Knight's Canton of Middle Rhine
The knightly canton of Middle Rhine , also with the addition Wetterau , was one of the three cantons of the imperial knighthood on the Rhine .
The office building in Friedberg Castle , built in 1512, rebuilt in 1705. For a long time the building was the seat of the Middle Rhine Imperial Knighthood, today it is part of the Burggymnasium.
Structure of the knight circles
The free imperial knighthood in south-west Germany was divided into a Rhenish , Franconian and Swabian knight circle , which in turn consisted of different cantons. The knight circle on the Rhine river was divided into the cantons of Upper Rhine , Middle Rhine and Lower Rhine . The knight canton of Middle Rhine also included the Wetterau landscape . For a long time the seat was in the Reichsburg Friedberg there , and the Friedberg burgrave was also director of the knight's canton until the 18th century.
Noble families in the canton of Middle Rhine
The following families belonged to the knight canton of Middle Rhine:
- Imperial Barons von Bartheld, von Andreae, Barons von Heyles and von Bouchenröder as sons-in-law (by Andreae on October 3, 1744 by Emperor Karl VII to the Imperial Baron status and owner of the Bromhof in Eschborn )
- Bellersheim
- Bettendorff
- Boos from Waldeck
- Botzheim
- Barons and Counts of Boineburg , 1662
- Breidbach
- Breidenbach to Breidenstein
- Brendel von Homburg
- Brömser from Rüdesheim
- Books
- Bünau
- Buseck
- Carbene
- Diede zum Fürstenstein
- Dienheim
- Düdelsheim
- Edelsheim
- Eltz
- Forester of Gelnhausen
- Frankenstein
- Free from Dehrn
- Gayling from Altheim
- Greiffenclau
- Günderrode
- Hattstein
- Heusenstamm
- Hilchen from Lorch
- Ingelheim
- Chamberlain of Worms, called Dalberg
- Cauldron of mountains
- Klüppel from Elkerhausen
- Koeth von Wahnscheid
- Scratch from Scharfenstein
- Kronberg
- Landschad von Steinach
- Langeln
- Langwerth from Simmern
- Langenau
- Lerch von Dirmstein
- Leyen
- Löner von Laurenburg
- Löw von Steinfurth
- Mauchenheim
- Merlau
- Metternich
- Nordeck to Rabenau
- Oeynhausen
- Praunheim
- Quadt : House Buschfeld
- Raitz from Frentz
- Rau von Holzhausen
- Reifenberg
- Reyprecht von Büdingen
- Knight of Groenesteyn
- Rolshausen
- Rosenbach
- Return
- Rudigheim
- Rogues of mountains
- Schlitz called by Görtz
- Schönborn
- Contactor from Holzhausen
- Schwalbach
- Selbold
- Woodpecker from Bubenheim
- Stone to Nassau
- Stockheim
- Trohe
- Orphan of Fauerbach
- Waldbott from Bassenheim
- Walderdorff
- Weitolshausen called Schrautenbach
See also
- List of Swabian noble families
- Old Hessen knighthood
- Company with the donkey
- List of Friedberg Burgmann families
literature
- Georg Schmidt : Imperial Knightships. In: Knights, Counts and Princes - secular dominions in the Hessian area approx. 900-1806. Marburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-942225-17-5 (= Handbook of Hessian History 3 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 63), pp. 348–375, esp. Pp. 369–372.
Web links
- Finding aid Mittelrheinische Reichsritterschaft Landesarchiv NRW
- Captain of the knight canton from the house of Greiffenclau-Vollraths
- Mention of the canton in the Chronicle of Albstadt
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Ernst Demandt : History of the State of Hesse. Kassel and Basel, 1972, p. 471.
- ^ Georg Schmidt: Imperial Knighthoods. In: Knights, Counts and Princes - secular dominions in the Hessian area approx. 900-1806. Marburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-942225-17-5 (= Handbook of Hessian History 3 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 63), pp. 348–375, esp. Pp. 355ff. Tab. 1.
- ↑ see Gerhard Raiss: The Bromhof in Eschborn and its noble owners
- ↑ recorded at the knights' convention from February 20 to March 2, 1662 at Friedberg Castle , in Archives for Hessian History and Archeology , Volume 8 (1854–1856), Historischer Verein für Hessen , Darmstadt 1856, p. 36; Archives of the State Archives Darmstadt
- ↑ http://www.schloss-buschfeld.de/reichsritterschaft.php