Holtey (noble family)
Holtey (old spelling: Holtoye ) is the name of an old Westphalian noble family from the county of Mark , which also developed a Baltic line.
history
The first documentary mention is in 1221 for Arnoldus de Holtoye et Arnoldus filius eius . The stock seats were in the area of Essen Abbey ( castle Holtey in today food belonging Burgaltendorf ) and in the County of Mark in Horde (now Eichlinghofen and Benninghofen ). There were close family ties to the von Horst family . In the early 14th century, a papal ban was issued for robber baronship, 1387-1391 Goswin von Holtey took part in the great Dortmund feud on the side of Count von der Mark . Maria Caspara von Holtey was the mother of Wirich VI. by Daun-Falkenstein . Around 1580 the Westphalian branch died out in the male line. The continuing Baltic line existed with a focus on Zemgale and Courland ( Latvia ), the Barons von Holtey lost all goods there in connection with a Latvian land reform around 1918 and finally the Second World War.
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows three red horseflies (Pramen) in gold . On the helmet with a red and gold blanket, one of the horse brakes between the open golden flight, each covered with a horse brake.
Name bearer
- Goswin von Holtey, around 1380 Drost of the Office of Hörde
- Maria Caspara von Holtey (1520–1558), wife of Philip II von Daun-Falkenstein
- Karl von Holtei (1798–1880), writer and dramaturge
literature
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume V, Volume 84 of the complete series, p. 332, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1984, ISSN 0435-2408
- JD von Steinen: Westphalian history ; Lemgo, 1750 ff.
- Wilhelm Honselmann: News on the history of the von Holtey family ; Der Märker 23 (1974), pp. 133-139 ( online (PDF, 919 kB))