Goltstein (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Goltstein

Goltstein , also Goldstein , is the name of an old, originally Rhineland noble family . The family later acquired property and prestige in Austria , the Netherlands and Prussia .

history

origin

In Kneschke and Zedlitz-Neukirch it is mentioned that the family comes from Moravia and is said to have called themselves Zwole (also Swole or Stwole ) and Goltstein. There a Matthias Swolsky appears in 1305 as a court officer with the Moravian Margraves . A branch of this family is said to have come to Carinthia and built the Goldenstein Castle near Kötschach . Later, their relatives also settled in Poland , where they called themselves Stowolinsky and Goldstein and were incorporated into the Swinka tribe. From Poland they are said to have finally reached the Rhine and Franconia . The early spellings of the name vary from Goltstein, Goldstein, Goldenstein to Golstyn.

The genealogist and historian Anton Fahne accepts Heinrich Goltstein as the first documented member of the family . He appears in 1180 as a citizen of Cologne . The family later built Goldstein Castle in the Duchy of Jülich . According to the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , the siblings Reinart , Johann and Katharina Goltstein are named and sealed in documents on November 30, 1430 and November 30, 1442, respectively , as the first members of the family .

Spread and personalities

Breill Castle (around 1873/84)

Johann von Goltstein , who was Herr zu Drimborn in 1465, married Angnes von Wyenhorst . Through the marriage of his grandson Reinhard von Goltstein to Aleid von Moelenbach , heiress of Breyl (also Breil), Breill Castle came into family ownership . His son Gerhard von Goltstein († 1544), Herr zu Breyl, married Margaretha von Grein , the heiress of Müggenhausen . The marriage resulted in seven children, of which only Wilhelm (* 1536), Walraff (* 1539) and Margarethe (* 1545) survived their father.

William of Goltstein , son of Philip of Goltstein from the house Breill and Elizabeth, born Baroness von Wisch, learned in Jülich-Cleves succession dispute in 1610 the Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach Joachim Ernst know of him in 1615 to the bailiff to Feuchtwangen appointed. In 1621 he became councilor and chief magistrate in Crailsheim and magistrate in Loben- and Anhausen and he was in charge of the offices of Bemberg and Werdeck. In 1623 he bought the castle in Obermögersheim for 1500 fl . He was married to Euphrosyne, née von Horkheim, who gave birth to three daughters and a son, Conrad Wilhelm . She died on May 29, 1632 and was buried in St. Stephan in Würzburg . Wilhelm von Goltstein became lieutenant general in the cavalry and colonel on horseback in the Swedish army. He was fatally wounded in the Battle of Lützen , died on November 16, 1632 in Chemnitz and was buried in St. John's Church in Crailsheim, where his epitaph is still there.

Memorial plaque for Conrad Wilhelm von Goltstein (* 1625; † 1713) in St. George's Church in Nördlingen

In St. George's Church in Nördlingen there is a large memorial plaque for his son Conrad Wilhelm with his portrait on black velvet. The text says: "Conrad Wilhelm Freiherr von Goldstein, hereditary lord of Obermegersheim (today Obermögersheim ) and Pflaunfeld (today Pflaumfeld ), his high princely highness of Brandenburg Ohnolzbach ( Brandenburg-Ansbach ), former Privy Councilor and previously Hofmeister and Oberamtmann zu Gunzenhausen. Born on December 19, 1625 in Crailsheim Castle, and died in Nördlingen after a 33-year stay here on March 9, 1713 in the 88th year. " He was buried in the choir of the Carmelite Church in Nördlingen. His epitaph was located in the cloister of the former Carmelite monastery with its ancestral coats of arms: on the left, one below the other from Goltstein, von Wisch, von Taubenroth, von Polland, on the right, one below the other from Horkheim, von Rossau, von Wöllwarth, von Schletz. Conrad Wilhelm Freiherr von Goltstein was married twice, but remained childless. In 1667 he had sold his castle in Obermögersheim to his brother-in-law, Jobst Wilhelm von Jaxtheim.

Wallraff von Goltstein's grandson Johann Wilhelm von Goltstein († 1663) brought the imperial baron status to the family. His brother Johann Friedrich von Goltstein († 1687) was married twice, in the first marriage with Antonia Margarethe von Hatzfeld and in the second marriage with Maria Anna von Mirbach-Immendorff . From Johann Wilhelm's second marriage to Veronica von Holtrop , a first he concluded with Susanna Catharina von Ow and a third with Catharina Prömper , the barons Friedrich Gerhard (* 1647–1713 ) and Heinrich Theobald (* 1649– † 1719) came both were raised to the rank of imperial count . The son of Count Friedrich Gerhard from his marriage to Therese Freiin von Blanckart , Count Johann Ludwig von Goltstein (* 1689), Herr zu Breyl, first became a Jülich-Berg bailiff, Privy Councilor , President of the Court Chamber and was Chancellor from 1726. He died as governor of jülich-Berg country on February 23, 1731. Johann Ludwig married the Countess Anna Maria of Schaesberg († 1776), daughter of jülich-Berg Hofkammerpräsidenten and later Palatine Minister Count Johann Friedrich von Schaesberg . The marriage had five children.

Son Count Johann Ludwig Franz von Goltstein (1719–1776) was one of the most important representatives of the family. In 1731 he became bailiff of Geilenkirchen , in 1739 chamberlain to the Electorate of the Palatinate and in 1740 Jülich land commissioner. In October of the same year he swore up in the college of the Jülich knighthood and was appointed real councilor in Düsseldorf . In 1757 he was appointed President of the Court Chamber in Düsseldorf, on November 11, 1768, he was promoted to governor with an annual salary of 2,600 Reichstalers, and on August 14, 1774, he was granted the patent as secret Minister of State and Conference for the Department of Finance in Mannheim . In 1769, Count Johann Ludwig Franz von Goltstein had the eastern part of the Hofgarten (Düsseldorf) laid out and the country roads starting from Düsseldorf built. According to him, which was Goltsteinstraße named in Dusseldorf. Several large buildings were also carried out under his administration. These included the Jägerhof Castle , the Benrath Castle and the Governor's Palace at the mill road. He died on September 5, 1776.

Count Johann Ludwig Franz married Amalia Theresa Freiin von Blanckard († 1762) in Alsdorf in 1747 . Joseph Ludwig Franz Graf von Goltstein († 1811), a son of the couple, was also Jülich-Bergischer privy councilor, court and chamber president , vice-president and ruling count of Schlenacken (Slenaken) and ruler of the elms. He married Maria Louise Auguste Freiin von Loë zu Wissen. Her grandson Count Arthur Friedrich von Goltstein (* 1813; † 1882) was a member of the Prussian manor house for life. His marriage to Countess Mathilde von und zu Hoensbroech (* 1813) in 1838 resulted in three daughters: Countesses Eugenia Maria Augusta (* 1839), Elisabeth Maria Louise (* 1840) and Maria Caroline (* 1848). His uncle Count Friedrich Anton Maria von Goltstein († 1852) became royal French maréchal de camp ( major general ). His son Friedrich Graf von Goltstein (* 1836) from his marriage to Stephanie Vicomtesse von Quabeck also entered royal French military service.

Status surveys

From the line of Breil (Breyl), Johann Wilhelm von Goltstein , colonel of the Electorate of the Palatinate , governor of Düsseldorf and later imperial general field master , was raised to the status of imperial baron in 1657. His sons, the Barons Friedrich Gerhard , Imperial Chamberlain and Heinrich Theobald , Councilor of the Teutonic Order , Coadjutor of the Landkomtur in Austria, Privy Councilor and Court Marshal of the Teutonic Order Master Ludwig Anton Pfalzgraf bei Rhein , received the Imperial Count status in Vienna on February 8, 1694 with the salutation high and well-born and a coat of arms improvement .

A Prussian recognition of the count status for the Breil line took place on June 1, 1827 in Berlin by ministerial rescript . Count Anton Maria von Goltstein , the former royal French Maréchal de Camp, received Austrian recognition of the count's status in Vienna on May 25, 1850.

From the baronial line, Carl Nicolaus Philipp Wilhelm Freiherr von Goltstein was entered under number 10 in the baron class of nobility in the Prussian Rhine Province on June 11, 1829, according to the entry of the House of Merödgen .

The Niederembt line received Dutch recognition of the baron title on April 1, 1820, May 14, 1822 and June 2, 1822 . The coats of arms awarded are identical to the family coat of arms with two golden lions as shield holders .

Relatives

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows four blue bars in gold. On the helmet with blue and gold helmet covers two buffalo horns labeled like the shield .

Count's coat of arms

The Count's coat of arms, awarded in 1694, is identical to the family coat of arms. In the crest between the two buffalo horns there is also a red eagle (for the Holtrop reign). Two upright natural elephants as a shield holder .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 3, pages 592–593
  2. ↑ a b New Prussian Adelslexicon Volume 2, Pages 259–261
  3. ^ Leonhard Korth : Das Gräflich von Mirbach'sche Archive to Harff. in: Annals of the historical association for the Lower Rhine 57, 2 (1893/94), page 37, no. 370
  4. ↑ State Archive Nuremberg , Ansbacher Lehenurkunden, Rep. 135, No. 2493.
  5. ^ Franz J. Bendel: Church and monastery of St. Stephan in Würzburg as burial place , in: Archive of the Historical Association of Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg, Vol. 52, Würzburg 1910, pp. 169/70.
  6. ^ Daniel Eberhard Beyschlag : Contributions to the Nördlingische sex history, containing the Nördlingische epitaphs. Nördlingen 1803, Part 2, 1st Department, pp. 143–146.
  7. ↑ Düsseldorf im Wandel der Zeiten, Schwann, Düsseldorf, 1910, in 13. Historical street and place names, p. 83
  8. ^ Düsseldorf in the course of the times, 1910, p. 41 Düsseldorf at the time of Elector Karl Theodor: Graf Goldstein
  9. ↑ a b c d Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume IV, Volume 67 of the complete series, pages 188-189

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