Gottfarth
The Gottfarth (also Gottfart, Gottfahrt etc.) were a noble family who lived in the Thuringian , Franconian and Mansfeld lands from the late Middle Ages .
history
The sex was resident in the Thuringian / Franconian / Mansfeld region. According to the register of the Buttelstedt bailiwick from 1333, Theodericus Gothefridi owned 4 manses in the Oberndorf (desert near Buttelstedt) and ½ manses in the Buttelstedt corridor "the pool". Filius Gothefried also owned ½ Manse in Ottmannshausen. Buttelstedt, in the Saxon Weimar region, was next to Daasdorf bei Buttelstedt the old, long-standing ancestral seat of this family, which was never widely spread and which died out in the 18th century. For a short time it also owned land within the province of Saxony. In 1624 the von Gottfarth family owned Lüttchendorf in the Mansfeld area. Anton Christoph and Hans Anton lived in Artern from 1657 to 1689. Dietrich Hildebrand, Lieutenant Colonel owned Freienbessing in 1655. Hans Heinrich (1611) and his son Adam owned the Erdeborn estate in Mansfeld, as did Ernst Heinrich in 1720. Jobst lived in Lodersleben. Hansen's widow owned an estate in Wundersleben. Other places were u. a. Luckendorf, Camburg, Coburg, Prießnitz and Sonnenburg. In 1665, Hans Heinrich zu Buttelstedt received hereditary interest from 24 places.
Description of coat of arms
Shield: blue, with a white star, in whose 8 angles 8 small white stars float.
Helmet: two buffalo horns divided
by blue and white. Blankets: blue and white.
Shield: blue with a white star in the 8 corners of which there are 8 small white stars. There is a ray formation in the star.
Helmet: crown bead, two buffalo horns divided
by blue and white. Cover: blue and white.
Personalities
The von Gottfarth family was an old noble family in the late Middle Ages . The family name originated from the first name Gottfried and occurs as Gothefridi, Gottfart, Gottfahrt, Göttfart, Göttfahrt, Gettfardt, Gotfort, Godefurt, Gadefart and Gadenfort. This family always tried to expand their influence through distribution and marriage policy in Central Germany and beyond. The first representative by name was Theodericus in Oberndorf (Buttelstedt) in 1333 and Hans Wilhelm died as the last of his male line in 1724 in Buttelstedt. The knight Hans Gottfart was mentioned as a witness in a contract in 1417 and could be considered the progenitor of the clan.
The spread of the clan began in the 15th century with the lines of Bernhard (Buttelstedt), Leutholf (Daasdorf) and Dietrich. Christoph (the younger, * 1510, † 1610) von Gottfarth from Daasdorf participated in 1535 with Emperor Charles V in the campaign against Tunis. Caspar and Eitel-Günter are mentioned in connection with the Krummbach Handel. This involvement did not harm Caspar's political career, as he later became court marshal in Coburg . In 1581 Ludolph and Hans Christoph were mentioned in connection with a heavenly ball of fire over tear down. Caspar, Eitel-Günter, Jörg, Heinrich and Christoph had a book published in honor of their ancestors in 1582. In 1569, Veronika von Gottfarth was court maid of Princess Agnes von Anhalt. The clan reached the largest number of family members at the beginning of the 16th century. About 373 individual names of family members can be found in the files. The first name Christoph appears most frequently among the representatives.
family tree
After Hans Christoph von Gottfarth died in Daasdorf in 1610 without an heir, there was a dispute between the various lines over the estate. Adam von Gottfarth sued his alleged right at the Jena Schöppenstuhl without any results. A family tree has been made for this from 1618.
Family connections
There were family connections a. with the families, von Archshofen, von Berck, von Bessing, von Bose, von Brand, von Brandstein, von Breitenbauch, von Bünau, von Brühl, von Creilßheim, Fam. Caesar, Fam. Dangels, von Dernbach, von Drachwitz, von Draxdorf , from Eberstedt, from Endte, from Fortsch, from Gehofen, from Gemmingen, from Geusau, from Gutenberg, from Harras, Lochnerin from Hippenbach, from Holstein / Gottfarth, from Horneck, from Kappen, from Knobloch, from Kornburg, from Kreuzburg, from Liederbach, von Mandelsloh, von Meissbach, von Morsheim, von Maßbach, von Nanckenreuth, Neuhaus, Notthaft von Weißenstein, von Osterhausen, von Plassenberg, von Pölnitz, von Ranis, von Redwitz, von Rheden, von Rosenau, von Roßmann, von Schmidtburg, von Sickingen, von Storndorf, von der Tanne, von Toepfer, von Trebra, von Trotta, von Tümpling, Vitzthum, von Eckstedt, Weiland, von Weinheim, von Weitenbach, von Werder, von Wiezburg, von Wirchhausen, von Witzleben and von Worm.
literature
- O. Geissler: Chronicles of the city of Buttelstedt , 1953
- Wolf von Tümpling: Chronicle of the von Tümpling family
- Eberhard Schmidt: The Gottfart estate owners in Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt , contribution to the Ur-Krostitzer Jahresring 2009 historians' competition
swell
- Church books from Buttelstedt years 1663-1600 1600-1680, Daasdorf 1648-1700 and Löberschütz years 1546-1568
- ev. parish Worms
- Files from the Weimarer Land district archive
- Files from the Erfurt City Archives
- Files of the Thuringian Main State Archive Weimar, holdings A 392-399, M 309-349, Reg.Pp 421, Reg.Gs 1097-1147
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hannes Gotefard, in a document dated May 25, 1420, in Wilhelm Rein: Thuringia sacra, document book, history and description of the Thuringian monastery, part II. Ettersburg ..., "Ettersburg und die Chorherrnstifte" , Weimar 1865, p. 84f, archive.org
Web links
- Gerhard Köbler : Historical Lexicon of the German Lands: the German territories from the Middle Ages to the present , CH Beck 7th edition 2007 link
- Seal of Gottfahrth in www.archiv.sachsen.de
- Family tree from Hans von Gottfahrt (* approx. 1522) on gedbas