Or Hansberg, an ancient German noble family settled in the Rhineland, the first recorded ancestor dates from the 11th century. The family held the lordship of Bruck, which enjoyed imperial immediacy

Immediacy

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, and consequently were enrolled in the Free Imperial Knights of the Holy Roman Empire

Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire was a realm that existed from 962 to 1806 in Central Europe.It was ruled by the Holy Roman Emperor. Its character changed during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, when the power of the emperor gradually weakened in favour of the princes...

, in the canton of Middle Rhine. The family's holdings were mediatized in 1803 (see German Mediatisation

German Mediatisation

The German Mediatisation was the series of mediatisations and secularisations that occurred in Germany between 1795 and 1814, during the latter part of the era of the French Revolution and then the Napoleonic Era....

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Sources

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh: Versuch einer Historisch-Topographisch-Statistischen Beschreibung der unmittelbaren Freyen Reichs-Ritterschaft in Franken nach seinen sechs Orten. Ulm, 1801.

• Johann Georg Kerner: Allgemeines positives Staatsrecht der unmittelbaren freyen Reichsritterschaft in Schwaben und am Rhein. 3 Bde. Lemgo, 1786-89.