Holly (noble family)

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Holly , also Holy, is the name of an old Upper Silesian noble family of Polish origin with Bohemian nobility (1593). Due to the royal Prussian permission (very high cabinet order of October 18, 1836) the name affix "and Ponientzietz" was added to the nobility predicate "von Holly". Hence the name of Holly and Ponientzietz, also often written by Holly-Ponientzietz.

history

origin

The Leszczyc dynasty (also called Brog), whose coat of arms is worn by the Holly, is one of the oldest in Poland, first mentioned in a document with Derslaus in 1020. The family line begins with Nikolaus Holy, who married the last heiress Offka von Ponientzietz before 1439. Duke Wenzel von Troppau and Ratibor confirmed in a document the handover of the village and the property Ponientzütz (Ponięcice, 1936–1945 called Rittersdorf) on Friday after Epiphany 1439 to Nikolaus Holy.

Trial of nobility

Konrad Prince of Silesia, Duke of Öls and Kosel, confirmed in the presence of Dukes Ernst and Przemek von Troppau and many noble relatives, some of whom were very high-ranking, to Nikolaus Holy von Ponientzitz on June 2, 1439 that he was descended from noble ancestors. His painted coat of arms (after his father) is the shield figure Brog (Leszczyc), (after his father's mother) Toczincze, (after his mother) Leliwa, (after his mother's mother) Korczak.

Spread

Nikolaus Holy also acquired the Slawikau estate in 1451. Around 1464 he still appears as captain and counselor to the widowed Duchess Margarethe von Ratibor. His son Johann (Jan) Holy acquired the Pilchowitz estate (near Gleiwitz) before 1480 and held the office of court marshal at the court of Duke Johann von Troppau and Ratibor as early as 1486 and appeared after his death as a representative of the prince's children, some of whom were still underage. In 1494 he received a ducal letter about a free house in the city of Ratibor. After his death the Holyschen fiefdoms were called: Ponientzitz, Blascheowitz, Glinice, Slawikau and Brzesnitz.

The descendants of Jan Holy appear as the founders of the Dominican convent in Racibórz. Until the 18th century, members of the family were members of the Guild of Our Lady, founded in 1343 to worship the Blessed Virgin Mary in Ratibor. Zdislaw Holy appears in the 16th century as Burgrave of Ratibor under Duke Johann von Oppeln. From the 16th century onwards, the family was divided into several tribes:

  • in the Principality of Opole
  • Rachowitz and Alt-Dubensko
  • on Belk in the district of Rybnik and
  • Laskowitz in the Rosenberg district

and expand the property considerably.

In the 17th / 18th centuries the Silesian-Anhalt, the Silesian-Brunswick-Russian, the Pomeranian and the Silesian-Polish lines emerged.

Status surveys

Since the trial of nobility in the Duchy of Oil in Silesia, the family has also been part of the German nobility, as formal recognition was given by a prince of the Holy Roman Empire. Georg Holy v. Pometic is mentioned in 1593 in a Bohemian nobility register.

Johann Joseph Maximilian from the Alt-Dubensko house at Gut Nieder-Märzdorf, Kr. Grottau, field marshal lieutenant in the Austrian army, court war councilor and 1744 owner of the previously count. Khevenhüller's Dragoon Regts. No. 5 carried the title Freiherr Holly von Ponientzietz (Josef Baron Holly auf Merzdorf) without objection. The family branch continued the title unchallenged after his death.

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

Variant of the coat of arms

The Polish nobility is primarily a blood nobility. There are 21 major tribal genders in Poland. All families in these genders are related to one another or have been adopted. The gender connects the leadership of a common coat of arms (tart).

The family coat of arms (Wappengemeinschaft Leszczyc) shows in red a four-sided golden thatched roof resting on four silver stakes, tapering upwards, on the helmet with red and gold covers the thatched roof is placed at an angle to the right.

Heraldic saga

The Leszczyc trace their origins back to the legendary figure “Lech”, the founder of Poland. A variant of the legend reads: "The origin of the House of Leszczyc is linked to the founding of the Polish Empire itself: this is already indicated by the original family name Leszczyc, which in the Slavic dialect means son or descendant of Lech, as Parisius said."

When Lech had the city of Gniezno built, he would have stayed with his tribe under thatched roofs until the city was completed, until everyone had a permanent home. As an eternal memory of it, the Leszczyc have this thatched roof (brog) in their coat of arms.

Historical background

Lech, a Slavonic prince, is said to have come to the Polans in the 6th century. There he became master of the province of Posen and founded the city of Gniezno. In memory of this Lech, Poland was also called Lachia for a long time.

literature

  • Genealogical paperback of noble houses, Brno, 1880, 1881 and 1893
  • Ludwig v. Igàlffy: Contributions to the older family history of Holly von Ponientzitz. In: Mitteilungen des Beuthener Geschichts- und Museumsverein 25/26 (1964), pp. 60–83. Retrieved January 14, 2020 .
  • Josef Pilnàcek: From the oldest known Silesian ancestry and nobility records , in the Adler magazine, Vienna 1951
  • Baron v. Wrede: History of the K. and K. Wehrmacht , Direction des k. and k. War Archives, III. Volume, 1st half, Vienna 1901
  • Shimon Anton: Directory of the Nobility of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia , 1859
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility, vol. 84, 1984 CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn

Web links

Commons : Coat of Arms of the Holly  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Holly Family researcher website

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johanne Sinapio, 1720 Leipzig, Silesian nobility
  2. ↑ Austrian National Library, Vienna, Manuscript Collection Codex Miscellana Silesiaca No. 14618
  3. ↑ Lit. Josef Pilnàcek: From the oldest known Silesian ancestral and nobility records , in the magazine "Adler" 12th issue 2nd (XVI.) Volume, Vienna, Nov. 1951 i. V. with Ludwig v. Igàlffy s. u.
  4. ↑ Shimon Anton: Directory of the nobility of Bohemia, Moravia a. Silesia . 1859
  5. ^ A. Count Thürheim: Field Marshal Ludwig Andreas Count von Khevenhüller-Frankenburg, a life sketch , Vienna 1878
    Freiherr v. Wrede: History of the K. and K. Wehrmacht, Direction des k. and k. War Archives , III. Volume, 1st half, Vienna 1901
  6. ↑ Christian Bruno of Klobuczynski: The Polish nobility and the aristocratic culture to the partition of Poland in 1772, GRIN for academic texts

Remarks

  1. ↑ 1459 in an incorrect copy
  2. ↑ confirmed on August 27, 1451 Duke Wenzel von Troppau and Ratibor
  3. ↑ German count houses of the present, second volume, TO Weigel, Leipzig 1853 with the counts v. Radolin Radolinski from Leszczyc
  4. ↑ Johann Heinrich Zedler [Ed.]: Universales Lexikon, Volume 34, Halle and Leipzig 1742 P. 110 ff.