Heinrich Chanowsky
Heinrich Chanowsky von Langendorf (* around 1550 in Chanovice ; † 1611/12 in Brettach ) was the founder of the Palatinate-Württemberg line of an originally South Bohemian knightly dynasty that had existed in Germany for four generations.
ancestry
Heinrich Chanowsky came from the South Bohemian knight dynasty of the Dlauhowesky , who got their name from the place Dlouhá Ves (Langendorf). A branch of the Dlauhowesky named itself after their property in the place Chanowitz in the district of Pilsen Chanowsky . The master of this line was Johann Alexius Ritter Chanowsky-Dlauhowesky von Langendorf (approx. 1490–1540), the grandfather of Heinrich Chanowsky.
biography
Heinrich Chanowsky was born in Bohemia around 1550 as the son of Wolfgang Heinrich Ritter Chanowsky-Dlauhowesky and his wife Eva Anna von Widhosticz. While his brother Adam Chanowsky-Dlauhowesky founded the Bohemian line of the Chanowsky, Heinrich became the founder of the Palatinate-Württemberg line. He married Johanna Raphi (* unknown; † around 1627) around 1580 and had five children with her: Georg Heinrich Chanowsky (* around 1581; † 1636 in Strasbourg ), Friedrich Casimir Chanowsky (* around 1584; † 1648 in Stuttgart ), Elisabeth Christina Chanowsky (* 1585; † 1659 in Strasbourg), Friedrich Ludwig (* 1592; † 1645 in Strasbourg) and Maria Johanna Chanowsky (* February 16, 1598 in Kochersteinsfeld ; † 1638 in Strasbourg).
The family emigrated from Chanowitz in the 1880s because of their Protestant faith. Heinrich Chanowsky was appointed court junker in Heidelberg on January 15, 1584 by the Calvinist administrator of the Palatinate Johann Kasimir von der Pfalz-Simmern and appointed as a hunter for the small woad. Chanowsky was a Lutheran and confidante of the like-minded Countess Palatine Elisabeth and her niece Christina von der Pfalz. After the death of Johann Kasimir, Chanowsky received a new contract as court squire and hunter from his successor Friedrich IV . At the turn of the year 1593/94 he left the Electoral Palatinate to become forest master of the Neuenstadt Forest in the Württemberg Neuenstadt am Kocher in the service of Duke Friedrich I.
He built the Chanowsky Castle in Brettach (today a district of Langenbrettach ) as his manor . In 1664 it was acquired by Duke Friedrich von Württemberg-Neuenstadt , the brother of Duke Eberhard III. , acquired. In addition to the small castle, today's Lindenhof was also owned by the family as a farmyard.
Chanowsky remained forester until he was about 60 years old. He received his last salary in December 1609. From the years 1610 and 1611, documents about various disputes between the citizens of Brettach and Chanowsky have been preserved, which were ultimately settled by a word of power from Duke Johann Friedrich of Württemberg . Chanowsky was last named as godfather on July 21, 1611. He had already died on March 1, 1612. He was buried in the village church of Brettach, in which a fragment of his grave monument is said to have been preserved in the 19th century.
Heinrich Chanowsky's son Friedrich Ludwig became temporarily master of the towns of Riississen , Wilflingen and the town of Ehingen in Upper Swabia during the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War around 1633 . He had received these Stauffenberg and Upper Austrian and thus Catholic lords as gifts from the Swedes. As a result of the Swedish defeat at the Battle of Nördlingen , he had to go into exile in Strasbourg, as did his sovereign of Württemberg. The sex died out in the male line in 1678 and finally in 1743.
coat of arms
The coat of arms of the Chanowsky originally showed a straightened horse as the upper coat of arms as a crest, while the lower coat of arms shows a silver round shield with a hump in the middle in the blue field, which is also described as a millstone .
The birth of his three sons prompted Heinrich Chanowsky to add three arrows to the crest of his coat of arms. Heinrich Chanowsky kept the lower coat of arms and repeated the millstone in the upper coat of arms, adding three arrows to the millstone, which can symbolically stand for his sons Georg Heinrich, Friedrich Casimir and Friedrich Ludwig according to the psalm (127/4 and 5). There it says: “Like arrows in the hand of a strong man, so the young boys get. Good for him who has his quiver full of them, they will not be put to shame when they deal with their enemies in the gate. "
Heinrich Chanowsky's coat of arms with the three arrows symbolizing three sons
Chanowsky coat of arms around 1595 on the castle in Brettach
literature
- Karl Hugo Popp and Hans Riexinger : The Palatine-Württemberg line of the Chanowsky von Langendorf family . Part I. In: Yearbook for Swabian-Franconian History . Volume 32. Historischer Verein Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1992. pp. 73-89
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Böttcher: Elisabeth of Saxony and Johann Casimir of the Palatinate - A marriage and religious conflict . Dresdner Buchverlag, Dresden 2018, ISBN 978-3-946906-06-3 , pp. 169-170 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chanowsky, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chanowsky von Langendorf, Heinrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Member of a South Bohemian knight family |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1550 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chanowitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1611 or 1612 |
| Place of death | Brettach |