Nostitz (family)
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The Nostitz family are a Silesian aristocratic family, named after Nostitz
in Saxony
, with a history dating back to 1280.
Famous members of the family have included:
Nostitz (Weißenberg)
Nostitz is a suburb of Weißenberg in the federal state of Saxony in Germany. The Nostitz family is named after it.The theologian and author Adam Gottlob Schirach was born in Nostitz....
in Saxony
Saxony
The Free State of Saxony is a landlocked state of Germany, contingent with Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. It is the tenth-largest German state in area, with of Germany's sixteen states....
, with a history dating back to 1280.
Famous members of the family have included:
- Helene von Nostitz, (1878–1944), writer and salon Dame
- August Ludwig von Nostitz, (1777–1866), a Prussian general
- Franz Anton Nostitz-Rieneck, (1725–1794), Bohemian nobleman and patron
- Friedrich Moritz, Count Nostitz-RieneckFriedrich Moritz, Count Nostitz-RieneckFriedrich Moritz, Graf Nostitz-Rieneck, also called Frederick Morris, was a field marshal in imperial service to the House of Habsburg. His son, Johann Nepomuk, Count Nostitz-Rieneck, was a field marshal in Habsburg service during the Napoleonic Wars...
, (1728–1796), Bohemian noble, Habsburg Field Marshal, President of the Hofkriegsrat (Military Council). - Johann Nepomuk, Count Nostitz-Rieneck, (1758–1840), son of above. Field Marshal in Napoleonic Wars.
History
- 1280: Earliest record of Lords of Nostitz
- 1366: HRE Lordship
- 1631: HRE Barony
- 1692: HRE County
- 1673: Purchased County of RieneckCounty of RieneckThe County of Rieneck was a comital domain within the Holy Roman Empire that lay in what is now northwestern Bavaria...
See also
- Nick NostitzNick NostitzNick Nostitz is the professional name of a German photographer who has lived and worked in Bangkok since 1993. Fluent in the Thai language, he specializes in the lower levels of the country's society seldom seen by casual visitors...
(born 1969), a German photographer - Nostitz (disambiguation)
- Rieneck (disambiguation)