Mettel (noble family)

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Mettel is the name of a noble Silesian family .

history

Bartholomäus Georg Mettel ( Metellus , Methel ) (* before 1520; † April 1571 in Prague) came from Frankfurt (Oder) , began studying law at the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt in his hometown in the winter semester of 1537 and was chancellor of the diocese from 1559 to 1567 Wroclaw under the bishops Balthasar von Promnitz and Kaspar von Logau . For his services he was enfeoffed in 1562 with the Tschirnitz bishop's table in the Duchy of Schweidnitz-Jauer . His first marriage was to Magdalena von Krohmayer († March 23, 1564) and, after her death, to a daughter of Kaspar Borschke von Mahliau, the burgrave of the episcopal castle Freiwaldau . Bartholomäus Mettel and his brother Albrecht received a letter of arms on June 28, 1560. A later ennoblement cannot be proven, but Konrad Blažek , the author of all volumes of the Silesian Siebmacher Wappenbuch, counted the family to the noble family due to their aristocratic property. Julius Mettel, who appears in the sources as Mettel von Janovatz or Mettel von Janovic and was probably a son of the episcopal chancellor, owned the Wilhelmsthal estate (1599–1602) in the county of Glatz , Ober Hermsdorf ( Horní Heřmanice in Czech ), a district of Barzdorf , which at that time belonged to the soft area Ottmachau in the Principality of Neisse , as well as the estates stones and Bunkai in the estate of Groß Wartenberg , which possibly came from his wife. Julius died before March 1613.

At the end of the 19th century, the large Bohemian landowner Otto Mettal claimed that he was a descendant of the Silesian Mettel family.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gottfried Kliesch: The influence of the University of Frankfurt (Oder) on the Silesian educational history . Würzburg 1961, p. 155
  2. ↑ Your epitaph with the arms of Krohmayer and Mettel was in the St. Elisabeth Church in Breslau until 1945 . Compare Hermann Luchs: The monuments of the St. Elisabeth Church in Breslau . Breslau 1860, p. 47 (No. 46)
  3. ^ Anton Schimon: The nobility of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia . Böhmisch Leipa 1859, p. 103
  4. ↑ Konrad Blažek: The dead nobility of the Prussian province of Silesia , part 3, from the series: J. Siebmacher's large and general Wappenbuch, volume 6, 8th department, Nuremberg 1894, p. 167
  5. ^ Dieter Pohl : Grafschaft Glatz. The Kögler Collection in the Archbishop's Diocesan Archives in Breslau . Cologne 2000, p. 65
  6. ↑ Wilhelm Schulte: sources on the history of ownership of the diocese of Wroclaw [contains u. a. the diocese treasury from around 1606–1616], in: Joseph Jungnitz (ed.): Studies on Silesian Church History , Volume 3, Breslau 1907, pp. 171–279, here p. 266 and 268
  7. ↑ Joseph Franzkowski: History of the free state rule, the city and the district of Gross Wartenberg , Gross Wartenberg 1912, p. 300 u. 348