Kolmach
Kolmatsch is the name of a former noble family in Thuringia and Lower Hesse . The name of the sex can be found in documents and historical treatises in multiple variations: Kolmatz , Kolmetz , Kolmacz , Kolmas , Colmasch , Colmas , Colmast , Colmaz , Colmacz , Colmaez , Kolmetsch , Colmetze , Kolmetze , Kolmitzsch , Colmetsch , Collmetsch , Colmatsch , Kolmatzsch , Calmatzsch , Kolmitz , Colmyczs and Culmitsch . The members of the family were feudal men of the Counts of Henneberg, the Landgraves of Thuringia and the Landgraves of Hesse .
history
The family probably comes from the former village of Culmitzsch near Weida , where the family belonged to the service aristocracy of the Mildenfurth monastery . With the 1267 knight Heinrich von Colmas ( Henricus miles de Colmas ) named as a witness in a document of the Weidaer Vogtes , the sex becomes tangible for the first time. He was a follower of Albrecht II of Meißen , the Landgrave of Thuringia and Count Palatine of Saxony, became Vogt in Lupnitz near Eisenach , and appeared several times as a witness in Albrecht's documents and at times as a minstrel at the landgrave's court. In the literature of the 19th century he was mistakenly regarded as an Alsatian knight from Colmar .
His descendants settled in the Hessian-Thuringian border area near Eisenach , where they acquired considerable property. With the Landgrave Hessian governor in Upper Hesse Georg von Kolmatsch († 1552) the dynasty reached its zenith, but soon died out.
It is unclear whether the Knights of Colmas, attested from the early 14th century as ministerials and feudal men of the Silesian dukes of Breslau , Falkenberg , Oppeln and Strehlitz , represent a branch of the same sex.
Name bearer
- Anna von Kolmacz, nun in the Cronschwitz monastery
- Burkhardt and Georg von Kolmitz, in Gerstung documents from the 16th century
- Friedrich von Kolmatz, 1436–1463 landlord in Stedtfeld
- Georg von Kolmatsch († 1552), Landgrave Hessian governor in Upper Hesse
- Heinrich von Kolmas, Vogt in Lupnitz, minstrel
- Helene von Herda, née von Colmyczs
coat of arms
A seal from 1380 shows three diagonal bars on the shield, above a rose in the upper right corner.
literature
- Rudolf Herrmann: Heinrich von Kolmas. A minstrel from the Weida area. In: Thüringer Fähnlein, monthly magazine for the Central German homeland, 4th year, issue 9, April 1935, pp. 539-543
- August Nebe: Three Thuringian minstrels: Christian Luppin, Heinrich Hetzbolt von Three Thuringian minstrels: Christian Luppin, Heinrich Hetzbolt von Weißensee and Heinrich von Colmas. Halle, 1886, pp. 48-50
Web links
- Search "Kolmatsch" . Regest of the Landgraves of Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).