Zeschau (noble family)
Zeschau is the name of a Meissnian nobility that was and is resident in Saxony, Prussia, Russia, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Brazil in the German Empire and Germany. The name form changed between Sessov, Chessow, Ceschaw, Czeschow, Czesschaw, Czessow, Czesche, Scezssowe, Tschesse, Tschesche, Tscheschaw, Tzeschaw, Zesche, Zescho, Zesscho, Zeschow and Zeschau.
history
The sex is first mentioned in a document on March 31, 1206 on the founding deed of Dresden with Bernhard de Sessowe . The tribe series begins with Hans von Tscheschaw (Zeschow) on Dobrich, who is mentioned in a document from 1440–1467.
coat of arms
A red bar in a shield quartered in black and silver . On the helmet with black and silver blankets, a silver tucked red pointed hat , wrapped with a white pearl cord and studded with a black rooster tail.
Important representatives
- Heinrich Wilhelm von Zeschau (1760–1832), Saxon lieutenant general, state secretary and governor of Dresden
- Heinrich Anton von Zeschau (1789–1870), Saxon Finance Minister
Individual evidence
- ^ Main State Archives Dresden
literature
- Genealogical handbook of nobility , Adelslexikon Volume XVI, Volume 137 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 2005, ISSN 0435-2408
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Areligen Häuser 1902, pp. 925–929, 1904 pp. 913ff
- Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Ed.): Year book of the German nobility , Volume 2, 1898, published by WT Bruer, p. 947 - digitized