Maltitz (noble family)
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
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
- Dippold von Maltitz , knight, possible locator of Dippoldiswalde in the 11th century.
- Elisabeth von Maltitz , from 1270 third wife of Margrave Heinrich the Illustrious in Meißen and mother of Friedrich Clem .
- After Bohuslav Balbín, Hermann von Maltitz was one of the Bohemian barons as early as 1289 . He had several free dominions and signed with the Imperial Count the realm partings .
- In 1290, Caspar von Maltitz defended the city of Großenhain so well as commander that the Märker left again.
- In 1347, Alberus von Maltitz was a margrave-Meissnian court judge.
- Heinrich von Maltitz was abbot to cell in 1362 .
- Hans von Maltitz , later chief court marshal of Duke Wilhelm of Saxony , was among the nobles whom Elector Friedrich II of Saxony placed the guardianship of his princes in his will.
- Johannes von Maltitz (1491–1549), as Johannes VIII. Bishop of Meissen .
- Sigismund von Maltitz (around 1500), Meissnian-Saxon mountain lord, achieved prosperity from 1507 through the invention of the wet stamping machine, lord of Reichstädt .
- Christoph von Maltitz († 1546), Saxon councilor, governor of Merseburg, lord of Elsterwerda Castle .
- Sigmund von Maltitz (after 1586), electoral Saxon stable master and chief forest master of Annaburg , master of Elsterwerda .
- In the 16th century, Georg von Maltitz , governor of Ingolstadt and his son, Christoph von Maltitz , also lived as governor of Merseburg . From the son of the latter, Haubold von Maltitz auf Elsterwerda , electoral forest master of the Erzgebirge district and Haubold von Maltitz the Elder. J. , of whose great-grandchildren Erasmus von Maltitz , princely Saxon-Zeitzscher privy councilor, head stable master and head captain of the Neustadt district , lived with some sons around 1720 . The descendants of Erasmus von Maltitz continued to flourish in Electoral Saxony for a long time.
- Christoph von Maltitz on Hertwigswalde and Rothwasser († 1611), 1585–1608 as governor of the principality of Neisse .
- Wilhelm Friedrich von Maltitz was in 1712 and later Hessian-Nassau court master and continued his line, which was wealthy in Nassau.
- Johann Albrecht von Maltitz became governor of Lower Lusatia in 1718 .
- Georg Wilhelm von Maltitz , also: Georg Wilhelm von Maldiss (* December 16, 1705, † March 11, 1760). From 1741 chief hunter of Prince Wilhelm Heinrich von Nassau-Saarbrücken. It is reported that he was buried on March 15, 1760 "at midnight, just after 12 o'clock" ... "in a sizeable corpse conduct" across the lonely road to the collegiate church in St. Arnual, "under a very honorable sermon" with ghostly torchlight subordinate forest staff. Historical Maltitz, who appears in Saarland legends and sayings in the role of the "wild hunter", condemned by God to lead an eternal hunt because he hunted a stag on Good Friday. See also: Saarland sagas and legends
- Friedrich Ferdinand von Maltitz and Dippoldiswalde was in Silesia in 1730, on Girschdorf , carbon Dorff , Damsdorf etc. and country elder of Ottmachauer circle, also sat at this time the family in Silesia Kattersdorf , poacher , Niederwald, mushroom mountain.
- Gotthilf August Freiherr von Maltitz (1794–1837), dramatic poet and writer. He had initially received a chief forester positionin Prussia in 1821, but later went to Berlin, Hamburg and Paris and settled in Dresden in1833.
- Friedrich Apollonius von Maltitz (1795–1870), German poet and Russian diplomat
literature
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VII, Volume 97 of the complete series, 203-204, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1989, ISSN 0435-2408
- Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Ed.): Year book of the German nobility , Volume 2, 1898, published by WT Bruer, p. 507 - digitized
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (ed.): New general German nobility lexicon , 6th volume, Leipzig, 1865
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon , Third Volume I – O, Leipzig 1837
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series, 1997, p. 203
- ↑ Original in the main state archive in Dresden , cf. Schultes, Directorium diplom., Upper Saxony documents, Volume II, p. 599
- ↑ The nobility of the Glatzer country
- ↑ 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.
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series, 1997, p. 203
- ↑ Bernhard W. Scholz: The spiritual principality of Neisse . 2011 Böhlau Verlag Cologne Weimar Vienna, ISBN 978-3-412-20628-4 , p. 153.101.