Rothenburg (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Rothenburg

Rothenburg , also Rottenburg or Rotenburg, is the name of a Silesian nobility family .

There are various unrelated medieval families of the same name, such as the Counts of Rothenburg in Franconia, who provided numerous bishops, or the Hohenstaufen Friedrich IV. Count of Rothenburg . Also in Thuringia also the Count of Rothenburg named after its place of Rothenburg .

Under the name Rottenburg , a very influential family, which died a little later, appeared in Tyrol in the 14th century , to which Heinrich VI. von Rottenburg († approx. 1412) belonged. Still Zedlitz can derive from this Tyrolean family, which now, however, no longer corresponds to the state of research Silesian lords and earls of Rothenburg.

Also Rottenburg called himself a Gdansk before 1671 Cologne merchant family that flourished in the 19th century and the British General Franz Baron von Rottenburg (1757-1832) and the Prussian jurist and diplomat Franz Johannes von Rottenburg belonged (1845-1907).

history

The family has its ancestral home in Rothenburg near Grünberg and first appeared in a document with Christianus de Rotenburg and his sons in 1264.

The continuous line of tribe A begins with the brothers Heinrich von Rothenburg († after 1412), Captain von Sorau , Lord of Drentkau and Polish Nettkau and Nickel von Rothenburg († after 1399), Lord of Ottendorf. From the 1st line of this tribe, Nikolaus Friedrich von Rothenburg (1646-1716), lord of Beutnitz in Silesia, and Burgaltdorf in Lorraine and Masmünster in Alsace as Comte de Rottembourg in 1685 was raised to the French count. He was married to Anna Johanna von Rosen (1662–1727). Although his son Konrad Alexander Comte de Rottembourg (1684–1735) was able to expand the inherited property in France, this direct first line of the count expired. By inheritance, however, the French title came to the Prussian Lieutenant General Friedrich Rudolf von Rothenburg (1710–1751) from the 2nd line. Since he had no male descendants either, this count's house went out. Alexander Rudolf von Rothenburg (1677–1758), the father of the above lieutenant general, was raised to the Prussian count on April 24, 1736. However, his grandson of the same name (1729–1791) went bankrupt in 1786. His son was married to a Countess von Hertzberg , but the marriage remained childless. On June 24, 1752, Frederick the Great recognized the succession of tribe B , but in 1788 Duke Peter von Kurland , who already owned the neighboring Sagan , acquired control of Rothenburg and Nettkow. His daughter Pauline donated the Rothenburg Castle and the surrounding estates as a dowry to the Hohenzollern family . The descendants of the morganatic marriage of their son, Prince Konstantin von Hohenzollern-Hechingen , therefore also bore the name Rothenburg via a diploma on the Prussian count of April 4, 1866 .

The line of tribe B of the family begins around 1600 with Sebastian von Rothenburg, Herr auf Weißag . He was married to Margarete von Knobelsdorff . This tribe also divided into two lines. The first line was founded by Siegmund Adrian von Rothenburg (1745–1797), Lord of Klemzig and Harte near Sternberg . His son Karl Wilhelm Sigismund von Rottenburg (1777–1837) was a royal Prussian lieutenant general and temporarily commandant of Minden and Wesel . With the first grandson and the lieutenant general nephew, the royal Prussian lieutenant colonel Eduard Alexander von Rothenburg (1825-1880), this line became extinct. The 2nd line, founded by the royal Prussian staff captain Friedrich Gottlieb von Rothenburg (1757–1811), however, continues to flourish.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows in the split shield on the right in red three silver oblique left bars, on the left in silver a crowned red lion. On the helmet with red and silver covers, two natural mill wheels each with four alternating red and silver ostrich feathers.

Relatives

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Counts of Comburg [1]
  2. ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis . II. I, 84
  3. ↑ Hans Gerlach: The ancestors of Viktor von Poser and Groß Nädlitz. Freiburg im Breisgau, 1954/56, p. 529
  4. ↑ How the Hohenzollern-Hechinger came to the Rothenburg. Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rubricastellanus.de
  5. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 4, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632799 , p. 423, no. 1373.

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