Girardi (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of the Girardi of Castellen

The barons Girardi von Castellen zu Weyerburg and Limpurg were a noble family from Mori near Rovereto in the Italian province of Trento ( Trentino-Alto Adige region ).

history

The Girardi von Castell are said to have been ennobled as early as 1511, but there is no evidence for this. However, they received a letter of arms in 1580.

The Limburg and the associated village Sasbach am Kaiserstuhl were since 1498 as a Habsburg fief in the hands of the Counts of Tübingen-Lichteneck . After their extinction in 1630, the French King Louis XIII. the rule of the Swedish Colonel Wolfgang von Schönbeck. The German Emperor Ferdinand III. however, declared the fiefdom to have fallen back and in 1645 Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria gave it to Lieutenant Colonel and War Councilor Franz Girardi von Castell, who was in Austrian service. Around 1660 Johann Hannibal Girardi von Castell had a manor house (castle) built on the outskirts.

On May 20, 1673, Emperor Leopold I raised the brothers Peter and Johann Franz as barons Girardi von Castellen zu Weyerburg and Limpurg to the status of hereditary-Austrian barons. Johann Franz was the chief hunter in Freiburg im Breisgau in Upper Austria , while Peter was captain of the Tyrolean militia.

Through the possession of Sasbach, the Girardi belonged to the Breisgau knighthood and were represented in the Breisgau estates . In the Grand Duchy of Baden they were still among the landlords who were entitled to vote and who could be elected to the first chamber . In 1970, the legacy of the Barons von Girardi in Sasbach was auctioned off, still over 150 hectares of land.

coat of arms

Family coat of arms from 1580
The coat of arms is black split by a red tip (rising from the base of the shield to the upper edge), which is covered on a green background by a silver fort with three towers and is accompanied by two golden lions facing inwards.

Barons
coat of arms This increased coat of arms is squared with a heart shield, split at the top, on the right in a red and silver split field an inward facing lion in confused colors, on the left split, above in gold a green tree, below in gold a blue, interwoven sloping grid, below the family coat of arms like previously described. Heart shield: in blue a ducal hat lined with red and turned up with ermine.

literature

  • Carl August von Grass (editor), Johann Siebmacher (founder): J. Siebmacher's large and general coat of arms book: in a new, fully ordered u. Richly presumed edition with heraldic and historical-genealogical explanations (volume 2,6): The nobility in Baden: together with appendix, containing the status surveys of the princely house of Fürstenberg , Nuremberg, 1878, p. 8 and table 7 digitized
  • Max Gritzner (editor), Johann Siebmacher (founder): J. Siebmacher's large and general coat of arms book: in a new, completely ordered u. richly presumed edition with heraldic and historical-genealogical explanations: Der Adel des Elsass , Nürnberg 1871, p. 9-10 and plate 11 digitized
  • Edmund von der Becke-Klüchtzner: Stamm-Tafeln of the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Baden: a newly edited book of nobility , Baden-Baden, 1886, pp. 166–167 and 614 online
  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon published in association with several historians. , Third volume. [Eberhard - Graffen.], Leipzig 1861, p. 528 in the Google book search
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1857, p. 238–240 digitized
  • Philipp Ruppert: The Limburg ruins and the village of Sasbach a. Rh. , Self-published, Konstanz 1888 (from: Konstanzer contributions to Baden history, issue 1, pp. 78–87 digitized )

Web links

Commons : Coat of arms of the Girardi family  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Zotz: Sasbach (EM). In: Alfons Zettler, Thomas Zotz (editor): The castles in medieval mash gau. I. Northern part. Half band LZ. P. 389
  2. ↑ ibid p. 383
  3. ↑ see Gotha p. 239
  4. ↑ Michael Haberer: Albrecht Jäger: Decades of growing together bear fruit. In: Badische Zeitung from March 16, 2015; accessed on February 25, 2018
  5. ↑ see Grass p. 8
  6. ↑ The colored illustration on the homepage www.welt-der-wappen.de shows the green background, not the one that is shown on the tinging at Gritzner.
  7. ↑ www.welt-der-wappen.de