Germershausen (noble family)
Germershausen was a noble family from Hesse .
origin
The noble family came from the town of the same name near Oberweimar . In the year 1260, a representative of this sex can be documented for the first time. According to other information, it was resident in Eichsfeld , where there is also a place of the same name in today's district of Göttingen (see Germershausen ).
In 1624 this noble family died out in the male line.
Personalities
Volkmar von Germershausen was a captain in Rüdersdorf near Berlin and lord of Strausberg in 1572 .
One of the best-known personalities is Lorenz von Germershausen, who was imprisoned in 1583/84 for over six months at Wernigerode Castle in the Harz Mountains by the ruling Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode for breaking the truce . His two brothers Ernst and Engelhardt von Germershausen campaigned in vain for his release.
In 1883 Volkmar von Germershausen sold one sixteenth of the small monastery Gröningen 's tithe to the Halberstadt cathedral chapter .
coat of arms
The family led an open silver flight as a coat of arms on a blue shield .
literature
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adels-Lexicon or genealogical and diplomatic news from the princely, counts, baronial and noble houses residing in the Prussian monarchy or related to it, with the indication of their descent, their property, their coat of arms and of the civil and military figures, heroes, scholars and artists who emerged from them; edited by an association of scholars and friends of patriotic history under the board of Baron L. v. Zedlitz-Neukirch , Volume 2: E – H. , Leipzig: Verlag Gebrüder Reichenbach, 1836 ( digitized version ).
- Leopold Freiherr von Ledebur : Adelslexicon of the Prussian Monarchy , Volume 1: A – K, Berlin 1855 full text .
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (ed.): New general German Adels Lexicon , Volume 3: Eberhard - Graffen , Leipzig 1861 ( full text in the Google book search).
- The noble family of those von Germershausen. (1260-1624) . In: Yearbook for the History of Central and Eastern Germany, 1971, pp. 43–47.
Individual evidence
- ^ Leopold Zedlitz-Neukirch: New Prussian Adels Lexicon , Vol. 1, 1839, p. 178.
- ^ Landesarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt , U 8a, Kl. Gröningen No. 36aa