Gentilotti (noble family)

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Gentilotti coat of arms

The Gentilotti (also Gentiloti, Gentilott, Zentilott) zu Engelsbrunn were a patrician family from the area of Val Camonica , which in 1617 was accepted into the inner Austrian nobility and in 1729 into the Austrian baron.

history

The gentilotti come from the Val Camonica in the province of Brescia and then went to Sulzberg (Val di Sole) . Mattheus is named as a mason and builder in Trient in 1533 and became wealthy. His son Cornelius, doctor of law, was consul of Trent several times. Of his three sons, Johannes Baptista (Giambattista) was a doctor in Wasserburg am Inn in 1609, moved to Styria in 1617 and became the personal doctor of Archduke Leopold. Johann Benedikt, the only son of Johann Bapt., Was also a lawyer and multiple consul of Trento. His two sons were Johann Baptist (II.), Lawyer and court chancellor in Trient, and Johann Bernhard (I), parish priest in Linz.

In 1617 Johannes Baptista, his brother Augustinus and Johannes Franz, provost in Völkermarkt and archdeacon of Lower Carinthia, were ennobled by Archduke Ferdinand . In 1685 Leopold I raised Johannes Benedikt and his sons Johann Baptist and Johann Bernhard to the rank of imperial knighthood. Finally, in 1729, Johann Franz von Gentilotti zu Engelsbrunn was given to Charles VI. accepted into the Austrian baron class.

Personalities

  • Johannes Baptista (Giambattista) Gentilotti, personal physician to Archduke Leopold
  • Johann Benedikt Gentilotti, lawyer and multiple consul of Trento
  • Johann Franz von Gentilotti , Freiherr zu Engelsbrunn († 1751), Salzburg court chancellor

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the Gentolotti consists of a quartered shield in blue and red with a heart shield, fields 1 and 4 a golden dog (later also a weasel). In fields 2 and 3 a silver lily; the heart shield is gold with a crowned melusine .

Above are two crowned open helmets, the right one with a growing silver-clad angel with golden wings, in the right one holding a lily pole; the one on the left with the mermaid as in the heart shield. The helmet covers are red and silver on the right, blue and gold mixed on the left.

literature

  • Ludwig Rumpl: The Linz city pastors of the 17th century. In: Historisches Jahrbuch der Stadt Linz 1963. Linz 1964, pp. 110–122, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 3, Leipzig 1867, p. 482.
  • Megerle von Mühlfeld: Austrian nobility lexicon. Supplementary volume, Vienna 1824, p. 58f.
  • Ines Peper and Thomas Wallnig: Ex nihilo nihil fit. Johann Benedikt Gentilotti and ... In: Gabriele Haug-Moritz et al .: Nobility in the “long” 18th century. Vienna 2009, pp. 167–186.
  • Giangrisostomo Tovazzi: Familiarium Tridentinum. Trento 1790–1805, pp. 4-7 (in Italian; online ).

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