Stillfried-Rattonitz
Stillfried-Rattonitz is the name of a Bohemian nobility with its ancestral seat Ratienitz near Kolín, which dates back to the 9th century .
history
The family Stillfried-Rattonitz descends from a Bohemian Duke Stoymir (ie Stillfried) of Przemysl . It turned to Austria and owned Stillfried Castle on the March . In the 14th century it was divided into Silesia .
His lineage begins in 1390 with Johann von Ratienitz on Ratienitz. On May 3, 1472, his son Georg Stilfrid de Ratienitz was enfeoffed by Duke Heinrich von Münsterberg with Neurode in the County of Glatz .
On March 13, 1662, Bernhard von Stillfried was raised to the bohemian baron status as governor of the county of Glatz .
The sex then split into several lines. The Austrian, baronial line was subsequently stillfried von Ratenicz and Stillfried von Rathenitz . The Prussian line Stillfried-Rattonitz split into several lines, of which there are baronial and counts branches.
coat of arms
The family coat of arms is divided diagonally to the right by gold and black. On the helmet with black-and-gold covers, five little flags divided diagonally by gold and black, two on the right, three on the left, on golden spikes with iron tips between two buffalo horns divided by black and gold over a corner.
Family coat of arms of the Stillfried
Coat of arms of the Counts of Stillfried and Rattonitz
Coat of arms of the Counts of Stillfried-Mettich
Known family members
- Ludwig von Stillfried and Rattonitz (1790–1865), Prussian major general
- Rudolf von Stillfried-Rattonitz (1804–1882), Prussian historian and court official. In 1858 he was appointed grande first class and Count of Alcantara in Portugal , and in 1861 he was raised to the Prussian count.
- August von Stillfried-Ratenicz (1806-1897), Austrian field marshal lieutenant
- Raimund Stillfried von Rathenitz (1839–1911), Austrian officer, painter and photographer.
- Georg von Stillfried-Rattonitz (1867–1941), German major general, city commander of Erfurt
- Waldemar von Stillfried-Rattonitz (1877–1960), German major general
- Alfons von Stillfried-Rathenitz (1887–1974), Austrian officer, resistance fighter and publicist
- Janet von Stillfried (* 1962), German historian and author
- Georg Stillfried (* 1963), Austrian diplomat
literature
- Stillfried-Rattonitz . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 16 . Altenburg 1863, p. 833-834 ( zeno.org ).
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Stillfried, the Austrian barons, genealogy . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 39th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1879, pp. 48–50 ( digitized version ).
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Stillfried, the Austrian barons, coat of arms . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 39th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1879, p. 52 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume XIV, Volume 131 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISSN 0435-2408 , pp. 128-131.
- Edited by Rudolph Stillfried, Count of Alcántara: Historical news from the Stillfried von Rattonitz family. Part 1.
- Historical-heraldic manual for the genealogical paperback of the Count's houses. 1855, p. 954.
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses, 1864 p.508ff 1874 p.870f
