Rex (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Rex

Rex is the name of an old Upper Saxon noble family . The Lords of Rex belong to the Meissen nobility . Branches of the family still exist today.

history

origin

The family is mentioned for the first time with Albertus von Riguz in Laucha an der Unstrut , who appears in a document between 1186 and 1190 and was probably lord of Regis Castle . The tribe series begins with Heinrich de Reciz , who is mentioned in a document in 1203. After Kneschke also in 1376 as part screen Vogt of the monastery Posa occurring Ulrich Rex and 1380 as captain to Eisenberg appearing Günther von Reckes family.

The spelling of the name varies from Recis and Recisz, Rekus and Regkus, later also Rexse, Rexe, Recks, Rexs to Rex. The family's head office was Regis, today's small town of Regis-Breitingen in the Leipzig district . The castle there was destroyed in 1382. In older literature, Röcken , now part of the city of Lützen near Leipzig , is mentioned as the headquarters.

Spread and lines

The main seat of the family later became the manor Pobles , earlier also Boblas , which Bartholomäus von Rex owned as early as 1493. Other possessions included Görschen , Blankenhain Castle (1703–1747), Kreischa and Schalkendorf near Merseburg . In the later Kingdom of Saxony , the family briefly owned the Oelzschau and Kömmlitz estates from 1837 , both near Rötha . In Saxony, the family expanded in several lines and also came to neighboring Brandenburg . Numerous relatives entered the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon and Royal Prussian military services.

The Counts of Rex come from the main seat of Pobles, whose next progenitor was Carl Rex (1660-1716). His son from the marriage with Maria von Etzdorf from the house of Reuden, Wolf von Rex, Herr auf Pobles, Kreischa and Blankenhain, Chief Chamberlain to the Queen of Poland and Electress of Saxony Christiane Eberhardine and Chief Tax Collector and Vice- Chief Justice of Leipzig, married in his first marriage 1668 Catharina Elisabeth von Muschwitz († 1695), the heiress of Waltersdorf . His second marriage was to Christiane Elisabeth von Neitschütz (1680–1739).

Carl August Graf von Rex (1701–1768), Electoral Saxon cabinet minister

Carl August von Rex (1701–1768), Electoral Saxon cabinet and conference minister, his son from his second marriage, was also chief steward of Queen Christiane Eberhardine, the wife of August the Strong . Their son Friedrich August II elevated him to the rank of imperial count in 1741 - in his capacity as imperial vicar . Carl August von Rex was married to Johanna Sophia Freiin von Meusebach (1711–1776) since 1729 . They left only one daughter, Johanna Friederika Carolina Countess von Rex (1750-1803), who married Count Peter Friedrich von Hohenthal (1735-1819), electoral privy councilor and envoy to the Reichstag in Regensburg , in 1774 . With her death in 1803 this line of the count expired.

His son from his first marriage, Hans Caspar von Rex (1689–1737), Herr auf Uckro, Paserin, Pickel , Waltersdorf and Sorga , privy councilor of Electoral Saxony and Saxony-Merseburg, and district president of Niederlausitz , married Johanna Sophie von in their first marriage in 1717 Dahm (1698–1734), the last member of this old Lower Lusatian noble family. His second marriage was in 1737 with Auguste Wilhelmine von Bissing († 1743). Johann Caspar Gottlob Graf von Rex, born from his first marriage in 1730, held the office of heir-keeper when Joseph II was elected and crowned Roman king. From his marriage in 1766 with Johanna Elisabeth Wilhelmine von Schönberg (* 1743) from the Pfaffroda house, widowed Baroness von Spörken (died around 1810 as a third married Countess von Hopfgarten), descended from Carl Alexander Graf von Rex (1780–1849). He was the royal Saxon chamberlain and minores praebendati of the cathedral chapter in Naumburg . With his wife Therese von Nostiz from the house of Oppach, he continued the tribe in the line of the count.

Zehista Castle

There were two sons from this marriage, Counts Carl Caspar and Alexander Caspar. Carl Caspar Graf von Rex, lord of Ober-Oertmannsdorf am Queis near Lauban , became a royal Saxon chamberlain and lieutenant . In 1856 he married Margaretha von Metzradt , mistress of Hermsdorf and Zedlitz in the Kingdom of Saxony. Alexander Caspar Graf von Rex, Lord of Zehista near Pirna , became a royal Saxon chamberlain and lieutenant . In 1852 he married Olga von Wöhrmann (1830–1890), the daughter of the entrepreneur Johann Christoph Wöhrmann . Zehista remained in the family's possession from 1820 until the expropriation in 1945.

A member of the Prussian-based line became a captain in the Prussian 1st Battalion of the Life Guard in 1806 and took his leave in 1812 as a lieutenant colonel . Karl August Wilhelm von Rex (1774–1834) acquired the Iron Cross in the Battle of Ligny in 1815 and died as a Prussian major general. Two of his sons also embarked on an officer career. Rudolf Franz Kurt (1817–1892) made it to lieutenant general and Hermann Gustav Clemens (1820–1886) to major general in the Prussian army .

A Countess von Rex and von Rex's family association , donated to Dresden on April 25, 1905 , was re-established on October 15, 1967 as the family association of the Counts and Lords of Rex.

Status surveys

In the course of time, numerous class surveys have come about the sex .

From the Pobles line, Carl August von Rex , on Pobles and Kayna , royal Polish and electoral Saxon real secret council and cabinet minister, received the imperial count as imperial vicar from elector Friedrich August II on December 9, 1741 . On January 29, 1742, he received the notification from the Elector of Saxony.

On October 18, 1764 in Vienna Johann Gottlob Caspar von Rex, on Waltersdorf and Belgershain , electoral Saxon chamberlain and travel marshal , received the imperial count status with the salutation high and well-born . An electoral Saxon recognition took place on March 23, 1765.

Carl Graf von Rex , on Oberörtmannsdorf in Silesia and Zedlitz near Borna in Saxony, royal Saxon chamberlain and major a. D., member of the first chamber of the Estates Assembly of the Kingdom of Saxony , Canon of Meißen and Provost of Bautzen was entered on December 29, 1904 under the number 158 in the royal Saxon nobility book. An entry for his nephew Egon Graf von Rex, on Zehista near Pirna, royal Saxon chamberlain, Rittmeister z. D. and member of the First Chamber Assembly of Estates of the Kingdom of Saxony took place under number 159.

Dammgut Ritterhude

From the Blankenhain line, Gustav von Rex from the House of Rothvorwerk, Prussian lieutenant general z.D. , registered on January 22, 1909 in the royal Saxon nobility register under number 301. His son Gustav Adolf von Rex, a Prussian captain a. D. and married to Erna von Gröning, on Ritterhude near Bremen and their descendants ( Deszendenz ), received on April 26, 1930 in Berlin after a decision of the department for nobility law issues , a nobility law non-objection by decree of the Prussian Ministry of Justice of February 28, 1923 to Berlin approved naming of Rex von Gröning . This branch is still located on the Dammgut Ritterhude today .

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

The tribe coat of arms shows two red roses with golden lugs in gold between three branched green trunks growing from a green three-mountain . The shield image on the helmet with red and gold helmet covers .

Count's coat of arms (1741)

The imperial coat of arms from 1741 shows the trunk shield with three helmets. On the right helmet with red and silver helmet covers the growing left-looking, crowned, gold armored and gold tongued Polish eagle , in the middle the trunk helmet, on the left helmet with red and silver helmet covers a growing gold crowned and gold tongued red leopard . Two gold-armored and gold-tongued red leopards serve as a shield holder .

Count's coat of arms (1764)

The imperial coat of arms from 1764 shows the trunk shield with three helmets with red and gold helmet covers. On the right helmet a gold-crowned and armored, red-tongued eagle, in the middle the trunk helmet, on the left helmet a gold-crowned red leopard. Two forward-looking red leopards serve as a shield holder.

Known family members

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literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Document book of the monastery Pforte 1. Halle 1893. P. 53. No. 53.
  2. ↑ a b New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 8, pp. 485f.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume XI. Volume 122 of the complete series. Pp. 357-359.