Plankenfels (noble family)

Family coat of arms according to Siebmacher's coat of arms book

Coat of arms according to Scheibler's book of arms

Plankenfels Castle

The von Plankenfels family was a Frankish knight dynasty with possessions in the knightly canton of Gebürg .

origin

The eponymous place Plankenfels is today a municipality in the district of Bayreuth in the administrative district of Upper Franconia . The gender is documented there from 1217 until 1538. In the literature, the family is very often called "Blanckenfels" or "Blankenfels".

Personalities

• Friedrich III. von Plankenfels († 1457): Bishop of Regensburg (1450-1457)
• Ulrich von Plankenfels : Bishop of Chiemsee (1453–1467)

coat of arms

The coat of arms is decorated with a soaring blue wolf on a silver background. The crest shows a woman's torso between buffalo horns.

Elements of the coat of arms of the community of Plankenfels remind of this gender.

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  Coat of arms of the community of Plankenfels

See also

• List of Frankish knight families

Individual evidence

1. ↑ possibly identical to Ulrich Plankenfelser in the list of abbots of the St. Peter monastery