Wylich

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the canon in Münster see Johann von Wylich .

Family coat of arms of those von Wylich

Wylich (also Wilich ) is the name of a uradeligen Lower Rhine - Westphalian noble family .

history

The sex derives its ancestry from the von Steenhuis which appeared in documents in 1158 . Adolf von und zu Steenhuis († 1355), son of the knight Gottfried von Steinhaus, married Bata (Beatrix) von Wylack, heiress of Gut Wylack near Wassenberg an der Rur , in 1317 and has been called Wylack since then. However, he kept his ancestral coat of arms. The name later changed to Wylich through diphthongization .

In the 17th century the family split into several lines, of which only the Lottum line still exists today:

• Wylich zu Lottum , barons and counts of Lottum in the Duchy of Kleve ,
• Wylich zu Diersford, barons of Diersfordt in the Duchy of Kleve (line expired in 1831),
• Wylich zu Richolt, Barons von Rijckholt in the Archbishopric of Cologne (line expired around 1720),
• Wylich zu Botzelaer, barons of Botzelaer in the Duchy of Geldern (line expired around 1702),
• Wylich zu Pröbsting, barons of Pröbsting in the monastery of Münster (line expired around 1700).

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  Burggrafenschloss in Lottum

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  Diersfordt Castle

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  Kasteel Rijckholt

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  Boetzelaer Castle

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  House Pröbsting

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a red rafter in silver , which encloses a red ring. On the crowned helmet is a growing silver dragon's trunk, which has a red ribbon with a ring around its neck, from which the reduced coat of arms hangs down. The blankets are red-silver.

literature

• Carl Günther Ludovici (Ed.): Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts. Johann Heinrich Zedler, Leipzig and Halle 1749, Sp. 535 f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann Diedrich von Steinen: Westphäl. History 1. Lemgo 1755, p. 2.