Geyer from Edelbach

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Coat of arms of the Geyer von Edelpach

The Geyer von Edelbach (also Edelpach, Edlpach) were a Lower Austrian noble family, which was raised to the baron status by Emperor Leopold I in 1665 .

history

Nicolaus Geyer von Edelbach is called Edelbach in 1562 on the Freysitz . Lorenz Geyer received Edelbach from Reichard Streun von Schwarzenau in 1596 as a fief. In 1617 the brothers Reichard, Wolfhart Adam, Christoph Ehrenreich and Niclas received the Edelbach seat from Johann Joachim von Zinzendorf and Pottendorf as a fief. Reichard, the oldest of the brothers, owned the Reinprechtspölla estate in 1618 , but sold it to his brother Christoph Ehrenreich in 1623. This was first princely Passauischer Rath and Oberkastner zu Stockerau , in 1637 he became Lower Austria Regiments Rath and in 1654 Lower Austria Lower Marshal . In 1635 he was accepted under the Lower Austrian knighthood families and in 1656 under the old knighthood families. On May 25, 1665, he and his descendants were given the status of baron by Emperor Leopold I, but only his sons achieved this status.

The Geyer von Edelbach owned Oberparschenbrunn (near Göllersdorf), Erla, the fortress Grafendorf and goods in Moravia near Triesch .

Personalities

coat of arms

A four-field shield, 1 and 4 field blue, on a triangular white hill looking inwards a vulture with swinging wings pointing to flight in natural color. In fields 2 and 3 in red an elongated, braided brown wicker basket, almost like a fish trap, slanted slightly to the left.

At the top two crowned open helmets, on the right the vulture on the hill - as described in the shield, on the left the brown fish trap between two red buffalo horns. The helmet covers are mixed blue and gold on the right, silver and red on the left.

literature

  • Franz Karl Wissgrill, Karl von Odelga: scene of the rural Lower Austrian nobility from ..., Volume 3, Vienna 1797, p. 283f.
  • Johann Christian von Hellbach: Adels-Lexikon: or manual about the historical, genealogical ..., Volume 1, p. 424
  • Heinrich von Kadich, Conrad Blazek: Der Moravian Adel , Nuremberg 1899, p. 36

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ after the seat Edelbach bei Ausserochsenbach (Gem. Steinakirchen am Forst) see entry about Edelbach on NÖ-Burgen online - Institute for Realienkunde of the Middle Ages and the early modern times, University of Salzburg

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