Martinic
Martinic (also Martinicové , z Martinicz , von Martinitz ) were a noble family in Bohemia and, according to the common water lily coat of arms, belonged to the primeval noble families from the Kaunitz House , whose ancestors are said to come from the Werschowitz , a branch of the Přemyslids . In the years 1322 and 1340 they lived at the eponymous fortress Martinitz bei Wotitz ( Votice ), from 1418 to 1791 on Smetschna in Central Bohemia, with their descendants Clam-Martinic until 1945
history
In the oldest hierarchy of the Bohemian prince and lordship from 1501, the Martinicz and other bearers of the water lily coat of arms, namely the families von Kaunitz (z Kunicz), von Augezdecz, Černčický von Kácov , Richnowsky von Reichenau and the von Talmberg (Thalenberg, Jankowsky von Tallenberg, z Talmberka), the 28th place.
Jaroslav Borsita von Martinic received from Emperor Ferdinand II of Habsburg on April 10, 1621, the appointment as imperial count and on January 6, 1622, the confirmation for the Kingdom of Bohemia with an improvement in the coat of arms. At the end of the 18th century, Count Franz Karl von Martinic († November 29, 1789) went out, and Maria Josepha von Sternberg († 1823) was married to the sex in the male line. The marriage of her daughter, the Fideikommisserbin Maria Anna Countess von Martinic in 1791 with Karl Joseph Graf von Clam - the first parents of Clam-Martinitz - led to the name and coat of arms association Clam-Martinic .
Place of residence of the Martinic in Bohemia
The Martinicz, who lived on Smečno for more than 500 years from 1418 to 1918 , also called "Muncifaj" = Monsfage until 1882, built the Smetschna fortress in 1560 under the son of Markward von Martinicz and his wife Margarethe von Augezdecz Borsita von Martinic, burgrave of Brüx (Most) and from 1442 to 1451 court marshal of the Duke of Austria, King of Bohemia and Hungary Ladislaus Postumus in a castle; from 1791 to 1918 owned by the daughter descendants Clam-Martinic . The large estate Smecno in Central Bohemia was lost in 1918 after the establishment of Czechoslovakia through expropriation of the family in a land reform by the government in Prague. In Bohemia, the other dominions of the Martinic with a more or less long duration included the rule Slaný , Kladno , Okor, Lány , Opálka , in the 17th century Horschowitz , Komorau and in 1726 the neighboring Grünberg were added.
Martinic coat of arms
- Family coat of arms: In Roth two silver, branched and rooted, mutually bent and interlaced sea leaves. The helmet gem is an open red flight, each side covered with a leaf as in the shield figure. The helmet covers are red-silver.
- Coat of arms of the Counts of Martinic from 1621: In red, two diagonally crossed silver sea flower stalks with leaves bent together in a heart shape (“Lekna” = sea flower), between an eight-pointed golden star. On the crowned helmet with red and silver covers as a helmet jewel, a closed red flight, covered with the shield image. 1622: The helmet gem now shows the black imperial double-headed eagle, covered with the Austrian shield, the three black Latin capital letters FMR (Ferdinand-Mathäus-Rudolph) on the silver bar.
Historical representations
Coat of arms of the Counts of Martinic 1622
Personalities
- Georg Borzita von Martinicz († January 22, 1598), 1584 Obersthofrichter, 1585 Oberstlandrichter, 1597 Colonel Chancellor in the Kingdom of Bohemia. In 1583 he bought a large representative house on Hradschiner Platz in Prague from the Teyffel von Zeilberg family, which was rebuilt and expanded in 1623, called the Martinic Palais.
- Jaroslav Borsita von Martinic (born January 6, 1582 in Smecno, † November 21, 1649 in Prague), 1638 colonel count of the Kingdom of Bohemia.
- Bernhard Ignaz Borsita Graf von Martinic, († January 7, 1685 in Prague), son of Jaroslav Borsita Graf von Martinic , student in Passau, Ingolstadt, Graz and Rome. In 1634 President of Appeal, then Oberstlandrichter and from 1651 to 1685 Oberstburggraf and governor in the Kingdom of Bohemia. Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, patron of the sciences and promoter of Catholicism in Bohemia. Founder of the Franciscan Order in Horschowitz ( Hořovice ) and in 1648 in Slaný (Schlan). Resident in Hagensdorf ( Ahnikov ) and Kralup on the Moldau ( Kralupy nad Vltavou ); married in first marriage to Polyxena Holiczky von Sternberg († 1659); 2nd marriage to Susanne Polyxena von Dietrichstein from the Hollenburg house.
- Adolf Bernhard Graf von Martinic (* 1680 in Bohemia, † July 29, 1735 in Vienna), 1729 Obersthofmarschall, Knight of the Golden Fleece. In 1710 one of the first textile mills in Bohemia was established through its production in Plánice . In the nearby town of Nitzau (Nikov) he had the pilgrimage church of the Assumption of Mary built between 1719 and 1730 according to plans by the architect Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer .
- Georg Adam II. Count von Martinic (* 1645; † July 24, 1714 in Prague), a son of the couple Maximilian Valentin von Martinic († December 20, 1677) and Anna Katharina Bukowky von Bukowka († 1685) and a grandson of Jaroslav Borsita von Martinic from his marriage to Maria Eusebia von Sternberg, was the lord of Smetschna (Smecno), Schlan ( Slaný ), Brunnersdorf ( Prunéřov ), Planitz ( Plánice ), Horschowitz ( Hořovice ) and Opálka . In 1703 he was Imperial Austrian Obersthofmarschall, 1707 Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece . Emperor Leopold I sent him, forced by the Second Turkish Siege of Vienna, as an ambassador with requests for help to the Republic of Venice, to Rome to Pope Innocent XI, to the courts in Tuscany, Parma, England and Portugal. In 1707 he received the title of Viceroy of Naples in recognition. His first marriage was to Maria Felizitas von Spaur; in 2nd marriage with Maria Josefa von Sternberg.
- Franz Michael Graf von Martinic († January 27, 1773 in Prague), court master, 1727 to 1729 councilor of appeal and imperial envoy
Places in Prague owned by the Martinic
- Martinický palác Hradcanske namesti 8; (Palais Martinic on Hradschin-Platz, originally the palace of the wholesale merchants Teyffel von Zeilberg and Höllenstein, sold to Colonel Chancellor Georg Borzita von Martinicz in 1583, rebuilt and expanded in 1634.)
- Šporkův palác
- Dietrichsteinský palác
- Palác Hložků ze Žampachu
- Former Theatin College at the Cathedral of the Virgin Mary and Saint Kajetan
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Martinitz, the count family, genealogy . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 17th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1867, pp. 44–46 ( digitized version ).
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Martinitz, the count family, coat of arms . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 17th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1867, p. 50 ( digitized version ).
- Count von Martinic ruler of the House of Smetschna. In: The coats of arms of the Bohemian nobility. Siebmacher's large book of arms, volume 30. Bauer and Raspe, Neustadt an der Aisch 1979, ISBN 3-87947-030-8 , p. 145, arms on plate 68. (reprographic reprint of Siebmacher's book of arms, Nuremberg, volume IV, section 9, 1886.).
- Procházka novel : Genealogical handbook of extinct Bohemian noble families, Volume I; Ranking of the Bohemian princes and gentlemen with the list of the thirty oldest gentry families from the year 1501. Verlag Degener & Co, Neustadt an der Aisch 1973, ISBN 3-7686-5002-2 , p. 15, overview and pedigree for Martinic p. 183 , 186.
- Smetschna (Smecno). In: Hans-Ulrich Engel: Castles and palaces in Bohemia. According to old templates. 3rd edition. Wolfgang Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-8035-8013-7 , pp. 95–96, illustration p. 217.
- Martinic Palace. In: Karl Plicka, Emanuel Poche: A picture guide Prague. Parorama, Prague 1982, p. 60.
- Heribert Sturm (Ed. On behalf of the Collegium Carolinum ): Biographical Lexicon for the history of the Bohemian countries. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-486-52551-4 , Volume II (I-M), pp. 588-589.
