Leoprechting (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Leoprechting

Leoprechting , also Leuprechting , is the name of an old Bavarian noble family . The lords of Leoprechting belong to the old Bavarian nobility. Branches of the family still exist today.

history

origin

The family belongs to the long-established aristocracy, whose ancestors are probably descended from the public free Altbayerns. According to Kneschke , Heinrich von Leuprechting , who died in 1199 and was buried with his ancestors in Raitenhaslach, belongs to it . The family is first mentioned in a document in 1305 with Heinrich von Leuprechtting . In his history of Bavaria, Andreas Buchner names the Lewprachtinger as one of the oldest estates in Lower Bavaria . Relatives appear in a variety of old documents and sea ​​equipment from the monasteries Raitenhaslach , St. Veit , Seemannshausen , St. Zeno , Baumburg , Vornbach , Asbach , Fürstenzell and Seligenthal .

Leoprechting, the headquarters of the same name and Sedelhof , is located in the Upper Bavarian town of Neumarkt-Sankt Veit in the Mühldorf am Inn district and is now part of the Niedertaufkirchen community . Presumably, the family stayed on Leoprechting in old-inherited public domain prior to the year 1345. Only after this relatively late time they wore the hitherto freely own Leoprechting the counts of Ortenburg of receipt of the castle and Hofmark Panzing (today part of Gangkofen ) to Lehn on. In 1389 a castle Leoprechting, which has now been lost, is mentioned, built by the lords of Leoprechting.

The name changed with the development of the Bavarian language and by shifting sounds from Lui-, Loi-, Leu- to Leoprechting. The proper name Luitperaht means someone who shines in the army or who is respected by his people .

Spread and lines

In the Bavarian monasteries, including Berchtesgaden , Freising and Regensburg as well as in the Bavarian Order of Malta and St. George , relatives swore up in many different ways and determined that they were able to make donations at all times . Bernhard Leuprechtinger ruled from 1446 to 1473 as imperial prelate and provost of Berchtesgaden . He was from 1455 as the first of the Berchtesgaden Stiftspröpste of the "metropolitan authority" of the Fürsterzbistums Salzburg freed and in spiritual things ( Spiritualien subordinated directly to the Pope).

The family divided into several lines early on, with one branch also bearing another coat of arms (a fallen, black rafter in silver ). The affiliation of this branch to the Leoprechting tribe is very likely, as its members also originally sat in Leoprechting, which confirms a seal made in 1388 and a tombstone from 1409. The branch line with the rafter coat of arms still flourished in Lower Austria in the 16th century .

A large branch on Panzing, which branched out several times, was completely extinct as early as 1707. Only the two main branches of Oberellenbach (now part of Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg ) and Döltsch (now part of Kirchendemenreuth ) and from Altrandsberg (now part of Miltach ) and Irlbach were able to get into the modern era from the main line Leoprechtingen, which is divided in many ways .

The progenitor of the current barons of Leoprechting is Martin von Leoprechting zu Leuprechting († 1548), who with his first wife Anna von Laglberg the founder of the older line to Oberellenbach and Döltsch and with his second wife Felicitas von Pelkhoven, heiress of Moosthenning , founder of the younger line became Altrandsberg. His grandson from his first marriage, Elias von Leoprechting zum Train auf Oberellenbach († 1617), was married to Walpurga von Schlammersdorf . His son Hans Georg von Leoprechting zu Oberellenbach, Döltsch and Steinberg married Anna Margaretha von Sickenhausen. Both are buried in Steinberg (now Steinberg am See in Upper Palatinate).

Hans Georg's grandsons, Hans Bernhard and Wolfgang Christoph, divided this line into two branches. Wilhelm von Leoprechtingen († 1765), son of Hans Bernhard Freiherr von Leoprechting and Caecilie Maria Franzisca von Hauzenberg, came from the older branch, he was a real secret councilor and carer in Allersberg . From his marriage to Franzisca von Myhlen from the Kleinbüche house († 1748), Joseph von Leoprechting († 1811), Herr zu Leoprechting and Panzing, zu Altwiesloch , Bayertal and Rohrbach, electoral treasurer and privy councilor, president of Heidelberg , carer in Allersberg and Oberamtmann in Mosbach.
From the younger branch, among others, Baron Wolfgang († 1741), brother of the above-mentioned Hans Bernhard, electoral Palatine Oberburggraf zu Heidelberg and Colonel and Bernhard († 1780), electoral Palatinate captain , who in second marriage to Xaveria Freiin von Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden († 1814) was married. Joseph (I.), he died in 1851, became curb-Bavarian treasurer and appellate judge for Neuburg an der Donau and baron Joseph (II) was curb-Bavarian treasurer and district judge at Göppingen in Württemberg .

Martin's grandson from his second marriage, Hans Georg von Leoprechting auf Moosthenningen, married to Sophia von Hinterskirchen, founded the younger line in Altransberg. One of his direct descendants was probably Wolfgang Christoph von Leoprechting zu Steinberg, who was a colonel and commander in the Thirty Years' War . Another descendant was Hans Wolfgang von Leoprechting († 1689), caretaker and district judge in Kelheim , who was married to Maria Scholastika von Faber and who acquired the Altrandsberg estate. His son Hans Georg Wolfgang († 1717) was also a district judge in Kelheim, treasurer and governor . From his marriage to Domenica Freiin von Giese, heir to Lohe and Menning, Heinrich Christoph von Leoprechting († 1764), Chamberlain of Bavaria and Cologne , emerged.

Status surveys

On June 7, 1592, Elias Leoprechting received an imperial coat of arms in Prague in the nobility.

Hans Paul von Leoprechting on Ober-Ellenbach, Canon and Scholaster in the cathedral monastery in Regensburg , and the entire family on December 10, 1653 in Regensburg , received an increase in the imperial coat of arms .

Hans Rudolf von Leoprechting, canon of Freising , was elevated to the status of imperial baron in Vienna on January 1, 1685 . He and Johann Georg Wolf von Leoprechting on Alt-Randsberg received electoral Bavarian recognition and expansion of the baron status on April 3, 1694.

Franz Xaver Freiherr von Leoprechting from the house of Altrandsberg, Bavarian treasurer and government councilor out of service in Straubing , together with his sister and Joseph Freiherr von Leoprechting from the Döltsch house in Ober-Ellenbach, became Bavarian treasurer and appellate judge in Neuburg with his cousins ​​and bases on Registered on June 21, 1813 with the baron class of nobility in the Kingdom of Bavaria . Heinrich Joseph Freiherr von Leoprechting from the house of Irlbach, Bavarian treasurer, major à la suite and senior post office inspector in Regensburg was also enrolled in the baron class on December 13, 1813 .

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

The family coat of arms is divided with a level (relay) of silver and black. On the crowned helmet two buffalo horns as in the shield, the step on the front ascending and the rear descending. The helmet covers are black and silver.

Baron coat of arms

The increased baronial coat of arms from 1694 is quartered and covered with a red central shield with a crossed two-tailed golden lion on a black step . 1 and 4 the family coat of arms, 2 and 3 in silver an overturned black rafter . The coat of arms has three helmets with black and silver helmet covers , on the right the trunk helmet, on the middle one the lion, on the left a black topped pagan hat with a rafter covered with one silver and two black ostrich feathers. As a shield holder on the right a golden lion, on the left a silver unicorn .

Coat of arms history

After the branch line with the rafter coat of arms had expired, the canon of Regensburg, Johann (Hans) Paul von Leoprechting, asked the emperor in 1553 for the coat of arms (a black lintel rafter in silver) with the note:

"[..] their aristocratic coat of arms, which was already in use four hundred years ago, was later distributed by them into two different coats of arms and lines, but then fell on it again through the one dying off [..]"

Issued by diploma in Regensburg on December 10, 1653 (see status survey).

A miscarriage of Georg von Leoprechting zu Penzing, from which Hans emerged and thus became the bearer of the name and coat of arms of Leoprechting, prompted Elias von Leoprechting to ask Emperor Rudolf II to improve the coat of arms for himself and his family. This was granted in 1592: On the crown of the helmet between the buffalo horns a seated natural leopard with its tail flapped over itself. Hans von Leoprechting zu Penzing was also expressly excluded from the coat of arms union from 1653.

The coat of arms of the Leoprechting family still appears today as a shield in the coat of arms of the Upper Palatinate municipality of Miltach .

Known family members

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. Monumenta Boica III, 201 fg.
  2. ^ Andreas Buchner : History of Bavaria. Historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, 1831; Volume 5, p. 276.
  3. a b c New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 5, p. 471.
  4. Manfred Feulner : Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants. Pp. 50-51.
  5. According to A.Helm , the episcopal insignia received after him in 1254 are already a sign of direct papal suzerainty to which the monastery would have been subject to since then. See Helm A .: Berchtesgaden through the ages. Keyword: History of the country, p. 109.
  6. a b Otto Hupp : Munich Calendar 1913. P. 29.