Warnsdorf (noble family)
The Warnsdorf were a noble family that settled from northern Bohemia and from the 12th century in Lusatia and Meißen . After around 1190 by Emperor Frederick I were treated for their participation in the Crusades to knighthood, several members were of sex in the service of the Emperor and King Frederick II. , Adolf of Nassau and . Rudolf II Its headquarters was in The village of Warnsdorf was first mentioned in the 14th century and is now the town of Varnsdorf in the Czech Republic , Děčín district in Ústecký kraj . The Warnsdorfs, which were later elevated to barons , acquired extensive goods in Lusatia and Bohemia. Most of the Warnsdorfs in imperial service before and at the time of the Habsburgs were Catholic.
coat of arms
In blue, a silver star over a lying silver crescent. On the helmet with blue-silver covers the shield image, the horns of the moon and the topmost star ray each covered with a blue-silver ostrich feather.
Known members of the sex
- Hans (Hanuš) von Warnsdorf, mentioned in 1343
- Heinrich von Warnsdorf († 1346), Commander of the Order of St. John in Zittau , author of Christian writings and possibly the Dalimil Chronicle
- Hans von Warnsdorf († after 1489), until 1474 Governor von Glatz in the service of the Bohemian King Georg von Podebradad , without male descendants
- Georg von Warnsdorf, in the 16th century on Schönbrunn (Herrnhut) , fought the peasant uprising in 1556
- Hans-Georg von Warnsdorf, around 1620 lord of the castle in Schreibersdorf, today Pisarzowice (Lubań)
- Hans Sigismund von Warnsdorf, around 1679 in Taubenheim / Spree and Tauchwitz
- Johann Christoph von Warnsdorf, cousin of Hans Sigismund, around 1681 ibid.
- Caspar von Warnsdorf, around 1700 at Gießmannsdorf Castle
- Christoph Adolph Benjamin von Warnsdorf († 1716) on Taubenheim and Tauchwitz
- Haubold Adolph von Warnsdorf, ibid. († 1729)
- Gottfried von Warnsdorf (1739–1831), tutor of the future Emperor Leopold II , Austrian major general and Lieutenant Field Marshal
- Wolfgang Ehrenreich von Warnsdorf (1704–1764), commander of the Würzburg Fortress , and his son Heinrich von Warnsdorf alias Philipp Ernst von Warnsdorf, (1745 Würzburg; 1817 Fulda ), Benedictine priest and papal administrator in Fulda
- HC von Warnsdorf, Hessian Higher Court Director in Fulda around 1820, found an algorithm for the construction of open Rösselsprung sequences (so-called "Warnsdorf rule").
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Warnsdorf, the barons of, genealogy . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 53rd part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1886, p. 91 ( digital copy ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johann Siebmacher's Wappenbuch, Nuremberg 1605, Section Knighthood and Nobility in Saxony (“Saxon”), plate 166.
- ↑ Archive link
- ^ Taubenheim , in: Gustav Adolf Poenicke (Ed.): Album of the manors and castles in the Kingdom of Saxony , Leipzig 1854 ff.
- ^ State Historical Information System Hesse
- ↑ HC vom Warnsdorf: The Rössel jump, the simplest and most general solution. Schmalkhalden (sic!) 1823.