Great (noble family)

Great coat of arms (Siebmacher's book of arms)

Large , well Grosse was an old Upper Saxon - meißnisches noble family that had branched out and became extinct in the 19th century.

history

The lords of Deutzen or Seebitzschen that after an earlier feud ( Deutzen in Borna , Seebitzschen at Rochlitz called), and since 1283 more than 80 years, the Office of the castle captain of the castle Döbeln managed, called themselves later simply great . The complete line of the von Große family usually begins in 1601.

A branch of the family acquired Trebsen Castle and the neighboring Altenhain in 1330 . Altenhain was later divided within the family for some time, as evidenced by the documentary mention of two manors in 1606. The latter remained in their possession until 1741. In 1750 the family also lost the newly acquired Roitzsch manor in the Torgau district due to debts .

Up until 1568 another branch of the von Große family was located in Lebusischen , which died out with Joachim Große. The manor in Großwerther near Nordhausen was also owned by the family. In 1749 a von Große is mentioned as the owner. Carl Ulrich Wilhelm von Große, who served as Rittmeister in the von Zetenchen Hussar Regiment, also came from this estate.

Almost all representatives of this noble family renounced the title of nobility by the beginning of the 18th century.

After 1812 there is no evidence of the existence of a representative of this noble family.

coat of arms

Blazon : embroidered with silver and green.

Well-known representatives

• Christoph Large Electoral Saxon Chamberlain , who in 1525 at the funeral of the Elector Frederick the Wise involved and more than 1,533 Kirchenvisitator in Meissen appeared
• Donat Große, canon with a doctorate in Naumburg (Saale) . Pope Leo X exhorted him to oppose Martin Luther and urge others to do the same.
• Eva Große, escaped with other nuns from the Nimbschen monastery near Grimma at the beginning of the Reformation
• Siegmund Große, died in 1572 in a duel with Eustachius von Honsberg in Wurzen
• Carl Heinrich von Große († February 17, 1745), Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Major General of the Cavalry

literature

• Carl W. Hingst : Chronicle of Döbeln and the surrounding area . Döbeln 1872, pp. 33–35 ( google.de ).
• Diplomatic messages from noble families , 1st part, Leipzig 1790, p. 113 ff. ( Google.de ).
• Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon , Volume IV, 1863, pp. 58–59 ( google.de ).
• Johann Friedrich Gauhe , Christoph von Carlowitz: Des Heil. Rom. Reichs Genealogisch-Historisches Adels-LEXICON . Volume 1, Leipzig 1740, Col. 701 f. ( online) .

Web links

Commons : Grosse family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the historical local dictionary of Saxony
2. ↑ Kneschke, Volume IV, 1868, p. 58.
3. ^ Reprinted, for example, on an engraving from 1820
4. ^ Intelligence Comtoir: As derer v. Arnstädt, Kölbel v. Seyfing, v. Kurnatowsky, v. Sandersleben, v. Selmnitz, v. Summer, v. Trebra, v. Thümmel, v. Wittinghoff called Scheel, v. Wuthenau, v. Zehmen, v. Concerning Zinck. Intelligence Comtoir, 1795, p. 3 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
5. ^ Genealogical-historical news . 85th part, Leipzig 1746, p. 409 ( google.de ).