Herzogenberg (noble family)

Herzogenberg (originally Picot de Peccaduc ) is an Austrian, originally French (Breton) Roman Catholic noble family, which was first mentioned in 1456.

history

Pierre-Auguste von Herzogenberg, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1834

During the time of the French Revolution, the family fled into the safe sphere of influence of the Habsburg monarchy. Pierre Jean-Baptiste Picot de Peccaduc (1733–1792) was a judge in the Breton parliament in Rennes , where he was a victim of the revolution. His sons had already left France in 1791 and joined the exile units of the Princes Condé and Rohan . The eldest son Pierre-Auguste (1767–1834) entered the Austrian service as an artillery captain in 1797, where he was the local director of the Imperial and Royal Engineering Academy in Vienna from 1820 to 1834 as Lieutenant Field Marshal .

Surname

The name Herzogenberg emerged from the translation of the name Picot de Peccaduc (awarded with a nobility diploma on June 18, 1811). The baron status was confirmed on December 19, 1862.

possession

The baronial family is part owner of Otting Castle . Since 1839 the family was resident in Bohemia ( Sychrov Castle ).

coat of arms

Motto : Nullus extinguitur . Under a red shield head in gold a blue saving, which is framed by three burning torches. On the helmet with its red and gold covers there is a two-tailed lion with a burning torch in its right paw.

Name bearer

source

Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser 1870 to 1941, Verlag Justus Perthes , Gotha

Web links

Commons : Herzogenberg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Biographical information in the music and gender project

[1] Biographical information in the music and gender project