Heydenab
Heydenab , also Haidnob or Heydenaber , is the name of a Franconian prehistoric noble family that probably comes from Haidenaab, Kemnath district .
history
The family's name is believed to be related to the Haidenaab River . As part of the empire-free Franconian knighthood , the sex was organized in the knight canton of Gebürg . As followers of the Bayreuth margraves , family members were represented in the Prussian military in later centuries.
The family first appears in a document in 1309 with Fredericus Hednaber. The family line begins with Niklos Heidenab († 1407), owner of the Guttenthau farm in the Kemnath district.
The Bavarian nobility confirmation and the enrollment in the nobility class took place on August 4, 1813 in Munich for Carl Friedrich von Heydenab and on May 9, 1826, Hermann von Heydenab was also enrolled.
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows a black mill wheel axle ( wheel hub ) in a shield split by red and silver . On the helmet with red and silver helmet covers, the hub in front of a high, pointed silver hat, topped with six black cock feathers.
literature
- Otto Titan von Hefner , Alfred Grenser , George Adalbert von Mülverstedt , Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt , J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms, III. Volume, 2nd Division, 1st Volume; The flourishing nobility of the Kingdom of Prussia: Nobles, 1878, p. 218, plate 218
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume V, Volume 84 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1984, p. 195 ISSN 0435-2408
- Cord Ulrichs: From the feudal court to the imperial knighthood - structures of the Franconian lower nobility at the transition from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period (list of the canton Odenwald from 1550, StAL B 583 Bü 191.) . Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07109-1 , pp. 212 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Original in Bavaria. Main State Archives, Dept. I KU, Speinshart, Fasc. 5