Forging (noble family)

Forging is one of the Oberlausitz derived noble family , whose trunk series with Magister Friedrich Schmid († 1683) from Seidenberg starts, mentioned in documents in 1650, pastor diving in Leipzig .

Nobility rise

Imperial nobility on May 13, 1707 in Vienna as "von Schmieden" with a confirmation of the coat of arms for Johann Friedrich Schmid , royal Prussian and margravial Brandenburg-Bayreuth court , judicial and secret war councilor , as well as for his sister Johanna Regina Schmid , married von Behringer .
Entry in the Saxon nobility register on March 6, 1925 under no. 573 for the retired royal Saxon lieutenant general . D. August von Schmieden .

from 1707: Square and topped with a crowned golden heart shield , in it a black eagle, 1 in blue a silver armored arm, 2 in gold three (1, 2) blue balls, 3 in gold three (2, 1) blue lilies, 4 in Blue a gold bordered red paw cross . Three (blue, silver, black) ostrich feathers on the helmet with black and blue blankets on the right and blue and gold on the left .
from around 1740: Divided by a red bar, above in gold a natural raven with a gold ring in the raised right claw, below in blue three (2, 1) silver lilies. On the helmet with blue-silver blankets on the right and red-silver blankets on the left, three (blue, silver, red) ostrich feathers.

Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XII, Page 550, Volume 125 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2001, ISBN 3-7980-0825-6
Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch , Adelige Häuser B (1928), page 538f., Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1928
Werner von Schmieden: About the origins of our family , Möckmühl 1963
Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon , Volume 1, S.254f