Kittlitz (noble family)

Kittlitz is the name of an old German noble family that belonged to the ancient nobility of Upper Lusatia . The headquarters were in Kittlitz , today part of the city of Löbau . The family was one of the noble free and has had the title of baron since around 1560 . The founding of Kittlitz near Lübbenau goes back to her.

history

The sex appears for the first time in a document with Heinricus Kettlich "sub tempore ducis Zobezlei " (Duke Sobislaus of Bohemia, ruled 1125–1140) and 1160 with "Henricus Cideliz et fratres eius Sifidus et Bertholdus , ministeriales Misinensis ecclesiae". Conradus Kiteliz , who appeared in documents from 1180 to 1187, begins the safe line of tribe .

With Dietrich II. Von Kittlitz († 1208) and Johann von Kittlitz (around 1350–1408), the family provided two bishops of Meissen and, in the 13th century, the burgraves of the Bohemian kings on the Ortenburg in Bautzen. Otto von Kittlitz was bailiff of Upper Lusatia from 1406–1410 .

As early as the 13th century, members of the sex had the titles " comes ", " baro " and " Herr " and, since around 1560, the title of baron, which was not objected to in the Kingdom of Prussia .

coat of arms

• The family coat of arms shows a striding black primal bull in gold. On the helmet with black and gold covers two six-spoke gold wheels.
• In the Armorial Bellenville (= Armorial Beaulaincourt) from 1364 to 1390 the coat of arms of the "Kickeliz" is still shown with the crest of the family coat of arms but already with the split shield.
• The coat of arms, which has been in use since 1394, is divided diagonally to the left: above a growing black primeval animal in gold, below three silver diagonal bars in red. On the helmet with black and gold covers on the right, red and silver covers on the left, the primeval bull growing between the open, silver flight on the right with five red roses and on the left with five silver roses. A cock's plume or a black one between a red and a silver rose is documented as a historical crest on an epitaph from 1572.

• 

  mirrored in Siebmacher's coat of arms 1605

• 

  Coat of arms of those of Kittlitz in the coat of arms book of the Silesian nobility

• 

  Drawing by Johann Gottfried Schultz of the epitaph (1572) of a woman from Uechtritz zu Schwerta , b. von Salza , daughter of a born from Kittlitz

Well-known namesake

• Dietrich II of Kittlitz († 1208), Bishop of Meissen
• Johann von Kittlitz (around 1350–1408), Bishop of Meissen and Lebus
• Anna II of Kittlitz (1488–1558), Abbess of Gernrode
• Christoph von Kittlitz (1594–1657), Prussian councilor
• Heinrich von Kittlitz (1799–1874), German naturalist
• Rudolf von Kittlitz (1817–1882), Prussian major general
• Julia Freiin von Kittlitz (1877- after 1937), a doctor, was one of the first women to receive a license to practice medicine at the Moabit Hospital in Berlin
• Arne von Kittlitz (* 1943), German diplomat

literature

• Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VI, Volume 91 of the complete series, pp. 250-251, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1987, ISSN  0435-2408 .
• Lars-Arne Dannenberg : The gentlemen from Kittlitz. In: Kittlitz. Village and Dominion in History 1160-2010. ed. by Peter Altmann, Lars-Arne Dannenberg ( Neues Lausitzisches Magazin , Supplement 7), Görlitz / Zittau 2010, pp. 41–66.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gustav Friedrich, Codex diplom. regni Bohemiae term. 1, Prague 1904-1905, pp. 393-403
2. ↑ Original No. 66 in the Saxon Main State Archives in Dresden, from Gustav Köhler, codex diplom. Lus, sup. 1, 2nd edition Görlitz 1856, appendix pp. 32–34, no. 26.
3. ↑ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume VI, Volume 91 of the complete series, 1987 (with individual references)
4. ↑ To the coat of arms of the Kittlitz and related families
5. ↑ page from the Armorial Bellville, below
6. ^ Document with the corresponding Kittlitz coat of arms .
7. ↑ Königlich Privilegirte Berlinische Zeitung von Staats- und schehrte Dinge (morning edition) , p. 6; Retrieved April 19, 2015.