Heggenzer von Wasserstelz (noble family)

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Coat of arms of Johann Melchior von Heggenzer

The Heggenzer von Wasserstelz (also: Hegezer, Heggenzi, Heggentz) were a Schaffhausen patrician family that is documented between 1315 and 1587.

history

In 1315 Konrad Heggenzer bought the village of Altdorf from the Truchsessen von Diessenhofen . The sex had citizenship in Zurich and Schaffhausen. In the city of Schaffhausen, the Heggenz offices were held as councilor and treasurer. Hans Heggenzi lost his life in the battle of Sempach in 1386.

In 1451 the Weißwasserstelz castle came to Hans Heggenzi as a wealthy feud. Later, the family added the addition of water stilt to their name . The lineage of the Hegenzers von Wasserstelz is not related to the lords of Wasserstelz .

They sold Schwarzwasserstelz Castle to a Tschudi family in 1587.

coat of arms

A silver star in red on a blue three-mountain .

Personalities of gender

The Grand Prior of the Johanniter

Johann V. Heggenzer von Wasserstelz was the Grand Prior of the German Order of St. John 1505–1512. He moved the seat of the German Grand Priory to Heitersheim , implementing a resolution of the order of 1428. In doing so, he laid the foundation stone for what would later become the Principality of Heitersheim . From 1506 Johann was also the commander of the knight house in Bubikon .

The forest bailiff

Johann Melchior Heggenzer von Wasserstelz was forest bailiff of the county of Hauenstein from 1537 to 1559 .

The abbess

Coat of arms abbess of the Säckingen monastery , Agathe Hegenzer von Wasserstelz

Agathe Heggenzer von Wasserstelz was abbess of the Säckingen monastery from 1550–1571 . She took over the pen in a desolate state. After the Reformation in Markgräflerland , Margrave Karl II tried to introduce the Reformation in the village of Stetten, which was part of the monastery . However, Agathe managed to fend off this attempt. It was also able to improve the position of the monastery economically and politically in other ways. In 1570 she was invited to the Reichstag in Speyer by Emperor Maximilian II .

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