Coat of arms of the family, from the Scheiblersches Wappenbuch
The House of Castell is a German noble family of mediatised counts of the old Holy Roman Empire.[1] In 1901, the heads of the two family branches, Castell-Castell and Castell-Rüdenhausen, were each granted the hereditary title of Prince by Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria.[1]
^ abAlmanach de Gotha. 1910. Perthes, p. 107, 109, 120–1. Deuxième Partie.
noble CountsofCastell, although they were the countsof Kreis Gerolzhofen, Regierungsbezirk, and Unterfranken of Bavaria. They were a member of the Fränkische...
since. Later, the countsofCastell build a castle that still exists today. The southern slopes are used for viniculture; the top of the mountain is covered...
brook's source, or “origin” (Ursprung in German). About 1730, the CountsofCastell held the Vogtei over Urspringen with which the Voit von Rieneck family...
position in Iphofen, notably Hohenlohe and the CountsofCastell. The latter held inter alia the patrozinium [de] of St. Vitus, but in 1325/8 sold their properties...
it from his father. To maximize accuracy of fit, Meier used a pedoscope to see feet inside shoes. The result of his examinations were his patent-registered...
therefore the de facto independence, of the prince-bishops and imperial abbots, free imperial cities, imperial counts, as well as the imperial knights. According...
Hohenlohe in the west, the counts of Henneberg, Truhendingen and Orlamünde in the north and the Schlüsselberg and countsofCastell in the centre. In the far...
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