Cousin of Lilienberg

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Coat of arms of the Count Vetter von Lilienberg 1813

The Counts Vetter von Lilienberg were an Austrian noble family .

history

The originally Dutch family , who wrote themselves "Vetter van der Lilien", settled in Bohemia and was raised to the hereditary-Austrian nobility under the government of Emperor Maximilian II .

Emperor Ferdinand II allowed an improvement in the coat of arms and the use of the title "von Lilienberg" for the imperial lieutenant colonel Knight Eusebius von Lilien because of loyalty and bravery during the Bohemian uprising.

The Feldzeugmeister Wenzel Vetter Ritter von Lilienberg was elevated to the status of an Austrian-hereditary count on December 21, 1813 in Vienna by Emperor Franz I of Austria .

It has been extinct in the male line since 1842 .

The cousins ​​of Lilienberg and the cousins ​​of the lily were assigned to a family (cousin) for a long time, which is not tenable from a heraldic point of view, as there are two completely different coats of arms.

coat of arms

1813: shield quartered with central shield. In the red center shield on three rock peaks a golden, crowned griffin, which holds a white garden lily in the right front claw and is accompanied by a silver star at the top right. 1 and 4 in silver a crowned, golden, circular snake, which bites its tail and behind which a green laurel branch lies diagonally to the right. 2 and 3 in black a silver stream flowing obliquely to the left, which is accompanied at the top by a growing, crowned, silver eagle and at the bottom by a silver double cross.

Personalities

Wenzel Alois Count Vetter von Lilienberg

literature

Web links

Commons : Vetter von der Lilie family  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : The coats of arms of the German baronial and aristocratic families , 9th volume, Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1870, p. 383.
  2. Karl Friedrich von Frank : Status surveys and acts of grace for the German Empire: ie for the Holy Roman Empire and the Austrian Hereditary Lands until 1806, as well as imperial Austrian until 1823, with some additions to the "Old Austrian Adels Lexicon" 1823-1918 , volume 5, self-published, Schloss Senftenegg, Lower Austria, 1974, p. 156.
  3. Historisch-heraldisches Handbuch for the genealogical paperback of the count's houses , Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1855, p. 1037.
  4. Gothaisches Genealogischen Taschenbuch der Graefliche Häuser , 44th year, Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1871, p. 868 .