Hrobschitz (noble family)

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Coat of arms Hrobschitzky von Hrobschitz

The family of the Hrobschitzky von Hrobschitz (Czech Hrobčický z Hrobčic ) was a noble family , from the house of Mikess Hrobciczky von Hrobesicz, resident in the eponymous ancestral seat Hrobschitz ( Hrobčice ) near Bilin in the Teplitz district in Bohemia and on Niederhansdorf in the county of Glatz .

It reached its greatest importance in the 16th and early 17th centuries. At the beginning of the Thirty Years' War , after the defeat at the Battle of the White Mountain (Bílá hora) near Prague in 1620, the family lost its influence and died out in the name-bearer tribe in 1778 with Johann Joachim Hrobschitzky von Hrobschitz , pastor and dean in Sobotka and Canon in Prague .

coat of arms

In a shield quartered in red and blue, two erect, with their heads turned towards each other, snakes winding three times around each other in the shape of two figures of eight, the right head in the red field gold, the left silver. On the crowned helmet, on the right red and gold, on the left blue and gold blankets, a round tournament mirror drawn like the shield, decorated with five peacock feathers arranged in a fan shape.

Villages and castles of the noble family Hrobschitz

The noble family is named after the village of Hrobčice , which is located in Okres Teplice .

The Baroque Bílence Castle was owned by the noble family for several decades in the 17th century.

In Manětín, Hieronymus the Younger Hrobschitzky von Hrobschitz had Manětín Castle built.

history

Ojíř von Hrobschitz is mentioned in a document as the first proven owner of a moated castle in Hrobschitz.

In 1561, Sebeltitz (Žebletín) and other places were leased to Mikeš von Hrobschitz by A. von Schlick , the lord of Winteritz , to pay off his debts .

In 1602, Hieronymus the Elder Hrobschitzky von Hrobschitz , who had bought the Kraschau (Krasov) estate in the Pilsner district in 1597, can also be documented as the owner of Krasch, Hartenstein, Pernstein, Manetin and Buchau. In 1608, after his death, his son Ferdinand von Hrobschitz was finally listed as lord of Hartenstein and Buchau.

Hieronymus the Younger Hrobschitzky von Hrobschitz was the youngest son of Hieronymus the Elder. He lived from 1556 to 1603 and had the Manětín Castle built in Manetin . In addition to Manetin, he also ruled over the villages of Bohemian Doubravice, Luková and Křečov near Kralovice.

In 1618, the Thirty Years War started with the second lintel in Prague . The majority of the von Hrobschitz, along with other Bohemian Evangelical Lutheran rulers, supported the Winter King Friedrich V of the Palatinate . After the defeat in the Battle of White Mountain against the imperial-Habsburg troops of Emperor Ferdinand II , Jaroslav, Georg and Ulrich (Udalrich) von Hrobschitz lost the right of ownership of their possessions in Bohemia. These fell to the Bohemian Chamber and were sold to new owners.

On October 5, 1755, Franz Anton Hrobcicky von Hrobcic was raised to the bohemian baron and died a short time later.

Important representatives of the noble family

literature

  • Novel von Procházka : Genealogical handbook of extinct Bohemian gentry families, Neustadt an der Aisch 1973, family line Hrobschitzky von Hrobschitz from the house of Mikess Hrobciczky von Hrobczicz, pages 120 to 122 with numerous sources and additional literature, ISBN 3-7686-5002-2
  • The coats of arms of the Bohemian nobility J.Siebmacher's great coat of arms book, Volume 30 1979 Neustadt an der Aisch, Hrobcicky von Hrobcic from the headquarters in Hrobcic in the Leitmeritzer district pages 67 and 68, coat of arms on plate 44, ISBN 3-87947-030-8
  • Bernhard Scheinpflug : On the oldest history of Bilin with a family tree of Hrobschitz, in: Communications of the Association for the History of Germans in Böhmen, 20, 1882, pages 228 to 257

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