Lersner (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Lersner family

The von Lersner family is an aristocratic correspondence, originally from Hesse and later belonging to the imperial city patriciate in Frankfurt am Main , which still exists today.

Lersner's castle with family coat of arms in Frankfurt-Nieder-Erlenbach

Origin and history

According to tradition, the family came from Felsberg an der Eder in Northern Hesse. The first tangible family member is Kurt Lersenmecher , who first appeared in Marburg in 1447 and died there around 1465. The name Lersenmecher indicates a craft origin, because Lerse is an ancient name for leather stockings . The family had been a member of the Marburg city council since 1486. In the following generations, the family members held senior legal civil service positions in the Hessian administration and professorships at the University of Marburg . In 1521 they received an imperial coat of arms letter from Emperor Karl V for the Landgrave Hessian chamber clerk and procurator Ludwig Lersenner

Hermann Lersner (1535–1613) was Professor of Law in Marburg and Rector of the university there. He married in 1565 into the Frankfurt patrician family Rauscher and in 1566 was accepted into the aristocratic inheritance of the Alten Limpurg family in Frankfurt am Main . Philipp Christian Lersner was granted the knightly imperial nobility and the hereditary Austrian nobility on February 28, 1681. The same title was given to his nephew Christian Ludwig Lersner , Stadtschultheiß of Frankfurt. Finally, Wilhelm von Lersner was raised to the Grand Ducal Hessian baron on November 21, 1881

coat of arms

Lersner coat of arms in Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book from 1605: bottom center
  • before 1521: a leather sock
  • from 1521 the coat of arms is divided, above in gold a red lion, below in blue a silver pole. On the helmet with red and gold blankets, the lion is growing between two blue buffalo horns each covered with a gold bar and each with four natural ostrich feathers.

Tribe list

  1. Curt Lersenmacher († 1490)
    1. Ludewig Lersenmacher (1476–1522), Hessian court chamber master
      1. Jakob Lersner , (also called Lersenmacher), (1504–1579), legal scholar and envoy
      2. Heinrich Lersner (1506–1576), Chancellor of the Landgrave
        1. Hermann Lersner (1535–1613), legal scholar, first member of the Lersner family in the old Limpurg patrician society
          1. Heinrich Lersner (1573–1636), Chancellor of the nominal principality of Hersfeld administered by the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel ⚭ 1604 Christina Scheffer (1576–1638), daughter of the Hessian Chancellor Reinhard Scheffer the Elder
      3. Johann Lersner (1512–1550), legal scholar and judge
        1. Katharina Lersner (* 1545) ⚭ Johannes Heintzenberger (1531–1581), Hessian Chancellor
          1. Margarete Heintzenberger ⚭ Reinhard Scheffer the Younger (1561–1623), Hessian Chancellor
            1. Reinhard Scheffer the Youngest (1590–1656), lawyer, diplomat and statesman
          2. Katharina Heintzenberger ⚭ Siegfried Clotz (1556–1610), Hessian Chancellor
      4. Christoph Lersner (1520–1603), legal scholar, administrative lawyer and university professor
        1. Catharine Lersner ⚭ Catharinus Dulcis (1540–1626), philologist

Other well-known namesake

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , Volume FB VII, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg, p. 181 ff.
  2. ↑ Hans Körner: Frankfurter Patrizier , Ernst Vogel, Munich 1971, p. 169.
  3. ↑ Hans Körner: Frankfurter Patrizier , Ernst Vogel, Munich 1971, p. 171.
  4. ^ Hans Körner: Frankfurter Patrizier , Ernst Vogel, Munich 1971, p. 177.
  5. ↑ Hans Körner: Frankfurter Patrizier , Ernst Vogel, Munich 1971, p. 207.

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