Maltitz (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Maltitz

Maltitz is the name of an old Meissen- Saxon noble family with the same parent company near Mochau , whose name goes back to Sorbian roots.

history

The family is said to have been mentioned for the first time in 929 with Albrecht von Maltitz , the progenitor of all Maltitzes. Later the lines divided into the line of the sons of Heinrich the Younger von Maltitz (* before 1119, † after 1133), with Thyzo (tribe Meißen) and Hedenreich (tribe Altenburg).

The knight Ulricus de Maltiz was first mentioned in a document on July 4th, 1225 . The uninterrupted trunk line begins with him . Other villages with the name Maltitz near Groitzsch and Weißenberg are said to have been created by the family.

The family is related to the von Miltitz family in their tribal and coat of arms .

possession

The Maltitz were already wealthy in the Mark Meissen in the 14th century .

In the 18th century the family was still wealthy several times and sat in 1701/33 in Kossa , in 1792 in Staßfurt , in 1793 in Kummerow and in 1802 in Friedrichswalde and 1805 in Briesnig .

They acquired further property early on in Bohemia , the County of Glatz , Silesia , the Mark Brandenburg ; later also in Upper and Lower Lusatia and in East Prussia . In Brandenburg Giesensdorf was owned by the family as early as 1337 , later also by Falkenberg and between 1553 and 1735/37 Tauche .

coat of arms

in Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book (1605)

The coat of arms is divided seven times by black and silver. On the helmet with black and silver covers, six black cock feathers with little red flags fluttering.

With Johann Siebmacher , on the bulging helmet, there is a quiver, striped lengthways in black and silver, with a broad, red border on top, from which eight black cock feathers grow out.

The shield of the Altenburg tribe shows the head and neck of a red-bridled black horse. The shield figure on the helmet. The ceilings are black and gold.

Personalities

literature

Web links

Commons : Maltitz family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series, 1997, p. 203
  2. Original in the main state archive in Dresden , cf. Schultes, Directorium diplom., Upper Saxony documents, Volume II, p. 599
  3. The nobility of the Glatzer country
  4. Joachim Schölzel (edit.): Historical local dictionary for Brandenburg. (HOL) Part IX: Beeskow - Storkow. (Publications of the Potsdam State Archives , Volume 25). Publishing house Klaus-D. Becker, Potsdam 2011, ISBN 978-3-941919-86-0 (reprint of the edition: Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Nachhaben, Weimar 1989, ISBN 3-7400-0104-6 ) pp. 72, 82, 276.
  5. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series, 1997, p. 203
  6. Bernhard W. Scholz: The spiritual principality of Neisse . 2011 Böhlau Verlag Cologne Weimar Vienna, ISBN 978-3-412-20628-4 , p. 153.101.