Boyhood
Knabenau or von Knabenau (also Freiherren von Knabenau) is the name of an old noble family from Kurland , which originally came from Silesia and spread in Courland in the 16th century .
history
The family Barons of Knabenau belong to the nobility in Silesia and Kurland , and the family of the Barons of Knabenau were an older branch of the Swabian Counts of Kyburg with is considered the ancestor Kyburgs Gotfrid from the house of Agilolfinger . The family was first mentioned in a document on May 2, 1147 with Gotthard Ritter de Knabenau. The following evidence comes from August 5, 1234: The Breslau bishop Thomas I declared Johann Ludwig von Knabenau as knight of Duke Heinrich II. In addition to the mentioned Johann Ludwig, many other members of the family can already be found as landowners or documentary witnesses for the 13th century prove. When castle captain Johann von Knabenau handed it over to Duke Boleslaw II , the palace captain was given the office of Bolkoburg , which had previously been a main office for Barons von Knabenau; He lived in Bolkoburg Castle from 1271 to 1278. The uninterrupted family line begins with Hartvig Ritter von Knabenau, who is mentioned in documents between 1454 and 1456. He was sitting in the castle in Brandenburg. Johann, Friedrich and Otto von Knabenau sealed the archbishop of Pilten's document with the Teutonic Order in 1620 . A captain of the Knabenau knighthood distinguished himself during the siege of Vienna by the Turks in 1683. The family of Knabenau was in on 16 May 1841 Courland knighthood enrolled. The Russian recognition of the title of baron for the Courland family branches took place on June 10, 1853 and February 28, 1862 by ukase of the conducting Senate.
Property ownership
Courland : Neu-Sallensee, Groß-Born etc.
Vilnius Governorate : Berghof and Bagdoniškė.
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows a blue diagonal bar in red , accompanied by two golden lions . On the helmet ( stech helmet , later bailey helmet ) with blue and gold helmet covers a growing armored arm , holding a silver hatchet on a gold handle between an open blue flight . In contrast to the coat of arms of the Counts of Kyburg on the coat of arms of the Barone von Knabenau, there is a blue sloping beam instead of a golden sloping beam, accompanied by two striding golden lions.
Coat of arms in Scheibler's book of arms
See also
literature
- New general German nobility lexicon
- Carl Arvid Klingspor : Baltic heraldic book. Stockholm 1882, pp. 48-61
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VI, Volume 91 of the complete series, p. 305, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1987, ISSN 0435-2408
- Scheibler's book of arms, older part Jungingen Date 1450 - 1480 [1]
- Bruno W. Häuptli: Thomas I of Breslau (Neisse). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 27, Bautz, Nordhausen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88309-393-2 , Sp. 1405-1409.
- Roman W. Brüschweiler, family table of the houses Lenzburg, Kyburg and Dillingen pp. 108–109; in: History of Wettingen
- P. Brau, Gesch. the Gf.en v. Dillingen and K., Hist. From Akad. Munich 5, 1823
- C. Brun, Gesch. the Gf.en v. K. to 1264 [Diss. Zurich 1913]
- M. Feldmann, The rule of the Gf.en v. K. in the Aare region 1218–26, 1926
- Medieval Lands: Swabia, Nobility: Counts of Kyburg (English)
