Cat bite (noble family)

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The lords of Katzenbiß were a noble family who were wealthy in Schlüchtern and its surroundings.

The oldest surviving mention of the family comes from the year 1305. A branch of the family was called von Bobenhausen / von Babenhausen and belonged to the lower nobility in the rule and later county of Hanau . Between 1439 and 1446 the von Katzenbiß family became part of the von Schlüchtern family and called themselves von Schlüchtern called Katzenbiß .

Hartmann II. , Abbot of the Schlüchtern Monastery for a short time in 1335, comes from the family .

literature

  • Matthias Nistahl: Studies on the history of the Schlüchtern monastery in the Middle Ages . Diss. Darmstadt a. Marburg, 1986, p. 193.