Heilingen (noble family)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coat of arms of those of Heilingen

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.

Coat of arms in Siebmacher's coat of arms book (1605)

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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. two ram horns with torn skulls off
  4. Shield with sloping beams, above (2: 2: 1) and below (1: 2: 2) each accompanied by five cubes (shingles).
  5. 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

  1. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon , 1863, page 275