Knight's canton of Rhön-Werra
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A community of knightly noble families in the Rhön and on the Werra in what is now Lower Franconia , South Thuringia , East Hesse and Upper Franconia , which had risen to the ministerial level as servants of various imperial princes and the feudal lordship over numerous towns and estates since the high Middle Ages is referred to as the knight canton Rhön-Werra held around Rhön and Werra and neighboring areas.
history
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 Rhön-Werra belonged to the Franconian knight circle and had its office in Schweinfurt .
The knights had been imperial since 1656 and until the mediatization of the knighthood or the regional principalities at the beginning of the 19th century. The knight canton of Rhön-Werra was dissolved in 1806.
Noble families in the canton of Rhön-Werra
The following noble families belonged to the knightly canton of Rhön-Werra until 1806:
- Bastheim 1520, 1529
- Berg 1520, 1529
- Barons from Bibra to Adelsdorf , Bibra , Gleicherwiesen , Höchheim , Irmelshausen , Mühlfeld, and Schnabelwaid-Weisendorf 1520, 1529
- Brende at Salzburg Castle 1520
- Buttlar 1520, 1529
- Diemar 1520, 1529
- Ebersberg 1520, 1529
- Eberstein 1529
- Erthal 1520, 1529
- Forester von Lebenhan at Salzburg Castle 1520, 1529
- Fox 1520
- Fuchsstadt 1529
- Lords of Gebsattel on Sondheim and Lebenhan
- Gnottstadt 1520, 1529
- Grumbach 1520, 1529
- Haberkorn 1520, 1529
- Hahnsberg 1520, 1529
- Helbe 1520
- Herbilstadt 1520, 1529
- Hessler 1520
- Hutten 1520, 1529
- Von der Kere 1520, 1529
- Masbach 1520, 1529
- Spleen 1520, 1529
- Lords of Munster on Niederwehren 1520, 1529
- Scar 1529
- Reinstein 1529
- Rossdorf 1520
- February 1529
- Russworm
- Sant 1529
- Schaumberg 1529
- Schenk von Roßberg 1520, 1529
- Schleten 1520, 1529
- Slot 1529
- Snow mountain 1529
- Schott von Schottenstein 1520
- Schwegerer 1520, 1529
- Speßhardt 1520
- Stone 1520, 1529
- Steinau 1520, 1529
- Stiebar 1520
- Barons von und zu der Tann (Von der Thann) on Ostheim 1520, 1529
- Lords from and to Thungern auf Zeitlofs 1520, 1529
- Tottenheim 1520
- Truchseß von Wetzhausen 1520, 1529
- Voit von Rieneck 1520, 1529
- Voit of Salzburg 1520, 1529
- Wechmar 1520, 1529
- Wenckheim 1529
- Wiesenfeld 1520, 1529
- Wolf von Karsbach 1520
- Sable 1529
- Zollner von Birkenfeld 1520, 1529
- Addition 1520
The following families were added to the list of 1529 by hand: Auerochs , Heßberg, Markschalk von Ostheim, Roßdorf, Rußwurm and Spechshart.
Knight captains
As knight captains have been handed down:
- 1496 Ditz von Thüngen († 1502)
- 1517 Moritz Marschalk
- 1518 Hein von Wechmar
- 1519 New Year's Eve from Schaumberg
- 1520 Engelhard von Münster
- 1521 Philipp von Masbach
- 1562 Veit Ulrich von Schaumburg
- 1571 still 1576 Theobald Julius von Thüngen (res.)
- 1577 Hans von Steinau (res)
- 1582 Martin von der Tann
- 1593 Konrad von Grumbach (res)
- 1594 Kaspar von Stein (au)
- 1603 Bernhard von Bibra (res.)
- 1613 Konrad von der Tann (res.)
- 1617 George of Bibra
- 1625 Wolf Adam von Steinau († 1652)
- 1633 Wilhelm Friedrich von Völkershausen
- 1652 Johann Georg von Rotenhan
- 1662 Ott Hermann von der Tann († 1684)
- 1671 Georg Christoph von Bibra († 1687)
- 1680 Otto Hermann von der Tann
- 1687 Johann Friedrich von Thüngen (res.)
- 1689 Johann Riedesel zu Eisenbach († 1691)
- 1691 Karl Ludwig von Rußwurm († 1715)
- 1694 Philipp Friedrich von Görtz († 1695)
- 1695 Heinrich von der Tann († 1714)
- 1701 Johann Christoph von Ebersbach gt. Weyhers († 1730 or 1733)
- 1730 Adam Christoph von Trümbach († 1747?)
- 1747 Philipp Christoph Dietrich von Thüngen († 1780)
- 1780 Franz Philipp Bonifaz von Gebsattel († 1792)
- 1792 Ludwig Karl von Bibra († 1795)
- 1796 Friedrich von der Tann
literature
- Johann Gottfried Biedermann : genealogy The Reich Frey immediate knighthood country to Franken praiseworthy local Rhon and Werra ... . Bayreuth 1749. Digitized at Munich digitization center
- List of the canton Rhön / Werra from 1520, StAM GHA II. No. 226, fol 3r - 5v. and from 1529, StAM GHA II. No. 211 aE printed in:
Cord Ulrichs: Vom Lehnshof zur Reichsritterschaft - structures of the Franconian lower nobility at the transition from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07109-1 , pp. 211/212. - Gottfried Rehm: Rhön knights on the way to independence at: rhoenline
Web links
- Martin Stingl: Imperial Knighthood, Canton Rhön and Werra . In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Heiler : The Turkish tax register of the prince abbey of Fulda from 1605 , ( publication of the Fuldaer Geschichtsverein in the Fuldaer Geschichtsbl Blätter ; No. 64), Fulda, Parzeller-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-7900-0362-X , p. 17
- ^ Gerhard Pfeiffer: Studies on the history of the Frankish imperial knighthood; Reprint from: Yearbook for Franconian State Research, Volume 22, 1962, p. 198.