Hoensbroech (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Hoensbroech

Hoensbroech (Dutch: Van Hoensbroeck ) is the name of an old Limburg and later Lower Rhine noble family . The family belonged to the Limburg nobility. The place Hoensbroek with the ancestral seat Schloss Hoensbroek of the noble family is today a district of Heerlen in the Netherlands . Various branches of the family still exist today.

history

The Hoen family originally called themselves ( Middle Dutch Limburgish , is pronounced as Hu (h) n ). One of the first verifiable ancestors was the knight Reinier Hun, mentioned in documents since 1280 . The safe trunk line begins with the knight Nicolaus Hoen. He was mayor of Maastricht and died in 1371 in the battle of Baesweiler .

Hoensbroek Castle in Heerlen, Netherlands; Original headquarters of the van Hoensbroeck / von Hoensbroech family

Origins in Hoensbroek

Knight Hermann Hoen, mentioned in a document from 1365, was given the place Broek ( Bruch ) near Heerlen in Limburg from the Duchess Johanna von Brabant und Limburg in 1388 . For many years this place became the ancestral seat of the family that resided at Hoensbroek Castle. In the course of time, members of the family were able to acquire further goods in the Duchy of Limburg and in the later Duchy of Geldern and took the name of the ancestral seat as a family name ( Hoen tzo Broeck , Hoen van den Broeck , Van Hoensbroeck ), which gave the place the name Hoensbroek (Like the family name, it is pronounced as: Hunsbruck ).

Line formation

While older lines became extinct around 1600, three large younger lines formed at the same time. The first at Oostham- Beverloo in Limburg (1557–1663) died out in the 17th century (the Kasteel van Oostham was demolished in 1834). A second in Geulle, also in Limburg, died out in the 18th century; the Geulle lordship was made a county in 1660 . Geulle remained in the possession of female descendants of the heir daughter Anna Maria Bernardina van Hoensbroeck-Geul (1729–1798) and her husband Franz Xaver von Hohenzollern-Hechingen until 1842 .

The third line to Hoensbroech and Haag could later inherit the Oostham line through marriage. The founder of this third line, Ulrich, acquired Haag Castle in Geldern through his marriage to Johanna von Boedberg in 1588 , which later became the family headquarters, and the hereditary marshal of the Duchy of Geldern. His son from this marriage, Adriaan von und zu Hoensbroech , received the status of imperial baron in 1635 and his cousin Konrad Ulrich auf Geulle was elevated to the status of count in 1660 .

Adrian's son Arnold Adrian became a Spanish ambassador in 1675 as a Spanish-Dutch marquis in the Primogeniture , as did his nephew Philip Wilhelm Konrad Graf von Geulle, Freiherr von Hoensbroech. His son Wilhelm Adrian acquired the imperial count status in 1733 with unlimited inheritance.

Count Caesar Constantin Franz von Hoensbroech (from the Hoensbroech-Geul branch) was Prince-Bishop of Liège from 1784 to 1792 . Count Philipp Damian von Hoensbroech died in 1793 as Bishop of Roermond .

Count Franz Lothar von Hoensbroech sold Hoensbroek Castle at the beginning of the 20th century to the Ave Rex Christe association , which renovated the ruined castle and currently still owns it as a foundation. To date, Schloss Haag , Türnich Castle in Kerpen , Haus Altenburg on the Lower Rhine, Castle Breill , and the agricultural estate of Castle Kellenberger family owned, the latter since the beginning of 2009, however, only for rent. Today, Haag Castle is inhabited and administered by Niklas Reichsgraf von und zu Hoensbroech as the family seat. The title of "Marquis" ( Markgraf ) shall bear the only line eldest, Rüdiger Imperial Count and Marquis of and Hoensbroech who runs a winery in the Kraichgau.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms is divided seven times by silver and red and topped with a crowned and gold-armored black lion. On the crowned helmet the lion of the shield is growing. The helmet cover is red-silver.

family members

Adriaan Freiherr von und zu Hoensbroech († 1675)
Caesar Constantin Franz von Hoensbroech (1724–1792), Prince-Bishop of Liège
Paul Graf von Hoensbroech (* 1852, † 1923); writer

literature

  • Otto Hupp : Munich calendar 1930. Book a. Art Print AG, Munich / Regensburg 1930.
  • JM van de Venne / J. Th. H. de Win / PAH Peeters: Geschiedenis van Hoensbroek. Hoensbroek: Gemeentebestuur van Hoensbroek. 1967 (NL).
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume V, page 255, Volume 84 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1984. ISSN  0435-2408
  • Genealogical handbook of the nobility, Gräfliche Häuser Volume XV, pp. 163-184, Volume 112 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1997

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the Dutch Wikipedia article: Kasteel Geulle
  2. ↑ The Peripetie Principle. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .

Web links

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