Nys (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Counts of Nys 1790

The Counts of Nys (also Nyss , Nyß ) are an old noble family who immigrated to Bavaria from the former Spanish Netherlands and were raised to the rank of imperial count in 1762.

history

The family came to Flanders from Spain before 1650 . Jean Baptist Nys in Antwerp acquired the Spanish-Dutch nobility on September 2, 1671 in Madrid .

A descendant of this noble family in Flanders, Ludwig de Nys, entered the Bavarian military service at the beginning of the 18th century and gained a reputation as a Bavarian general. The officer, commandant of the cuirassier regiment Louis Marquis de Beauveau de Croan (1848: Royal Bavarian 2nd Chevaulegers Regiment "Taxis" ) from August 1, 1743 to July 6, 1747 , saved the 1743 in the unfortunate battle of Braunau in the War of the Austrian Succession Bavarian cavalry, he also distinguished himself as the commander of the Bavarian auxiliary troops in Holland. He was the owner of the Bavarian Monleon Infantry Regiment. (21. August 1746) Maurus Joseph Maria and his brother Ludwig Maria von Nys, whose sons from their marriage to the Baroness von Rehlingen, were elected by Elector Max III. Joseph was raised to the rank of count on August 13, 1762 as a Bavarian chamberlain.

Personalities

  • Ludwig Maria Graf von Nys (Nyss) († 16 January 1792 in Straubing) was Councilor since 1745 parish priest, Canon , of the local electoral collegial council, dean and senior of Straubing (1751), Princely Regensburg shear intelligence and consistory, since 1779 pin Dean . He also wrote some religious and historical-religious works.
  • Maurus Joseph Maria Graf von Nys (Nyss) Lord of Mausham, Eitting and Isarau († September 8, 1808), was electoral chamberlain , general of the cavalry , and colonel owner of the Chevauxleger regiment No. 4. A confirmation of the count status of imperial vicariate and elevation to imperial count took place for him and all his biological descendants of both sexes by Elector Karl Theodor of the Palatinate and Bavaria on October 1, 1790 under the name of Reichsgraf von Nys zu Isarau. The married to a Countess de Lamboy was honored, among other things, with the dignity of a Real Lord Knight of the Archangel Michael.

This branch of the family is extinct in the male line.

coat of arms

Squared shield with central shield. In the silver central shield three (2 and 1) right-facing kingfishers, with blue backs and golden undersides, each of which holds a branch with red, wild blueberry leaves in its beak. 1 and 4 in silver an inward-looking, gold-armed black eagle; 2 in blue a right-facing, golden lion, and three also in blue, a white, black tabby greyhound jumping up to the left. On the shield there are three helmets crowned with counts' crowns. The one on the right bears growing and inward-looking lions of the second field; the middle one of the birds of the middle shield with the twigs on a larger scale and sent to flight, and the left the greyhound of the third field growing and looking inward. The helmet covers are blue and silver and the shield is held by two crowned, outward-looking, black eagles with golden weapons, sent for flight.

literature

  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the German count's houses. Part A, Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha 1881.
  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: German count houses of the present: in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation. Volume 3: AZ. Publishing house TO Weigel, Leipzig 1854.
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility enrolled in Bavaria. Complete index of the volumes published from 1950. Association of the Nobility in Bavaria, Name Index N. Volume 3, Verlag Degener, Munich, p. 64.
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility enrolled in Bavaria. Volume 15, Wissenschaftlicher Kommissionsverlag, Stegaurach 1984, ISBN 3-7686-5068-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Genealogical handbook of the nobility enrolled in Bavaria. Volume 15, Wissenschaftlicher Kommissionsverlag, Stegaurach 1984, p. 126 f.
  2. ↑ a b Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: German count houses of the present: in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation. Volume 3: AZ. Verlag TO Weigel, Leipzig 1854, p. 279 f.
  3. ^ Friedrich Münich: History of the development of the Bavarian army for two centuries. J. Lindauer'sche Buchhandlung, Munich 1864, p. 516.
  4. ↑ Felix Mader: The art monuments of Lower Bavaria: City of Straubing. Volume 6, Verlag Oldenbourg, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-486-50484-3 , pp. 82, 274.
  5. ^ New genealogical realm and state handbook: On the year 1788. 2nd part, Verlag Varrentrapp and Wenner, Frankfurt am Main 1788, p. 185.
  6. ^ Munich intelligence paper. 35th piece, Munich October 22, 1790.
  7. ↑ His Churfürstlichen Durchleucht zu Pfalzbaiern etc. Court and State Calendar for the year 1793, Franzische Hof- und Landschaftsbuchdruckerei, Munich 1793, pp. 59, 128.
  8. ↑ Churfürstlich-Pfalzbaierischer Hof- und Staatskalender: To the year 1802. Franzische Hofbuchgdruckerei, Munich 1802, p. 49.
  9. ↑ Baron O'Cahill (ed.): Genealogy high heads. Freyburg / Freystadt 1803, p. 77.
  10. ↑ Lorenz Hübner: Description of the Kurbaierischen capital and residence city and its surroundings. Volume 2, published by the electoral prince. privileged newspaper comtoirs, Munich 1805, p. 133.
  11. ↑ geneall.net
  12. ^ Augsburgische Ordinari Postzeitung von Staats-, schehrten, histor- u. economic news. No. 287, from Wednesday 30 November 1808, p. 4.