ Friedrich Battenberg: Repertoire of the Hessian State Archives Darmstadt , Family von Buseck and Ganerbschaft Buseckertal , inventory F 28, Darmstadt 2000, chap. 4: Feudal and inheritance matters of other families or feudal lords, document registers 49: “Transfer of the feudal estates of the Fabrice family (Fabricius) v. Westerfeld ”( digitized version ) In 1724, Anna Elisabeth née von Westerfeld, widowed von Fabrice zu Stammheim with her sister Sophia Regina née von Westerfeld, widowed von Damm . Eckart G. Franz: Repertoire of the Hessian State Archives Darmstadt , documents of the von Harnier zu Echzell family , inventory B 18, Darmstadt 1984, document registers 24 "1724 September 29" ( digitized version )
  11. ↑ Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy . Berlin 1855, Volume 1, p. 212.
  12. ^ Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 2, Schwerin 1898, p. 512 footnote 1 and p. 517-519 ff.
  13. ↑ Frankfurt patriciate: Fabrice von Westerfeld, Amalia Wilhelmina  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.frankfurter-patriziat.de  
  14. ^ The Frankfurt patriciate: Fabrice
  15. ↑ Bernhard Peter, Historische Heraldische Exlibris , Plate 42: Exlibris by Walter Wilfried Sturtzkopf for Max von Fabrice
  16. ^ Friedrich Kapp: History of the German Book Trade Volume 1, p. 249 ( digitized version )
  17. ^ A b Collegium Res Nobilis Austriae: Increases in rank - Imperial nobility in the Austrian State Archives , box 106: Faba-Fabroni (1519–1802)
  18. ^ Hermann Friedrich Macco, Aachener Wappen und Genealogien Volume 1, Aachen 1907, p. 128 ( Memento of June 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) and 129 ( Memento of June 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Walter Fabricius was born in Emmerich, had studied law in Cologne and was licentiate in both rights when he was Elisabeth b. von Erverfeld married. She was the widow of the Cologne book publisher Johann Gymnich II and so he continued to run the publishing house, combining the Gymnich printer's mark with his own. Later his stepson was Johann Gymnich III. involved, in 1572 Fabricius resigned from the publishing business, which came under the direction of his stepson. Walter Fabritius, ennobled in 1578, died in Cologne in 1589 as a doctor of law and ducal Jülich councilor. His widow survived him by a few years. See General German Biography, Volume 10, Gruber - Hassencamp, Leipzig 1879, p. 245
  19. ↑ Johann Pfann 1660: Johann Georg Fabricius (* 1593; † 1668)
  20. ^ Fabrice, Christian Christoph Balthasar Ludwig von. Hessian biography. (As of July 5, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  21. ↑ GHdA Adelslexikon Volume XII, Volume 125 of the complete series, Limburg (Lahn) 2001, p. 536 f.
  22. ^ Johann Christian Siebenkees , Materials on Nuremberg History , Volume 4, Nuremberg 1795, p. 475 f. ( Digitized version )
  23. ^ Astronomy in Nuremberg: Johann Baptista Fabricius
  24. ↑ Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv: Reichskammergericht , Volume 9, No. 3228 - 3883 (Letter F)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , published by the General Directorate of the Bavarian State Archives@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.gda.bayern.de