Saalfeld (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Salfeld I.
Coat of arms of those of Salfeld II.

The lords of Saalfeld / Salveldt were a medieval Thuringian knights - and Ministerialengeschlecht , which is headquartered in Clingen had, and beyond (u a in.. Westgreußen ) was well off.

history

The origin of this noble family is shrouded in darkness, and nothing specific is known about the place of origin of the family. It is possible that the cradle of the family was in the village of Salfeld near Mühlhausen in Thuringia. However, there is no documentary evidence of this. In the relevant literature, only very brief notes are given about the family, which with few exceptions are almost identical.

Hellbach's nobility lexicon lists:

“Saalfeld, Salfeld, Salevelt, an old Thuringian and especially a Schwarzburg noble family whose goods were in Clingen and Westgreußen. In 1575 Friedrich von Salveld appears in documents. "

In the great universal encyclopedia of the nobles and the most famous generations in the world, Vol. XXXIII, published by Johann Heinrich Zedler Leipzig and Halle in 1742, as well as in the encyclopedia of Johann Friedrich Gauhe , the family is only briefly reported as follows:

"Salveld, Saalfeld a noble family in Thuringia, where their old headquarters in Klingen is located in the Schwarzburg region."

In: Johann Siebmacher , large general book of coat of arms, edited by George Adalbert von Mülverstedt - dead aristocracy of the province of Saxony - the von Salfeld family is treated in more detail, as follows:

The genealogy of the, or both sexes of this name, because there are two different coats of arms, which point to more than one sex of this name, is still to be researched and determined more closely. It is certain that there was an old knightly family from Saalfeld I in the Schwarzburgischen, where knight seats belonged to blades in West Greussia and also in Greußen itself. It remains to be investigated whether the following bearers of this name all belong to this family or not, including some of the ones bearing the Saalfeld II coat of arms.

Adolf von Saalfeld owned Westerengel in the Weissensee office in 1586, he had a brother Christoph, who is named 1555 and is probably not identical with Christoph von Salfeld on Ober Schmon, who bought a manor in Odersleben (Schwarzburgisches Fief) in 1612 and several cousins ​​were alive at the time had, some of which sat on blades and Rembda.

The von Saalfeld family was related by marriage to the Thuringian families von der Sachsen, von Ziegler, von Tennstedt, and von Milwitz.

coat of arms

Saalfeld I: The shield is divided by black and silver, with two above a lily with a different tincture below . On the crowned helmet with black and silver helmet covers , a black and a silver lily, each topped with an ostrich feather of a mistaken color.

Saalfeld II: The shield shows a unicorn growing out of waves . The crowned helmet with a growing unicorn. The timing is unknown.

seal

The oldest few, still existing seals show either a shield with three lilies 1: 2 or the bucket helmet with two lilies. This is how it was sealed: Hannes de Salveld the elder in a document dated May 10, 1363 (general archive in Weimar, reg. Pag. 621). The 2.5 centimeter seal is made of gray-green wax, contains a bucket helmet with a blanket on an awakened ground, above it a lily on each side and with the inscription: Hannis de Salve. It is attached to the certificate with a strip of parchment. The seal is broken and crumbled.

Heinrich von Salveld sealed a certificate from November 19, 1373 in the university library, original parchment no.18. The well-preserved small seal hangs on the certificate by means of a strip of parchment and consists of olive-colored wax, with the inscription of the exhibitor and contains 3 lilies, 2 above , of which the left is a little pressed and 1 below.

Johann Georg von Salveld seals an original paper document in the State Archives in Weimar 1620 (Reg. Fol. 349 No. 22) Ring or seal imprint on a wafer or wax covered with paper . Shield: 3 lilies 1: 2, 2 feathers nodding sideways.

A certificate in the Magdeburg State Archives, Department Erfurt XXIV from February 27, 1407, original parchment with a well-preserved seal is sealed by Hans von Salveld, a citizen of Erfurt. It is unknown whether the lily coat of arms or the anchor coat of arms comes into question. In the latter case, Hans von Salveld is likely to be the exhibitor at the Bülze.

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