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Family arms of those of Götzen
Coat of arms of those von Götzen since 1670

Götzen (also Goetzen or Götz ) is the name of a branch of the von Jeetze that came to Prussia , belonging to the ancient nobility of the Altmark.

history

The Jeetze family first appeared in documents in 1279 with the knight Friedrich von Jeditz . The uninterrupted line of tribe of von Götzen begins with Niclas Götcze , in 1455 on Bothkeim with Ditthausen and Götzlack , mercenaries of the Teutonic Order . After individual family members entered the imperial service as generals in the Thirty Years' War , they rose socially and were elevated to the status of imperial barons in 1633 and imperial counts in 1635. As a result of the conversion to Catholicism associated with the imperial nobility diploma , the sex divided into a Catholic and a Protestant line from 1635 onwards .

coat of arms

  • The family coat of arms shows an upright, silver-feathered golden bird's claw in red. On the helmet with the red and silver blankets a fallen bird's claw like in a shield.
  • The coat of arms, which has been split since 1670, shows the family coat of arms on the right and a cross-lying, mutilated black tree branch on the left, from which two outwardly curved green linden leaves grow. (Coat of arms of the Kurmärkischen von Götzen). Two helmets, on the right the trunk helmet and on the left a helmet with black and gold covers, on it a black bear paw, which holds a golden honey disc up, between two buffalo horns divided by gold and black across the corner (helmet of the Kurmärkischen von Götzen)

Brandenburg trunk line

  • Friedrich von Götz (en) (1540–1595), Brunswick-Lüneburg court master and councilor in Wolfenbüttel
  • Sigismund von Götz (en) (1576–1650), Brandenburg Chancellor
  • Peter von Götz (en) on Zehlendorf and Zülsdorf († 1605), Canon of Halberstadt ∞ Eva von Sampleben († 1637)
    • Johann von Götzen (1599–1645), Bavarian and imperial general
    • Peter Freiherr von Götzen († 1638), brother of the foregoing, imperial general sergeant
  • Henning von Goetze († 1634), colonel from Kurbrandenburg, regiment chief and fortress commander
  • Adolph von Goetze (1610–1684), lieutenant general of the infantry Kurbrandenburg, governor of the fortress Spandau and finally governor of Berlin
  • Johann Christoph von Goetze (1637–1703), Prussian lieutenant general, governor of the fortresses Küstrin, Driesen and Oderberg and heir to Löhme, Weese, Brönigke, Wilmersdorf, Stada and Wolfenberg.

Catholic Bohemian Line

  • Sigismund ( Siegmund ) Friedrich von Götzen (1622–1661), son of the imperial general Johann von Götzen. He founded the Catholic Bohemian line of the Imperial Counts of Götzen. Imperial-Royal Chamberlain, District Administrator in the Kingdom of Bohemia and Major General. Owned the lordships of Haid and Nekmíř in Bohemia and the fiefs of Breitenbach and Pfaffendorf in the Ebern district . Was married to Maria Isabella, daughter of Adam Erdmann Trčka von Lípa and Maximiliane von Harrach , and had sons:
    • Hans Siegmund
    • Hans Rudolf
    • Hans Franz

Catholic Silesian Line

  • Johann Georg von Götzen (1623–1679), second son of the imperial general Johann von Götzen. As governor of the County of Glatz , he founded the Catholic Silesian line of the imperial counts of Götzen. His descendants:
    • Johann Ernst von Götzen (1667–1707) inherited his father's possessions in the County of Glatz, including the feudal estates. In 1690 he married Countess Maria Franziska von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn on Teltsch , who died in 1702. In his second marriage in 1707 he married Cäcilia von Liechtenstein, presumably a relative of his first wife. Acquired the villages Gabersdorf , Rothwaltersdorf , Mühldorf , Morischau and Wiltsch in addition to the inherited estates .
      • Franz Anton von Götzen (1693–1738), son of the above; acquired the rule of Albendorf in 1715 and donated the new building of the Albendorfer pilgrimage church from 1716–1721
        • Johann Joseph ( Leonhard ) von Götzen (1727–1771), son of the above; acquired the Obermärzdorf estate in addition to the inherited estates . Wed in 1748 to Maria Catharina von Breda, daughter of Count Johannes Wenzel von Breda on Geiersberg . Since the marriage remained childless, Johann Joseph was the last male descendant from the Catholic Silesian line. Without the fiefs of Scharfeneck and Tuntschendorf , his belongings in the County of Glatz were initially inherited by his three sisters and, in 1780, by his nephew Anton Alexander von Magnis .
    • Johann Ignatius von Götzen (1670–1704), Imperial captain and state elder of the Principality of Liegnitz ; inherited the rule of Kaltenstein in the Principality of Liegnitz from his stepmother Apollonia von Hoditz. Since his marriage to Margaretha Freiin von Unverzagt remained childless, his older brother Johann Ernst inherited the rule of Kaltenstein in 1704.

Evangelical Silesian Line

Since the County of Glatz was transferred to Prussia in the Hubertusburg Peace of 1763 after the Silesian Wars , the two fiefs of Scharfeneck and Tuntschendorf fell to Frederick the Great as a settled fief after the death of Johann Joseph von Götzen, the last male descendant of the Catholic line, in 1771 back. He donated the fiefs to his adjutant general

Other known family members

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis . 1, 5, 305.
  2. ↑ Genealogical Handbook , Ahnenreihe Magnis, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1973, p. 473.
  3. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility, Magnis family line, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1973, p. 471.
  4. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Volume GB IV, Ahnenreihe Graf von Magnis , p. 449ff. (456), CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg, 1973