Barons of Saint-André
The barons of Saint-André were a wealthy Huguenot branch of an old French aristocratic family in southwest Germany from the 17th century .
Königsbach in Baden became the German headquarters , where the family continues today in the adoptive line of Saint-André-Arnim ; there was also a line in Kochendorf that was extinguished in the early 19th century .
history
ancestry
The oldest lord of the Saint-André family was a Raphael de Podio mentioned in 1015, who was the cavalry general of Emperor Henry II . His grandson Alemand (I.) acquired the Monbrun rule in 1115 , his grandson Alemand (II.) Acquired Saint-André, from which the family name was derived. A general François de Saint-André was a Huguenot , left France in 1572 due to the Huguenot persecution and found refuge in Holland.
His grandson Daniel Rollin de Saint-André (1602–1661) entered service in Sweden during the Thirty Years' War and in Hesse from 1632, proved himself several times and became Governor of Lippstadt . Through a second marriage to Lucretia von Beckermanndt, he came into possession of a Brandenburg fief in Königsbach around 1648 , which had previously been given to the lords of Venningen , who had died in the Königsbach branch in 1611 . In 1652 he became a member of the knightly canton of Kraichgau .
Daniel Rollin's son Johann Daniel Rollin von Saint-André († 1689) acquired further property in Königsbach, in 1670/77 a third (called Walther's third ) of Kochendorf and in 1681 Oberwössingen Castle . His marriage to Anna Juliana von Mentzingen (1634–1705) in 1662 resulted in two sons and four daughters. The sons Johann Daniel (1662–1741) and Friedrich Magnus (1674–1731) shared his father's inheritance in 1699, ten years after the death of their father. Johann Daniel founded the Königsbacher Line, Friedrich Magnus the Kochendorfer Line.
Königsbacher line
Johann Daniel von Saint-André (1662–1741) was margravial court marshal of Baden and married to Maria Helena von Crailsheim (born October 26, 1668 in Rügland, + October 1, 1723 in Königsbach), daughter of Johann Ulrich von Crailsheim and Anna Maria, born Freiin von Praunfalck. Her son Alexander Magnus von St. André (* 1695) married Maria Juliana Freiin Leutrum von Ertingen , whose son Ernst Philipp († 1830) became Imperial Rittmeister. In the media coverage of Reichsritterschaft its sovereign rights in the fall Grand Duchy of Baden . His son Carl Rollin von St. André (1788-1860) was a grand ducal forester of Baden and from 1839 married Luise von Neubronn . His son Wilhelm Ernst Rollin von St. André (1848–1915) married Freiin Stefanie Gayling von Altheim . Wilhelm von St. André , who was married to Freiin Luise von Gemmingen-Guttenberg from 1910 , continued the tribe among the couple's five children . The son Karl-Wilhelm died in a motorcycle accident in 1937, the second son Ernst Philipp died as a soldier in 1944. Daughter Olga Marie (1916–1990) married Philipp Freiherrn von Gemmingen-Guttenberg in 1939. The couple adopted the war orphan Achim von Arnim , whose sons were later given the name of Saint-André-Arnim . The Königsbach Castle is obtained by an erected by Olga Marie Family Foundation.
Kochendorfer line
When the inheritance was divided in 1699, Friedrich Magnus von Saint-André received the property in Kochendorf and Oberwössingen Castle . He received the partial blood spell over Kochendorf in 1702 together with his brother. He married Charlotte Louise von Weiler (1681–1756) on April 13, 1706 and sold Wössingen to his brother in 1709, around 1710 in Kochendorf instead of the old lower castle there, a former administrative building previously used by the Grecken as a manor, the St. Andrésche Schlösschen to build, which still shows the coat of arms of him and his wife, with whom he had ten children.
His eldest son Friedrich Ludwig did military service in Italy from 1725 and died in Corsica in 1731. The Kochendorfer property therefore went to the still underage brothers Wolfgang Christoph (1713–1769), Christian Reinhard (1715–1779) and Eberhard Ernst (1717–1747). Eberhard Ernst took on larger debts in 1744, which his brothers inherited after his untimely death in 1747 on the Austrian side during the war against France and paid for by pledging his property in 1754. In 1762 they sold their Kochendorfer goods and the partial Blutbann to the knightly canton of Odenwald and only kept the New Pfaffenhaus in Kochendorf, which was renovated in 1705, in their possession.
Wolfgang Christoph was married to Maria Sophia von Degenfeld from 1757 and owned the Mayor Elsässer House in Wimpfen . He probably had no offspring. Christian Reinhard was married to Maria Anna Auguste Rüdt von Collenberg (1725–1794) and had eleven children, eight of whom died early. Among the three surviving children was only one son, Karl Friedrich von Saint-André (1747–1790). In 1784 he married Sophia Auguste Louise Johanna von Degenfeld (1767–1802) and lived first in Heilbronn, later on his father-in-law's fief in Wagenbach, where he died in 1790. Among his three children, born in Heilbronn from 1785 to 1787, there was again only one son, Christian Karl Eberhard von Saint-André (* 1787), who was captured by Russia as a lieutenant in a hunter regiment during Napoleon's Russian campaign in November 1812 and disappeared there.
Alexander Magnus von St. André (1695–1771), councilor of the Kraichgau canton
Marie Juliane von St. André, b. von Leutrum, wife of Alexander Magnus of St. André
Friedrich Daniel von St. André (1700–1775), brother of Alexander Magnus, Austrian General Feldzeugmeister
Fredrike Charlotte von St. André b. von Leutrum (1722–1783), sister of Marie Juliane von St. André, wife of Friedrich Daniel von St. André
Ernst Philipp von St. André (1756–1830), councilor of the Kraichgau canton
Individual evidence
- ^ Sigmund Freiherr von Crailsheim, Die Reichsfreiherrn von Crailsheim, Volume 2, Munich 1905, pp. 266/67. The barons of Praunfalk zu Neuhaus were a Styrian Protestant religious migrant family; Anna Maria's sister was the wife of Count Christoph Karl von Schlippenbach .
- ^ Königsbach line based on the history of the castle at www.koenigsbach-stein.de ( memento from April 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 28, 2008
literature
- Karl Hugo Popp, Hans Riexinger : The barons of Saint-André - fellow village lords on Kochendorf . In: Bad Friedrichshall 1933–1983 . City of Bad Friedrichshall, Bad Friedrichshall 1983
- Friedrich Sander: The barons of St. André zu Königsbach in ders .: Königsbacher Heimatbuch , Gemeinde Königsbach-Stein 1986, pp. 225–237.
- Friedrich Cast: South German noble hero , volume 1, p.312ff
