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The Holzsadel (in different spellings also Holtzsatel , Holzadel or Holtzadel ) were a Lower Hessian noble family first mentioned in a document in 1254 , which probably descended from the Lords of Homberg .
The family is first mentioned in a deed of donation from the Haina monastery , in which the brothers Eberhard, Widerold and Konrad von Hohenberg , known as the Holzadel, appear. Eleven years later, in 1265, Eberhard and Konrad are in the entourage of Duchess Sophie von Brabant , who had just secured the Landgraviate of Hesse for her son Heinrich . For the next 250 years, members of the family were feudal lords of the landgraves, sometimes also of the other territorial lords in Lower Hesse, such as the Count of Ziegenhain , the Count of Waldeck and the Archbishops of Mainz . They were in the roomHomberg - Borken wealthy. They had their headquarters in Nassenerfurth since the middle of the 14th century , where they were the owners of a Homberg castle fief and owned a moated castle on the site of today 's Nassenerfurth Palace . In 1369 the brothers Hermann and Wigand Holzsadel were involved in the attack by the brothers Curt / Conrad, Bernhard and Reinhard von Dalwigk , Mainz castle men on the Schauenburg , on the Abbot of Corvey , Ernst von Braunschweig-Grubenhagen , and his capture near Wolfhagen .
Especially, but not only, some members of the gender held important offices in the Hessian service. In 1483 they became Hessian hereditary chefs . Wigand Holzsadel was Commander of the Teutonic Order in Griefstedt around 1483 . Henne wooden needle accompanied Landgraf Wilhelm I in 1486 for the coronation of King Maximilian I of Aachen , and was there along with the Landgrave of Hesse and five other nobles, with the sword of Charlemagne the Knights defeated . His brother Werner Holzsadel was also present in Aachen, in the entourage of Archbishop Herman IV of Cologne , the uncle of the Hessian landgrave. Whether he also in 1508 as a bailiff to Sinzig in the Duchy of Jülich expressed Werner wooden needle of wet Erfurth is, is not clear. In 1516 Wilhelm Holzsadel von Nassenerfurth held this office.
The last male representatives of the sex died in 1520, Hans Holzsadel the Younger, former court marshal of Landgrave Wilhelm I, and in 1526 his son Werner, former bailiff of Sinzig. The entire feudal and allodial possession of the last wooden nobility came through his two sisters Marie and Else to their spouses Reinhard II von Baumbach and Hans von Wallenstein .
Individual evidence
- ↑ from Siebmacher's Wappenbuch - sheet 142
- ↑ Reinhard Dalwigk zu Lichtenfels: Memories and historical sketches from the life of many members of the Dalwigk family. Brill, Darmstadt, 1841, p. 30
- ^ Georg Max: History of the Principality of Grubenhagen. Schmorl & von Seefeld, Hanover, 1862, pp. 254-257
- ^ Receipt from Werner Holzsadel von Nassenerfurth from April 5, 1508. Regesta of the Landgraves of Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on December 2, 2018 .
- ^ Georg Landau: Description of the Electorate of Hesse , Theodor Fischer, Kassel, 1842, p. 258
