Transmission needle

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The transmission needle was a form of nobility that existed in the Kingdom of Bavaria from 1812 to 1818 .

introduction

The transmission needle in the Kingdom of Bavaria was created in 1812 with the "supplementary edict to the Edict of 1808" for holders of the Military Max Joseph Order and the Order of Civil Merit as a personal nobility with the predicate " Knight of".

description

According to Article III of the supplementary edict, the Bavarian personal nobility of the ennobled was passed on among the descendants who remained in the civil status in the primogeniture , or in the case of the lack of male successors also through adoption . The nobility could also be passed on during the owner's lifetime.

Those entitled to succeed the ennobled were not registered with the predicate “Knight of” in the nobility register, but the respective entitled was enrolled in the lowest nobility class (with the simple predicate “von”) , provided that he was not himself a knight of the military Max-Joseph Order or the Order of Civil Merit .

abolition

In 1818 this possibility of transmission was abolished, in its place the possibility of hereditary nobility was created for the families concerned .

literature

  • Genealogical manual of the nobility enrolled in Bavaria, Volume XXII, Neustadt / Aisch 1998, p. 507 ff.
  • Gerald Müller: The Bavarian Reichsheroldenamt 1808-1825, in: Journal for Bavarian State History 1996, p. 551 f.
  • Gustav Adelbert Seyler : Book of nobility of the Kingdom of Bavaria (1820-1875), Nuremberg 1877
  • Königlich-Baierisches Regierungsblatt 1813, pp. 5-9
  • Anton Barth , Lexikon der Baierische Geseze, Ordinances, Instructions, Volume 2, 1823, p. 442 ff.