Taufkirchen (noble family)
Taufkirchen (or Tauffkirchen) is the name of a Bavarian noble family . It is not to be confused with the Taufkirchen noble family from Taufkirchen near Munich, also from Bavaria .
history
The family's name-giving ancestral seat is Taufkirchen with the moated castle Taufkirchen , today a municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Erding , which also refers to the family with the municipality's coat of arms.
The family appears for the first time in a document on July 8, 1241 with Walterus de Taufchirchen and his son Hainricus, with whom the family line begins. Munich's residence was the Palais Taufkirchen, built in 1760 and later named Palais Gise .
coat of arms
The head of the shield shows a silver post on a red background. The base of the shield is blue. On the helmet with red and silver helmet covers a seated gold crowned silver fox.
literature
- Genealogical handbook of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume XIV, Volume 131 of the complete series, p. 341, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISSN 0435-2408