Waldeser (noble family)
The Lords of Waldeser , also Counts of Waldeser , were a noble family that lived in the area of Anhalt .
The family seat was Waldeser Castle near the city of Dessau , which was first mentioned in a document in 1212. One of these counts, as well as his daughter Adelheid, are mentioned in the legend "The erring virgin in the Waldersee" . It is not known how far the possessions of the Counts of Waldeser, who had received them as fiefs from the Ascanians , extended. The aristocratic family died out at the beginning of the 15th century , but had not owned the ancestral home for a long time. A lady from the family of Waldesian was Otto von Schlichting, from the Ministerialgeschlecht of Schlichting , which in the 12th century, the castle Roßlau , married erected. This declared the abandonment of all received fiefs to his lords, the princes of Anhalt. With that, the county of Waldeser went back to the princes of Anhalt.
On October 15, 1786, the illegitimate son Franz of Duke Leopold III. Friedrich Franz was raised to the Prussian nobility and was given the title Count von Waldersee , based on the old noble family .
The coat of arms of the von Waldeser consisted of six fields in red and yellow, six flags, and three tufts and fronds. It was integrated into the coat of arms of the Princes of Anhalt in a modified form with four fields by Prince Joachim Ernst .
family members
- Johann von Waldeser, Commander of the Teutonic Order
- Dietrich von Waldeser
- Heinrich von Waldeser
- Conrad von Waldeser
- Hermann von Waldeser
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chronicle of Dessau-Waldersee ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The erring virgin in the Waldersee. In: Friedrich Stahmann, Ludwig Züllich (Hrsg.): Anhalt's sagas, fairy tales and legends . Gröning, 1844, p. 180 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ^ A b Heinrich Lindner: History and description of the state of Anhalt . Ackermann, 1833, p. 258 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ a b c Bernhard Heese: The Counts of Waldersee and the Waldeser Castle. In: The New Series of the Dessau Chronicle , Walter Schwalbe (Ed. H. de Roth), Dessau 1926/29, 105-7
- ↑ Torsten Vollert - Friends of "Burg Roßlau" The Ring of Roßlau In: Roßlauer Schifferlatein, Roßlau , 2006
- ^ Herbert Papendieck: The coats of arms of the districts and independent cities of the state of Saxony-Anhalt. , Ziethen, 1996, 54
- ^ Fritz Buenger, Gottfried Wentz: The Diocese of Brandenburg, Part 2 . Walter de Gruyter, 1963, ISBN 3-11-001287-1 , p. 511 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Otto von Heinemann: Codex diplomaticus Anhaltinus. 1875, p. 570
- ↑ The House of Pfuhle Communications of the Association for Anhalt History and Archeology, Ninth Volume, Dessau 1904, 503 - 519 (PDF; 189 kB)
