Logothetti (noble family)
The Counts of Logothetti , also Logothetty (to be pronounced: Logofetti ), came from an originally Greek family who first rose to the Venetian and then Austrian counts through their actions.
History and personalities
The lineage came from the old Byzantine family Logothetes, which derived its origin from Nikephoros I. Logothetis ( Byzantine emperor from 802 to 811 ) and who had lived on the Ionian island of Zakynthos (Zante) since the fall of Constantinople in 1453 . There is a first documentary mention of Stefano there in 1462.
Since Zakynthos soon came under Venetian rule, the family then went into the service of the Republic of Venice and was raised to the rank of count in 1701, entered in the "Golden Book of Venice" in 1703.
Giacomo (Jakob) Count Logothetti (March 16, 1741 in Zante; † August 1, 1802 in Chernivtsi), who was in the service of the Republic of Venice, ended up in the north of the Principality of Moldova , later the Duchy of Bukovina, through marriage . There he married Catherine Marie (born November 27, 1759 in Bucharest , † November 23, 1785 in Șerăuți), the heirloom of Léon d'Ymbault (de Romanieu) , the last mayor of Chernivtsi in the Principality of Moldova . He inherited Șerăuții de Sus (Oberscheroutz, also: Slobodzia) and Vășcăuți (Waschkautz).
Hugo I. Graf von Logothetti (March 20, 1801 in Czernowitz; † May 26, 1861 in Billowitz ), grandson of the above, acquired the goods Billowitz and Brzezolup in Moravia in 1830 after his marriage to Pauline, a granddaughter of Baron Johann Christoph Bartenstein , as well as German Bielau in Bohemia . He requested and received the Austrian knighthood on September 21, 1839, then the Bohemian incolate on July 14, 1845. On July 8, 1848 the family and their descendants were granted permission to use the foreign title of count in the Austrian states. Another grandson of Jacob was Vincent (born January 13, 1824 in Șerăuții de Sus; † September 13, 1886 in Pressburg ), who was married to Anastasia, granddaughter of Feldzeugmeister Peter Duka von Kádár .
Other personalities
- Wladimir Graf von Logothetti (1822-1892), son of Hugo I, was an Austro-Hungarian officer, politician and founder of the first volunteer fire brigade in Moravia. He had been married to Karoline Countess von Nemes since October 25, 1851.
- Hugo II. Count von Logothetti (1852–1918) was an Austro-Hungarian diplomat and the last envoy of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in Tehran . On July 17, 1886, he married Frieda Barbara Freiin Zwiedinek von Südhorst (1866–1945).
- Mauraty Locothetty , a Polish nobleman who in 1607 for his services in the Polish army under King Sigismund III. who acquired the Polish indigenous population was probably not a member of the von Logothetti family.
coat of arms
1848: In the golden shield a black, two-headed eagle, over which a ducal crown hovers and which is surrounded by a laurel wreath. The crown of the count covers the shield.
literature
- Prof. Dr. Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: "German count houses of the present: in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation", 3rd volume A – Z, Verlag TO Weigel, Leipzig 1854
- Genealogical pocket book of the Count's Houses, Volume 8, Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha 1864
- Historical Handbook of the Count's Houses, Volume 8, Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha 1864
- Logothetti family archive 1734–1945, now Moravský zemský archive, Brno , fund G 195
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historical Handbook of the Count's Houses, Volume 8, Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1865, p. 536
- ↑ Erich Prokopowitsch, Der Adel in der Bukowina, Verlag "Der Südostdeutsche", Munich 1983, p. 126
- ↑ a b Prof. Dr. Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: "German count houses of the present: in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation", 3rd volume AZ, Verlag TO Weigel, Leipzig 1854, p. 230 f.
- ↑ http://www.coresno.com/index.php/standeserhoehungen/181-rekem/4587-rekem
- ↑ Erich Prokopowitsch, Der Adel in der Bukowina, Verlag "Der Südostdeutsche", Munich 1983, p. 168 f.
- ↑ Genealogical pocket book of the Count's houses, 1864. Volume 8, Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1864, p. 506 f.
- ↑ In the old handbook German Graefehouses of the Present by Ernst Heinrich Kneschke from 1854, the family is wrongly associated with Mauraty Locothetty , a Polish noble who on May 20, 1607 for his services in the Polish army under King Sigismund III. the Polish indigenous population acquired. This otherwise unknown Polish noble is not a descendant of the Greek-Venetian family. The alleged connection was also mentioned in the Genealogical Pocket Book of the Count's Houses of 1855, but is missing in all applications for recognition of the Venetian nobility title of the family, which are kept in the Viennese House, Court and State Archives or in the Moravian State Archives in Brno . This error has been eliminated in all subsequent editions of the genealogical paperback (year 1864 and following).