Otten (noble family)

Coat of arms of the Kurmainz or Austrian noble family "von Otten"

Von Otten is an imperial knightly and imperial noble family of Catholic denominations.

history

The family is possibly first mentioned as a Freimeier "to ottenhagn" in documents from the 13th and 14th centuries of the duchy of Paderborn and the imperial abbey of Corvey . In the course of the looting and pillage of the ancestral estate in the Soest feud in 1447, the family has demonstrably relocated to the area around the Rhine and Weser area.

According to Ernst Heinrich Kneschke , there were at least three noble families with this name, of which it is not exactly known whether and how they belong together. The most famous is the occurring in the 16th century and later transplanted to Austria, which with that of Bonn begins native Ignaz Anton von Otten (1664-1737), who as Kurmainzer Minister and Komitialgesandter the Regensburg diet , hereditary in the April 16, 1698 Aristocracy -, in 1701 in the Imperial Knights and on December 7, 1705, with an improvement in the coat of arms, in the Imperial Baron status He also appears as Reichshof and Privy Councilor, as well as Reich Director of Regensburg .

His daughter Eleonora married the Austrian diplomat Franz Christoph von Mensshengen, grandson of the Electorate Mainz Minister- Resident in Vienna, Johann Christoph Freiherr von Gudenus (1632–1705). The Austrian envoy or authorized minister, Ferdinand von Mensshengen (1801–1885) , became a great-grandson of this couple .

On February 5, 1726, the barons of Otten were given the Bohemian Inkolat . They worked primarily as lawyers in the service of the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar, the Reichstag and as clergymen.

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  Epitaph Maximilian Franz Joseph von Otten (1693–1725). High Cathedral , Cologne.

literature

• Rudolf Johann Meraviglia: The coats of arms of the Bohemian nobility. J. Siebmacher's large book of arms , volume 30. Neustadt ad Aisch 1979, p. 245f .; Plate 110f. ISBN 978-963-9374-38-6 (as book or CD)
• Johann Andreas v. Otten: The von Otten. Traditions and roots of a Bohemian baron family. Vienna 1885, p. 12ff., P. 34ff .; Family tables II and IV.
• Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 7, Leipzig 1867, p. 15.
• Th. Niederquell, IA Frhr. v. O., kurmainz. Principal envoy Dir. Am RT in Regensburg (1664–1737), in: Mainzer Zs. 75, 1980, p. 115 ff.
• Karl Otmar von Aretin : Otten, Ignaz Anton Freiherr von in: Neue Deutsche Biographie , Volume 19, 1999, p. 652, (online version)

Web links

• Website on the epitaph of the Cologne canon Maximilian Franz Joseph von Otten (1693–1725)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alfred Schröcker: The patronage of Lothar Franz von Schönborn (1655-1729): social-historical study on the network of relationships in the Germania Sacra , Verlag Steiner, 1981, p. 129, ISBN 3515032878 ; (Detail scan)
2. ^ Heraldisch-Genealogischer Verein Adler: Heraldisch-genealogische Zeitschrift: Organ of the Heraldisch-Genealogischer Verein "Adler" in Vienna , Volume 2, Braumüller, Vienna 1872, p. 147 u. 148 (digital scan)