House of Sickingen

Coat of arms of the House of Sickingen from the Scheibler Roll of Arms around 1495

Sickingen is the name of an old southwest German aristocratic family. The lords of Sickingen belonged to the Kraichgau uradel or ancient nobility and, from 1797, to the imperially immediate Hochadel or high nobility.

The Sickingen-Sickingen line died out in 1834, the Sickingen-Hohenburgs in 1932.^[1]

Bearers of the name

• Schwickart the Younger of Sickingen (died 1478), Amtmann
• Schweickhardt of Sickingen (died 1505), imperial knight, father of Franz von Sickingen
• Reinhard of Sickingen (born around 1417; died 1482), Prince-Bishop of Worms, held office from 1445 to 1482
• Francis of Sickingen (born 1481; died 1523), imperial knight and leader of the Rhenish and Swabian knights
• Johann Damian von Sickingen (18th century), Inhaber of an imperial infantry regiment
• Ferdinand Damian von Sickingen, Commander of the German Order of St. Aegidius, (1734-1736)
• Karl Heinrich Joseph von Sickingen (born 1737; died 1791), diplomat and chemist
• Karl Schweikard von Sickingen (died 1711), Knight of the Teutonic Order
• Kasimir Anton von Sickingen (born 1684; died 1750), Prince-Bishop of Constance, held office from 1743 to 1750
• Karl Ludwig von Sickingen-Ebernburg, Abbot of Kornelimünster Abbey 1745–1764
• Franz von Sickingen (died 1834 in Sauerthal), imperial count and castle lord of the Sauerburg. Last member of the noble family^[2]

References

1. ↑ Detlev Schwennicke (ed.): European family trees NF 11 (1986), Tree 68
2. ↑ Sauerthal Regionalgeschichte.net

Literature

• Hans-Joachim Bechtoldt: Wappensiegel der Sickinger. In: Jahrbuch für westdeutsche Landesgeschichte, 34th Yearbook, 2008, pp. 129–167 [not evaluated]
• Michael Benz: Sickingen – Bildnisse. G. Peschke GmbH Druckerei, Munich, 1985 [not evaluated]
• Joachim P. Heinz: Der Reichsdeputationshauptschluss (1803) und die Auflösung der pfälzischen Grafschaften Wartenberg, Sickingen und von der Leyen. In: Mitteilungen of the Historischen Vereins der Pfalz, 111. Vol., 2013, pp. 185–265 [not evaluated]
• Otto Hupp: Münchener Kalender 1903. Buch u. Kunstdruckerei AG, Munich / Regensburg, 1903.
• Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: Neues allgemeines deutsches Adels-Lexicon. Vol. 8, Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung, Leipzig, 1868, pages 485-486. (digitalised)
• Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Vol. XIII, Vol. 128 of the complete series, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn), 2002, ISSN 0435-2408

External links

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