Prince Lichnowsky
Lichnowsky is the name of a Silesian- Moravian noble family, which has been shown since the 15th century.
History and origin
The family was called originally Woszczyki or Woszczye and came from the reign Pless in Upper Silesia (presumably after the village Woszczyce at Orzesche ). Estepan de Woszyczyki was mentioned in a document dated March 17, 1377, in the John of Opava confirmed the purchase of a Scholtisei in Lendzin. Hanus (Johann) of Woszczyki, 1498-1507 Oberland judge of the Principality Jägerndorf, was about his wife Sophie of Drahotuš, widow of Nicholas of Ganzar called Lichnowsky, then the village lights and called himself even Lichnowsky. His first documentary mention of that name comes on 26 October 1494.
Franz Bernhard von Lichnowsky in 1702 charged with the predicate Edler von Woschtitz in the Bohemian baron. His son of the same was raised in 1721 in Bohemia, and in 1727 the Imperial Count. The Privy Council Ferdinand Carl Johann Count Lichnowsky received by the Prussian King Friedrich II in 1773 the inherited after the primogeniture of prince with the Prince title for the eldest son. Through an Austrian certificate of recognition from the 1846 name and coat of arms were with the increasing of the Swabian counts of mountain and called himself now Prince Lichnowsky, Count of becoming a mountain, Edler von Woschtitz. The prince was allowed after a Prussian award of 1861 lead the predicate Highness.
Coat of arms
The root coat of arms shows a red shield on two single green vines with outwardly turned purple fruits. As a crest, the two vines are on a crowned helmet holly with red- silver helmet cover.
The coat of arms of Prince Lichnowsky is split red; it shows the front, the motives of the tribe 's coat of arms and rear quartered with applied red heart plate, in a dreilatzige silver church banner (ordinary arms of the Counts of Berg); Field 1 and 4 shows in a gold gold reinforced black double-headed eagle, golden crowned center ( imperial sign of grace ), field 2 and 3 is divided three times of red and gold; on the main plate to rest five helmets, the middle one with black and gold, the other with red and silver covers; The first helmet bears the trunk crest crest, the second because of the Prince, a prince's crown, the middle of the double-headed eagle as in the shield, the fourth a miter ( Counts of Berg), the fifth on a laurel wreath a silver dove with olive branch in its beak ( Dove of Peace ); Supporters are two retrospective, golden crowned golden lion, of which the rear a silver church banner stops wooden rod; the lion standing on golden tendrils, intertwined with red banner, it in silver letters the motto NON NOBIS DOMINE NON NOBIS ( Abridged motto of the Knights Templar; Psalm 115.1: Non nobis Domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo da gloriam - Not! ourselves, O Lord, not to us but to your name give glory !); the whole is under a princely crown and hermelingefüttertem purple crests coat.
Bearers of the name
- Karl Alois Prince Lichnowsky (1761-1814), patron of Mozart and Beethoven
- Edward Prince Lichnowsky (1789-1845), Austrian historian, author of a history of the Habsburg dynasty
- Prince Felix Lichnowsky (1814-1848), German politician
- Prince Karl Lichnowsky (1819-1901), a hereditary member of the Prussian House of Lords
- Karl Max Lichnowsky (1860-1928), German diplomat
- Mechtilde Lichnowsky (1889-1958), German writer
- Robert Count Lichnowsky (1822-1879), canon to Olomouc
- Stephan von Lichnowsky (1723-1796), royal Prussian Lieutenant General
- Margarethe von Lichnowsky (1863-1954), married to Count Karl Lanckoroński