Lützelburg (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Lützelburg

Lützelburg , also Lüzelburg or Lützlburg , is the name of an old noble family originally from Lorraine . Members of the family later acquired property and prestige in Bavaria and Saxony .

The Lords of Lützelburg must not be confused with the Counts of Lützelburg, which died out in 1149. There is also no tribal relationship with the dynastic house of Luxemburg , whose old spelling was also Lützelburg.

history

origin

The family was first mentioned in a document with “Thimo”, “Albertus” and “Humfridus de Lutzenlburg” in 1166. The uninterrupted family line begins with Egenolf von Lützelburg (also Eginolf), who first appeared on December 18, 1330 in a document. He was an episcopal Strasbourg feudal man in Zabern , and from 1350 also settled in Imlingen . Egenolf was married to Elsen von Heringen and died in 1371.

The Lords of Lützelburg were originally servants of the Counts of Lützelburg, who died out in 1149. The eponymous parent company was the Lützelburg or the nearby village of Lützelburg , today a French commune in the Sarrebourg arrondissement in the east of the Moselle department .

Spread and personalities

Members of the family also settled in the neighboring lordships early on, for example in Alsace and Breisgau . On the Upper Rhine , apart from Imlingen and Sareck, they owned Imolkam, Oberkirch, Rameting, Sunzing and Unterriexingen . In the 17th century, branches of the family came to Upper Lusatia . There Doberschütz, Dubra, Gaberin, Niedergurig , Preitz, Qualitz and Zscheckwitz were in their possession or part ownership.

From 1654 to the 18th century, the Lords of Lützelburg belonged to the imperial knighthood in the knightly canton Neckar-Black Forest of the Swabian knightly circle .

Of the descendants of the patriarch Egenolf the fifth generation Heinrich was 1520 by Lützelburg Duke of Lorraine governor to Saarburg and his son Frederick of Lützelburg, Lord on Imlingen and Sareck, fürstbischöflich Strasbourg Steward . His grandsons Ernst Christoph, Friedrich Wilhelm and Johann Weigand, sons of the ducal Saxon governor of Weimar Anton von Lützelburg, were the founders of the three main lines and numerous subsidiary lines of the family. They have all expired except for the line donated by Friedrich Wilhelm.

Friedrich Wilhelm I von Lützelburg, royal French colonel , married Ursula von Landsperg. Her son Anton Reichard von Lützelburg became treasurer and chief falcon master of Archduke Leopold of Austria . Friedrich Wilhelm II of Lützelburg came from his marriage to Maria Johanna Kempf von Angreit. He became imperial general of the cavalry as well as council of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria and caretaker of the Obernberg rule . His son from his marriage to Maria Anna Notthracht von Wernberg , Johann Wilhelm Freiherr von Lützelburg zu Sunzig, Imolkan and Rameting, was a Bavarian treasurer, colonel, nurse and Kastner zu Schärding . He married Anna Maria Josepha Freiin Puechleitner von Sunzing. Son Adam Wilhelm Freiherr von Lützelburg (* 1701), Lord of Sunzing and Rameting, was a Bavarian Chamberlain and Councilor , Prince Bishop Freising and Regensburg Chief Silver Chamberlain. From his third marriage to Maria Maximiliane Freiin von Etzdorf († 1765) came Joseph Adam Freiherr von Lützelburg (1792–1836), married to Maria Anna Franziska Freiin von Reigersberg († 1826).

Of their descendants, Ferdinand Freiherr von Lützelburg (* 1798) was the royal Bavarian postal administrator in Straubing . His marriage to Caroline Mayer in 1829 resulted in four daughters and three sons. Ernst Ingnaz Coloman Baron von Lützelburg (* 1799), Lord of Sunzing, Imolkam and Rameting, became a royal Bavarian captain . He married Magdalena von Forster in 1836. His sister Anna Maria Freiin von Lützelburg (* 1797), widowed Baroness von Grimming , married the royal Bavarian Colonel von Sieber for the second time.

Status surveys

Weigand von Lützelburg, imperial colonel and electoral Saxon councilor and chamberlain , received the imperial and hereditary-Austrian old man's class in Vienna on December 1, 1665 with the salutation well-born and an improved coat of arms . On January 22, 1666, he received an electoral Saxon recognition of the baron status .

The entire family received on August 6, 1773 at Compiègne a royal French recognition of the baronate .

Joseph Adam Johann Freiherr von Lüzelburg (Lützelburg) auf Sunzing, Imolkam and Rameting, royal Bavarian treasurers, was registered on November 30, 1812 in the baron class of nobility in the Kingdom of Bavaria.

Other well-known members

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a two-tailed blue lion in gold . The lion growing on the helmet with the blue and gold helmet covers .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Department Archives Metz
  2. ^ Original in the Strasbourg City Archives
  3. ↑ a b c d New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 6, pp. 52–53
  4. ↑ a b c d e Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series, p. 113
  5. ^ Gerhard Köbler : Historical Lexicon of the German Lands. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 , p. 399.

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