Tosse (noble family)
Tosse , also Toss , Thoß or Thossen , is the name of a noble family from the Vogtland .
The family emerged from the family of Schoeneck, eponymous for Castle Schoeneck same name and Schoeneck . The village of Thossen , today incorporated into Weischlitz, is named after the family.
In Adorf , the family had had a privileged knight's seat within the city, the Thossenhof, from the end of the 14th century. In the Guttenberg feud , their possessions near Adorf in 1380, as supporters of the Weida bailiffs, were a target of the raid at the center. When the city fire of 1543, the Thossenhof was also affected. In the course of time, the city of Adorf managed to acquire the three knightly seats and their property. In 1605 the Thossen sold their farm and in 1611 the property belonging to it. The other two knight seats belonged to the Gößnitz and Falkenstein .
In 1524, five family members were mercenaries in the order's army in Prussia.
In the late period of the family members were known as robber barons or slavers . Eberhard Tosse zu Adorf was involved in the fighting of the Guttenberg feud and also joined the feud against Eger . He was an assistant to the robber baron Friedrich von Neuberg .
literature
- Dr. Margarete Raunert: On the population history of the upper Vogtland: from d. Settlement until the 18th century Plauen 1970.
- Alfred Thoß and Karl Thoß: Name, origin and distribution of the Thoss family , Mitteldeutsche Familienkunde - Heft 4/1985, p. 162 - p. 181, Degener Genealogieverlag, Insingen
- Johannes Lenk: Adorf in Vogtland . Plauen 1993.
- Eckard Lullies: The feud of Guttenberg against the bailiffs and the feud against Eger . Kulmbach 1999. ISBN 3-925162-19-4 . Pp. 87, 116.
- Günter Zill: The former castle rule Schöneck . Plauen 1999.
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Freiherr von Reitzenstein : Teutonic Knights in Prussia from the district of the terra advocatorum imperii . In: Archive for the history of Upper Franconia . Volume 8, 3rd issue. Bayreuth 1862. p. 6.