Gideon Ehrlich von Ehrnfeldt

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Gideon Ehrlich of Ehrnfeldt (* around 1607 in Liberec , Bohemia; † 24. September 1670 on Castle Friedland , Bohemia) 1638 was municipal judge , 1642 Mayor of Liberec, from 1643 Viscount of domination Reichenberg, 1663 Captain of the dominions Friedland and Reichenberg. He was raised to the hereditary nobility of the Kingdom of Bohemia on October 18, 1668 with the award of "von Ehrnfeldt" and thereby became the progenitor of the small noble family of the Ehrlich von Ehrnfeldt.

origin

The family of Gideon Ehrlich appeared in Reichenberg in Northern Bohemia in the second half of the 16th century and owned breweries there, i.e. H. Houses that had the privilege of brewing their own beer. She was therefore one of the families of the so-called “breweries”, who represented a kind of patriciate in Reichenberg.

In Görlitz

View of the city from the east, 1575

However, the family originally came from the nearby town of Görlitz in the margraviate of Upper Lusatia , where its members appeared under variable names such as Ehrmilrich, Ehrlich or Ermilreich. Your Görlitz story was eventful. There were high points, such as the election of family members as mayor of the city of Görlitz: Hermann Ermerich (Ermilrich) in 1321, Johann Ermilreich in 1376 and Nikolaus Ermilrich, who was mayor in 1402, 1413 and 1419. But there were also low points, such as the participation of Magister Nikolaus Ermilreich in the Görlitz powder conspiracy of 1467 against the autocratic city council, which - uncovered - led to the leading conspirators being tortured and executed, including Mag. Nikolaus Ermilreich, who was according to his status was beheaded with the sword on September 6, 1468 in front of the pillory on the market square in Görlitz.

In Reichenberg

The move to Reichenberg took place for various reasons. The family converted to Protestantism early, probably around 1525, when Pastor Rotbart began to read Lutheran masses in Görlitz, and thus came into conflict with the strictly Catholic city council of Görlitz. In addition, there was growing resistance among the population to the city council, which ruled authoritarian and rejected any attempt at broader participation. In the year 1527 there was therefore the uprising of the cloth makers, with himself the closer progenitor, Martin Ehrmilrich, exposed as one of the spokesman for the cloth makers guild. The uprising was crushed by force, the ringleader Peter Liebig was quartered in Görlitz in front of the pillory , eight others were executed. Martin was thrown in prison, tortured and only released after a longer period of time as a less incriminated person with the loss of his possessions. The result was that his family in Görlitz was disadvantaged and was under constant observation by the council.

It was therefore a ray of hope that the Friedland- Seidenberg dominion with the small town of Reichenberg in northern Bohemia , which was only about 50 km away , was bought by the convinced Protestant Friedrich von Redern (* 1564) from Emperor Ferdinand I , to whom this fiefdom was acquired the extinction of the barons of Bieberstein had fallen back . The von Redern barons were determined to advance their dominions economically and therefore tried to attract capable masters. The Gideons family therefore moved from Görlitz to Reichenberg, where they all wrote Ehrlich, settled down permanently and thus became co-founders of the later famous textile factory in Reichenberg.

The father of Gideon (I.), Elias (I.) Ehrlich, was a member of the Reichenberg clothmaker's guild as early as 1587 and was head of this guild between 1594 and 1623, brewery at Altstädter Platz No. 13, councilor, church father in 1611 and 1622 City judge of Reichenberg. Dr. JG Herrmann counts him among the "patrons of the Reichenberg cloth makers guild", as he was not only one of the first masters in Reichenberg, but also played an important role in the formulation of the privilege granted by the imperial baron Melchior von Redern in 1599 to the Reichenberg cloth makers guild, which is the basis for all relevant later charter of the guild was.

Gideon's mother was Hanna Ullrich († v. 1632). Hanna was a sister of David Ullrich († 1654), brewery, burgrave of Friedland 1623-1625 and burgrave of Reichenberg 1631-1637, who in 1638 was mayor of Reichenberg. Her father was Aaron Ullrich, who was a brewer and councilor as early as 1550, as well as city ​​judge of Reichenberg in 1579 and 1582 .

The Gideons family is connected to the rise of the city of Reichenberg through the uncle of Hanna Ullrich - Joachim Ullrich von Rosenfeld (* December 4, 1525, † v. 1591). He was a man of great energy who, after a good education and extensive travels, became captain of the Friedland-Reichenberg estate in 1555, which at that time was in the pledge possession of the still underage Margrave Georg Friedrich I of Brandenburg zu Ansbach and Kulmbach (* 1539, † 1603 ) found. In this function he was confirmed by the new ruler, the imperial baron Melchior von Redern in 1558. He exercised this function with great success for thirty years - until his death, shortly before 1591. Thanks to his initiative, the former market town became a real town, and in 1577 he achieved that Reichenberg was formally raised to town by Emperor Rudolf II . JG Herrmann therefore thinks that he “became a true father” for Reichenberg. For his services, he was elevated to the hereditary Bohemian nobility in 1564 with the predicate “von Rosenfeld” .

Life

Gideon Ehrlich was born in Reichenberg around 1607 as the eldest son of his parents, the councilor Elias Ehrlich and Hanna Ulrich.

Tension between Catholicism and Reformation

Of Gideon's siblings, Elias (II.) Should be honestly mentioned. He was a cloth maker, brewer and from 1660 to 1670 city ​​judge of Reichenberg. His marriage to Katharina Ullmann shows the religious tension that tore up some families at the time: his father-in-law, Jonas Ullmann, Bräuhöfer, councilor, city judge in 1614 and 1615 as well as the lordly rent master was one of the richest and most respected citizens of the city, his other daughter Anna Rosina Ullmann in 1628 with the Reichenberger city captain married Joachim Jung of Young rock. But he was also one of the radical supporters of the Reformation and played a decisive role in the murder of the Catholic pastor of Reichenberg, Andreas Strommäus, in November 1631. The son of Elias II Ehrlich, Magister Jonas Aloys Ehrlich, on the other hand, was the first Reichenberger to be ordained a Catholic priest after the Reformation . In 1673 he was appointed the first pastor of Neudorf, where he established pastoral care and stayed for twelve years. In 1686 he became provost of the monastery chapter of Raudnitz an der Elbe (today Roudnice nad Labem) and died there before April 15, 1688

End of the rule of von Redern

The rule of the Barons von Redern , who had driven the development of the city of Reichenberg since 1558 with the help of Gideon's great uncle, the governor Joachim Ullrich von Rosenfeld, came to an end in Gideon's youth. The smoldering conflict between Protestants and supporters of the Catholic Church in Bohemia erupted on November 8, 1620 in the battle of the White Mountain on which the owners of the lords of Friedland and Reichenberg, the imperial baron Christoph von Redern (* 1591, † 1641/42) on on the Protestant side. After the defeat of the “Winter King” Friedrich I (V of the Palatinate) of Bohemia (1619–1620), Christoph von Redern lost his rule and fled the country as an exile .

Under the rule of Wallenstein

Wallenstein: Duke of Friedland, imperial councilor and chamberlain, Supreme Colonel of Prague and general as well. Engraving 1625/28.
The Wallenstein houses

The dominions Friedland, Seidenberg and Reichenberg were sold in 1621 to the imperial generalissimo Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Waldstein, better known as " Wallenstein " (* 1583, † 1634). They became the core of the Duchy of Friedland by amalgamating the lands acquired by Wallenstein and the whole thing on January 4, 1624 by Emperor Ferdinand II to the Principality, in 1625 to the Duchy of Friedland with the capital Gitschin (today Jičín in the Königgrätz region, Czech : Královéhradecký kraj) was raised. Wallenstein was promoted to Duke of Friedland.

Under Wallenstein, the cities under his rule experienced a considerable economic boom. This also applies to Reichenberg, where u. a. the Neustädter Platz, built after 1630, and the so-called "Waldstein houses" go back.

Gideon Ehrlich followed the family tradition and was accepted as a master in the Reichenberg clothmaker's guild in 1629 and successfully expanded his business into a manufacture.

Under the rule of the Counts of Gallas

In 1634, after Wallenstein's assassination on February 25th in Eger, there was another change: The Reichenberg and Friedland reigns fell to a rival of Wallenstein, the Imperial Lieutenant General and Feldzeugmeister Mathias Count of Gallas , Duca di Lucera .

Four years later there was an important change in the field of religion in Reichenberg, to which Gideon Ehrlich, who was then city ​​judge of Reichenberg, made a decisive contribution. He turned away from the Reformed religion of his parents, became a Catholic and, as Fr. Anton Hoffmann writes: “With his decidedly Catholic attitude, he contributed most to the fact that the city council accepted the Catholic faith at that time.” This was made easier by the The fact that Gideon's brother-in-law, David Ullrich, had been elected mayor of Reichenberg in 1638. Together they succeeded in convincing the city council, which converted to the Catholic religion on April 25, 1638. This took some courage, as the majority of the population fought passionately for the preservation of Protestantism. On January 28, 1639, Gideon acquired his father's brewery (No. 5 - III.) At Altstädter Platz No. 13 at 710 shock and successfully tried to bring the citizens of Reichenberg back to Catholicism.

Under Swedish occupation

However, this religious turnaround only lasted for a short time, as the city of Reichenberg was soon drawn into the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War . As early as May 1, 1639, a Swedish regiment under the leadership of Major General Adam von Pfuel entered Reichenberg and sacked the city on May 9. The Swedish General Feldzeugmeister Lennart Torstensson approached from the city of Bautzen and asked the crew of Friedland Castle to hand it over on May 23. Since the occupation there fled on May 24, 1639, the dominions of Reichenberg and Friedland fell under Swedish control.

Lennart Torstensson, portrait by David Beck

The Protestants Reichenberg used this to regain control of the city under Swedish protection. The Catholic city council was deposed, the Catholic pastor who had fled was replaced by a Protestant chaplain, and the city clerk was dismissed. Gideon Ehrlich was arrested as a city judge and leading representative of the re-Catholicisation, while the whole city regiment was replaced by Protestants. Even the outlawed and exiled former city lord, the imperial baron Christoph von Redern , appeared in Friedland and Reichenberg and hoped to get his property back through the Swedes. However, he hoped in vain and was so poor that the city council sent him money to support himself.

For ten months, the marching through Swedish troop contingents and billeting took turns, with all movable property being looted. When the pastor Melchior Neumann first wanted to offer the large number of Protestants who had traveled the Lord's Supper on August 14, it turned out that the supplies in the town hall cellar had been drained to the last drop. The solemn Lord's Supper would therefore have failed if a citizen had not helped out with a well-hidden remainder of 9 ½ pints of wine.

Less than a year later there was another turning point: The Friedland fortress and the city of Reichenberg were conquered by imperial troops on March 17, 1640. As a result, the city regiment changed again - but this time in the opposite direction. Now the Protestants were replaced by Catholics and the Reformed pastor by a Catholic pastor.

Gideon Ehrlich, who had managed to escape from Swedish captivity and had lived in exile for some time, returned to Reichenberg and was elected mayor of the city of Reichenberg on January 11, 1642. The following year, 1643, he was appointed burgrave of the Reichenberg lordship by Count Matthias von Gallas .

As a result, the passage of friendly and hostile troops claimed great victims from the city. In December 1645 the Swedes under General Arfurth Wittenberg von Debern again conquered Friedland Castle and occupied Reichenberg, after which the Friedland and Reichenberg lords were subordinated to General Wittenberg's inspector, Georg Bartsch, and there was another exchange of the city regiment - this time again in favor of the Protestants - came.

Gideon spent most of these years in exile. It was not until the Peace of Westphalia on October 24, 1648 that the Swedish occupation ended, which withdrew from Reichenberg in June 1649, allowing Gideon Ehrlich to return to his hometown and rebuild his textile factory.

Captain von Friedland and Reichenberg

His experience as a city councilor, mayor, city judge and organizer of recatholicization was used by Franz Ferdinand Reichsgraf von Gallas, who was lord of the Reichenberg and Friedland lords from 1647 to 1697, by appointing Gideon as captain of the Reichenberg and Friedland lords in 1663.

Friedland Castle and Palace
Frýdlant Castle

In 1665 Gideon established the first mass foundation at the newly built parish church of Reichenberg and donated 200 guilders for the anniversary of his death, an office of the soul that was held until the 20th century. In the same year he had a family crypt built in the left aisle of the parish church in front of the pulpit, the cover plate of which was decorated with his coat of arms. His wife was the first to be laid to rest there. The coat of arms stone was later moved to the center of the main corridor and removed in 1859 when the church was re-paved.

Bohemian nobility

On October 18, 1668, at the suggestion of the Count of Gallas, who wanted to reward his loyal service and to compensate him for the hardships suffered, Emperor Leopold I raised him to the hereditary nobility of the Kingdom of Bohemia, while at the same time conferring an increased coat of arms and the title "Von Ehrnfeldt". This predicate was obviously chosen based on the predicate of the same name of the former captain von Reichenberg, Vigil Tandel von Ehrenfeldt, who was the maternal grandfather of Gideon's wife.

In the nobility diploma of Emperor Leopold I (HRR) Leopold I, the reasons for the survey are as follows:

"When we have graciously looked at, perceived and looked at, the honesty, honesty, noble good manners, virtue, reason and skill, as well as the honest and conjugal birth, custom and praiseworthy behavior, with it before Our Imperial and Royal Majesty the Honorable Gedeon Honestly, he has become particularly famous, having for a long time heroically presided over the rule of Reichenberg in those hostile invasions with the presentation of Haab and Guts and Bluts, in 1638 tempore reformationis religionis at the time of Enemy because of his zeal for the Catholic religion and has done many undaunted cooperations in different harsh prisons have been thrown, life and limb endangered oh even finally all of his things have been divested, in which one and a half year have to remain in difficult exile, and therefore, how up to now also in the future, according to his good qualities, faithful service to us and the fatherland will probably be quiet can and should. "

The aristocratic diploma of October 18, 1668 contains the usual formulations in which the “nobility of the right noble fiefdom tournament comrades” and the right to receive benefits from high and low cathedral monasteries or ecclesiastical and secular fiefs, “to own courts, to judge” create and speak right ”, or to name oneself with the omission of the original name only after the newly awarded noble predicate. This privilege was occasionally used, but also vice versa, under the influence of the French Revolution , the family name was also used without a predicate.

What is remarkable, however, is the right to seal with red wax, the so-called freedom from red wax, which is bestowed with the diploma , as this was originally a privilege reserved for the sovereign and later for the gentry. For example, Johann von Starhemberg , Lord of Wildberg, Sprinzenstein, Zwettl , Schönbühel on the Danube, etc., was an imperial treasurer and the like. Council, governor in Upper Austria, etc. granted this right in 1467, whereby he moved up to the master class. This shows how much the times had changed, since in the 17th century freedom from red wax was now granted even to small nobility.

coat of arms

In the diploma of October 18, 1668, the original version of the coat of arms awarded to Gideon Ehrlich von Ehrnfeldt is described as follows:

"Alß named a square shield divided into four equal parts, the lower and upper rear of which is yellow or gold, but the lower and upper front is black or charcoal, and in the lower, lower field there appears a crowned wreath of green laurel against d. Right seeing Mohrenkopf, in the upper part of the request a bear standing upright with his head turned back and his tongue knocked out red, on his left side a whisker arrow shot downwards, and with his two feet, Datzen demand a little white flag with three raspberry leaves on a red stalk, painted triangularly inside Holding a golden crown, in the demand below the veld two identical red eagle wings, swung out against each other with the Saxons inward, appear, in each of which a white slanting beam with three purple roses lying one after the other, but in the rear upper one floats on one A white swan with a curved neck, looking to the right, hanging in its beak a gold ring with a turquoise stone, whether such a shield there is a free, open aristocratic tournament helmet, to the left with red - or ruby ​​- and white - or silver - to the side But right with sch wart or kale - and yellow - or gold-colored helmet covers, on top of which a royal golden cron is drawn, on which again, as in the upper vault, a large, upscale bear with a whacking arrow in the left side, and with his feet beating up, shot through it holding a uniform white flag must appear. "

Demise

Gideon I. Ehrlich von Ehrnfeldt, the captain of the lordships of Friedland and Reichenberg, died at Friedland Castle on September 24, 1670. He was buried with great pomp in the family crypt he had built in the parish church of Reichenberg. He was rung with fifteen pulses and all five pastors of the gentry appeared at his funeral. After the funeral, all the relatives gathered in the parish, where, as was customary at every funeral of the better classes at the time, “the suffering was drunk in wine”. On December 1, 1670, the existing cash was distributed among the heirs at the town hall. 1462 gold guilders were allocated to a child's share, which does not mean much today, but was already a great deal of wealth back then.

Marriage and offspring

marriage

Gideon married Sarah Henning in October 1628 († December 3, 1663, buried in the family crypt in the Reichenberg parish church). She was a daughter of Martin Henning, secretary of the royal chancellery in Prague and Eva Tandel von Ehrenfeldt, a daughter of Vigil Tandl von Ehrenfeldt, captain of the Reichenberg rule and Eva Freiin von Bieberstein , a daughter of Karl Freiherr von Bieberstein zu Devin ( today Děvín, Ralská pahorkatina ) and Roll (* March 20, 1528, † April 27, 1593), Imperial Councilor and Oberstmünzmeister in the Kingdom of Bohemia , he was married to Elisabeth von Minckwitz , a daughter of Kaspar von Minckwitz on Spremberg , Sonnwalde etc. and Sabine from the end .

von Bieberstein family coat of arms
von Minckwitz family coat of arms

His children's surprising ancestors

Coat of arms of the Grafen Schlick Schlick-Grafen coat of arms

However, Gideon Ehrlich could not have foreseen what one of his descendants found out much later, namely that through his marriage he made numerous, distant European rulers the ancestors of his descendants. This is based on the grandmother of Eva von Bieberstein, Sidonia Schlick Countess zu Passaun and Weißkirchen († 1547) and further back to Ursula Countess von Görz (+ after 1393) and her ancestors. Henry the Lion , the Dukes of Austria Heinrich the Cruel of Austria and Leopold VI belong to this princely ancestor . the glorious , but also Roman-German kings , such as Albrecht I and Rudolf I of Habsburg , the emperors Friedrich I Barbarossa , Lothar von Supplinburg , Heinrich IV. , Otto II. and Otto I the great as well as Charlemagne . These ancestors include the kings Henry II , William the Conqueror , Harald Godwinson and Alfred the Great in England, and King Malcolm III in Scotland . , in France King Louis VII and his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine , in Bohemia King Ottokar I , in Hungary Bela IV , in Poland King Boleslaw III. and in Russia Yuri Dolgoruki from the House of the Rurikids , Vladimir II Monomakh and Vladimir the Great .

Also Crusaders can be found at these ancestors as Raynald of Chatillon , Bohemund II. Hauteville , and Fulk of Anjou , Baldwin of Bourcq . The wife of King Bela IV of Hungary, Maria Laskaris of Nicaea , leads into the Byzantine Empire , since she was a daughter of Theodor I. Laskaris from 1205 to 1222 Byzantine emperor from the house of the Laskarids in exile in Nikaia 'Anna Komnene Angeloi '(† 1212), a daughter of Alexios III. Angelos , Emperor of Byzantium (1195–1203) and the Euphrosyne Dukaina Kamatera (* around 1143, † around 1211). Also Monomachos Byzantine emperor (1042-1055) occurs. But the ancestors also include saints of the Catholic Church , such as Saint Hedwig , Saint Louis and his wife, Saint Elisabeth of Thuringia and Leopold III. , as well as Olav II. the Saint

children

  • Gideon (II.) Ehrlich von Ehrnfeldt (born October 3, 1635 in Reichenberg, † February 28, 1678 in Prague , buried in the St Aegidikirche in Prague), was burgrave of Reichenberg since 1670, married Maria on November 14, 1656 in Reichenberg Magdalena Klosz (born August 15, 1640 in Reichenberg), a daughter of Andreas Klosz, brewer, burgrave of Reichenberg, ud Anna Günzel, (T. v. Georg Günzel, brewer, councilor and 1623/24 mayor of Reichenberg).
    • Gideon (III.) Ehrlich von Ehrnfeldt (* 1657, † 1700), his son, owned the Domaslowitz estate from 1690 to 1700 , which was about ten kilometers south of the city of Reichenberg . The estate consisted of the Domaslowitz farm, the villages of Domaslowitz, Jawornik (Javorník u Českého Dubu), Raschen (Rašovka), Padouchow (Padouchov), Bystra (Bystra, now part of Šimonovice ) and Proschwitz . As early as 1687, he had acquired parts of the Chwala camera administration estate in the Kaurzimer district (keute im Okres Kolín ) in the Central Bohemia region , namely half of the Seiprawitz ruled rustic farm, consisting of two farms, with the stipulation that the St. Michael's Church in Prague pay an annual interest rate from 74 guilders to afford 38 cruisers. Gideon (III.) Became the closer progenitor of the family, which is still flourishing in Austria and owns Illmau Castle there
  • Rosina Ehrlich von Ehrnfeldt, (certified October 27, 1694), married Urban Loth, citizen and councilor of the city of Reichenberg, later bailiff of the Liebenwerda monastery. On November 22, 1667, she married Andreas Schöpfer († December 9, 1709), Bräuhöfer, councilor and mayor of Reichenberg from 1689 to 1709.
  • Appolonia Ehrlich von Ehrnfeldt married on November 25, 1639 Christoph Tugemann, citizen, brewer and councilor of the city of Reichenberg. He tried to restore the city privileges lost under Wallenstein and, as the emissary of the citizenship of Emperor Leopold I, personally presented a memorandum on this matter on January 20, 1680 in Prague in the knights' room of the Hradschin . As punishment for this boldness, he was sentenced to 100 days in prison by the then governor of Reichenberg, Bernard Flick.

literature

  • Richard Jecht: History of the City of Görlitz. First delivery, 2nd edition. Self-published by the author, Görlitz 1922.
  • JG Herrmann History of the City of Reichenberg . 1st volume. Published by Franz Jannasch, Reichenberg 1863.
  • P. Anton Hoffmann: History of the old houses on the north side of the old town square in Reichenberg, which were demolished in May 1888 on the occasion of the construction of a new town hall . U. Schöpfer Verlag, Vienna 1888.
  • Walter König-Beyer: The oldest Reichenberg city book . Stiepel, Reichenberg 1943. (= Sudeten German historical sources; 7)

Web links

Remarks

  1. Adalbert Král von Dobrá Voda , in his work - "The nobility of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia", I. Taussig, Prague 1904 - wrongly states that Gideon Ehrlich was a citizen of Wroclaw, which by no means corresponds to the facts there Gideon clearly comes from Reichenberg. The title of nobility is also incorrectly given as "von Ehrnfeldt" instead of correctly as "von Ehrenfeld".

Individual evidence

  1. List of mayors to Goerlitz, page 12; Gotthold Heinze & Comp publishing house, Görlitz 1839 [1]
  2. Richard Jecht: "History of the City of Görlitz", first delivery, second edition, self-published by the author, Görlitz 1922, page 199
  3. ^ Richard Jecht: "History of the City of Görlitz", first delivery, second edition, self-published by the author, Görlitz 1922
  4. ^ JG Herrmann: "History of the City of Reichenberg", published by Franz Jannasch, Reichenberg, 1863, p. 44.
  5. P. Anton Hoffmann: "History of the old houses on the north side of the old town square in Reichenberg, which were demolished in May 1888 on the occasion of the construction of a new town hall", U. Schöpfer Verlag, Vienna 1888 p. 45.
  6. Dr. JG Herrmann: op. Cit. P. 307.
  7. ^ P. Anton Hoffmann: op. Cit. P. 131.
  8. ^ P. Anton Hoffmann, op. Cit. P. 50.
  9. ^ P. Anton Hoffmann, op. Cit. P. 45.
  10. Dr. JG Herrmann: "History of the City of Reichenberg"; 1st volume, published by Franz Jannasch, Reichenberg 1863, p. 205 f.
  11. ^ P. Anton Hoffmann, op. Cit. P. 44.
  12. P. Anton Hoffmann op. Cit. P. 106.
  13. ^ Roman Baron von Procházka: Genealogical Handbook of extinct Bohemian gentry families, p. 95, Verlag Degener & Co, Neustadt (Aisch) 1973 p. 94.
  14. ^ P. Anton Hoffmann, op. Cit. P. 134.
  15. a b P. Anton Hoffmann, op. Cit. P. 51.
  16. a b P. Anton Hoffmann, op. Cit. P. 52.
  17. ^ P. Anton Hoffmann, op. Cit. P. 54.
  18. ^ P. Anton Hoffmann, op. Cit. P. 135.
  19. August v. Doerr: "The nobility of the Bohemian Crown Lands - a directory of those coats of arms and nobility diplomas which are entered in the Bohemian hall books of the aristocratic archives in the KK Ministry of the Interior in Vienna and the archives of the kk Lieutenancy in Prague (copial books)."; Hall book LXXIX, 508
  20. freedom of red wax, on the website of the German Nobility Law Committee
  21. P. Anton Hoffmann op. Cit. P. 135.
  22. ^ Frank Baron Freytag von Loringhoven , European Family Tables , Family Tables for the History of the European States, Volume III, Table 61. The Lords of Biberstein. II; Marburg, Verlag by JA Stargardt; 1976
  23. Family tree of the von Schlick family
  24. ^ Karl Alois Guido Ehrlich (von Ehrnfeldt), Some ancestors of the Sidonia Schlick Countess zu Bassano and Weißenkirchen, Manuscript, 1919, Illmau Castle Library.
  25. ^ Josef František Jaroslav Schaller, Topography of the Kingdom of Bohemia, Volume 10, pages 226, 227; in von Schönfeld's story (1788), [2]
  26. ^ Georg Freiherr von Frölichsthal, The nobility of the Habsburg monarchy in the 19th and 20th centuries. Index to his genealogies (Insingen, 2008)
  27. ^ Georg Clam Martinic: "Burgen & Schlösser in Österreich", p. 139; Edition Contemporary History, Tosa Verlag, Vienna 1996
  28. ^ P. Anton Hoffmann, op. Cit. P. 81.
  29. ^ P. Anton Hoffmann, op. Cit. P. 82.