Krafft-Ebing (noble family)

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Krafft-Ebing is a Bavarian noble family.

Progenitor Hanns Krafft von Festenberg auf Frohnberg († 1564)

history

Family coat of arms of the Barons von Krafft-Ebing

The noble family of the Krafft tribe comes from Höchstädt ad Donau in the former Duchy of Palatinate-Neuburg (Bavaria). The progenitor is Hanns Krafft von Festenberg († August 19, 1564), district judge of the Palatinate count and ruler of the Festenberg (mhd. Also Vestenberg) .

The family is a hereditary-Austrian nobility with the family branch "from Festenberg to Frohnberg". Awarded in Vienna on March 20, 1770 by Empress Maria Theresia for the brothers Dr. iur. Johann Nepomuk Krafft, Senior Administrator of the Wiblingen Monastery and iur. utr. licent. Carl Anton Krafft , senior magistrate of the aristocratic women's monastery in Heiligkreuztal ; Imperial nobility conferred by Emperor Franz II , Vienna April 7, 1805 for Carl Anton Krafft von Festenberg auf Frohnberg, accepted into the imperial knighthood of the canton of Hegau January 5, 1806; Wuerttemberg increase in name with "named von Ebing" according to the ministerial rescript of March 7, 1808 for Friedrich Franz Freiherr von Krafft, named von Festenberg auf Frohnberg (* 1784, † 1813) as son-in-law of Conrad Freiherrn Ebinger von der Burg , whose family was male on Went out March 8, 1808; Baden crest association with the free gorgeous of Ebing'schen crest; Baden recognition and confirmation of the right to use the title of baron as "Baron von Krafft-Ebing" for the brothers Hans and Richard von Krafft-Ebing and their descendants. (Correctional letter from Grand Duke Friedrich , St. Blasien July 5, 1896).

coat of arms

The coat of arms (1896) is adorned with a silver and blue quarter shield with a gold heart shield. In it, on a green three-mountain, a vulture armed in gold , ready to fly, with a mouse in its beak (that of Ebing ), 1 and 4 in silver a curved bare arm protruding from the upper left side, swinging a wooden club (that of Krafft - Festenberg); 2 and 3 in blue a growing golden eagle with a red tongue out. Three open with golden jewel decorated golden crowned helmets with right blue-silver and left blue and gold helmet covers , of which the crest of the medium on green Three mountain the vultures of the middle plate, the right a natural left-turned brackish head with red knocked-out tongue and left between two open black eagle wings carrying a natural crane standing on a green hill with a white quill in its beak and a brown natural stone in its right claw .

Family members

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See also

literature

  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrliche Häuser, Part B, 91st year, 1941, Gotha: Justus Perthes, page 227 ff
  • Otto von Alberti: Württemberg nobility and coat of arms book. Volume 1: A - M. Written on behalf of the Württemberg Antiquities Association. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1898, p. 419 ff. (Reprographic reprint: Bauer & Raspe, Neustadt ad Aisch 1975, ISBN 3-87947-105-3 ( J. Siebmacher's large Wappenbuch E)).
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses , 1860, p.437ff
  • South German Adelsheros, ("History and genealogy of the nobility in the Grand Duchy of Baden"), Fr. Cast, Second Section, First Volume, Verlag JF Cast'sche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart 1845, p. 272