Gross (patrician family)

Coat of arms of the von Gross family

Samuel Isaak Emanuel Gross, officer of the Swiss Guard in Paris (1755)

The family of Gross is one of Zofingen originating Bernese patrician family that since 1637 the Burger rights owned by the city of Bern and the company Pfistern belongs. The Gross appointed the town clerk of Bern four times and for a time owned the Trévelin estate near Aubonne and the Hubelgut in Habstetten. The Bern line died out in 1899, but the Weimar line returned to Bern with the lawyer Ludwig Albert Gabriel von Gross (1914–2002).

people

• Gabriel Gross I (1615–1683), signatory 1642, town clerk 1656, bailiff of Aarburg 1679
• Gabriel Gross II. (1645–1693), signatory, member of the Grand Council 1673, town clerk 1679
• Hans Jakob Gross (1647–1717), member of the Grand Council 1680, Obervogt zu Biberstein 1691, Schultheiss zu Unterseen 1708
• Gabriel Gross III. (1669–1738), member of the Grand Council 1701, signatory 1701, town clerk 1710–1722, governor of Lausanne 1725, lord of Trévelin
• Emanuel Gross (1681–1742) engineer, mathematician, captain in Prussian service, member of the Grand Council 1710, lieutenant colonel at Villmergen 1712, governor of Lugano 1714 and 1738, governor of Laupen 1721, governor of 1734, governor of Echallens 1740, colonel in Services of the Duke of Modena, governor of Mirandola 1742
• Gabriel Gross (1697–1745), member of the Grand Council 1727, signatory 1736, governor of Interlaken 1738
• Karl Ludwig Gross (1701–1763), member of the Grand Council 1735, signatory 1736, town clerk 1749, bailiff of Romainmôtier 1756, lord of Trévelin 1738
• Sigmund Gross (1706–1762), officer in Holland, Colonel 1750, member of the Grand Council 1755
• Elisäus Jakob Gross (1724–1783), captain in Sardinian service 1761, lieutenant colonel 1774, member of the grand council 1764, governor of Thorberg 1781
• Samuel Isaak Emanuel Gross (1732–1763), officer of the Swiss Guard in Paris, Catholic, Burger zu Freiburg 1742
• Carl von Gross (1745–1808), recruiter, Hofmeister von Königsfelden 1793, Herr zu Trévelin 1763 to 1777
• Karl Rudolf Hermann von Gross (1824–1899), officer in Austria, ultimate of the Bern line

Weimar branch

• Franz Gabriel Gross (1715–1785), Colonel in the Bern regiment of May in Holland in 1772, commandant of Namur in 1774, major general in 1779, ennobled by Emperor Joseph II in 1783, progenitor of a baronial branch in Weimar
• Rudolf Gabriel von Gross († 1907), Dr. iur., Chamberlain and Minister of State of Saxony – Weimar – Eisenach
• Siegfried Wilhelm Gabriel von Gross (1870–?), District judge in Weimar

swell

• The Vennerkammer zu Bern grants Gabriel Gross (d. J.), town clerk, the redemption of a land rent from an estate in Habstetten to the Inselspital and the building authority (1687), State Archives of the Canton of Bern , CI b, Inselarchiv, June 27, 1687
• Correspondence: Gross, Gabriel (1645–1693) to Escher, Heinrich (1626–1710), (1688–1689), Burgerbibliothek Bern , Mss.Mül.314.1 (42)
• Mortgage note from Samuel Bondeli to Gabriel Gross (1692), Burgerbibliothek Bern , FA von Tscharner A 182 (17)
• Citizen law letter from the municipality of Vuilly – le – Bas for Karl Gross, Herr zu Trevelin (1770), State Archives of the Canton of Bern , CI b, Varia II, July 28, 1770
• Rudolf Ludwig von Willading, former Hofmeister zu Königsfelden, sells the new Hofmeister, Karl von Gross, his furniture in the official apartment in Königsfelden, as well as food supplies, horses, poultry and hunting dogs (1793), State Archives of the Canton of Bern , CI b, Varia II , October 29, 1793
• Scattered stocks in the Bern Burger Library

literature

• Hans Braun: Gross [from]. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Wolf Maync: Bernese patrician seats in welschen Landen , Bern 1985, pp. 46–47.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} HBLS III, p. 756.
2. ↑ The von Gross family should not be confused with the Gross family from La Neuveville, who were born in Bern in 1917 (Gesellschaft zu Schmieden).
3. ↑ Portrait: State Archives of the Canton of Bern, TE 7
4. ↑ State Archives of the Canton of Bern, TE 8
5. ↑ State Archives of the Canton of Bern, TE 13
6. ↑ Last male name bearer.

Web links

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• Trévelin Castle on www.swisscastles.ch