Maxlrain (noble family)
The Lords of Maxlrain were an old Bavarian noble family that played an important role in Bavaria from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 18th century . They named themselves after Maxlrain in the Upper Bavarian district of Rosenheim , their most important property was the imperial rule of Waldeck .
history
In the 12th century, the Maxlrainers are mentioned as the lords of Beyharting Abbey. In 1516 they acquired the imperial direct rule Waldeck with the capital Miesbach , meanwhile risen to become powerful masters . Wallenburg Castle north of Miesbach has been the main seat of the Waldeck rule since the 15th century . In 1523, Wolfgang von Maxlrain had the feudal sovereignty of the Freising Bishop transferred to his seat in Maxlrain over his rule of Wallenburg .
Wolf Dietrich von Maxlrain , his son from his marriage to Anna von Frundsberg, was, along with Joachim von Ortenburg and Pankraz von Freyberg, one of the leaders of the so-called confessionalists , the Protestant opposition of Bavarian aristocrats against the Duke. In 1563 this group publicly and provocatively declared their conversion to Protestantism. After a trade embargo by the Bavarian duke, Wolf Dietrich von Maxlrain finally had to agree to the re-catholization of his country in 1583/84. Wolf Dietrich von Maxlrain was married to Veronika von Pienzenau since 1543 . The marriage had six children, including the sons Ludwig († 1608) and Georg († 1635), who also held the imperial rule of Waldeck. From 1606 Ludwig von Maxlrain had the interior of the St. Georg chapel (also called St. Georg am Weinberg ) in Schliersee near Miesbach redesigned in an early Baroque style. He had chosen the church for his burial place and was buried in a crypt directly in front of the altar in 1608 . In 1781 the crypt collapsed and part of the chapel decorations were also destroyed.
In 1637 the Maxlrainers rose to become imperial counts , and at the same time Emperor Ferdinand II elevated the rule of Waldeck to a county with the new name of Hohenwaldeck.
From 1685 Johann Veit Graf von Maxlrain was also the owner of Hofmark Raab in the Innviertel . In 1734, after the death of the last Maxlrainer, Johann Joseph Max Veit, the Maxlrainer regular property came to the Imperial Count Max von Rheinstein and Tattenbach . The Hohenwaldeck rule, however, fell to the Wittelsbachers , who integrated them into the electorate as a separate part .
Maxlrainer as owner of the Waldeck estate
| Surname | Reign (s) | wife | ancestry |
| Veit from Maxlrain | 1516-1518 | Margaretha von Waldeck | Son-in-law of Wolfgang von Waldeck |
| Wolfgang von Maxlrain | 1518–1561, from 1548 imperial baron |
Anna von Frundsberg, daughter of Georg von Frundsberg | Son of Veit von Maxlrain |
| Wolf Dietrich von Maxlrain | 1561-1586 | Veronika von Pienzenau | Son of Wolfgang von Maxlrain |
| Wolf Wilhelm von Maxlrain | 1586-1595 | Johanna Perner zu Guetteroth | Brother of Wolf Dietrich von Maxlrain |
| Ludwig von Maxlrain | 1595-1603 | Barbara Scholastika from Sandizell | Son of Wolf Dietrich von Maxlrain |
| Georg von Maxlrain | 1603-1635 | I. Maria von Degenberg , II. Christina Sidonia von Auersberg | Brother of Ludwig von Maxlrain |
| Wilhelm von Maxlrain | 1635–1655, from 1637 imperial count |
I. Maria Christina von Gumppenberg , II. Maria Juliana Crivelli | Son of Ludwig von Maxlrain |
| Wolf Veit from Maxlrain | 1656-1659 | I. Elisabeth Kurz zu Senftenau, II. Barbara Rufina von Preysing | Grandson of Wolf Wilhelm von Maxlrain |
| Johann Veit von Maxlrain | 1659-1705 | I. Katharina Constantia Adelheid von Spiering, II. Franziska Klara von Törring , b. from Lamberg | Nephew of Wolf Veit von Maxlrain |
| Johann Joseph Max Veit of Maxlrain | 1705-1734 | Maria Regina Helena von Muggenthal | Grandson of Wolf Veit von Maxlrain |
coat of arms
- Family coat of arms
The family coat of arms is divided twice in a wave shape by black and silver. On the helmet a golden lion with black and white wings, as in the coat of arms.
- Barons coat of arms
The baron's coat of arms shows the family coat of arms in a quartered shield in the first and fourth fields, and in the second and third a crowned golden lion in black.
- Count's coat of arms
In the count's coat of arms, the four fields are separated by a paw cross. In an added heart shield there is the coat of arms "inherited" from the Waldeckers, which the Maxlrainer de jure were allowed to use since their elevation to imperial rulership in 1544: two beveled red bars in silver under half an eagle or falcon.
See also
literature
- Ignaz Joseph von Obernberg : History of the rule Waldeck in Oberbaiern. Written in 1798. Akademischer Verlag, Munich 1804, digitized .
- Theodor Wiedemann , The Maxlrainers. A historical-genealogical treatise , in: ObbA 16 (1856–1857) pp. 1–86.
- Wilhelm Knappe: Wolf Dietrich von Maxlrain and the Reformation in the Hohenwaldeck rule. A contribution to the history of the German Reformation and Counter-Reformation (= sources and research on Bavarian church history. Vol. 4, ZDB -ID 515342-6 ). Deichert, Leipzig et al. 1920.
- Franz Andrelang: The imperial county Hohenwaldeck and the Maxlrainer . In the district court of Aibling and the Reichsgrafschaft Hohenwaldeck (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria part of Old Bavaria , row 1, vol. 17). Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1967 (At the same time: Munich, university, dissertation, 1966: Power-building forces and forms of rule in the area of the old Bavarian district court of Aibling and the county of Hohenwaldeck )
- Johann Dorner: The assumption of office of Burghausen captain Wolf Wilhelm von Maxlrain , in: Buchleitner Alois / Dorner Johann / Hingerl Max / Pfenningmann Josef: Six hundred years of Burghausen Rent Office (= Burghauser Geschichtsblätter 47), Burghausen 1992, pp. 47-53.
- Michael Nadler: The rule Waldeck of the Maxlrainer in the 16th century. Studies on the position of an old Bavarian rule in the empire , in: Oberbayerisches Archiv 130 (2006), pp. 119–206.
- Alexander Langheiter: Miesbach - A cultural guide . Maurus-Verlag, Miesbach 2006, ISBN 3-00-017020-0
website
Individual evidence
- ^ Hyacinth Holland: Gail, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 237-239.