Knight's Canton of Baunach
The knightly canton of Baunach is a community of knightly aristocratic families in the Haßbergen who had risen to the ministry since the high Middle Ages as servants of the Staufer or the principalities of Bamberg and Würzburg and until the knighthood and regional principalities were mediated at the beginning of the 19th century Held feudal lordship over numerous villages and estates in the Haßbergen and adjacent areas. With the Holy Roman Empire, the knightly canton of Baunach was also dissolved in 1806.
Structure of the knight circles
Since the 16th century, the free imperial knighthood in Germany was divided into a Rhenish , a Franconian and a Swabian knight circle, which in turn consisted of different cantons. The knight canton Baunach belonged to the Franconian knight circle and had its office in Baunach .
Noble families in the canton of Baunach
The following noble families belonged to the knightly canton of Baunach until 1806 (see also: List of Franconian knight families ):
- Barons of Bibra on Brennhausen and Gemünda
- Barons von Greifenclau zu Vollraths on Gereuth
- Barons von Guttenberg on Kirchlauter
- Lords of Fulbach
- Lords of Hutten on Franckenberg
- Barons von Koenitz in Untersiemau
- Lords of Lichtenstein on Lahm ( Heilgersdorf )
- Barons von Rotenhan on Rentweinsdorf and Ebelsbach
- Barons von Rotenhan on Merzbach
- Barons von Rotenhan on Eyrichshof and Fischbach
- Barons from Stein zu Altenstein zu Pfaffendorf
- Barons Truchseß von Wetzhausen on the Bettenburg and Bundorf
- Barons Truchseß von Wetzhausen zu Wetzhausen
Knight captains
As knight captains have been handed down:
- 1496 Hans von Stein zu Altenstein
- 1562, 1568 Veit von Lichtenstein zu Geisberg
- 1571 Hans von Stein (resigned)
- 1582 Georg Ludwig von Hutten (res.)
- 1590 Veit von Lichtenstein (res.)
- 1592 Wilhelm von Rotenhan
- 1599 Ditz Truchsess (res.)
- 1604 Hans Georg von Rotenhan (res. 1608, † 1613)
- 1609 Hans Sebastian von Rotenhan (res. 1628, † 1631)
- 1628–1637 Adam Hermann von Rotenhan
- 1641–1648 Hans Christoph Truchsess
- 1649 Veit Ulrich Truchsess († 1657)
- 1652 Johann Georg von Rotenhan
- 1658–1667 Wilhelm Heinrich Truchsess
- 1668 Eitel Heinrich Fuchs von Bimbach
- 1675–1678 Hans Georg von Rotenhan (res. 1703; † 1709)
- 1679–1703 Joachim Ernst Truchsess von Wetzhausen († 1709)
- 1703–1710 Veit Heinrich Truchsess von Wetzhausen
- 1710–1746 Johann Georg von Rotenhan
- 1746 Adam Heinrich Gottlieb von Lichtenstein († 1746)
- 1747 Ernst Ludwig von Stein zu Altenstein
- 1748–1776 Johann Friedrich von Rotenhan
- 1776–1783 Johann Philipp von Hutten
- 1783–1790 Friedrich Karl von Lichtenstein
- 1790–1806 Christoph Albrecht von Seckendorff
literature
- Johann Gottfried Biedermann : Gender register of the Reichs-Frey immediate knighthood Landes zu Francken, praiseworthy place Baunach . Bayreuth: Dietzel 1747 Google digitized version
- Johann Octavian Salver : Matriculation and coat of arms book of the flourishing, extinct and withdrawn high knight members of an immediate free realm knighthood Landes zu Franken Löbl. Location on the Baunach . Wurzburg 1785
- Paul Sörgel: The knight canton on the Baunach in the Haßbergen . Hofheim i.Ufr., 1992
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Pfeiffer: Studies on the history of the Frankish imperial knighthood; Reprint from: Yearbook for Franconian State Research, Volume 22, 1962, p. 196.
Web links
- Klaus Rupprecht: Imperial Knighthood, Canton Baunach. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria . October 26, 2015, accessed November 21, 2018 .