Solemacher (noble family)
Solemacher was a noble family from the Rhineland .
In 1658, the Elector of Trier court councilor and secretary Johann Solemacher (1624–1682) was raised to the nobility by Emperor Leopold. His son, the Electorate Chancellor Johann Arnold von Solemacher (1657–1734) from Koblenz, bought the manor Namedy in 1700 for 7,500 Reichstaler from Maximilian Melchior von Klepping, the son of Franz Wilhelm. On January 4, 1718 he was by Emperor Charles VI. after addition of name and coat of arms of the ancient family of Husmann Namedy in the kingdom knighthood charged with the title "Edeler".
The son of Johann Arnold von Solemacher, Johann Hugo von Solemacher was received on March 3, 1733 by the Middle Rhine and his son Johann Melchior von Solemacher on January 14, 1780 by the Lower Rhine Imperial Knighthood.
Johann Melchior von Solemacher married a von Lapp and came into the possession of Antweiler in 1765 . While his first son became the main heir, his second son became the founder of the Solemacher-Antweiler line.
On October 18, 1861, Anton Franz Hermann Freiherr von Solemacher-Antweiler (* 1802) was raised to the hereditary Prussian baron status.
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- Directory of the kgl. Preuss. Heroldsamtes (1855) increased rank, nobility confirmations and name associations together with a description of the awarded coats of arms. Zsgst. according to the acts of the royal heraldry. Edited by the Herald Association for Heraldry, zu Berlin, 1875, p. 11, digitized
Individual evidence
- ^ Biography of Johann Arnold von Solemacher
- ↑ Josef Busley and Heinrich Neu: Kunstdenkmäler des Kreises Mayen, L. Schwann, Düsseldorf, 1941, p. 354
- ^ Paul Clemen: Die Kunstdenkmaeler der Rheinprovinz, ISBN 9785881834692 , p. 562, digitized
- ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses, Volume 21, 1871, pp. 655, 657, digitized