Orsini-Rosenberg

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Coat of arms of the princes of Orsini and Rosenberg 1790

Orsini-Rosenberg , also from Orsini and Rosenberg , is the name of an ancient Austrian noble family that had its origins in the area around Graz in Styria . They came from a line of the noble von Thal or von dem Graben , which owned the Alt-Grabenhofen Castle in the 13th century , and subsequently took the name of the Rosenberg located there . The Orsini-Rosenberg family is counted as counts and princes of the high nobility .

history

ancestry

Coat of arms of the Rosenbergs vom Rosenberg from 1575

The first representative mentioned in a document is, according to the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility, Konrad ab dem Roesenperg , who is identical or closely related to Konrad II vom (ab dem) Graben from the family of the Lords of Graben . This first document dates from 1322 and is in the Styrian Provincial Archives in Graz. The family was therefore since 1322 initially Rosenberg (also Rosenberger or Rosenberger Rosenberg ), after near its headquarters Schloss Alt-grave Hofen located Rosenberg . The Rosenbergs had the coat of arms of the Lords of Graben, which they carried as ( natural ) descendants of the Meinhardins . The Lamberg family, also from the Von Graben from Carniola , bore the same family coat of arms. It is unclear whether these families are tribal equality, descent from one another or the coat of arms of a feudal lord, which has been adopted by both sexes.

Descent legends

Orsini from Rome

The Rosenbergs renamed themselves Ursini-Rosenberg on July 31, 1683 , and then a little later in von Orsini and Rosenberg or Orsini-Rosenberg . With the permission to carry the name Orsini , the alleged relationship to the ancient Roman noble family of the Orsini princes should be underpinned. Since then a Vitellus Ursini († 1122) has been named as an ancestor, but this relationship is extremely unlikely.

Rosenberg from Bohemia

Likewise, there is no evidence of the relationship to the Witigon family branch of the very important Bohemian noble family von Rosenberg , who just happened to have the same name, with ancestral home at the Bohemian Rosenberg Castle , which went out in 1611 with Peter Wok von Rosenberg . Already the alleged descent of these Bohemian Rosenbergs from the Roman Orsini came about because Ulrich II von Rosenberg constructed a fictitious genealogical descent from the Prince Orsini, which was confirmed by three members of this family in 1469–1481. The legend was picked up again after 1594 by the Rosenberg court chronicler and archivist Václav Březan in his "Monumenta Rosenbergica" and thus spread. Since Březan wrote the Rosenberg Chronicle and other publications on the basis of the archival material available to him and he was not aware of the forgeries, the “Summary Excerpt” from the chronicle from 1609 also contains numerous errors, which can be traced back to the use of the forged documents can be. It was not until the first half of the 16th century, during the reign of Wilhelm von Rosenberg , that the Bohemian Rosenbergs added components of the coat of arms of the Roman Orsini to theirs: In the lower half three oblique stripes with bears behind a shield carrier.

The Styrian Rosenbergs von Rosenberg , who, due to their descent from the Lords of Graben, had a similar family coat of arms [with the three stripes] as the Bohemian ones, did not attach themselves to this ancestry legend until 1684 of the Bohemian Counts von Rosenberg, who had already expired in 1611 and were not related to them and had the names of Counts von Ursini and Rosenberg approved. According to current sources, however, the Styrian family is viewed as a branch of the primeval Styrian family of the Lords of Graben.

Imperial Counts and Imperial Princes

Prince Franz Xaver Wolfgang von Orsini-Rosenberg (1726–1795) Prince Franz Seraph von Orsini-Rosenberg (1761–1832), Field Marshal
Prince Franz Xaver Wolfgang von Orsini-Rosenberg (1726–1795)
Prince Franz Seraph von Orsini-Rosenberg (1761–1832), Field Marshal

The Styrian Rosenberg were originally knights and remained so until 1633, when Johann Andreas von Rosenberg (1600–1667) was given the hereditary-Austrian baron status by Emperor Ferdinand II as "Rosenberger von Rosenberg, Freiherr auf Lerchenau" (dated 2 August 1633). His successor, Emperor Ferdinand III. promoted the same, as burgrave of Klagenfurt, on October 8, 1648 with " well-born " to the herbländisch-Austrian count status . His sons, the brothers Georg Nicolaus (1623–1695) and Wolfgang Andreas von Rosenberg (1626–1695) were raised to hereditary imperial count on May 29, 1681 by Emperor Leopold I. They received the hereditary-Austrian approval to accept the name "Counts of Ursini and Rosenberg" on July 6, 1684 in Linz, the Lower Austrian gentry in 1687 and the Bohemian Incolate on January 7, 1695.

Franz Xaver Wolfgang (1726–1795) received from Emperor Leopold II on October 9, 1790 in Frankfurt am Main the imperial prince status in Primogenitur with " Hochgeboren ". The later born bore the name "Graf or Countess of Orsini and Rosenberg". Since it was founded on April 18, 1861, the head of the family was a hereditary member of the manor of the Austrian Imperial Council .

List of princes

Only in one case was the title of prince not passed on from the father to the eldest son, but to the closest male relative.

  1. Franz Xaver Wolfgang Prince of Orsini-Rosenberg (1726–1795)
  2. Franz Seraphicus Prince of Orsini-Rosenberg (1761–1832), 2nd cousin of the previous one
  3. Ferdinand Prince of Orsini-Rosenberg (1790-1859)
  4. Heinrich Prince of Orsini-Rosenberg (1848–1929)

Heads of the house according to the Nobility Repeal Act 1919:

  1. Heinrich Prince of Orsini-Rosenberg (1848–1929)
  2. Johannes Andreas Orsini-Rosenberg (1893–1932)
  3. Heinrich Orsini-Rosenberg (1925–2011)
  4. Johannes Orsini-Rosenberg (* 1949)

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Counts of Orsini and Rosenberg 1681
Prince Franz Xaver Wolfgang von Orsini-Rosenberg 1793 Back of the Thalers with family coat of arms
Prince Franz Xaver Wolfgang von Orsini-Rosenberg 1793
Back of the Thalers with family coat of arms

1681: Squared shield with central shield. In the silver central shield a ruby-colored, five-petalled rose with green tips between each leaf (family coat of arms). 1 In silver a black oblique left bar covered with three silver coins. 2 divided lengthways by silver and red, with a rose of alternated tinctures. 3 in gold a red, hexagonal star. 4 divided by red and silver diagonally to the right with an obliquely left-hand gate iron, shaped like a clover leaf at both ends, made of alternated tinctures. The count's crown rests on the shield, over which are five helmets, of which the right, second and left are crowned. The right helmet wears a golden eagle's wing facing the Saxons, with the star of the 3rd field, the second an open silver eagle flight with the oblique bar and the coins of the 1st field. On the right wing of the same the bar is obliquely right, on the left obliquely left. The rose of the central shield hovers above the central helmet (helmet of the family coat of arms). On the fourth helmet there is a tall, pointed hat, divided lengthways by silver and red, which is decorated with the rose of the second field, and from the left helmet a black bear grows upwards looking inwards, with a silver javelin in its front paws . The helmet covers are golden and red on the right, silver and red on the left. Usually only the middle shield is carried, which is decorated with the prince's hat for the prince and with the count's crown for the counts and which is held by two inward-looking bears, now silver and now black.

1790: The coat of arms shows a red rose with gold goblets in silver. A princely hat covers the oval shield. Shield holders are two upright, outward-looking, silver bears. Everything is wrapped in an ermine-trimmed and lined princely coat made of purple velvet on which the princely hat lies.

Significant people

Possessions

  • Grafenstein Castle , built in 1638 by Johann Andreas, is still owned today
  • Klagenfurt City Hall (formerly Rosenberg Palace), rebuilt around 1650 by Johann Andreas Rosenberg, owned 1650–1918
  • Palais Rosenberg in Klagenfurt ( old town hall ), built around 1600 by the Welzer family, owned from 1918 until today
  • Sonnegg castle and ruins near Sittersdorf , owned 1636 until today
  • Maria-Loretto Castle on Lake Wörthersee, built in 1654 by Johann Andreas von Rosenberg, owned until 2002
  • Stein Castle near Dellach im Drautal, built before 1200, owned from 1681 until today
  • Orsini-Rosenberg Palace in Vienna, built in 1692 by Wolfgang Andreas, owned until 1718
  • Damtschach Castle near Wernberg, built in 1511 by Augustin Khevenhüller, owned since 1847 until today
  • Feuersberg castle and ruins, owned to this day
  • Höhenbergen ruins near Völkermarkt , construction began in the mid-18th century, unfinished, in the possession to this day
  • Welzenegg Castle near Klagenfurt, built in 1575 by Viktor Welzer, owned from 1670–1983
  • Keutschach am See Castle , built in 1679 by Georg Nicolaus, owned until 1926
  • Greifenburg Castle in the Drautal, built before 1166, owned 1676–1943
  • Rosegg Castle , built by Franz Xaver Wolfgang from 1772, owned until 1829

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lords of Graben
  2. ^ Collegium Res Nobilis Austriae: Orsini and Rosenberg
  3. ^ The coats of arms of the nobility in Upper Austria , page 753 . A. Weiss: Kärnthen's Adel up to the year 1300 , p. 211 .
  4. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Baltic Sea, CA. Starke., 2004. p. 264, Orsini et al. Rosenberg
  5. ↑ Hans Friedrich von Ehrenkrook: “Genealogical Handbook of the Princely Houses”, Princely Houses Volume 2, Verlag CA Starke, Glücksburg / Ostsee 1953, p. 147 ff.
  6. ↑ Prof. Dr. Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: "German count houses of the present: in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation", 2nd volume L – Z, Verlag TO Weigel, Leipzig 1853, p. 309
  7. ^ Georg von Hassel: "Genealogical-historical-statistical almanac for the year 1832", Verlag des Gr. S. pr. Industrie-Comptoirs, Weimar 1832, p. 375