Wernhardt (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Barons von Wernhardt

The Freiherrn von Wernhardt were a German-born, Hungarian and Austrian noble family who had distinguished themselves particularly militarily since the early 17th century.

history

Kanizca in the 17th century

Stephan Wernhardt (* around 1560 in Eisenstadt; † ibid), probably the son of Wolfgang (Wolff) Wernhardt from Eisenstadt , was the progenitor of the family. He fought against the Turks under Adolf von Schwarzenberg from the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th century , where he stood out in the battles of Pápa and Kanizcsa in the year 1600 and thereafter . So he received a letter of arms from the imperial Comes Palatinus Florian Drosdowsky von Drostowitz on February 15, 1621 in Vienna . On September 25, 1646, Emperor Ferdinand III raised him . zu Pressburg together with his wife Walburga Kapitz (Kapicz) and his six children, the four sons Jacob Erhard, Erhard Johann, Johann Stephan and Wilhelm Jacob and his daughters Agathe and Dorothea, simultaneously with the brothers Caspar, Rat von Neustadt and Bernhard Wernhardt, Eisenstadt Council. in the Hungarian nobility. No documents on the family seem to have been preserved for the subsequent period. The story only continues with Paul, Stephan's great-grandson.

Paul von Wernhardt around 1840

Paul Freiherr von Wernhardt (1776–1846) was a magnate of Hungary and a Privy Councilor as well as an Imperial and Royal General of the Cavalry , owner of the Chevaux-Legers Regiment No. 3 and, in August 1816, Theresa Knight . According to the statutes of the order, the emperor awarded him the status of hereditary-Austrian baron and the Hungarian baronate in 1818. He was also honored with the Hungarian magnate in 1819. The officer married on May 6, 1804 with Maria Anna Aloysia (born June 27, 1784), daughter of the future Lieutenant Field Marshal Baron Joseph Ignaz Cerrini de Monte Varchi (1743-1809) and Donna Isabella Freyre d'Andrade. Based on the records in the Gotha paperbacks, it seemed from then on that all sons should be baptized Protestants, but all daughters Roman Catholic. In addition to two sons, Stefan (see below) and Sigmund August (* October 6, 1817; † 1868), Imperial and Royal Lieutenant Colonel , the couple had three daughters: Isabella Marie (* June 7, 1807), married to Friedrich Dorsner von Dornimthal († September 3, 1871), kk colonel, Pauline Marianne (* June 19, 1810), married to Jacob Freiherrn von Kavanagh-Ballyane († June 10, 1848), kk chamberlain and commander of infantry regiment No. 52 and Amalia Theresia (* 18 January 1812) married Ludwig Freiherrn de Baur, also de Veaux, († May 20, 1861), court secretary in the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Finance, since August 11, 1831.

Stefan Wilhelm Freiherr von Wernhardt (1806–1869) was anImperial and RoyalChamberlain,Privy Councilor,LieutenantField Marshaland owner of the Line Infantry Regiment No. 16 and Lieutenant of the Royal Hungarian Life Guard. He married on November 20, 1847 with Charlotte Freiin von Kémeny de Gyerö Monostor (born March 17, 1829, † March 8, 1859 in Vienna). The couple rests in the evangelical cemetery in Vienna, tombstone No. 85, on which an alliance coat of arms is executed in white marble under a seven-pearl crown. The general and his wife had two daughters and two sons. His sons were Paul Vincenz (see below) and Stephan Wolfgang (born November 21, 1854), at a young age an imperial noble boy and pupil of theTheresian Academy. His daughters included: Anna Amalie, (* October 16, 1848) and Charlotte Maria (* October 29, 1849 inFünfkirchen). The latter married in the first marriage on April 23, 1872 inSalzburgthe Lord of Strazeman (Slavonia) Holger von Grevenkop-Castenskjold († March 15, 1881 in Vienna) and the second inCopenhagenon January 3, 1883 Karl von Grevenkop-Castenskjold († January 28, 1913), Lord of Hörby and Skavgaard, royal Danishchamberlainandmasterhunter. She inherited her husband's goods.

Paul Vincenz Freiherr von Wernhardt (born December 5, 1851 in Vienna; † August 19, 1923 ibid), Stefan's eldest son, was a pupil of the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt and was promoted to major general onNovember 17, 1905May 1910 to field marshal lieutenant and retired on June 1, 1913. He was also kuk chamberlain and grand commander of the Teutonic Knight Order . With him the sex died out in the male line.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Knights of Wernhardt

1646: In an iron Red advances on three green hills to the right, an upright golden, crowned lion, in the right paw cut finished a sword in his left buckler reserved. Above the shield lies a crowned helmet with the growing lion of the shield between an open flight that is divided transversely: to the right of silver and red on the dividing line with an eight-pointed star alternated with black and gold. The left wing is divided by silver and red and covered with an identical star alternated by silver and red. The covers are black and gold on the right and red and silver on the left.

1818: Squared with a central shield showing a crowned golden lion in black on a three-hill, wielding a sword in his right paw and a tartsche in his left. In the first, red field a shining sun; in the second and third silver fields a burning bomb: in the fourth, red field a crescent moon. The baron's crown rests on the shield, on which three crowned tournament helmets rise. The golden lion grows out of the crown of the middle one between an open flight. The right side of the flight is divided transversely by silver and red and carries an eight-pronged alternating black and gold star on the dividing line; the left side of the flight is divided transversely by black and gold and bears an eight-pointed star (after other six-pointed ones) alternating red and silver on the dividing line. On the crowns of the right and left helmets, four long, pointed, blue, red and silver flags, placed one behind the other, fly outwards. The helmet covers are all underlaid with gold on the right and red with silver on the left. Shield holders are two erect, inward-looking, golden lions.

Paul Freiherr von Wernhardt 1908

literature

Web links

Commons : Wernhardt  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  8. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1855. Volume 5, Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1855, p. 684.
  9. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses on the year, Volume 21, Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1871, p. 780.
  10. ^ Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: Imperial and Imperial Generals (1618-1815). Austrian State Archives / A. Schmidt-Brentano 2007, p. 201.
  11. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses 1919. Volume 69, Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1919, p. 1080.
  12. ↑ home.foni.net
  13. ↑ Géza Csergeö: The Hungarian nobility. In: J. Siebmacher's great book of arms. Volume 4, part 15, Verlag Bauer & Raspe (Emil Küster), Nuremberg 1892. Name index and coats of arms, T. 487.
  14. ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach: Biographical Lexicon of the Kaiserthums Oesterreich. Part 25, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1887, p. 105.