Karl of Rex
Karl Caspar Graf von Rex , also Carl Graf von Rex , (born April 23, 1825 in Dresden ; † October 21, 1905 there ) was a member of the first chamber of the Estates Assembly of the Kingdom of Saxony , Canon of Meissen and Provost of Bautzen , royal Saxon chamberlain, major of the artillery and manor owner .
Live and act
Rex came from the Upper Saxon-Thuringian noble family of the Lords of Rex and was the son of Karl Alexander Graf von Rex (1780-1849) and Therese Clementine Countess of Nostitz and Jänkendorf (1789-1870). His coat of arms shows in gold between three branched green trunks growing out of a green three-mountain , two red roses with golden lugs. The shield image on the helmet with red and gold helmet covers . Three helmets over it. On the right helmet with red and silver helmet covers the growing left-looking, crowned, gold armored and gold tongued Polish eagle , in the middle the trunk helmet, on the left helmet with red and silver helmet covers a growing gold crowned and gold tongued red leopard . Two gold-armored and gold-tongued red leopards serve as a shield holder .
In 1869 he became a member of the Royal Saxon Association for the Research and Preservation of Patriotic Historical Monuments.
He owned the manor Oberörtmannsdorf near Marklissa in Silesia and the manor Zedtlitz in the Kingdom of Saxony and was assigned to the first chamber by royal appointment as manor owner in 1873, in which he had a permanent seat until the beginning of the 20th century.
Karl Graf von Rex was entered on December 29, 1904 under the number 158 in the royal Saxon nobility book.
literature
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 7. Friedrich Voigt's bookstore. Leipzig 1867. pp. 473-475. ( Digitized version )
Individual evidence
- ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Rex, Karl von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rex, Karl Graf von; Rex, Carl Graf von; Rex, Carl von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Saxon member of the state parliament |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 21, 1905 |
| Place of death | Dresden |