Schrötter (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Schrötter family

According to the Gotha genealogical paperback, the Schrötter family comes from the Swabian-Swiss knighthood. One descendant received the Polish knighthood on May 26, 1685, from March 13, 1700 the title of baron and on January 27, 1716 the Prussian nobility confirmation. The family was divided into the Maulen and Wohnsdorf lines . The Schrötter-Stutterheim line was also created in 1814 through adoption.

A noble family von Schrötter came into being through the ennoblement of Georg Gotthilf Wilhelm von Schroetter (1766–1847) on October 15, 1840. The Schrötter von Kristelli family came from Austria , their founder was the Olomouc mayor Karl Kristelli for the defense of Olomouc 1758 received the nobility.

coat of arms

The coat of arms is squared and has a red central shield adorned with a royal crown, in which a golden letter “L” (emperor Leopold I's name ) is surrounded by a green laurel wreath. Fields 1 and 4 in gold are a black eagle half breaking out of the dividing line, which with its visible claw holds a silver-tipped and feathered red arrow tilted upwards and slightly outwards. 2 and 3 in blue, two silver lilies grow outward on their stems, inclined outwards on a green three-hill. Two crowned helmets; the first with black and gold covers carries an outstretched and crowned black eagle standing on its right foot, which holds up a bare sword with its left claw. A knight in armor with a girdled sword and a raw helmet plume grows half out of the second helmet with its blue and silver blankets. He puts his left hand in his side and holds the green laurel wreath with the letter "L" in front of him with his right.

history

According to Gothaisches genealogical pocket book , the old line belonged to the Swabian and Swiss knighthood as early as 1203. According to Weckmüller's chronicle, Eberhard von Schrötter was bishop of Basel and Rudolf von Schrötter was bailiff of Schaffhausen. In his eulogies, Peter Gebauer praises von Schrötter, who appears in the thirteenth century as custodian at Costnitz Cathedral . Fröbenius tells that Bernhard von Schrötter won first prize at the tournament of Emperor Otto IV. In Augsburg . Bernhard's brother Ulrich von Schrötter fell under the flags of Austria in the bloody battle near Laupen .

The bailiff of the Waldstätten Otto von Schrötter had four sons:

  • Christoph, military leader in the Kingdom of Hungary who was pierced by an arrow in the war against the Turks
  • Ernst, Abbot of Einsiedeln Monastery
  • Immanuel, called the right hand of the brave Kaspar von Frundsberg and rewarded for his bravery in the battle of Pavia with the guard of the captured French king Franz I , later Immanuel became president of the council of Breisach and governor of Alsace . Of his two sons Karl and Philipp, who received enfeoffs in Flanders, the former initially served at sea under Johann von Oesterreich against the Turks, then he commanded one of the largest warships in the Spanish Armada of Philip II. He was, however, with the Spanish admiral Don Peter de Valdez captured by Admiral Drake and taken to London in chains, where he succumbed to the wounds he had suffered. His brother Philip served under the most famous generals of the time, namely under the Duke of Alba , under Johann von Oesterreich and under Alexander Farnese , Duke of Parma. In the Battle of Cambray (1582) he died a heroic death as a colonel in an Austrian cuirassier regiment. Hugo Grotius commemorates him with distinction in the history of the Netherlands. The body of Philip was buried in the Church of the Blessed Virgin at Cambray, where the tomb was still to be seen in the 19th century, surrounded by many standards.

He had an only son Justus († 1664), a merchant in Königsberg. He was the father of Johannes von Schrötter (1646-1726), who received the indigenous Polish knighthood from the King of Poland on May 26, 1685 as a reward for his loyal service with the approval of the estates . Knight Johannes became Vice Treasurer of Litthauen, Castellan of Liefland and General Postmaster. To the relief of Vienna he brought the emperor there at his own expense recruited dragoons against the Turks. On March 13, 1700, Emperor Leopold I elevated him to the hereditary status of magnates and barons of the Kingdom of Hungary and all other Austrian kingdoms and hereditary countries with the title Magnificus . This first Freiherr von Schrötter was the master of Maulen, Wohnsdorf, Inglitten, Althoff and Gedweiden. From his marriage to Henriette Amalie von Venediger , he left behind four sons, namely Heinrich Christoph in 1730, who founded the Maulen majorat near Königsberg and Friedrich Wilhelm (* March 24, 1711) married to Helena Barbara von der Groeben (1773) from the Beslack family of the Majorate residential village in East Prussia called Heidenburg Capostete . They are the parents of the reformer Friedrich Leopold von Schrötter (1743–1815). Siegmar von Schrötter (1852–1923) and later his son Siegfried (1895–1974) dedicated themselves to breeding Trakehner.

Known family members

Residential village

Mouths

  • Siegmar von Schrötter (1852–1923), member of the Prussian manor house
    • Siegfried von Schrötter (1895–1974), Trakehner breeder

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1917. Eleventh year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1916, p. 787 ff.
  2. ↑ does not appear in the list of the bishops of Basel
  3. ^ Francis Lancelott, The Queens of England and Their Times , Volume 2, 614