Schwalbach (noble family)

The von Schwalbach family is a Rhineland-Hessian noble family from the state of the imperial knighthood . She comes from Schwalbach , today a part of the community Schöffengrund south of Wetzlar. It is to be distinguished from the unrelated family of the Bailiffs von Schwalbach from Schwalbach am Taunus (also: Schwalbach von Niederhofheim, Schwalbach von Boppard), who have three swallows in their coat of arms. The von Schwalbach family is related by marriage to the Rode von Burgschwalbach family on several occasions, but they are not related.

Coat of arms of the Teutonic Order Commander Volprecht von Schwalbach, 1563

Coat of arms of the Schwalbach family after Siebmacher

history

The line begins with an anonymous person around 1240. The first representative known by first name is Ludwig von Schwalbach, Commander of the Teutonic Order in Sachsenhausen around 1275.

The family owned properties in the Taunus and Rheingau and in the Busecker Tal near Gießen. In the Landgravial Wasserburg Gießen , the Reichsburg Friedberg , the Cleeberg Castle and in the Landgravial Marburg Castle , she provided castle teams and had castle seats. The Giessen castle seat has been preserved as a Wallenfels house . The Schwalbachs belonged to the Knight League Society with the Donkey .

coat of arms

Three silver rings in red, placed diagonally on top of each other. Two black and silver buffalo horns over two red buffalo ears with three silver rings as a crest. Helmet cover in red and silver.

Name bearer

• Conrad von Schwalbach († after 1405), 1405 Commander of the Johanniterkommende Tobel
• Girnant von Schwalbach († after 1440) zu Kleberg, 1440 pilgrimage to Jerusalem, author of a "Journey to the Holy Sepulcher"
• Konrad von Schwalbach († 1534), court master in Rhodes in 1495, 1501, 1528 Komtur der Johanniterkommende Tobel, 1512 Großbailli, 1523 mistakenly believed to be dead, argument with Georg Schilling von Cannstatt , retired to Feldkirch until 1525 , also Komtur in Rottweil and Überlingen
• Georg von Schwalbach († 1529), vicar general and provost in the Prince Diocese of Speyer
• Gernand (Bernard; Gerhardus; Gernhandus) von Schwalbach († around 1551), canon in Brussels, enrolled in Heidelberg in 1532, doctorate in 1533, dean of the Comburg knighthood since 1536
• Gernand von Schwalbach (1545–1601), councilor of Mainz and Fulda , bailiff of Königstein
• Adam von Schwalbach (1519–1573), 1567 to 1573 Grand Master / Grand Prior of the Order of St. John, Prince of the Lord of Heitersheim
• Volbert (Volprecht) von Schwalbach († 1602), 1551 admission to the Teutonic Order , 1566 to 1569 Komtur von Heilbronn , since 1566 Landkomtur der Ballei Franken , Komtur zu Ellingen and Nürnberg
• Johann Friedrich von Schwalbach (* 1567/68; † 1622), prince abbot of Fulda 1606–1622
• Bernhard Wilhelm von Schwalbach (around 1575/80; † 1639), Commander of the Teutonic Order in Rothenburg (1607-1609) and Winnenden , from 1616 (elected), confirmed by the Würzburg bishop in 1625 provost of Zella and Neuenberg , from 1619 provost to Holzkirchen , kitchen master in the Fulda monastery, “cousin” of the prince abbot, 1629 escaped to Cologne, 1633 dean of the monastery chapter in Fulda
• Gernand Philipp von Schwalbach (1579–1647), electoral Mainz, prince- abbot of Fulda, prince-bishop of Würzburg and imperial councilor, bailiff of Dieburg
• Johann Melchior von Schwalbach (1581–1635), regimental commander under Gustav II Adolf of Sweden , from 1632 general field warden and commander of the Dresden residence and all fortresses, buried on June 30, 1635 in the Dresden Sophienkirche

literature

• Horst Appuhn (Ed.): Johann Siebmacher's Wappenbuch, 2. verb. Edition, Dortmund, 1989
• Johann Maximilian von Humbracht : The highest ornament of Germany and the excellence of the nobility. Frankfurt, 1707 panels 269–271 digitized version of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
• Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon , Volume 8, Leipzig, 1868, pp. 379-380 online in the Google book search

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernst Heinrich Knetschke: New General German Adelslexicon, 1865, p 379f
2. ↑ Cf. Karl Herquet : On the history of the German tongue of the Order of St. John , Part IV. In: Wochenblatt der Johanniter-Ordens-Balley Brandenburg 17 (1876), pp. 276-277 ( Google Books ).