Marenzi

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Coat of arms of Count Marenzi 1864

Marenzi is an originally Lombard noble family , whose history goes back to 1024, later an Italian and Austrian noble family .

history

Lending deed for the Marenzi with the counties Tagliuno and Telgate dated May 20, 1440

The document dated May 4, 1024, issued in Milan by Emperor Conrad II , signed by his Chancellor Carolus Vestalius , which has been preserved in certified but apparently apocryphal copies, raised those resident in the Valle Camonica (Val Oliola) as well as in Brescia and Bergamo Military captains, Frederico, Bruciato, Celerio, Marentio, Maffetto and Cattaneo became margraves and counts of the Oglio valley and said that the family was of Roman origin. However, this statement cannot be substantiated, rather it arises from the Lombard nobility .

More recent research leads the origin of the family, with the help of a chain of circumstantial evidence, to Giselvertus habitator de Villa Soare (906), probably Gisalberto I , Count of Bergamo (922-927), or to his son Appone di Mozzo († 985) back, which took the name after his castle Mozzo . A branch of the Mozzo family in Sovere took the name of this castle and appeared in a document in 1160 with Guilliemus Capitaneorum (de Capitaneis) de Suvere , the progenitor of the family, and appeared with Marinus dictus Marentius († before February 17, 1341), son of Bartholomäus de Capitaneis de Soare , for the first time under the name "Marenzi", with which the documented line of trunks begins.

Members of the family had been patricians of Bergamo since the 14th century and of Brescia since the 15th. A branch of the Marenzis moved from Sovere to Lovere around 1300 and later to Sarnico on Lake Iseo , built the castle in Tagliuno in the first half of the 14th century and bought Telgate castle from Valvassoren in 1389 , both of which were connected to large estates. At the end of the 14th century Arigo (Heinrich) Marenzi was the leader of the Ghibellines in the Valle Calepio and the peace between Guelphs and Ghibellines concluded in Bergamo in 1395 was first signed by the "parantela de Capetanies de Marenzio".

On May 20, 1440, Duke Philipp Maria Angelo Visconti of Milan and imperial vicar, Venturinus, Christopherus, Rolamdinus, Marentius and Baldinus enfeoffed "omnium ex Capitaneis de Sovere, dictorum de Marentijs" with Tagliuno and Telgate as sovereign counties with all sovereign rights. After Tagliuno had been captured by Venice and the castle destroyed, the brothers Aloisius (also Alovise) and Gabriel Marenzi went to Pettau and then to Trieste in 1489 in the company of Bianca Maria Sforza .

A few years later, Alois, together with Dominik Burlo at the top of a noble guard of 40 Trieste patricians to Innsbruck for the wedding Bianca Maria Sforza with the Roman-German king and later Emperor Maximilian I sent. On November 30, 1493, the wedding took place "per procurationem" in Milan (Maximilian's deputy was the Margrave Christoph von Baden ), the actual wedding took place on March 16, 1494 in Hall in Tyrol in the presence of the king. In 1501 said Marenzi was appointed her "Commensalis, familiaris domesticus et consularius", returned to Trieste in 1503, was accepted into the city council and appeared in a Trieste chronicle in 1509 as patrician and judex rector and protector of the Maleficent court . He was later appointed to his council by Archduke Karl Nikolaus and entrusted with the imperial governorship of Trieste. The nobleman then marched at the head of a troop he had recruited against the Turks , from where he was no longer to return. Nicolo Marenzi, the son of Aloisius and his wife Luciana Suardi, was born in Tagliuno in 1486 and married the Trieste patrician Laura Giuliani. From then on, the family stayed in Trieste for the next 400 years.

Manor Odolina / Mahrensfeld (1679)

In 1568 another Marenzi came from Bergamo to Trieste, acquired the Odolina dominion (Italian Dulna, German Ma (h) rensfeld, today part of the municipality of Hrpelje-Kozina ), and founded another line of the family, which later became the baron diploma from 1654 named Bishop Antonius will belong. 1560 confirmed Emperor Ferdinand III. Anton Marenzi, the founder of the Odolina line, in a transumt the authenticity of the document from 1440, the enfeoffment with the counties Tagliuno and Telgate.

In Austria, on December 14, 1586 in Graz, Gabriel Marenzi, Supreme Building Superintendent in Görz, received an improvement in the coat of arms from Archduke Karl. His son Ludwig loaned the estates' treasury in Krain 4,000  florins for three years without any interests and was therefore accepted as a farmer in Laibach (Ljubljana) on June 7, 1631, and the family subsequently also became a rural man in Styria and Carinthia .

Anton Georg Marenzi von Tagliuno and Taglate became Bishop of Pedena in 1638 and Bishop of Trieste in 1646. Emperor Ferdinand III awarded him and his nephew Ludwig Marentii, administrator of the main team in Trieste . in Prague on September 15, 1654, the imperial and hereditary-Austrian barons with “von Marenzfeld and Scheneck” as well as an increase in the coat of arms and the Palatinate , hereditary in primogeniture . The decree confirmed the descent of the two "after submitted written documents" to the margraves and counts of Vallis Oliolae and captains of Sovere. They and after them their elders became hereditary knights of the golden spur and consistorial counts (comes palatino) of the empire. With the Palatinate, they received the right to appoint notaries and judges throughout the Holy Roman Empire, to appoint doctors, masters , baccalaureatees and crowned poets and to obtain their doctorates, to legitimize natural, illegitimate and blood-rascally conceived children and thus make them hereditary, guardians and To appoint and remove trustees (curators), as well as to lend coats of arms. The bishop also received the personal right to bestow the nobility. (The rights of the palace counts were abolished for the Austrian lands under Empress Maria Theresa ). Finally, the family received the Landmannstand in Görz on January 24, 1707, in Styria on November 26, 1811 and in Carinthia on February 6, 1812.

Casa Marenzi in Trieste (right), 19th century

The elevation to the Austrian count status with confirmation of the margravial based on one of the amorphous copies of the diploma of Emperor Conrad II, Milan April 28, 1024. Title of Val Oliola, as well as the Milanese count from 1440 with approval of the name “Count of Tagliuno and Talgate, Margrave of Val Oliola, Frhr v. Marenzenfeldt u. Scheneck “was made by the highest resolution of Emperor Franz Joseph I on June 4th, diploma in Vienna on August 14th, 1864, for Franz Anton Freiherrn Marenzi von Marenzfeldt and Scheneck and his descendants.

After the end of the Danube Monarchy , the nobility abolition law of the Republic of Austria , passed in 1919, prohibited the use of nobility titles and predicates as well as the use of the coat of arms. Trieste now belonged to the Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946) , so the family applied for admission to the Italian nobility and was given the title of “ Rome” by royal decree for Frederico and Lodovico Marenzi and their descendants of both sexes on May 2, 1932 Marchese della Valle d'Oliola, Conte di Tagliuno e Telgate, Barone SRI ed i predicati di Marenzfeld e di Scheneck " in the Italian aristocracy and in the Libro d'Oro della Nobiltà Italiana . With the end of the monarchy in Italy in 1946, these titles were also officially abolished.

Personalities

Surname * / † description image
Luca Marenzio * 1533

† 1599

Madrigal master of the late Renaissance alongside Carlo Gesualdo and Claudio Monteverdi . His most famous works include “Dolorosi martir” and “Io partiro”. His work had a great influence on the Elizabethan madrigals. He is said to come from the Marenzi family. Luca conte Marenzio, composer of the 16th century.jpg
Anton Georg Marenzi from Tagliuno and Talgate

(Marentius)

* 1596

† 1662

Clergyman. Marenzi was bishop of Pedena in 1638 , imperial councilor and vicar general of the imperial troops in 1641, and bishop of Trieste in 1646 (Episcopus et comes Tergesti). In 1654, the emperor granted him the status of imperial and hereditary-Austrian barons. Bishop Anton Marenzi of Tagliuno and Taglate around 1655.jpg
Kajetan Johann Marenzi von Tagliuno and Talgate * 1777

† 1847

Patrician and governor of Trieste . He was married to Adrianne de Constanzi (1778-1830). Father of Franz Anton. Gaetano Freiherr Marenzi around 1820.jpg
Franz Anton Marenzi by Tagliuno and Talgate * 1805

† 1886

Lieutenant Field Marshal , geologist and writer. Among other things, he was city and military commander of Ljubljana and general commander of the 1st Army in the war against France in 1859. Franz Anton was granted the status of Austrian count in 1864 with confirmation of the Italian title. Franz Anton Count Marenzi 1859.jpg
Joseph Ludwig Marenzi from Tagliuno and Talgate * 1853

† 1935

kuk chamberlain and high official, from 1902 to 1910 section head and director of the manor's office . Joseph Ludwig Marenzi around 1890.jpg
Franz Karl Marenzi by Tagliuno and Talgate * 1859

† 1940

Military attache of the Austro-Hungarian legation in Bucharest and Rome , 1906 Major General, 1910 Lieutenant Field Marshal, 1914 General of the Infantry. He was chief of staff of a cavalry division in Lemberg and commander of the 80th Honved Infantry Brigade in Debreczen . Franz Karl Graf Marenzi around 1906.jpg
Gabriel Franz Marenzi from Tagliuno and Talgate * 1861

† 1934

Austro-Hungarian officer. As major general he commanded the Landwehr cavalry brigade in Wels , and in 1917 was appointed field marshal lieutenant and commander of the 7th Cavalry Division. Gabriel Graf Marenzi around 1930.jpg

coat of arms

Marenzi family coat of arms
Coat of arms from 1654 with three helmets
Coat of arms from 1654 with three helmets
 Blazon : “Quartered and covered with a quartered golden heart shield, inside a) and d) a red-armored and crowned black eagle, b) and c) three diagonally right bars (family coat of arms) made of blue and silver. - 1 and 4 in blue a silver ball winged on both sides, 2 and 3 in red a red-tongued, gold-crowned silver snake raised in four turns. - Three helmets, on the right with blue and gold covers the silver ball winged on both sides, on the middle one with red and silver covers a red-armored and crowned black eagle, on the left with blue and gold covers the crowned snake. "

The family was free to wear the old royal crown (corona regia) over the coat of arms instead of the three helmets.

Coat of arms from 1864
Coat of arms of Count Marenzi from 1864
 Blazon : “A shield quartered by blue and red with a gold central shield squared by a black crosshair. In the first as well as in the fourth field of the central shield an outstretched, black, red-tongued and crowned eagle looking to the right, then the second, like the third field, crossed diagonally to the right by three bars each of blue and silver. In the upper right as well as in the lower left field of the back shield a bilateral winged sphere of silver and in the upper left as well as in the lower right field a silver, red-tongued and gold-crowned serpent, raised in four turns. On the shield rests the count's crown with three crowned tournament helmets, the middle one is surrounded by red, silver and blue helmet covers with gold underlaid from the other two. On the crown of the middle helmet is an outstretched, black, red-tongued, crowned and right-looking eagle. The crown of the helmet on the right bears a winged ball and that on the left a snake, similar to the ones seen in the umbrella. "

Motto: “Virtute haud fatis” (“By bravery and not by chance”).

  • coat of arms

  • Marenzi coat of arms in the 13th century

  • Marenzi coat of arms in the 14th and 15th centuries

  • Wooden coat of arms for Ludovico Marenzi in San Giusto

  • Marenzi coat of arms 1654 with crown

  • Marenzi coat of arms 1932, Italian

literature

  • Jakob Löwenthal: "History of the City of Triest", Volume 1, literary-artistic department of the Austrian Lloyd, Triest 1857
  • Annuario della Nobiltà Italiana, Vol. 16 and Vol. 17
  • Annuario della Nobiltà Italiana, vol. 30/2
  • Carl Arnold Broich, Freiherr: "The descendants of Count Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg 1750–1819, 250 years after his birth", Broich 2000, p. 94
  • Contact, Social Monthly Bulletin, Vol. 2, p. 30, Vol. 5, p. 56
  • Elenco ufficiale (definitivo) delle famiglie nobili e titolate della Lombardia, Roma 1895
  • Elenco ufficiale nobiliare italiano, Torino 1922
  • Nicolas Enache: “La descendance de Marie-Thérèse de Habsburg, Reine de Hongrie et de Bohème”, Paris 1996, p. 272
  • Heinrich Marenzi: “My family - an attempt to preserve history and memories”, 2006, 413 pages
  • Fondatione per la Storia Economica e Sociale di Bergamo: Bottaini de Capitani di Sovere, sei secoli di storia di una nobiolefamiglia Bergamasca, 1995

Web links

Commons : Marenzi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Letter of nobility from Emperor Franz Josef I for Count Marenzi 1864 (page 3)
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (Ed.): New general German Adels Lexicon , Volume 6. Voigt, Leipzig 1865, p. 133 ( full text in the Google book search).
  3. ^ Copy of the document Kaiser Konrad II from 1024, pages 1–3 in Marenzi Commons, Documents
  4. ↑ a b c d http://www.coresno.com/adelslexikon.html?start=900 - Austria
  5. ↑ Chapter archive Bergamo B, 17
  6. ↑ http://www.nobility.eu/
  7. ↑ http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz56665.html
  8. ^ A b Alfred A. Strnad:  Marenzi, Anton Freiherr von Ma (h) rensfeld and Schönegg (since 1654). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 149 ( digitized version ).
  9. ^ Heinrich Marenzi: "My family - an attempt to preserve history and memories", 2006, p. 215
  10. ↑ Otto Titan v. Hefner: "The nobility of the Duchy of Carniola and Counties of Görz and Gradiska", in Siebmacher's large book of arms, vol. IV, 2nd section, Bauer & Raspe publishing house, Nuremberg 1859. Name index and coats of arms p. 14
  11. ↑ a b Jakob Löwenthal: "History of the City of Triest", Volume 1, literary-artistic department of the Austrian Lloyd, Triest 1857, p. 121f
  12. ↑ GHdA Vol. 2 (1952), Vol. 47 (1970) and Vol. 112 (1997)
  13. ↑ GHdA Adelslexikon Vol. 8 (113), 1997, p. 263
  14. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser 1862 to 1891 or 1942.
  15. ^ Gothaisches Genealogical Pocket Book of the Count's Houses 1865 to 1942
  16. ^ Letter of nobility from the Kgr. Italy for the Counts Marenzi - in Marenzi Commons, Documents
  17. ↑ Microsoft (R) Encarta (R) Professional 2003
  18. ↑ Warren Kirkendale: Emilio de 'Cavalieri “gentiluomo romano”, LS Olschki publishing house, 2001, ISBN 88-222-4969-0 , p. 117 (Marenzio Marenzi [Giuliano], brother of Luca, ensured that Luca had access to the Medicis )
  19. ↑ Marco Bizzarini, James Michael Chater: "Luca Marenzio: The Career of a Musician Between the Renaissance and the Counter-Reformation", Ashgate Publishing Limited, Aldershot / England 2003, pp. 65 ff
  20. ↑ a b c d e GHdA, Vol. 2 (1952), Vol. 47 (1970) and Vol. 112 (1997)
  21. ↑ Pietro Stancovich "Biography degli uomini destincti dell'Istria" Tomo secondo, Trieste 1829), p 445 (refer to Vol. 1
  22. ↑ Horst Dippel, Jörg Luther: "Constitution of the world from the late 18th century to the middle of the 19th century", Verlag Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, Berlin / New York 2010, p. 664
  23. ^ Letter of nobility from Count Marenzi from 1864
  24. ↑ http://www.coresno.com/ - Austria