Franking (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Franking family from Siebmacher's book of arms (1605)

Franking , also Francking , Fränking or Fräncking, is the name of an old Bavarian noble family . The family belongs to the Lower Bavarian nobility and later acquired property and reputation in Austria .

history

origin

According to Kneschke , the progenitor of the family Heinrich (with Bucelinus Ulrici ), who appears around 1254. According to the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , the family with Heinrich's sons Ulrich , Otto , Heinrich and Bernhard von Franking was first mentioned in a document in 1286.

Franking , which gave the family its name, is now a municipality in the Upper Austrian Innviertel . The village first appears in a document in 1150.

Spread and lines

Ortlieb and heath kingdom are 1343 and 1360, as well as Ortlieb's son Ulrich in 1352 and 1364, in documents of the pin Reichersberg and Enenkels Colletaneen called. Georg, a son of Ulrich, still lived in 1410 and his son Oswald I in 1440. Oswald's great-grandson Christoph and Wilhelm divided the family into an older and a younger line.

Christoph von Franking, the founder of the older line, married Appolonia Schellerin von Adeldorf for the second time. The couple had two sons, Zebulanus and Johann Joel. Sebulanus von Franking married Regina von Massenpeck. Her son Otto Heinrich Freiherr von Franking, married to Gertraut Freiin von Preysing , became the progenitor of the later Counts of Franking. Johann Joel von Franking achieved the status of baron for himself and his nephew Otto Heinrich as well as for all of their descendants in 1605 . But he himself left no offspring. Otto Heinrich Freiherr von Franking was able to continue the tribe and his grandson Heinrich Gottlieb Freiherr von Franking was raised to the rank of imperial count in 1694. He was married to Maria Elisabeth Countess von Fugger-Kirchberg , who died a widow in 1712. One of her descendants was Franz Felix Graf von Franking, who became a Bavarian treasurer and councilor. Count Ludwig von Franking (* 1802), state estate in Upper Austria and imperial director at the regional court in Linz , who married Rosalie von Preuer in 1828 , also came from this line . The couple left behind a daughter and two sons. Daughter Marie Countess von Franking (* 1830) married the imperial captain Michael Mihaovic in 1852. Her brothers Adolph Graf Franking, Freiherr von und zu Altfranking (* 1829), and Ludwig Graf Franking (* 1835) became officers in the Austrian army.

The younger line established by Wilhelm von Franking was continued by his son Oswald from his marriage to Agathe von Vöhlin . He was the owner of the Freising and Regensburg fiefs at Wieselburg and the lord of Donaudorf and Krumpen-Nussbaum. In 1586 Oswald was admitted to the Lower Austrian knighthood family and left behind from his first marriage with Maria Erlpeckhin the four sons Georg Wilhelm, Otto Victor, Oswald the Younger and Johann Sigismund. Of them, the first three were able to continue the male line .

Status surveys

Joel and Otto Heinrich von und zu Fräncking on Adelsdorf and Riedau were on January 26, 1605 Prague in the realm baron conditions applicable. Associated with this was a coat of arms association with that of the extinct Rambseider family. Both received a ducal Bavarian tender on December 4, 1605.

Heinrich Gottlieb Baron Fran King was born on May 24, 1697 at Laxenburg in the imperial counts charged. As electoral Bavarian treasurer, he received Bavarian recognition of the counts on April 15, 1698.

Joseph Maria Carl Johann Nepomuk Graf von und zu Alten-Franking auf Hagenau, royal Bavarian chamberlain, was registered on February 5, 1813 with the count's class of nobility in the Kingdom of Bavaria . Ludwig Graf von Franking, imperial caretaker at Fichtenstein im Innkreis, received an Austrian confirmation of the count's status in Vienna on May 25, 1839.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Counts of Franking on a foundation plaque in the parish church of Franking

The coat of arms of the imperial barons , awarded in 1605, and the coat of arms of the imperial count, awarded in 1697, are square and covered with a golden central shield , in which a black cat sitting on red-tufted black cushions. 1 and 4 in gold a black raven ready to fly , 2 and 3 in red a black dragon neck (coat of arms of the extinct Rambseider). The coat of arms has three helmets with the right black and gold and silver left red helmet covers . On the right the raven, on the middle the cat on the cushion and on the left the dragon's neck.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 3, pages 306–307
  2. ^ Document from the Raitenhaslach monastery
  3. ↑ a b c d e Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume III, Volume 61 of the complete series, pages 350–351

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