Vogt of Sumerau (noble family)
The bailiffs of Sumerau were a Swabian family of the primitive nobility , named after their ancestral seat Summerau near Tettnang . Parts of the family were elevated from the imperial knighthood to imperial baron status in the 17th and 18th centuries .
history
As ministerial of the imperial monastery of St. Gallen and ecclesiastical bailiffs over Sumerau, the service designation Vogt von Sumerau was transferred to the knightly noble family, which from then on called itself Vogt von Sumerau. The Sumerau bailiffs built their ancestral seat in Summerau under the rule of Sumerau, which was handed over to them by the monastery .
Sideline Summerau (Switzerland)
In the course of official duties in the part of Graubünden belonging to the St. Gallen Monastery , part of the Vogt von Summerau family moved permanently to Graubünden in the 14th century, where they built another center of power. This led the historian Kneschke to assume that the noble family Vogt von Sumerau descended from the Swiss bailiffs von Summerau.
Sidelines Sumerau to Leupolz
By acquiring the rule and castle of Leupolz , the dynasty of Sumerau zu Leupolz called themselves . They continued to serve there as ministers of the St. Gallen monastery.
Sidelines Sumerau to Prasberg
In 1411 Vogt Heinrich von Summerau zu Leupolz acquired the castle and the property from Heinrich von Schellenberg . The sidelines Vogt von Altensumerau and Prasberg are named after this newly acquired rule . Hereditary Marshal Hugo Vogt von Alten-Summerau zu Prasberg was married to Walpurgis von Cronheim . From this marriage, Albert von Prasberg, known as Vogt zu Summerau and Tax Wangen, emerged, father of Bishop Franz Johann Vogt von Altensumerau and Prasberg (1611–1689), related to Sixt Werner Vogt von Altensumerau and Prasberg (1575–1627).
coat of arms
Family coat of arms
The family coat of arms of the bailiffs of Sumerau is in gold, a rod of black deer antlers with five ends bent from left to right in a circle. It is u. a. illustrated in the large and general book of arms by Johann Siebmacher published in 1605 .
Barons coat of arms
On August 1, 1674, the brothers Franz Rudolph and Georg Wilhelm Vogt von Alten-Summerau and Prassberg were raised to the hereditary Austrian baron status. The family coat of arms was combined with the inherited coat of arms of those of Schinau. The two Constance bishops Sixt Werner Vogt von Altensumerau and Prasberg and Franz Johann Vogt von Altensumerau and Prasberg used this baron coat of arms in their bishop's coat of arms .
On May 1, 1745, the Upper Austrian government councilor, chamber president and secret councilor Anton Thaddaeus Vogt from Summerau on Alten Summerau, Rappenstein and Thurn was raised to the status of a personal imperial baron from the sideline Vogt von Summerau . On August 3, 1765, this personal nobility diploma was extended as a hereditary one to the posthumous children of his brother Johann Matthaeus Vogt (von Summerau): Joseph, Maria and Anna as Vogt of Sumerau on Altensumerau .
Ruling family members
- 1476–1491, Ursula Vogt von Summerau , abbess of the Kanonissenstift in Lindau
- 1626–1627, Sixt Werner Vogt von Altensumerau and Prasberg , Bishop of Constance
- 1645–1689, Franz Johann Vogt von Altensumerau and Prasberg , Bishop of Constance
- 1754, Philipp Joachim von Prassberg , Grand Prior of the German Order of Malta and thus also Prince von Heitersheim
- 1753–1769, Anton Thaddäus von Sumerau , first regional president of Upper Austria in Constance from 1759 in Freiburg
- 1791–1801, Joseph Thaddäus von Sumerau , last regional president of Upper Austria in Freiburg
literature
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (ed.): New general German nobility lexicon : in association with several historians . Ninth volume, F. Voight, Leipzig 1870, ISBN 978-1143771828 ( p. 406 f. In the Google book search)
Individual evidence
- ^ GHdA : as Vogt v. Sumerau , Volume XV, Volume 134 of the complete series, p. 194 f., CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2004, ISBN 3-7980-0834-5 .
- ↑ "The Vögte v. Alten Summerau and Prassberg (Sumerau and Prasberg), counted by Siebmacher as part of the Swabian nobility, are an old and knightly family who came to Swabia from Switzerland and Graubünden, where the Summerow parent company was located behind Chur im Thale Schauficken. ” Quoted after Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (ed.): New general German nobility lexicon: in association with several historians . Ninth volume, F. Voight, Leipzig 1870, ISBN 978-1143771828 , p. 406 f.
- ↑ The Highness of the Teutschen Reichs Nobility. Volume III, p. 126.Bamberg 1751.
- ^ A b c Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (ed.): New general German nobility lexicon: in association with several historians . Ninth volume, F. Voight, Leipzig 1870, ISBN 978-1143771828 , p. 406 f.
- ↑ Coat of arms of the bishops of Constance , mid-19th century by Franz Xaver Stiehle.
