Zeyern (noble family)

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Family coat of arms in Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book

The von Zeyern family was a Frankish noble family .

history

The name-giving headquarters is in Zeyern , today incorporated into Marktrodach . The family was first mentioned in a document around 1260 and died out in 1610 with Christoph von Zeyern zu Friesen on site. The family donated the Kronach Citizens Hospital. It was in the wake of the prince-bishops in Bamberg and is associated with the establishment of the town at the instigation of Eberhard II von Otelingen . As part of the empire-free Franconian knighthood, it was organized in the canton of Gebürg .

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows two crossed cut bear paws . The bear paws on silver are black with a red stump. The helmet covers are silver and black. The crest shows the trunk of a bear in black, which has a sword stuck through its mouth, which emerges at the back of the head. Other depictions show the sword pushed through the neck. Different color variations are known. The former municipal coat of arms of Zeyern from 1929 as well as other former municipal coats of arms remind of this family coat of arms.

  • Coat of arms of the Frisians

  • Coat of arms of Hesselbach

  • Coat of arms of Zeyern

literature

  • Cord Ulrichs: From feudal court to imperial knighthood - structures of the Franconian lower nobility at the transition from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period (list of the canton of Gebürg from 1529, StAM GHA II. No. 211 aE) . Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07109-1 , pp. 212 .
  • Miracle: the coat of arms of Zeyern . In: Frankenwald - magazine of the Frankenwald-Verein , issue 4/1930. Helmbrechts 1930. pp. 59-61.

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