Taubenheim (noble family)
The von Taubenheim were a nobility, later baronial and since 1859 counts, with the family house of the same name Taubenheim near Meißen .
history
The family was first mentioned in documents in 1186 with Adalbert von Taubenheim and in 1269 with Heinricus de Tubenheim . Hugo von Taubenheim bought Bedra Castle from the von Bünau family on October 4, 1440 . In 1501 George of Saxony ordered to Christoph von Taubenheim, his counsel and love faithful to Bedereli as Amtshauptmann of Freyburg . From 1506 the family owned the two villages Braunsdorf and Schortau , later Benndorf and Ebersroda, Eulau, Löbitz, Lunstedt, Möckerling, Nebra , Plotha, Schalkendorf and Tautenhain. In the fruit-bearing Society was Georg Moritz von Taubenheim: The Hitzende. On January 4, 1894, the line went out with the death of the chamberlain, head of court council president and colonel stable master Wilhelm Graf von Taubenheim in the male line.
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coat of arms
The coat of arms is split, on the right in blue a raised silver crowned lion with a (double) tail, on the left split by blue and silver three times. On the crowned helmet with blue-silver covers the red-tongued and gold-crowned silver lion (growing).
There are other variations of the coat of arms, the shield is split or diagonally split, in front of blue (red) and silver split three times, behind on blue a silver or gold (gold or red crowned) lion with (double) tail. The lion (crowned in gold or red) grows on the helmet. The helmet covers are blue and silver (other tinctures are also possible).
In 1540 the family (the Christophen brothers on Bedra, Rittern, Jacoben, Haubolden, Dietrichen, Haugen and Bernhardten) were given an increased coat of arms with three golden crowns by King Ferdinand . In the shield the lion is crowned and the helmet and the lion on it are also crowned.
Known family members
- Christoph von Taubenheim (* 1460; † February 5, 1536), Saxon bailiff at Dornburg 1494/97, governor of Freyburg and Eckartsberga 1499/1536, 1532 captain of Thuringia. His epitaph is in the St. Marienkirche in Freyburg.
- Jakob von Taubenheim († after 1538), knight in the service of Landgrave Philip of Hesse, who served the Landgrave as a soldier, councilor and envoy
- Hans von Taubenheim (1568–1587), councilor of the Electorate of Saxony and land manager
- Wilhelm Christoph Vollrath von Taubenheim († 1721), Saxon-Weissenfels secret councilor and court marshal
- Johann Adolph von Taubenheim (1690–1762), German Canon
- Scipio Ludwig Karl von Taubenheim (1787–1844), Prussian major general.
- Wilhelm von Taubenheim (1805–1894), Württemberg stable master, chamberlain and theater manager
literature
- Fritz Fischer: Ancestry siblings Fischer. Volume 4 XXVI 151: Regesta on the older genealogy of the family v. Taubenheim, Typoscript 1984, on this genealogical tables Volume 4 XXIX 152ff (1986)
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1856. Sixth year. P.683f , 1858 p.770
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch , New Prussian Adels Lexicon , Volume 4, p.259
