King (family)
The kings were a family of wholesalers and councilors belonging to the patriciate in Kempten (Allgäu) .
history
An early mention of this name comes from the year 1440, when Vincentius König married the daughter of Johann Kreler. Three years later, a King Vincent is born as the son of the married couple. In 1531 Vincenz Kunig , born in 1505 , as the head of the Kempten line and son of Vincent König, born in 1443, received a letter of coat of arms from Emperor Karl V. The head of the family was in a relationship with Juliana Seltman and died in 1569.
In 1630 the patrician family received a diploma or confirmation of their trade mark from Emperor Ferdinand on the wholesale trade. After the registration of the nobility register of the Kingdom of Bavaria , the family in the person of Georg Matthias, born in 1757 , was entered in the same on January 29, 1779.
The family's buildings included the König'schen houses and the Ponikauhaus .
coat of arms
Main coat of arms
The main coat of arms of the patrician family has a yellow, crowned, naked man on a blue background. The shame is covered with a white bandage, in his right hand a bare sword, in the left holding a yellow scepter.
Trade mark
A hail rune ( hagalaz ) over a crescent moon. This is done in a single, but also a double line.
literature
- Friedrich Zollhoefer (Hrsg.): Eduard Zimmermann, Friedrich Zollhoefer: Kempter coat of arms and symbols including the city and district of Kempten and the adjacent areas of the upper Allgäu. In: Heimatverein Kempten. (Ed.): Allgäuer Geschichtsfreund. 1. Delivery, No. 60/61, Kempten 1960/61, pp. 62-66.
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (Ed.): New general German nobility Lexicon. Fifth volume, Verlag Friedrich Vogt, Leipzig 1864.