Geyer from Geyersegg

The Geyer von Geyersegg (also Geyeregg) were a Styrian noble family, which in 1623 was raised to the knightly imperial nobility by Emperor Ferdinand II .

history

After the Counter Reformation in 1605 , the Catholic Pankratz Geyer acquired an Innerberg wheel factory , which was previously owned by the Protestants, and became a wheel master . In 1621/22 he became the imperial forest master and mountain judge for iron ore of the Vordernberg and Innerberg and also of the copper mine in Radmer and church provost. In September 1623 he received the knightly nobility for 24 years of service, the authorization to write "von Geyersegg", the red wax-free, and improvement of the coat of arms given to his ancestors by Emperor Maximilian. In 1622 he built the Geyeregg Castle (Geyereck) near Eisenerz. His son Georg joined the main union in 1625 with his wheelwork valued at 10,200 guilders . The Geyer worked as civil servants in the mining sector but also in other areas.

Konstantin Geyer was the Capitular of Admont 1660–1703, Christoph Jakob Geyer is named in 1678 as Unterhammer administrator of Weyer. Marie Konstanzia Egger, b. Geyer, lives in Leoben in 1672. 1675 dies in Vienna, St. Stefan, Johann Friedrich Geyer von Geyersegg, married to Salome Bischoff. On May 6, 1677, Pudentiana Reichenauer, née Geyer von Geyersegg, gave her Gut Oberdorf near Mariahof and its accessories to the Poor Clares in Judenburg.

A member of the family emigrated to Sweden at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, where he was active in the mining industry and became the progenitor of the great Swedish historian Erik Gustaf Geijer (* 1783 Ransäter in Värmland, † 1847 in Stockholm).

coat of arms

Quartered shield, 1 and 4 in red a silver unicorn, 2 and 3 in gold on a green three-cage a snail shell with an animal crawling out, on which a naturally colored vulture soars up. Open helmet with crown, gem: the figure of the second field. Covers: right black and gold, left red and silver.

See also

• Geyer von Edelbach , a Lower Austrian noble family
• Geyer von Geyersperg , also Geyer von Osterburg , an Austrian noble family from Franconia
• Geyer von Giebelstadt , a Frankish noble family
• Geyr (noble family) , also Geyr von Schweppenburg , a Westphalian noble family

literature

• Maja Loehr: The cycling masters on the Styrian Erzberg until 1625 , Graz, Vienna 1941
• Anton von Pantz : Contributions to the history of the Innerberg main trade union , in: Contributions to the customer of Styrian historical sources, 1903
• Reinhold Jagersberger: The self-representation of the Styrian iron industry .., Diss. University of Graz 2012
• Adolf Pensch, (Anton v. Pantz's notes): Regesten zum Innerberger Eisenwesen , in: Yearbook of the kk heraldisch-genealogischen Gesellschaft Adler, New Series Volume 18, Vienna 1908

Individual evidence

1. ↑ P. Jacob Wichner: History of the Clarissenkloster Paradeis zu Judenburg in Styria, in: Archive for Austrian History. Volume 73, Vienna 1888