!!!Hofkirchen, Adelsfamilie

Hofkirchen, noble family, originally from Lower Bavaria/Upper Austria; 
1398-1620 owned Kollmitz and Droesidl near Raabs (Lower Austria). Were 
made barons in 1464; leading Protestants in the second half of the 
16th century; were placed under the ban of the empire in 1620 and lost 
their estates. Some family members (e.g. Baron Georg Andreas von  
Hofkirchen) were later in the service of Protestant princes, others 
converted to Catholicism and stayed in Austria. The family died out in 
1692.


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