Geilsdorf (noble family)

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Family coat of arms after Siebmacher

The von Geilsdorf family was a noble family from Vogtland and Franconia .

history

The name-giving headquarters is in Geilsdorf , today incorporated into Weischlitz . The rule there in the 16th century extended u. a. to the neighboring town of Schwand . The family owned a family crypt in the Geilsdorf church. The family is also mentioned in the story of Tobertitz near Reuth . As part of the imperial Franconian knighthood, it was organized in the knight canton of Gebürg (e.g. 1529). At the beginning of the 17th century the family owned the Hofeck residence . The last owner of Hofeck was Christoph von Geilsdorf, who died on February 5, 1618 as the last of his family.

coat of arms

The split coat of arms shows in the right half of the shield a silver bar on a red background, on the left in blue a jumping natural wolf with a white lamb in its muzzle. The wolf with the lamb growing on the helmet with the red and silver blankets .

literature

  • Georg Friedrich: The margravial government kept the noble landlords in check . In: Home calendar for the Fichtelgebirge and Franconian Forest . 1971. pp. 69-74.
  • Cord Ulrichs: From feudal court to imperial knighthood - structures of the Franconian lower nobility at the transition from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period (list of the canton of Gebürg from 1529, StAM GHA II. No. 211 aE) . Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07109-1 . P. 212.
  • Bernd Wiefel: bailiff and abbot - from the history of a little known knightly family - part 1: Wilhelm von Geilsdorff , part 2: abbot Georgius zu Saalfeld . Rudolstädter Heimathefte 1993, issue 3/4, page 81 ff., Issue 5/6, page 130 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.archiv.sachsen.de/archive/chemnitz/4044_3330383132.htm  ( 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.archiv.sachsen.de  
  2. ↑ http://www.tobertitz.de/geschichte_chronik.htm
  3. ↑ Hans Hofner : The Murringhof and Hofeck Castle - On the history of a Vogtland knight's seat on the outskirts of Hof . In: Special print from the Kulturwarte - Nordostoberfränkische monthly for art and culture . Hof 1974.