Geyer von Giebelstadt
Geyer von Giebelstadt (often just Geyer or Geyern) is the name of an old Franconian noble family that was raised to the rank of imperial count in 1685 and died out in 1708. Giebelstadt , the headquarters, is a municipality in the Lower Franconian district of Würzburg .
history
Members of the family were ministerials of the Counts von Rieneck . Later they became followers of the bishops of Würzburg , from whom they received their ancestral seat, the Lower Castle of Giebelstadt and other important goods in the area as fiefs . Feudal relationships also existed with the Brandenburg-Ansbach margraves and the Counts of Wertheim .
One of the most famous representatives of the family was Florian Geyer (* around 1490; † 1525). He supported the rebellious peasants financially and militarily during the Peasants' War .
Sebastian Geyer was an episcopal councilor and bailiff in the 15th century . One of his descendants, Heinrich Wolfgang Geyer von Giebelstadt, Lord of Giebelstadt, Goldbach , Reinsbronn and Neukirchen, was raised to the rank of imperial count on May 14, 1685 . For a long time, the Frankish Imperial Knighthood at the imperial court had resisted acceptance and tried to raise an objection, but in 1689 the Imperial Count status was confirmed. In 1693 he was admitted to the Franconian Imperial Counts College with a seat and vote at the district council of Nuremberg . With his death on August 24, 1708, the male line died out . Heir of the imperial counties with Giebelstadt, Ingolstadt (today part of Giebelstadt), Reinsbronn, Goldbach and its allodial goods , the Prussian King Friedrich I.
In Goßmannsdorf am Main , today a district of Ochsenfurt , the Geyer von Giebelstadt ruled the village as Ganerbe , i. That is, they shared the property jointly with the Zobel von Giebelstadt and the Würzburg Cathedral Chapter .
The gentlemen Geyer von Giebelstadt were already members of the imperial knighthood in the knightly canton of Odenwald from the Franconian knight circle before 1550 until the beginning of the 18th century . In the second half of the 16th century they were also enrolled in the knightly canton of Altmühl .
coat of arms
The tribe coat of arms shows a silver ram or goat neck with golden horns in blue . The goat growing on the helmet. The helmet covers are blue-silver.
The gemehrte count's coat of arms from the diploma of 1685 is quartered . one and four in red, an arm in silver armor protruding from the left edge of the field, holding a sword. two and three in silver on a golden lance, an upright, right-waving red flag marked with a golden sun. The main coat of arms as a central shield .
The buck or ram from the ancestral coat of arms of the Geyer von Giebelstadt family still appears today in some Bavarian and Swabian local coats of arms.
Coat of arms of the community of Giebelstadt
Goldbach coat of arms, now part of the city of Crailsheim
Name bearer
- Florian Geyer (* around 1490; † 1525), Franconian knight and leader of the Black Heap during the Peasants' War
- Konrad Geyer von Giebelstadt , 1428 provost in Aub , 1430 abbot of the Münsterschwarzach abbey
- Veronika Geyer von Giebelstadt, until 1553 the last abbess of the Cistercian nuns in the Schönau monastery
See also
other Geyer (Geyr) noble families
- Geyer von Edelbach , a Lower Austrian noble family
- Geyer von Geyersegg , a Styrian noble family
- Geyer von Geyersperg , also Geyer von Osterburg, an Austrian noble family from Franconia
- Geyr (noble family) , also Geyr von Schweppenburg, a Westphalian noble family
literature
- Wilhelm Benkert: Contributions to the history of the market town Giebelstadt . Giebelstadt 1970.
- Günther Franz : Geyer, Florian. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 357 ( digitized version ).
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 3, Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1861, pages 506-507. ( Digitized version )
- Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 .
Web links
- Family coat of arms and multiple count's coat of arms
- Epitaph of Georg Wolfgang von Crailsheim († 1595) with his wife Helena Geyer von Giebelstadt at Kulturpfad-grafen-castell.de
- Description of the epitaph by Hans Karlinger: The art monuments of Lower Franconia & Aschaffenburg . P. 18 ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The history of the community of Reinsbronn and its suburbs. In: kirchen Bezirk-weikersheim.de. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
- ^ Winfried Romberg: The Würzburg bishops from 1684-1746 . In: Germania Sacra . tape 8 . De Gruyter, 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-030543-2 , pp. 227 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Cord Ulrichs: From the feudal court to the 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 Odenwald from 1550, StAL B 583 Bü 191.) . Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07109-1 . Pp. 214/215.
- ↑ Coat of arms in Schwäbisch Hall (nobleman and councilor Philipp Schletz married to Barbara, née Geyer von Giebelstadt) ( 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.
- ^ City of Crailsheim: City districts and coats of arms. In: crailsheim.de. Retrieved July 1, 2018 .
- ^ The Benedictine abbey and the aristocratic secular canon monastery of St. Burkard
- ↑ Anja Legge: In the romantic Saale valley. In: wallfahrt.bistum-wuerzburg.de. Retrieved July 1, 2018 .
