Heilingen (noble family)
The von Heilingen were a noble , little widespread Thuringian gentlemen who named themselves after the parent company of the same name and were wealthy in and around Sundhausen .
history
The family is first mentioned in 1110 with Adelbert von Heilingen . For a long time it belonged to the Fuldaischen Lehnshofe, in 1282 Conrad von Heilingen is mentioned there. With August Wilhelm von Heilingen († 1809 in Sundhausen), the male line died out.
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coat of arms
Blazon of the most widespread coat of arms: a black bar in silver (also with a gold-green diagonal diamond ring placed over the entire shield). On the crowned helmet with black and silver covers an open flight, tinged like the shield .
Further coats of arms "von Heilingen" existed with an undetectable agnatic connection to the gender described:
- in silver a red lion (holding a black sloping pole in its paws). Helmet: a pair of buffalo horns divided across a corner by red and silver. Covers: red silver.
- split by black and silver, each with an angled, turned arm in confused colors. Helmet: with black and silver bulge, with two silver arms. Covers: black silver.
- two ram horns with torn skulls off
- Shield with sloping beams, above (2: 2: 1) and below (1: 2: 2) each accompanied by five cubes (shingles).
- a crescent moon, within the sickle a star
literature
- Johann Christian von Hellbach : Adels-Lexikon or manual on historical, genealogical and diplomatic, partly also heraldic, genealogical and diplomatic, partly also heraldic news of the high and low nobility [...] , Vol. 1, Ilmenau 1825, P. 528
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon , Vol. 4, Leipzig 1863, p. 275 digitized
- George Adalbert von Mülverstedt : New contribution to the question about the Saxon diamond wreath. A new Rautenkranz coat of arms and about the Thuringian of Heilingen , in: New communications from the field of historical-antiquarian research Vol. 11, 2 (1865–67) pp. 1–22
- George Adalbert von Mülverstedt, Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt , J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms, VI. Volume, 6th Division; Extinct Prussian nobility: Province of Saxony, Nuremberg 1884, p. 67, plate 42
- Otto Posse : The seals of the nobility of the Wettin region up to the year 1500. Bd. 3. Dresden 1908, S. 110ff. ( Digitized version )
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon , 1863, page 275