Leyser from Lambsheim
The Leyser von Lambsheim (also Leiser or Lusser von Lambsheim ) were an aristocratic family from the Palatinate who named themselves after the place Lambsheim .
Family history
The family is first mentioned in a document in 1368. At that time, a Eckenbrecht Lusser von Lambsheim appears as the sealer of a certificate. As early as the 15th century, it was divided into a Lambsheim and a Deidesheim branch.
In 1458, Philipp Leyser was appointed bailiff in Lambsheim by Duke Ludwig von Veldenz . On August 1, 1464, he received 179 acres of land in Lambsheim and the “yard because the stick is in” from his master . In the feud between Veldenz and Electoral Palatinate, Philipp Leyser von Lambsheim excelled in 1471 as one of the main defenders of his place against Elector Friedrich von der Pfalz . After the capture of Lambsheim, the elector had him drowned in the city moat , because he was "guilty of riots" and was "largely responsible for the origin of the feud" . Friedrich I handed over his Lambsheim property to his brother Hans von Leyser in 1472 , whose son of the same name later moved to Deidesheim. The family owned the Lambsheim estates until they went out.
In Deidesheim a Peter Leyser von Lambsheim is mentioned as a resident as early as 1451 . In 1477 Hans Leyser von Lambsheim received from Elector Friedrich I also property in Deidesheim as a fief. It seems to be the mentioned brother of the drowned Lambsheim bailiff. His son Hans the Younger accompanied Emperor Maximilian I in 1508 on his trip to Rome for the imperial coronation. His grandson Johann Leyser (married to Anna von Pagk) carried Elmstein Castle as an Electoral Palatinate fief from 1545 to 1559 . His son Wolf Leyser von Lambsheim (1547–1587), in the service of the Bishop of Speyerer , was buried with his wife Ursula Gayling von Altheim in the Deidesheim parish church of St. Ulrich . From both of them an artistically valuable gravestone has been preserved, which is unfortunately badly weathered because it was moved from the church to the outer west wall in the middle of the 19th century. Her son Hans Wolf Leyser von Lambsheim (married to Anna Margareta Schütz von Holzhausen ) was Mayor of Deidesheim from Speyer in 1603.
Hans Wolf Leyser's grandson Johann Ernst Leyser von Lambsheim (July 10, 1657– June 16, 1746) also lived in Deidesheim and became the last male offspring of his family, which died out with his death in 1746. In Deidesheim he received a small, crescent-shaped epitaph above the tombstone of his ancestor Wolf Leyser von Lambsheim (1547–1587), on which it is said that he was "the last of the family" . From his estate, located outside the Deidesheim city wall, only the garden house, known as the old customs house, remains today . Another estate belonging to the Leyser family was the current Weinstrasse 49 and 51 estate in Deidesheim .
His daughter Johanna Katharina Leyser von Lambsheim - who also had her father's epitaph made - had been married to the Elector Palatine captain, knight Franz von Bawyr zu Caspersbroich , since 1734 . They are both characterized as having "an irrepressible temperament, quick-tempered anger and great lust for argument" . Both were also possessed by an enormous passion for hunting, which ultimately led to the husband († 1779) committing a hunting crime and manslaughter , for which he was severely punished by Emperor Franz I in 1764. Johanna Katharina born Leyser died in 1784, her son Karl von Bawyr was confirmed by Elector Karl Theodor in 1782 as hereditary fiefdom holder of Leyser's possessions in Lambsheim.
coat of arms
It consists of a square shield with the following colors: (from a heraldic point of view) top right and bottom left red, top left and bottom right silver.
The family coat of arms of the Leyser von Lambsheim forms, together with the Palatinate lion , the municipal coat of arms of Lambsheim; modified to red and white, the Leyser colors are also those of the municipal flag.
The coat of arms of the Leyser is also part of the community coat of arms of Maxdorf , which emerged from the community of Lambsheim.
At the former Leyserhof , Lambsheim, Hinterstraße 11, there are two coat of arms stones of the family, one of them with the year 1585 (recently painted incorrectly). In the south aisle of the parish church of St. Ulrich (Deidesheim) a vault keystone bears the coat of arms of the Leyser von Lambsheim.
gallery
Lambsheim Hinterstrasse 11, Wappenstein Leyser von Lambsheim and von Handschuhsheim , 1585 (false tinctures)
Lambsheim Hinterstraße 11, Wappenstein Leyser von Lambsheim and von Affenstein (false tinctures)
Deidesheim, parish church St. Ulrich, coat of arms of the Leyser von Lambsheim
Heraldic shield of the Leyser von Lambsheim as part of the Lambsheim municipal coat of arms
literature
- Kurt Kinkel: Lambsheim und seine Geschichte , Gemeindeverwaltung Lambsheim, 1987, pp. 56–60
- Heinrich Rembe: Lambsheim , Volume 2, pp. 33-35, Arbogast Verlag, Otterbach, 1983
- Parish church St. Ulrich Deidesheim, Festschrift for the consecration of the altar in 1987 , Kath. Pfarramt Deidesheim, 1987, p. 128
- Kurt Egenberger: The Leyser from Lambsheim. An extinct family in Deidesheim and its overthrown coat of arms , in: Pfälzische Familien- und Wappenkunde , Volume 5 (1964/66), pp. 333–342; (Find hint)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website on Elmstein Castle with a mention of Johann Leyer von Lambsheim ( memento of the original from April 13, 2015 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.
- ↑ PDF document on the Maxdorf coat of arms ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Parish church St. Ulrich Deidesheim, Festschrift for the consecration of the altar in 1987 , Kath. Pfarramt Deidesheim, 1987, p. 35
