Serainchamps

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Ancestral coat of arms of the Serainchamps family
Defense tower of Brabant Castle

Serainchamps is the name of a noble family from Lorraine , from which a branch in the Kingdom of Bohemia received the count and called themselves von Schönfeld .

history

Proof of nobility in Lorraine in 1539 shows that the family originally came from the village of Serinchamps in what is now the Belgian province of Namur (around 10 km north of the small town of Rochefort (Belgium) ). The family's previously verifiable estates, however, were mainly west of Thionville in Lorraine, such as Bettainvillers , Lommerange , Trieux or Tucquegnieux , where the small Brabant Castle, which they built in the mid-16th century and of which a defensive tower has been preserved, was. The tribe series begins around 1450 with Ferry de Serainchamps married to Hélène de Ficquelmont. Louis de Serainchamps, Lord of Brabant and Trieux, held the title of Imperial Baron (French Baron du Saint-Empire ) as colonel . The noble family died out with the death of Marguerite de Serainchamps, Baroness of Brabant, on September 6, 1785, who had previously transferred the name and coat of arms to her nephew Charles Alexander Joseph Graf von Gourcy.

Charles Cellier († January 4, 1789 in Metz ), a cavalry captain in the bodyguard of the French king and son-in-law of Louis de Serainchamps, received authorization to use the name and coat of arms of Baron de Serainchamps on April 9, 1759 . Since September 4, 1781 he was married to Catherine de Trouvé de Sève in second marriage. Their son Charles Marie Nicolas Baron de Serainchamps, born around 1782 in Metz, joined the Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 45 in Bayreuth in 1796 as a private corporal , where he took the name of Serainchamp . As a second lieutenant he was wounded at Jena in 1806 and joined the Braunschweig Black Corps in 1809 , where he called himself Marquis de Serainchamps and later Count von Schönfeld . He took part in the Wars of Liberation , retired in 1830 as a major in the Braunschweig Army and died on September 4, 1833 in Bayreuth. His wife, Countess Luise von Schönfeld, née von Wissel, died without descendants on December 16, 1849.

Bohemian branch

The count's diploma issued in 1678 describes the career of the founder of the Bohemian branch. After that, Nikolaus de Serainchamps entered the war service early on. He fought in the Netherlands, Italy, took part in a sea attack against the city of Sousse in what is now Tunisia, joined the Bavarian army at the beginning of the Thirty Years War and returned to his home country of Lorraine. In the 1630s he was mostly in the service of the emperor, whom he saved from an intrigue by the Elector of Trier , whereupon he accepted him on March 2, 1639 into the Bohemian gentry and on December 5, 1640 conferred the Bohemian incolate with the right to be in Bohemia to acquire noble goods. Afterwards appointed general commissioner of the Hatzfeld army, in 1648 he earned special services in the defense of Prague's old town against the Swedes, for which he later became reformation commissioner , Bohemian chamber councilor and chief mint master . Finally, on August 31, 1648, he received the hereditary baron status with the title of Schönfeld . An additional imperial goods endowment , however, is unlikely. Because he received all the Bohemian possessions ascribed to Nikolaus de Serainchamps, Baron von Schönfeld, through his second wife, Jossine Rosina van den Heede. Who had previously inherited everything from her late first husband, Colonel François Emmanuel Baron de Courières. After a stone slab at the church of Schönwald , he ultimately bore the title of Mr. Seigneur ] on Lommerange and Saulny [in Lorraine] as well as Schönwald, Setsch and Netluk . Nikolaus de Serainchamps was buried with his wife Jossine in the Church of Our Lady of the Snow in Prague. Their children Josef Rudolf, Rudolf Wenzel and Marie Polyxena were raised to the rank of imperial count on December 16, 1678 .

There are contradicting information about the female ancestors of Nicolaus de Serainchamps. In German-language literature, the wives of the de Serainchamps come from the noble families de Hault , de Heumont , de Mouzay and de la Vaulx . This information probably goes back to a family tree certified by the Prague notary Wenzel Mauritius Salomon von Frydberg on June 6, 1665. The persons named in it cannot be identified in the relevant French-speaking aristocratic literature, but the epitaph of Anne de Serainchamp de Sconfeld († April 29, 1686) was located in the Sint-Donaaskathedraal in Bruges , on which the coats of arms of the wives are also located from the noble families de Hault , de Mouzay , de la Vaulx and de Marcy found. In Gotha, Germany, the deceased is listed as the daughter of Nikolaus de Serainchamps and lady-in-waiting of the Polish Queen Maria Gonzaga. While she describes the Belgian nobility lexicon as a member of another German line of the Serainchamps family and assigns the wives of the de Serainchamps to the aristocratic families de Moutan , de Betainvillers , d 'Astenois and d' Astenois .

This branch of the family has no genealogical connection to the Bohemian noble family Schönfeld or the Seydlitz von Schönfeld family .

Overview of the trunk line

  • Nikolaus de Serainchamps, born April 6, 1588 in Brabant near Tucquegnieux in Lorraine, † January 12, 1663 in Prague, ⚭ INN, ⚭ II. Probably July 6, 1638 in Prague Jossine Rosina van den Heede, † June 1, 1666 in Prague , Daughter of François van den Heede, Vice Count of Vyve-St. Eloi, and the Anna Breydel (Jossine in ⚭ I. 1626 François Emmanuel Baron de Courières).
  1. Josef Rudolf Graf von Schönfeld, Imperial Chamberlain and Reichshofrat, † 1704 in Vienna, unmarried and without descendants.
  2. Ludmilla Freiin von Schönfeld, † March 25, 1676 in Prague, ⚭ May 4, 1667 in Mariaschein Johann Max Georg Graf von Clary and Aldringen , Bohemian chamber and feudal court assessor.
  3. Marie Polyxena Anna Countess von Schönfeld, * 1641, † December 14, 1697 in Prague, ⚭ April 5, 1663 Albrecht Maximilian Count von Desfours , imperial sergeant-general.
  4. Anna Franziska Countess von Schönfeld, ⚭ Wilhelm Adolf Freiherr Harant von Pollschitz and Weseritz , Rittmeister in the imperial cuirassier regiment Harant.
  5. Rudolf Wenzel Graf von Schönfeld, * around 1645, † August 5, 1684 in Setsch, district chief of the Chrudim district , Bohemian Oberstjägermeister and imperial chamber councilor, ⚭ July 5, 1666 Countess Viktoria Magdalena von Waldstein, daughter of Johann Christoph Graf von Waldstein auf Arnau and der Ludmilla Kuneš from Lukavec.
    1. Maria Anna Viktoria Countess von Schönfeld, * July 19, 1667 in Prague, † February 15, 1727 in Prague, ⚭ January 30, 1689 in Alt-Bunzlau , Franz Ignaz Count Wratislaw von Mitrowitz , their sons Johann Josef (* 1688) and Franz Karl (* 1696) received confirmation of his name as Count Wratislaw von Mitrowitz and Schönfeld on March 25, 1741 .
    2. Josef Franz Karl Graf von Schönfeld, * September 4, 1668 in Prague, † February 18, 1737 in Zageszicz / Zaječitz , Bohemian Vice Landhunter , ⚭ July 16, 1725 in Habry, Katharina Ludmilla Countess Michna von Waitzenau, daughter of Wilhelm Wenzel Freiherr Michna von Waitzenau and the Elisabeth Polyxena Enis von Atter and Iveagh.
      1. Joseph, * 1726, † 1733.
      2. Maria Katharina, born November 12, 1728, † June 4, 1753, ⚭ November 14, 1746 in Vienna, Prince Johann Adam von Auersperg , Tyrolean chief treasurer and hereditary marshal.
      3. Daughter, * 1730, † 1735.

In 1737 the Bohemian-Counts branch of the de Serainchamps family in the male line and in 1753 ultimately also in the female line expired.

coat of arms

  • Family coat of arms: In silver, a diagonal red bar with three golden roses along it. Helmet: in front of three (red-gold-red) ostrich feathers a silver brackish head with a gold collar. Ceilings: red-silver.
  • Baron coat of arms: As before, with a second helmet: with cock feathers, blankets: red-silver.
  • Count's coat of arms: with a golden heart shield, in this a silver brackish head with a red, gold-framed and ringed collar. 1. u. 4. In silver, a left, red bar with three golden roses along it. 2. u. 3. in gold a double-tailed, right-facing, red lion. Three crowned helmets: II. The Roman-German imperial eagle without sword and apple, covers: black and gold. III. three (red-gold-red) ostrich feathers, blankets: red-gold. I: three (red-gold-red) ostrich feathers, covered with the brackish head, blankets: red-gold.

literature

  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Gräfliche Häuser . tape 44 . Gotha 1871, p. 990-992 ( google.de ).
  • Isidore Baron de Stein d'Altenstein (Ed.): Annuaire de la Noblesse de Belgique . tape 16 . Brussels 1862, p. 168-181 ( google.de ).
  • Carl Jahnel: From the Ore Mountains . In: Communications from the North Bohemian Excursion Club . tape 23 , no. 2 . Bohm. Leipa 1900, p. 113-146 ( digitalniknihovna.cz ).
  • Katrin Keller and Alessandro Catalano (eds.): The diaries and diaries of Cardinal Ernst Adalbert von Harrach . tape 1 . Vienna 2010 ( google.de ).

Web links

Commons : Serainchamps family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gotha, p. 991 f. Bulletin de la Sociéte d'archéologie et d'histroire de la Moselle . tape 7 . Metz 1864, p. 20 ( google.de ). Annuaire de la Société d'histoire et d'archéologie de la Lorraine . tape  39 . Metz 1930, 3445. Gustave Chaix d'Est-Ange: Dictionnaire des familles françaises anciennes ou notables à la fin du XIXe siècle . tape 9 . Évreux 1910, p. 123 ( archive.org ). Gustav von Kortzfleisch: The Black Corps 1809 and the Anglo-Braunschweig Infantry Regiment until 1814 . In: History of the Ducal Braunschweig Infantry Regiment and its regular troops 1809-1867 . tape 1 . Braunschweig 1896, p. 352 ( tu-braunschweig.de [PDF]).
  2. ^ Text published in: Anatole Durand: Les Bords de l'Orne . In: Mémoires de la Société d'Archéologie et d'Histoire de la Moselle . tape 6 . Metz 1864, p. 119–164 , here 135-139 (French, google.de ). Jan Županič: Nobilitační listiny pro obránce Pražských měst roku 1648 . Prague 2001, p. 216-219 (Czech). See also the German summary: Jahnel, p. 142.
  3. ↑ Allegedly a Josef Rudolf Freiherr von Schönfeld was the owner of Schönwald and Peterswald from 1633 and would have had from Emperor Ferdinand III. the goods Pröditz, Groß and Klein Kahn received as a gift (Johann Gottfried Sommer: The Kingdom of Böhmen . Volume 1 . Prague 1833, p. 222 ( google.de ). , repeated again by Hermann Hallwich : The rule of Türmitz . tape 1 . Prague 1863, p. 15 ( google.de ). ). However, Sommer's statements by Jahnel (p. 141) are called manifold erroneous notes .
  4. ↑ Jahnel, p. 141 f.
  5. ↑ Jahnel, p. 142 f .; Keller, p. 303.
  6. ↑ Which is now in the Prague National Archives, see http://katalog.ahmp.cz/pragapublica/permalink?xid=9F002805B66811DF820F00166F1163D4&scan=1#scan1 .
  7. ^ Jean Jacques Gaillard: Inscriptions funéraires et monumentales de la Flandre occidentale avec des données historiques et généalogiques . tape 1 . Bruges 1861, p. 166 ( google.de ).
  8. ↑ Gotha, p. 991.
  9. ↑ Stein d'Altenstein, p. 180 f.
  10. ↑ Stein d'Altenstein, p. 168 ff.
  11. ^ Keller, p. 470.
  12. ↑ On the van den Heede family, see: Jean Gailliard: Bruges et le Franc ou leur magistrature et leur noblesse . 6 (supplément). Bruges 1864 ( google.de ).