Leutrum von Ertingen

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Coat of arms of the Leutrum von Ertingen

Leutrum von Ertingen (also Leutrum zu Ertingen or just Leutrum ) is the name of a Swabian noble family . The gentlemen Leutrum von Ertingen belonged to the oldest families in Upper Swabia and Upper Austria . Branches of the family still exist today.

history

origin

The family seat was Ertingen Castle . Already at the beginning of the 12th century a knight dynasty was resident there, which gave the Alemannic first name Lutram (also Luitran, Luitram or Luitramb) to its relatives. The Leitname was from the 15th century to the derived surnames Leutrum. Erlewinus de Lutram († 1106) appears as the first member of the family . The uninterrupted trunk line begins in 1208.

Liebeneck Castle ancestral seat of the family from the 15th century

Members of the family were vassals of the Margraves of Baden and the Counts of Wartenstein. From the year 1300 relatives also appeared in the free imperial city of Esslingen . Markwart Lutram was sealed in 1357 as a citizen of the city and a member of the city ​​council . The family lived in Esslingen until 1456. In 1279 a branch came to the imperial city of Biberach , but it went out again with the death of the mayor Siegmund von Ertingen in 1440.

Lines and possessions

Eberhard Lutram is mentioned in 1370 as the feudal man of Count Eberhard der Greiner von Württemberg . The castle and the Freihof Ertingen were sold in 1457 by Paul Leutrum von Ertingen († 1486), mayor of Pforzheim , to the Buchau monastery . He received a Margrave Christoph I. given loans the castle Liebeneck and the village Würm as mortgage shaft . His son Ludwig Leutrum von Ertingen from his marriage to Barbara von Königsbach († 1491) was the progenitor of the other lines. Under him, the pledge became a Baden hereditary and kunkelleden .

The manor house of the Nippenburg is still owned by the family today

The two sons of Philipp Christoph Leutrum von Ertingen († 1649), Baden-Durlach privy councilor and chief bailiff , Ernst Friedrich Lutram von Ertingen and Karl Lutram von Ertingen founded the two lines of the family. The older Ernestine line included the knight's council in the canton of Neckar-Black Forest and imperial and Baden-Durlach privy councilor Ernst Ludwig Leutrum von Ertingen († 1734), Philipp Christoph Leutrum von Ertingen († 1788), Baden-Durlach privy councilor and chief steward and the grand-ducal-Baden Chamberlain Karl Ludwig Friedrich Leutrum von Ertingen († 1852). The younger Carolingian line came from Karl Magnus Leutrum von Ertingen († 1739), royal Swedish field marshal lieutenant and Karl Siegmund Leutrum von Ertingen († 1755), royal Sardinian general and governor of the city and province of Cuneo .

Franziska Countess von Hohenheim (divorced Baroness Leutrum von Ertingen)

One line was already a member of the knight society Sankt Jörgenschild , part of Neckar , in 1488 . From the middle of the 16th century to 1806, the Lords Leutrum von Ertingen belonged to the imperial knighthood in the knightly canton of Neckar-Black Forest of the Swabian knightly circle because of the possession or partial possession of the lordships of Kilchberg , Wankheim , Kreßbach , Eck, Unterriexingen , Heidach, Liebeneck and Nippenburg . In 1802 they were masters of the Baden Lehn Würm incorporated in this canton. Because of the possession of Filseck (1721 to 1755) they were also a member of the knight canton Kocher from 1723 to 1776 .

Status surveys

Karl August Emanuel Leutrum von Ertingen (* 1732, † 1795), royal Sardinian chamberlain , lieutenant general and regiment owner , was on March 19, 1781 by Viktor Amadeus III. , King of Sardinia-Piedmont, was elevated to the rank of count . His sons founded two counts lines that settled in Württemberg and Silesia .

In the Kingdom of Württemberg, branches of the family were registered in the baron class of nobility registers. On July 23, 1884, Gerhard Freiherr Leutrum von Ertingen, majorate of Nippenburg and Unterriexingen and royal Württemberg chamberlain, and on March 16, 1910 Norwin Freiherr Leutrum von Ertingen, royal Württemberg chamberlain, captain and majorate, received the Württemberg count.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a jumping silver ibex with golden horns in black . The ibex growing on the helmet. The helmet covers are black and silver.

The motto , proven since 1534, is: Hold hard on me.

Name bearer

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zwiefalten monastery book of the dead
  2. ↑ Otto Hupp : Munich Calendar 1902. Buch u. Art Print AG, Munich / Regensburg 1902.

literature

  • Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume VII, Volume 97 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1989, ISSN  0435-2408
  • Otto Hupp : Munich Calendar 1902. Buch u. Art Print AG, Munich / Regensburg 1902.
  • Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 .
  • Gerhard Leutrum von Ertingen: History of the imperial baronial and counts house Leutrum von Ertingen. Volume 1 and 2. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1893.
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1856 S.403ff , 1859 S.432f

Web links

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