Thumbshirn (noble family)

Coat of arms of the noble family of Thumbshirn

Thumbshirn , also Thomser , Thumser , Thumshorn , Thomashirn o. Ä. Is an old, extinct noble family from the Vogtland and the Landgraviate of Thuringia , which later also settled in the Margraviate of Meissen .

history

There are different, sometimes controversial and contradicting views about the origin and the oldest representatives of the sex. The male line died out in the first half of the 18th century.

Personalities

• Wilhelm von Thumbshirn († 1551), electoral Saxon colonel and actor in the Schmalkaldic War
• Wolfgang Conrad von Thumbshirn (1604–1667), negotiator and co-signer of the Peace of Westphalia, and from 1653 chancellor of the Princely Saxon Altenburg region

coat of arms

Blazon of the basic shape: two blue crossbars in silver.

literature

• New general German nobility lexicon , Volume 2, p. 210.
• Johann Friedrich Gauhe: The Holy Roman Empire Genealogical-Historical Adels-Lexikon , Part II, Leipzig 1747, Sp. 1157-1158