Rottal (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Rotthal, between 1701 and 1705, according to Siebmacher's coat of arms book

Rottal (also Rotthal , Rothal ) is the name of an old noble family from Styria in Austria .

Family history

origin

The trunk series begins with Thoman the Rottaler (*?; † 1479), city judge in Graz . For a long time, the Rottal held the highest hereditary silver treasurer's office in Styria. Georg von Rottal (* around 1460; † 1526), Freiherr von Thalberg, high court master of the Lower Austrian provinces, fathered his daughter Barbara. In 1515 she married the Styrian Governor Siegmund von Dietrichstein from the von Dietrichstein family (noble family) from Carinthia , Austria.

Johann Jacob von Rottal acquired the Moravian rule Napajedla in 1611 . As Catholics, he and his son Johann Anton sided with the emperor during the Thirty Years' War. After the battle of the White Mountain , they were able to expand their property significantly. Johann Anton von Rottal achieved his greatest fame as governor of Moravia , one of the three historical countries of the Czech Republic. In 1644 he put down the Wallachian revolt and pushed through the re-Catholicization with a hard hand . He established the family's wealth but had no male offspring. The inheritance therefore fell to his cousin Johann Christoph von Rottal (*?; † 1699) and his descendants.

Statue of Count Franz Anton Rottal in the Black Chapel in Holešov

Ennoblement and end of the family

Johann von Rotthal was raised to the rank of count on October 22, 1649. The last in the male line was Count Franz Anton Rottal (* 1690; † 1762). He was a great patron of art and culture, had his castles extended in baroque style and employed a famous group of musicians at the Holesov Castle in Holešov .

The composer Eustachio Bambini (* 1697, † 1770) from Pesaro created a version of the Artaserse by Metastasio for the opera house there . At the church of Holesov he had the black chapel built as a burial place for himself and his wife and furnished by Gottfried Fritsch .

Since his only son Ferdinand Josef had already died, after the death of Franz Anton in 1762 the rich family estates were divided among his daughters and nieces. Marie Anna and her husband Franz Adam von Lamberg received the rule of Kvasice . Maria Amalia received the rule of Bistriz . She was married to Gian Giacomo Leonardi Montelabate della Rovere . Maria Anna received the Napajedla rule . She married Count Guidobald von Dietrichstein.

Since the children of the latter had died earlier, the Napajedl property fell to her niece, Countess Maria Theresa Montelabate. She married Count Johann Ludwig von Cobenzl .

Maximiliane von Rottal was married to Franz Leopold von Nádasdy . She received the Holešov rule.

Tribe list

  1. Thomas von Rottal (*?; † 1479)
    1. Georg von Rottal (*?; † 1525)
      1. Barbara von Rottal (*? †?); Mother of Adam von Dietrichstein
    2. Thomas von Rottal (*? †?)
      1. Wilhelm von Rottal (*?; †?)
        1. Wilhelm von Rottal (* 1520; † 1610)
          1. Georg Christoph von Rottal (*?; †?) ∞ Maria Magdalene von Teuffenbach
            1. Georg Julius von Rottal (*?; †?) ∞ Eleonora von Galler
              1. Johann Christoph von Rottal (* 1635; † 1699) 1.∞ Maria Isabella von Eibeswald ; 2. ∞ Maria Susanna Countess Kuefstein
                1. Johann Sigismund von Rottal (*?; † 1717) ∞ Maximiliana Beatrix von Liechtenstein
                  1. Franz Wilhelm von Rottal (* 1683; † 1709) ∞ Maria Magdalena von Herberstein
                    1. Adam Joachim von Rottal (* 1708; † 1746) ∞ Maria Josepha von Sternberg
                      1. Maria Anna von Rottal (* 1738; † 1795) ∞ Franz Adam von Lamberg
                  2. Franz Anton Graf von Rottal (* 1690; † 1762) ∞ Cäcilia von Trautmannsdorff
                    1. Maria Amalia von Rottal (* 1719; † 1798) ∞ Gian Giacomo Leonardi Montelabate della Rovere
                    2. Maximiliane von Rottal (* 1721; † 1756) ∞ Franz Leopold von Nádasdy
                    3. Ferdinand Josef von Rottal (* 1722; † before 1762)
                    4. Maria Anna von Rottal (* 1727; † 1767) ∞ Guidobald von Dietrichstein-Nikolsburg
        2. Johann von Rottal (*?; †?)
          1. Johann Jakob Freiherr von Rottal (*?; †?)
            1. Johann von Rottal (* 1605; † 1674), Moravian governor and Catholic nobleman

(Basic list simplified according to Hübner)

Possessions

coat of arms

Family coat of arms of those of Rotthal (re. 1709) above the portal to the north tower, castle ruins, Gars am Kamp , Lower Austria

Blazon : The family coat of arms of those of Rottal shows a silver paw cross in red ; as a jewel the white cross between red open flight; the helmet covers in red and white.

There was also the variant with a diagonally right St. Andrew's cross instead of the standing paw cross .

literature

Web links

Commons : Rottal family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robarts - University of Toronto: The nobility of the Bohemian crown lands; a list of those coats of arms and nobility diplomas which are entered in the Bohemian hall books of the aristocratic archives in the Imperial and Royal Ministry of the Interior in Vienna. Excerpirt from August von Doerr . Prague F. Rivnác, 1900 ( archive.org [accessed March 15, 2019]).
  2. ^ Institute for art and music history research: Rottal (Rothal), Franz Anton Graf von Johann Sigmund. 2002, accessed March 15, 2019 .
  3. ^ Corago. Retrieved March 15, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Constant Wurzbach von Tannenberg: Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Empire, containing the life sketches of the memorable people who lived in the imperial state and in its crown lands ... from 1750 to 1850 . Zamarski, 1874 ( google.at [accessed March 15, 2019]).
  5. ↑ http://www.zameknapajedla.cz/en/history
  6. ↑ Vyvod Maria Theresa, Hraběnky Kobenzlové, roz. della Rovere Montelabbate :: Napajedla. Retrieved March 15, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Karin Bachschweller: Barbara von Rottal , diploma thesis at the Faculty of History and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna , 2012
  8. ^ Wedding on March 3, 1737 according to the entry in the registers of Holešov (Holleschau); in actapublica.eu
  9. ↑ Genealogical tables: In addition to the related genealogical questions, to explain the political history . Gleditsch, 1728 ( google.at [accessed on January 16, 2020]).