Chamberlain (title of nobility)
The chamberlain (lat. Camirarius, thesaurarius ), also called treasurer, was a hereditary court office . He was in charge of the rooms and the cloakroom. Increasingly extensive jurisdiction over all tax officials and the entire court.
history
When the Saxon Duke Henry I was elected on March 12, 919 Fritzlar king of Ostfrankenreiches that appear in the subsequent coronation in the Palatinate for the first time Reichserzämter the kingdom ore Marshal, Ore Steward, Ore eunuch ore cupbearer . The vice-offices were assigned to the following genders: Erbtruchseß were von Waldburg , Erbschenk the Schenk von Limpurg , Erbmarschall von Pappenheim and Erbkämmerer von Bolanden-Falkenstein (expired), later the Elector of Brandenburg awarded the office of Reich Treasurer to the as acting Reich Treasurer Count of Hohenzollern .
The chamberlain families
List of families with the title of chamberlain as part of the surname
- Chamberlain of Apolda , hereditary chamberlain of Erfurt
- Chamberlain of Gnandstein , Hereditary Chamberlain of Meissen
- Chamberlain von Fahner (Vanre), hereditary chamberlain of Thuringia , with the lines of the chamberlain from Mühlhausen , Almenhausen , Straussberg
- Chamberlain of Kemnat,
- Chamberlain of Wellenburg, hereditary chamberlain of the bishops of Augsburg
- Chamberlain of Worms called von Dalberg , hereditary chamberlain of Worms
List of the families with the additional title of treasurer
- Asseburg , treasurer of the monastery and the principality of Halberstadt
- Bachem, Chamberlain of Kurköln
- Berg called Schrimpf , treasurer of the county of Henneberg
- Berlepsch , Chamberlain of Hesse
- Bock von Wülfingen , treasurer of the Principality of Hildesheim since 1400
- Bongart , Chamberlain of the Duchy of Jülich
- Bottlenberg , Treasurer of the Prince Abbey of Essen
- Eickstedt , Chamberlain of Western Pomerania
- Eyb , Treasurer in the Principality of Brandenburg-Ansbach
- Galen , Treasurer in the Principality of Münster
- Validlingen , Chamberlain in Württemberg
- Hemberg (→ Metternich ), treasurer of the Archbishopric of Cologne
- Haxthausen , treasurer of the Paderborn bishopric
- Hohenzollern , Treasurer of the Holy Roman Empire
- Hoym , Chamberlain of Halberstadt Monastery
- Maltzahn , Chamberlain of Silesia
- Meldingen / Mellingen on Udestedt, treasurer of the Archdiocese of Mainz
- Metternich , Treasurer of the Archdiocese of Mainz since Philipp Emmerich (1621–1698)
- Plettenberg , Treasurer of the Duchy of Westphalia
- Plotho , Treasurer of the Duchy of Magdeburg
- Raitz von Frentz , Treasurer of the Electorate of Cologne (since 1620)
- Rieneck , Arch Chamberlain of the Prince Archdiocese of Mainz
- Rotenhan , from 1313 Treasurer of the Bamberg Monastery
- Schaumberg , Chamberlain in the Eichstätt Monastery
- Schulenburg-Heßler auf Vitzenburg , treasurer in the Landgraviate of Thuringia
- Schwerin , Treasurer of the Kurmark Brandenburg
- Somnitz , treasurer of Eastern Pomerania and the Principality of Kammin
- Weinsberg , Reich Chamberlain