Mosbach-Lindenfels
The Mosbach-Lindenfels family was a middle German noble family .
history
It is named after Mosbach and Lindenfels Castle . The family property was thus in what is now the border region between Hesse and the Neckar-Odenwald district of Baden-Württemberg . In literature, the family is also referred to as the Rhenish noble family, and as part of the Frankish imperial knighthood they belonged to the knight canton of Odenwald . The von Lindenfels family in today's Upper Franconian and Upper Palatinate region emerged from it.
At the time of the genealogist Johann Gottfried Biedermann in the 18th century, the family he lists as Maßbach von Lindenfels had already expired and he did not have a family tree.
Personalities
- Ruth von Mosbach-Lindenfels , early abbess at Himmelkron Abbey
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows a silver stag stick on a blue background. The helmet covers are blue and silver. The crest is an open flight in the same colors.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johann Gottfried Biedermann : Gender = Register of the Reichs Frey immediate knighthood of Francken praiseworthy place Ottenwald ... Kulmbach 1751.
literature
- Alfred F. Wolfert: Groups of coats of arms of the nobility in the Odenwald-Spessart area. In: Winfried Wackerfuß (Ed.): Contributions to the exploration of the Odenwald and its peripheral landscapes II. Festschrift for Hans H. Weber. Breuberg-Bund , Breuberg-Neustadt 1977, pp. 325-406, here pp. 333f.