Gottsfeld (noble family)
Gottsfeld is the name of a local Franconian noble family .
The name Gottsfeld varies as Gotsfeld, Gotzfeldt or Gotzfeld. The family has its origin in Gottsfeld with the Gottsfeld Castle . The family's influence extended to the surrounding area, including Oberailsfeld Castle . As part of the imperial-free knighthoods, the family was organized in the knight canton of Gebürg . In place of a family tree, the genealogist Johann Gottfried Biedermann names a list of family members who predominantly held ecclesiastical offices, including women in the monastery of Himmelkron and Birkenfeld or as canons of Bamberg , Eichstätt and Regensburg . Lendings were made via the Würzburg Monastery and the Bayreuth-Kulmbach Margraviate .
The coat of arms is a red, upwardly open circle on a silver background. The helmet covers are red and silver. The shield motif is repeated in the crest, in the expanded representation in Siebmacher's book of arms , a pointed hat with a puff is shown as a crest.
literature
- Johann Gottfried Biedermann : Gender register of the Reichs-Frey immediate knighthood Landes zu Francken, praiseworthy locality Gebürg . Bamberg 1747. Plate CCCIV. ( Digitized in the Google book search)
- Cord Ulrichs: From feudal court to 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 of Gebürg from 1529, StAM GHA II. No. 211 aE) . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07109-1 , p. 213.