Family seat

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The main residence of a noble or aristocratic family or dynasty is referred to as a family seat , usually a manor house , often connected to an agricultural estate . The family seat mostly reflects the social, economic, political or historical connection of the family with their (land) property. Some families took over the name of their seat (e.g. Habsburg , Hohenzollern , Windsor ), or named their family seat after their family name . This tradition was first mentioned in writing in the 11th century in the Domesday Book as caput ("main"). The English name family seat is still used today in the British Isles .

The family seat does not have to correspond to the ancestral home of a family, which only describes their place of origin; today only a few noble houses still inhabit their former ancestral seats. For example, the Hohenzollern family originally came from Hohenzollern Castle (their so-called ancestral castle ), which today is only used for their family reunions. The House of Habsburg has its origins in its ancestral castle Habsburg in the canton of Aargau ( Switzerland ), later they declared the Vienna Hofburg as a family seat. After the First World War , Otto von Habsburg moved to Pöcking on Lake Starnberg , which has since been the new Habsburg family seat.

In Scotland the term clan residence is common (from Scottish Gaelic clann "children, family", and "residence"). The large family associations of the Scottish clans trace their ancestry in the paternal line back to a progenitor and are led by an incumbent head, the clan chief . The clans can be old and very large and are deeply rooted in Scottish history and politics, with many clan members still holding prestigious titles of nobility that are inherited within the clan . The clan seat is the main residence of a clan, for example the seat of Clan Keith at Keith Hall Estate , Aberdeenshire .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Haus Hohenzollern : Family Today. ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Preussen.de. Own website, 2004, accessed on September 30, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.preussen.de
  2. ^ Verena Gleitsmann: Pontifical request for Otto Habsburg in Munich - burial on Saturday. In: oe1.ORF.at . July 11, 2011, accessed September 30, 2014.
  3. ↑ Entry: Clan & Family Histories: Keith. Scotweb Marketing, 2014, accessed September 30, 2014 (detailed article).