Fleckenstein (noble family)
The von Fleckenstein family was an Alsatian noble family. It was named after Fleckenstein Castle on the northern edge of the Vosges .
family
The ministerial family , which experienced an initial boom in the Staufer period, provided a bishop each of Worms and Basel , a number of canons in Basel, Speyer and Trier , several imperial schools in Weißenburg in Alsace and Hagenau , Alsatian underland bailiffs , Palatine court masters and bailiffs and two Governor in the margraviate of Baden-Durlach .
Three lines
A "Gottfried" from the family was first mentioned in a document in 1129. His grandson carried the title of "marshalus de hagenoa" ( Haguenau ). His son Heinrich I, who was loyal to the Hohenstaufen, was the first of the family to become Reichsschultheiß von Hagenau / Haguenau (1248–1259). He divided the Fleckenstein rule among the three of his sons, who remained secular , and thereby founded the lines:
- Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl (also: roof truss), died in 1644. The rule Dagstuhl came through marriage in 1333 and an inheritance in 1375 pro rata to a quarter in the possession of this branch of the family, of the community of heirs later against the Upper Rhine district represented. This share in the Dagstuhl reign was sold by the last surviving member of this family branch, Georg II. , To the Archbishop of Trier , Philipp Christoph von Sötern .
- Fleckenstein- Sulz , extinct 1351
- Fleckenstein- Bickenbach
- Fleckenstein-Bickenbach-Rödern, 1408–1637
- Fleckenstein-Bickenbach-Sulz, 1408-1720. Ursula von Windeck († 1658), after the death of her brother and thus the extinction of the Windeck male line, brought her legacy Castle Alt-Windeck , her name and her coat of arms into the marriage with Friedrich von Fleckenstein.
The family was raised to the status of imperial baron in 1467 . The last of the house was Heinrich-Jakob von Fleckenstein-Windeck (1636–1720).
Significant people
- Kunigunde von Fleckenstein († August 10, 1353), prioress of the Lambrecht Monastery (Palatinate) , had the convent church there expanded and is shown in the center of the choir.
- Johann II von Fleckenstein , Bishop of Worms 1410–1426
- Johann IV von Fleckenstein , Bishop of Basel 1423–1436
- Colonel Georg II von Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl (1588–1644), regent of the counties of Hanau-Lichtenberg and Hanau-Münzenberg
coat of arms
- The Fleckenstein coat of arms is a green shield with three horizontal silver bars; on the helmet with green-silver covers, the torso of a maiden with blond hair named like the shield, instead of the arms two buffalo horns.
- The barons of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl carried a squared shield, in fields 1 and 4 the family coat of arms, in 2 and 3 in gold a black St. Andrew's cross for Dagstuhl.
- Alliance coat of arms Fleckenstein-Windeck: in the squared shield, in fields 1 and 4 the coat of arms of those of Fleckenstein, in fields 2 and 3 the coat of arms of those of Windeck: in blue a golden sloping bar and above a silver crossing.
The rulership (barony) Fleckenstein after the Fleckenstein family died out
The last male descendant, Friedrich Jakob, had committed suicide in 1710. His father, Heinrich Jakob, arranged his estate, and a resolution by the French king confirmed that the barony as such would be dissolved and the fiefs would go to the king as supreme liege lord. The king enfeoffed the Prince of Soubise Hercule-Mériadec de Rohan; An inheritance dispute arose with the husbands of Heinrich Jacob's daughters, which was still ongoing in 1725. With the French Revolution in 1789, all aristocratic property was confiscated as national property.
literature
- Ferdinand Hahnzog : Georg II von Fleckenstein, baron to roof truss. A Hanau administrator in the final phase of the Thirty Years War. In: Hanauer Geschichtsblätter , 18, 1962, pp. 223–242.
- Julius Kindler von Knobloch : The golden book of Strasbourg . Part 1. In: Yearbook of the kk heraldische Gesellschaft Adler zu Wien , 1884, pp. 96–97, archive.org .
Web links
- Web portal on the aristocratic family of Fleckenstein, with various themed pages ( memento from March 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (themed pages no longer accessible)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See also discussion
- ↑ Le journal des sçavans, pour l'année 1725 , Paris 1725, pp. 365-371. books.google.de