Ladner of Ladenburg

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Family coat of arms of the Ladner v. Ladenburg

The Ladner von Ladenburg are a noble family, most likely from the old nobility (before 1400). The coat of arms is dated for the first time in the Rietstap - Armorial Général with the year 1425. The nobility is documented for the imperial oldest valet and treasurer Johann Georg Ladner von Ladenburg from Ladenburg (around 1610–1686), father of a son Maximilian born in 1640: He was given the date of May 5, 1653 that of October 21, 1636 (in Regensburg) conferred knightly (hereditary) imperial nobility including coat of arms, the improvement of the coat of arms, the right to own aristocratic estates, the freedom of red wax , Exemptio , Salva Guardiadas and the privilegium denominandi confirmed. Earlier documents may have been lost.

The family comes from today's Baden-Württemberg , specifically from the area of Ladenburg , which first belonged to the Duchy of Alemannia , later to the Duchy of Franconia and was transferred to the Diocese of Worms in 628 by the Frankish King Dagobert I. The first documented mention of the Ladner von Ladenburg is likely to have taken place well before 1400, but the sources are not clear. Descendants can be found today mainly in Switzerland, southern Germany and western Austria. The name “Ladner”, which is quite common in these areas, goes back not only to the gender described here , but also to other, mostly unknown sources of the name.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms consists of a quartered shield , with a black crowned sand eagle (= golden eagle) in the first and last golden field and a silver rafter bar in the second and third, each red field . Two crowned helmets rest on the shield . The first one wears the eagle as a crest as shown in the shield , but this eagle still has a red shield with a silver crossbar . The second helmet wears two buffalo horns , the right one ( heraldic on the right, on the left for the observer) below black and gold above , the other below red and above silver ; both buffalo horns have peacock feathers in their openings .

A gender of the same name carries a shield , very similar to the one described above, but simplified. It therefore seems possible that this gender is a sideline. The simplified coat of arms consists of the same shield , but the eagle is uncrowned, above the shield there is only a crowned helmet (corresponds to the one with buffalo horns , as described above).

simplified coat of arms

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ladner von Ladenburg, Johann Georg
  2. ↑ The privilegium denominandi includes the right to name oneself after an existing or future possession; this was done by adding the preposition “from”, “to” or (in the case of several possessions) “and” and the name of the property after the family name. http://www.adelsrecht.de/