Kotz von Dobrz
Kotz of Dobrz (also Dobrsch , Czech : Kocové for Dobrše in the plural, Koc z Dobrše in the singular) is a bohemian Uradelsgeschlecht and Austrian aristocracy sex .
history
The family saga tells that an ancestor who was a miller saved the life of Duke Udalrich († November 9, 1034) from the Přemyslid family during a wild boar hunt and, out of gratitude, received the local Dobrš fortress.
The family was first mentioned in a document in 1377. At that time, the church council Peter Koc von Dobrš, (also: Kocík , Peter de Dobrssye ; † 1391), because of his strictness called strictuus equus Kocik de D. , sat in the church of Dobrš ( Dobrsch ) a pastor. He was also the first known member of the Vladiké family Kotz von Dobrz, who owned the estate and the Dobrš fortress until 1607 with a brief interruption. His sons were Johann, Wintiř ( Gunter ) and Přibík, who in documents of the 14th and 15th centuries (1390, 1391, 1400, 1402 and 1408) as patrons of the church and on July 9, 1435 as the owners of the castle and patron saints of the local people Church. The Kotz were in the service of the Order of St. John from 1390 to 1435 and from 1445 with the Lords of Rosenberg . Johann was Burgrave of Strankovic and on December 18, 1426, he certified a certificate for Bétka von Nebrechowitz as such. On October 7, 1437 he and his brother Přibík bought from Johann Kosoř von Malowec his inheritance Onšowic and Wyškowic. At the end of the 15th century, their descendants, the brothers Přibík and Heinrich, were in constant feud with the knight Bohuslaw Bochec von Ottow. Přibík reported on this in a letter dated January 15, 1496 to his brother Heinrich. The latter, Herr auf Bystřic, was Burgrave of Falkenstein in 1501.
Since the 16th century, four lines of the family flourished in Bohemia, the Dobršer, Bystřicer, Wohraženicer and Mileticer, the individual rungs of which had considerable property.
Johann Kotz von Dobrsse already owned the Bistritz rule in 1550. He also inherited the Obitz (Obytce) estate in the Klattauer Kreis from Johann Obistecky von Obytec (also: Wobeditzky, Wobitetzky), which later became the property of the Order of St. John. His grandson Dionysius Heinrich ( Diviš Jindřich, called Kocík ), Imperial Councilor as well as Imperial Chamberlain († 1641) and General War Commissioner founded the count's family line. He was on January 16, 1629 in Prague by the Czech master stand with "Kotz Baron of Dobrz" the then imperial counts with diploma dated January 5, 1637 Regensburg "in Bistrita and Neumarkt" awarded. The count status for the countries of the Bohemian Crown was confirmed on February 6th of the same year. His son was Jaroslaus († 1677), who was governor of the Pilsen district around 1660. The count's branch died out with him in the male line.
Two more lines remained:
- Johann Marquard Kotz von Dobrsch († 1767) was the founder of an older line. He received the Bohemian baron as "Kotz Freiherr von Dobrsch und Wohrazenitz" with "Well-born" on July 31, 1767.
- Ferdinand Ernst Kotz von Dobrsch was the founder of a younger line. He received the Austrian baron status as "Freiherr Kotz von Dobrsch auf Hlawniowitz " on February 5, 1869. His widow and children were granted an upgrade on February 25, 1892.
The altar "Annunciation" in the Jesuit church of Klattau (Klatovy) was donated by the baronial family, whose coat of arms is affixed above. The altarpiece is a hastily painted copy of pale coloring; on the altar carved statues of hll. Life-size Johannes Baptist and Johannes Evangelist, above God the Father in the midst of two floating angels, in the Tumba St. Mary Magdalene. In the church there is also a tomb, 1.70 m long and 1.05 m wide, in the lower half the coat of arms, in the upper half the inscription: SEPUVLTRA ILLVUSTRISSIMAE FAMILIAE EQUITUM KOTZ DE DOBRZ.
Johann Josef Freiherr Kotz von Dobrz married Franziska Romana Countess Zucker von Tamfeld († 1796) in 1772. Their uncle, Johann Erasmus the Elder, bequeathed the village of Heiligenkreuz near Bischofteinitz in western Bohemia to his niece Franziska in 1781. After her death, her son Zacharias Wenzel (born March 26, 1773 - † June 3, 1857 in Heiligenkreuz) inherited the Locality. The castle library, which in 1839 comprised around 1500 volumes, was well known.
Christian (born September 4, 1806 in Prague; † October 31, 1883 in Heiligenkreuz) and his wife Aglaia Princess von Auersperg (born January 26, 1812; † March 24, 1899 in Heiligenkreuz), with whom he met on May 20, 1837 had married, built the new Heiligenkreuz church with a helmet tower after the fire of 1859. Their three sons, including Wenzel and Karl, were involved in the German War of 1866. Karl (* June 24, 1844 in Prague , † November 5, 1901 in Vienna ) distinguished himself particularly at the Battle of Königgrätz . In 1899 Wenzel inherited Baron Kotz von Dobrz (* April 28, 1842 - June 11, 1912), with rank of April 22, 1897 kuk Feldmarschallleutnant , Heiligenkreuz. His son Heinrich († November 18, 1956 in Graefelfing ) became heir. He was a kuk chamberlain and served as a captain in the kuk hussar regiment no. 11 in the First and as a major in the Second World War. Before 1938 he was district chairman of the Christian Social People's Party in the Pilsen constituency. He was married to a Countess Trauttmansdorff († May 16, 1952). Their daughter, Gabrielle, was the wife of the monarchist and Hitlerite opponent Adolf von Harnier . After 1945, the family was from Czechoslovakia expelled and moved to Bavaria .
As one of nine baronial families, the family received a hereditary seat in the manor house , the upper house of the Austrian Imperial Council . It expired in 1979 in the male line.
coat of arms
Family coat of arms: In blue a four-spoke golden wheel . The wheel on the helmet with blue and gold covers .
1892: family coat of arms; on the helmet with its blue and gold covers the golden mill wheel between the open flight, divided by blue and gold. Baron Crown. Shield holders are two inward-looking golden griffins . The motto is: "Quod justum Deo placet".
The same coat of arms, the proximity of the ancestral seats and the common personal names leave no doubt that the Knights of Kadow in the Pilsener district with the Kotz were of the same origin. Their ancestors were Wintiř and Johann, who were named as church patrons in Kadow in 1380 and in Bukownik in 1401. Wintiř was the patron of the church in Zihobec and Kadow respectively in 1406 and 1407. At the end of the 15th century, the Kadow family divided into two branches, which took the names Itésansky and Sténowsky von Kadow after their ancestral seat. The golden wheel in the blue field was also led by the Vladiken von Rezdékowic, Popowsky and Božcjow and the Oderstky von Liderow, of which the latter had three ostrich feathers emerging from behind the wheel as a gem. According to Balbin, they were already known in Moravia in the 15th century, where Elisabeth Odersky was the abbess of a women's monastery in 1400 and Nicolans Odersky was Canon of Olomouc in 1420 . It seems that the named families were of the same origin as the Kotz von Dobrz, whose sex was one of the oldest knightly families in Bohemia in view of its early ramifications.
literature
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch, Freiherrliche Häuser, 1877 to 1940.
- GHdA, Freiherrliche Häuser, Volume 4 (1952) and 80 (1982), Adelslexikon, Volume VI (1987).
- Jan Halada: Lexicon české šlechty , Vol. 1, Praha 1992, p. 75.
- Austrian Family Archives, Volume 3 (1969) (trunk series).
- Brno Genealogical Paperback 1877 to 1887.
More name bearers
- Wolfgang Kotz von Dobrz (1890–1957), Austrian legal scholar and archivist
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.genealogy.euweb.cz/bohemia/kotz1.html
- ↑ January Halada: Lexikon české šlechty , Vol 1, Praha 1992, p 75 miles.
- ↑ a b Ed. Gaston von Pettenegg (Red.): “XI. Yearbook of the K. k. Heraldisch-Genealogischen Gesellschaft Adler in Wien ”, printed by Carl Gerold's Sohn, Vienna 1884, p. 200
- ^ Monthly newspaper of the quays. Kings Heraldic Society "Adler", No. 186, Volume IV, No. 6, Vienna, June 1896, p. 59
- ↑ Rudolf J. Count of Meraviglia-Crivelli : "The Bohemian Adel", in Siebmacher'schen Wappenbücher Volume IV, 9 Department, Nuremberg 1886, p. 13
- ^ GHdA, Freiherrliche Häuser, Volume 4 (1952) and 80 (1982), Adelslexikon, Volume VI (1987)
- ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : "New general German Adels-Lexicon", Volume 5, Kalb-Loewenthal, Verlag Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1864, p. 251 f.
- ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch, Freiherrliche Häuser, 1877 to 1940
- ↑ Josef Hlávka (head): "Topography of historical and art monuments in the Kingdom of Bohemia", Publishing House of the Archaeological Commission, Prague 1905, pp. 96 f., 101
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The kk or kuk Generalität 1816–1918, Austrian State Archives, 1907, p. 93
- ↑ http://www.coresno.com/genealogie/165-texte/1110-ofa.html - Austria
