Knight's canton of Rhön-Werra

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Codex diplomaticus equestris cum continuatione, or Reichs-Ritter-Archiv, 1721
Of the Holy Roman Empire without knight = Freyer knight creates the six place in Francken, 1720
Imperial chivalrous Franconian canton calendar, Hornberg Castle archive . Engraving, 167 × 85 cm

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:

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ^ Gerhard Pfeiffer: Studies on the history of the Frankish imperial knighthood; Reprint from: Yearbook for Franconian State Research, Volume 22, 1962, p. 198.