Pillersdorf (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the barons of Pillersdorf 1792

The barons of Pillersdorf , also Pillerstorf (f) , are a Moravian - Austrian noble family .

history

The family is an originally Moravian noble family. On January 5, 1616, Andreas Piller received a letter of arms from Emperor Matthias .

The great-grandson of Andreas, Joseph Ludwig (I.), was awarded a diploma from May 3, 1719 to Laxenburg by Emperor Charles VI for the services he acquired during the Moravian salt slopes . in the erbländisch-Austrian peerage with the title of "Pillersdorf" collected , which now appeared to change the place of the old family name "Piller". He was married to Eleonore Zialkowska von Zialkowicz. Their son Johann Ludwig (II.) Bought the estates Schlapanitz , Millonitz and Biskupitz in Moravia, was imperial councilor and state sub-chamberlain. With a diploma dated September 8, 1733 and with the granting of the Bohemian incolate , the same emperor was transferred to the Herbländisch -Austrian knighthood. The same was with Dorothea Freiin v. Schmidlin wed

Franz Xaver III. Baron von Pillersdorf around 1850
Robert Freiherr von Pillersdorf 1900

Franz Xaver (I.) von Pillersdorf (1725–1797), son of the above, was imperial major , distinguished himself in the battle of Striegau on June 4, 1745 and in the siege of Genoa. He made twelve campaigns during his service. He was later a councilor and assessor at the Olomouc bishop's feudal court and was elected to the regional committee by the Moravian estates in 1792 as an assessor of the knighthood. On December 28, 1792 in Vienna the officer was awarded the baron status with the improvement of the coat of arms "for his services acquired in the field and in the service of the country" by Emperor Franz II . He married Constantia († 1780), daughter of the Secret Chancellery and Cabinet Director of the Duke of Lorraine, who later became Emperor Franz I Stephan , Bernhard von Germetten.

Franz Xaver (II.) Baron von Pillersdorf (* July 4, 1757; † January 13, 1806), son of the above, was a councilor at the Moravian-Silesian Court of Appeal (1784) in Brno , Vice-President of the Lviv Land Law (1796), Councilor of the Galician Court Chancellery (1797), Councilor at the Supreme Court of Vienna and Imperial and Royal Truchsess (1802). He was married to Johanna Majthény von Kesselökö († October 21, 1805).

Franz Xaver (III.) Baron von Pillersdorf (1786–1862), a son of Franz Xaver (II.), Was Imperial Councilor and (Court) Chancellor of the United Court Chancellery (1832), honorary citizen of Vienna (April 20, 1843) , Honorary member of the Vienna Academy of Arts (1846), later Prime Minister, author of the constitution of April 25, 1848, received the Moravian incolate in 1842. His second marriage was Maria Henriette Leopoldine, Countess Chorinsky Freiin von Ledske (* 15. November 1801; † June 1844) with whom he had seven daughters. His brother Anton (* 1788), Imperial and Royal Finance Commissioner, married in 1818 to Anna Dlauby, (1798–1857), continued the family. From this marriage came, in addition to three daughters, the sons Hermann and Albert.

Hermann (I.) (* 1817), owner of the Branek estate in Moravia, kk provincial president in Austrian Silesia , married Adolphine Klein (* 1830), co-owner of the Wiesenberg and Zöptau estate, from which marriage, in addition to two daughters, two sons descended from: Hermann (II.) (* 1850) and Robert. Albert, (* 1819), was an Imperial and Royal Major in the 27th Infantry Regiment. In 1854 he married Franziska Countess Kolowrat-Krakowsky, baroness on Ugezd (* 1835). Baron Franz Xaver (I.) came from his fourth marriage to Theresia Faber († 1824) Alois (* 1795) owner of Nieder-Trzanswitz and Pötrau in Upper Silesia.

Robert (born February 25, 1854 in Trenczin , † October 24, 1905 in Neplachowitz ), son of Hermann (I.), was a landowner on Neplachowitz and Johannesfeld. He married on October 16, 1878 in Salzburg with Katharina Wilhelmine Antoinette (born August 29, 1857 at Schloss Leitersdorf ; † May 9, 1938 in Salzburg), daughter of Maximilian Anton Freiherren Putz von Rolsberg , presidential court concepter of the royal Hungarian court chancellery and Archbishop's Council.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of those of Pillersdorf 1719

1792: Squared shield. 1 and 4 in silver on a green hill, a leafy, fertilized oak tree in natural color. 2 and 3 in blue five golden ears of corn placed side by side on their stalks. The baron's crown rests on the shield, on which two crowned tournament helmets, facing each other, rise. On the crown of the right one is two buffalo horns, of which the upper one is blue at the top, silver at the bottom, the rear one at the top in silver and blue, the oak of 1 and 4 is set. On the crown of the left, between an open flight with tinctures identical to the buffalo horns, are the five golden ears of corn 2 and 3. The helmet covers of the right helmet are blue with silver on both sides, those of the left are blue with gold. Shield holders are on the right Mars in silver armor with three red plumes on the helmet, on the left Pallas Athene in a red robe with a green cloak, on the helmet red and blue plumes. They hold a lance with a golden tip in the hand facing away from the shield. Motto: “Fortitudine et scientia” is written on a white ribbon in black Latin script that flutters under the sign.

literature

  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses. 48th year, Justus Perthes publishing house, Gotha 1864.
  • Johann Georg Megerle von Mühlfeld: Austrian nobility lexicon of the eighteenth a. Nineteenth century containing all from 1701 to 1820. Verlag Mörschner and Kasper, Vienna 1822.
  • Constant von Wurzbach: Biographical Lexicon of the Empire of Austria. 22nd part, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1870.

Web links

Commons : Pillersdorf  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 7: Ossa - Ryssel. Verlag Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1867, p. 150 f.
  2. ↑ Court and State Schematism of the Austrian Empire in the Imperial and Royal Capital and Residence City of Vienna , Verlag Joseph Gerold, Vienna 1802, p. 58.
  3. ↑ Constant von Wurzbach : Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich , 22nd part, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1870, p. 294 ff.
  4. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses , 32nd year, Verlag Justus Perthes , Gotha 1848, p. 278 f.
  5. ^ Maximilian Mayerhoffer: Family tree and evidence of nobility of the Putz von Rolsberg family. Tannheim 1951, p. 4.
  6. ^ Constant von Wurzbach: Biographical Lexicon of the Kaiserthums Oesterreich. 22nd part, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1870, p. 303.