Zedlitz (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of the von Zedlitz family

Zedlitz is the name of an old Silesian noble family that the nobility of Pleissenland comes.

history

The family can be traced back to the ancestral castle in Zedtlitz near Borna in Saxony (today Zedtlitz Castle ). The first known bearers of the name are the brothers Henricus and Otto de Cedelitz . They were ministerials of the empire or the diocese of Naumburg and appear for the first time in 1190.

Lines

Around 1320, nine Zedlitz brothers were resident in Silesia , seven of whom founded the lines Kauffung , Leipe , Liebenthal , Neukirch, Nimmersatt, Schönau (16th / early 17th century) and Wilkau.

Leipe castle ruins
  • The Leipe line acquired the Bohemian baron class in 1735 and the Prussian count class in 1741.
  • The Neukirch line acquired the imperial baron status in 1610 and the Hungarian count in 1722, and the Prussian baron in 1741; she was enrolled in the Bavarian baron class in 1910 .
  • In 1608, the Nimmersatt line received the Bohemian baron status.
  • The Wilkau line was raised to the Prussian count status in 1764.

Another Bohemian line, Zedlitz von Schönfeld , was expropriated after the Battle of White Mountain (1620).

Post office

The Zedlitz family (1908) , a nobility of letters, goes back to a Theodor Neumann , who was ennobled with his sister Elisabeth in Berlin on January 15, 1889. The diploma was awarded on April 28, 1870 at the Wartburg . They were the stepchildren and, since 1888, also the adopted children of Königlich Pruss. Secret upper government councilor and president of the Prussian maritime trade , Octavio Freiherr von Zedlitz and Neukirch .

Counts Zedlitz and Trützschler

The family of Zedlitz and Trützschler goes back to Gottlieb von Trützschler and Falkenstein , the nephews and heirs of Nicolaus Graf von Zedlitz in Frauenhain and Rungendorf. He was raised to the rank of Count of Prussia on February 22, 1810.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the Zedlitz family: “In red a silver sword belt buckle with a thorn stuck through the base of the shield. On the helmet with red-silver covers an open silver flight (later sprinkled with red drops of blood). "

A coat of arms changed in 1608 for the Very Hungry line shows the same coat of arms, but on each helmet it has an open black flight, sprinkled with red drops of blood.

The coat of arms of the Counts of Zedlitz and Trützschler: "Quartered, in fields 1 and 4 in red the silver belt buckle with an inserted pin (also in inverted triangular form, Zedlitz's family coat of arms), in fields 2 and 3 in gold a black sloping bar (Truetzschler von Falkenstein) . "Upper coat of arms consisting of three helmets:" Helmet 1 (middle) with black and gold covers on the right, red and silver covers on the left, a black eagle covered with a golden crescent moon; Helmet 2 (right) with black and gold covers, a man's trunk clad in black with two golden wings covered with a sloping beam instead of the arms; Helmet 3 (left) with red-silver covers an open silver flight sprinkled with red drops of blood. "

Historical coats of arms

  • Coat of arms of the von Zödlötz family in Konrad Grünenberg's Wappenbuch, 1602–1604

  • Coat of arms of those of Zedlitz and Leipe

  • Coat of arms of those of Zedlitz and Neukirch

  • Coat of arms of the Counts of Zedlitz and Trutzschler

Known family members

literature

Web links

Commons : Zedlitz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otto Dorbencker , Regesta diplomatica nec non epistolaria historiae Thuringiae II 1, Jena 1898, No. 863
  2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Volume FAX, CA Starke-Verlag, 1977, p. 465.
  3. ↑ p. 432
  4. ↑ Jan Harasimowicz (ed.): Enthusiasm and freedom thinking: Contributions to the art and cultural history of Silesia in the early modern period . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar, 2010. ISBN 9783412206161 , p. 62 f.