From the Staal

Vom Staal (also vom Stall , de Stabulo , von Staal ) is the name of an extinct family from Solothurn , Switzerland . It produced several important politicians. The first Solothurn citizen of the family was Hans vom Staal , who probably came from Wangen im Allgäu and was naturalized between 1450 and 1456. In 1787 the Solothurn branch of the family went out and in 1809 a branch in Porrentruy . The family was ennobled (nobility letter from Heinrich III. From 1577) and belonged to the patriciate of the city of Solothurn; Since 1487, their coat of arms (issued by the Roman-German King Maximilian I ) in gold was a griffin leg , growing from the upper edge with peacock feathers, then according to the nobility letter of 1577 a gold griffin leg in black.

Important representatives of the family

Staalenhof , former estate of the vom Staal family in Langendorf SO

• Hans vom Staal (1419–1499), town clerk of Solothurn
  • Hans Jakob vom Staal (1463–1520) , council member in Solothurn, son of Hans
    • Hans vom Staal (II), mentioned between 1518 and 1535, son of Hans Jakob (1463–1520)
      • Hans Jakob vom Staal (1522–1542) , goldsmith, son of Hans (II)
        • Hans Jakob vom Staal (the elder) (1539–1615), town clerk of Solothurn, son of Hans Jakob (1522–1542)
          • Hans Jakob vom Staal (the younger) (1589–1657), Solothurn politician, council member, 1653–1657 mayor , son of Hans Jakob (1539–1615)
• Maria Scholastika vom Staal (Elisabeth) (1608–1659), 1643–1659 abbess of the Cistercian monastery Wurmsbach , daughter of Gedeon (1573–1655)
• Marguerite Jeanne Cordier de Launay, Baroness Staal (1693–1750), conspirator against the Duke of Orléans Philip II and writer, wife of Johann Jakob vom Staal (1677–1761) , Solothurn politician and military

literature

• Article Staal, vom in: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz. Neuchâtel, 1931. Vol. 6, p. 485
• Erich Meyer: Staal, vom (from Staal, from the stable). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Christian Adolf Müller: Johann Baptist von Staal from Solothurn as Obervogt der Herrschaft Pfirt 1664-1673 , in: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde , Vol. 49 (1950), pp. 98–153 ( full text )
• Hans Sigrist: Town clerk Hans from the stable. In: Solothurn biographies. Dietschi, Olten 1951. pp. 92-119. In the appendix: family tree from the stable up to the end of the 16th century.