Malsburg (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of the Malsburg

Malsburg is the name of an old Hessian noble family . The gentlemen from Malsburg belong to the Lower Hessian nobility. Branches of the family still exist today.

history

origin

The family with Stephan was first mentioned in a document in 1124. He was a ministerial officer and castle man of the Archbishop of Mainz Adalbert I at the Malsburg . The family line begins with Theodoricus (Dietrich) von der Malsburg, who appears in documents from 1290.

Laar Castle , owned by the family until the end of the 17th century
Escheberg Castle , still inhabited by the Malsburg family today
Moated castle Elmarshausen , owned by the von der Malsburg from 1515 until today

The parent house that gave its name was the Malsburg, northwest of Zierenberg in today's Kassel district . According to Kneschke , it was owned by the Lords of Malsburg as early as 1120, who established a truce and inheritance among themselves .

Spread and personalities

Members of the sex were given the inheritance office of the Corvey Monastery early on . Cyriacus Spangenberg names Stephan and Gerlach von der Malsburg, who appeared in the 14th century, as war heroes under Emperor Charles IV . Arnold (Arnd) von der Malsburg was abbot of the Corvey Monastery from 1435 to 1463 , but probably not a very capable one. Otto von der Malsburg appears around 1474 as a Landgrave of Hesse . His son Hermann von der Malsburg († 1557) fought as Marshal of Landgrave Philip I in 1522/23 against Franz von Sickingen , in 1525 against the rebellious peasants in the Peasants' War , in 1534 for Duke Ulrich von Württemberg in the battle of Lauffen against the Habsburgs and in 1535 for Bishop Franz von Waldeck against the Anabaptists at Munster .

Eckbrecht von der Malsburg became landgrave bailiff at Castle Plesse in 1571, when the rule of Plesse was withdrawn from Landgrave Wilhelm IV of Hesse-Kassel as a fallen fief . Otto von der Malsburg appears in 1637 as the Imperial General War Commissioner . Caspar Friedrich von der Malsburg was a deputy at the Kassel Colloquium in 1661 .

Important representatives of the family at the beginning of the 18th century were Otto von der Malsburg, canon in Mainz , dean of the Bleidenstadt knight's monastery , chamberlain of the Electorate of Mainz and president of the city ​​court in Mainz , and Raban Wilhelm von der Malsburg, who was a canon of the Hildesheim cathedral chapter . His brother Adam Eckbrecht von der Malsburg, Lord of Niederelsungen, Elmarshausen , Obermeiser and Oedinghausen, was Hessian privy councilor , court marshal and regimental counselor of the Hessian Samthofgericht in Marburg ; he died in 1708 as president and plenipotentiary envoy to the Reichstag in Regensburg . His son Carl von der Malsburg, Herr auf Gieselwerder , was dean and canon in Hildesheim. August Carl von der Malsburg was from 1759 (as Colonel) to 1766 (as Lieutenant General) chief of the Hesse-Kassel Infantry Regiment von der Malsburg, established in 1702 as the Schenk zu Schweinsberg regiment, and commanded it in the Battle of the Brücker, among others Mill in September 1762.

During the 18th and 19th centuries, relatives also entered royal Prussian state and military services and became officers in the Prussian army . One von der Malsburg served in the Queen Dragoons regiment in 1806 and became a colonel and brigadier in 1820. As early as 1793, in the battle near Stromberg, he received the Order of Military Merit as a staff officer. Christian Carl Freiherr von der Malsburg, who came from the old lineage, died in 1849 as a royal Prussian colonel.

The family still belongs to the old Hessen knighthood .

Status surveys

Wilhelm von der Malsburg auf Eichenberg, royal Westphalian colonel and head stable master and later electoral Hessian chief steward , was raised to the Westphalian count on November 15, 1809 in Kassel by Jérôme Bonaparte ( diploma issued on January 12, 1812 in Kassel).

Carl Otto auf Escheberg and Niederelsungen, royal Westphalian state councilor and former landgrave of Hessen-Kassel envoy in Paris , Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich auf Elmarshausen, later electoral Hessian Oberlandforstmeister , and Ferdinand von der Malsburg received Westphalian recognition of the baron class on April 2, 1813 in Kassel.

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

The family coat of arms is divided. Above in gold a striding, crowned, red lion . Below are three (2, 1) silver roses in blue . On the helmet, with red and gold helmet covers on the right and blue and silver on the left, a forward-facing, red-horned, black buffalo head between two pleading arms clad in red.

Heraldic saga

When Charlemagne conquered the Brunsberg in Westphalia and wanted to reward his faithful for the services he had performed, he allowed a nobleman by the name of Otto to build a fortress for himself and his heirs on the mountain he was pointing to in the distance may build. The nobleman climbed the rock to see the place. At the top he found a thorn bush with three white flowers, which he took with him as a mark (mark). When the king asked him if he liked the mountain, he said that he had found a thorn bush with three white roses on top. The king then separated the shield for him in two equal parts, a lion above and three white roses below. Otto later built his castle there and called it Malsburg. Name and shield (coat of arms) have remained with the gender.

Name bearer

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marburg State Archives
  2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series, page 201
  3. ^ A b c New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 6, Pages 97-98
  4. ↑ It is doubtful whether he was also bailiff of Erfurt , since Erfurt was Mainz .
  5. ^ Regiments of Hessen-Kassel in action at the Brücker-Mühle, September 21, 1762 ( Memento of January 10, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ New Prussian nobility lexicon . Volume 3, page 340
  7. ↑ Johann Georg Theodor Grasse : Legends of gender, name and coat of arms of the nobility of the German nation . Reprint-Verlag, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-8262-0704-1 , page 101.

Web links

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