Uslar (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Uslar

Uslar (also Uslere, Ussler and Usslar ) is the name of an old Goslar council dynasty that partially converted to the landed gentry in the 17th century .

The gender is not to be confused with the Lower Saxon nobility family of the Barons von Uslar-Gleichen , which also bore the name of Uslar until 1825 , but has a different coat of arms, which is why a tribal relationship is doubtful.

history

The family first appeared in a document in 1281 with Henricus de Uslere as a member of the shopkeeper's guild in the imperial city of Goslar. With him the uninterrupted line of trunks begins .

Since the 14th century the family has held leading positions in the Goslar city regiment and later also in the Harz mining industry . From this family came Johann von Uslar (1547–1631), doctor of rights, abbot of the Mariental monastery and ducal Braunschweig council, who was appointed princely Chancellor of Quedlinburg in 1589 . He married Ursula Diek († 1612), a daughter of the mayor of Einbeck , Jobst Diek. The marriage had ten children. His son Heinrich Philipp von Uslar was an imperial councilor and canon of Goslar.

Members of the family were also vassals of the Gandersheim monastery and owned, among other things, the Astfeld estate near Goslar.

coat of arms

The split coat of arms is black at the top and split three times by red and silver at the bottom. On the helmet with red and silver covers, two buffalo horns marked like the shield .

The coat of arms appears as early as April 8, 1398 as the oldest surviving seal of Vogtes Hinricus de Usler.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Bode : Document book of the city of Goslar 2. , No. 292
  2. ↑ Christine Magin: DI 45, No. 114 . urn : nbn: de: 0238-di045g008k0011408 ( inschriften.net ).
  3. ↑ Document No. 1091 in the Goslar City Archives