House of Hoyos

The original Spanish noble family Hoyos, named after the town of El Hoyo de Pinares in the province of Ávila, can be traced back to the 9th century. Juan de Hoyos emigrated with his family around 1525 in the wake of the later Emperor Ferdinand I a to Lower Austria and is thus one of the earliest in the country detectable Spaniards.

Possessions

Juan earned castle Stixenstein at Ternitz and the corresponding rule. The castle remained in the family until 1937.

The elder branch, whose members in 1628 were Imperial Count died in 1718 from.

The younger, whose members were since 1674 Imperial Count, in 1681 came through the marriage of Leopold Karl Graf Hoyos ( 1657-1699 ) with Countess Maria Regina Sprinzenstein as Hoyos - Sprintzenstein the property of Horn, Rosenburg and Raan with the Veste Kamegg and Mold. They united in the 18th century, all the goods of the Family: Good stone, castle Stixenstein, Hohenberg, castle Donau, Frohsdorf, Drossendorf, horn and Roseburg. The members of the family were mostly in imperial or landständischen services.

The Palais Hoyos on the Vienna ring road ( Kärntner Ring 5-7) was until 1895 owned by the family and is now part of the Bristol Hotel. The Palais Hoyos in Vienna highway, built in 1889 by Otto Wagner, was until 1957 owned by the family and now houses the Serbian embassy. Another palace of the family is the Palais Hoyos - Sprinzenstein in Vienna Wieden.

Different members of the family still are today in Lower Austria Schloss Rosenburg (since 1681), Schloss Hornberg (since 1681), Castle Drossendorf (since 1679 ), Castle Raan in good stone as well as in Upper Austria Schloss Sword Mountain (since 1681) and Castle Hoyos ( Good stone) with the ruins Windegg (since 1911).

Schloss Hornberg (Lower Austria )

Drossendorf Castle, Lower Austria

Raan Castle, Lower Austria

Good stone (Lower Austria )

Castle Sword Mountain, Upper Austria (Upper Austria )

Coat of arms

The root coat of arms shows within a hermelinenen plate border in blue with a silver slant right beams, the two golden dragon heads hold up and down the throat. On the crowned helmet with blue- silver covers a growing green dragon.

Significant members of the family

  • Count Alexander von Hoyos (1876-1937), Austrian diplomat in the First World War ( Mission Hoyos )
  • Anthony Salamanca- Hoyos (also: Anton von Hoyos, * 1506, † 1551 ), Bishop of Gurk
  • Carl Graf Hoyos (1923-2012), German psychologist
  • Ernst Karl von Hoyos - Sprinzenstein (1830-1903), honorary citizen of Vienna
  • Ernst Karl Heinrich Hoyos - Sprinzenstein (1856-1940), landowner and expedition traveler
  • Ferdinand Albrecht von Hoyos configured the Danube Canal
  • Georg Graf von Hoyos, Freiherr zu Stixenstein (1842-1904), industrialist
  • Hans - Sprinzenstein Hoyos (1923-2010), landowner
  • Johann Balthasar von Hoyos (1583-1632), Marshal of Lower Austrian country
  • Johann Balthasar II von Hoyos (1626-1681), Marshal of Lower Austrian country
  • Johann Ernst Graf Hoyos of Sprinzenstein (1779-1849), an Austrian court official and Field Marshal Lieutenant
  • Count Josef Hoyos - Sprinzenstein (1839-1899), politician
  • Juan Martin de Hoyos ( 1506-1561 to ), Spanish -Austrian chamberlain, Feldzeugmeister and Hofkriegsrat, founder of the Austrian noble family Hoyos
  • Ladislaus Franz Leopold von Hoyos of Sprinzenstein (1910-1988)
  • Ladislas de Hoyos = Ladislaus Alfons Konstantin Heinrich Johannes de Hoyos (1939-2011), son of Ladislaus Leopold Franz, well-known French TV journalist, Identified Klaus Barbie and allowed his arrest
  • Leopold Karl Graf von Hoyos (1657-1699)
  • Markus Hoyos ( b. 1960 ), landowners
  • Marguerite Countess of Hoyos (1871-1945) ∞ Herbert von Bismarck
  • Melanie Hoyos (1916-1949) ∞ Gottfried von Bismarck Schönhausen
  • Rudolf von Hoyos - Sprinzenstein (1821-1896), writer
  • Rudolf Hoyos - Sprinzenstein (1884-1972), politician
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