Hans Ludwig Herr (1560 - 1640)

Born 1560 in Baden, Aargau, Switzerland

Descendants

Died 1640 at about age 80 in Baden, Aargau, Switzerland

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Biography

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Name

Name: John /Herr/

Given Name: John

Surname: Herr^[1]

Per Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1985:

Name Hanß Herr Gender männlich Spouse Kath Herr Child Hannß Herr Author Evangelische Kirche Gächingen (OA. Urach) City or District Gächingen u Glems

User ID

User ID: 9160DB2BB84A4F6AA4BE8B0F1ADCD4FD75F7

Note

Note: #NI3810

Sources

• Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1985. Author: Evangelische Kirche Gächingen (OA. Urach). Image accessed via www.ancestry.com.

• Germany, Select Marriages, 1558-1929 [database on-line] accessed via family search.

• Mikrofilm Sammlung. Familysearch.org | Originale: Lutherische Kirchenbücher, 1518-1921

• Baden, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1502-1985. Page 99.. Mikrofilm Sammlung. Familysearch.org | Originale: Lutherische Kirchenbücher, 1502-1985.

• WikiTree profile Herr-162 created through the import of Most 2011_7b.ged on Oct 17, 2011 by Mike Saufley. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Mike and others.

• Source: S72 Media: Website Abbreviation: Cameron and Paige Report Title: * The Cameron and Paige Report * Author: Patricia A. (Simon) LaPlante <patty.laplante@gmail.com> Publication: Everett, WA: Compiled 2001-2006; <http://wc.rootsweb.com/~laplante> Date: 7 Apr 2006 Repository: #R23

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• Source: S92 Media: Research Abbreviation: Research: Betty Title: Research: Grindstaff-Meeker-Tritt-Stapp Author: Betty M. (Grandstaff) Moses <BMoses4999@aol.com> Publication: Tulsa, OK: B.M. Moses, ~2002 Files

Notes

Note NI3810The Schwabian Coat of Arms

Dr. Phillip E. Bedient, a Lancaster, Pennsylvania mathematician, who has researched the Herr family for decades, states in supplemental data to the Geneological Record of Rev. Hans Herr and His Direct Lineal Descendents (Herr 1994) that it is doubtful a coat of arms was part of the Mennonite Herrs. Mennonite theology includes a refusal to take up military arms and other weapons of force. This tradition has existed in the Mennonite religion since the early days of the Reformation. If, in fact, a coat of arms has ever been part of the Herr family in America, it has largely been simply an object of curiosity. However, before the Herr family converted to the radical Anabaptist Reformation Movement, they were ancient knights.

The Herr coat of arms exists in several forms. One coat of arms is a gold sheild with a red band running horizontally at the midpoint of the shield. Another, that of Sir Bilried from Schwabish Hall and Rothernburg, is a silver sheild with an azure blue band. The mennonite Herrs of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, are believed to be descended from this Swabian knight. Five centuries before the reformation, Hugo, Herr (Lord) of Bilried, contolled an area that included northern Switzerland, following the Danube River from its headwaters across what is now southern Germany. This area was known as Swabia. Herr Bilried was descended from a tribe known alternatly as the Alamanni (Alemanni) or Suebi (Suabi) -- the latter is from which the name Swabia derives. Eventually, the title of Herr became the family name and has been spelled variously Herr, Heer, Hohr, Hor, and Hare.

E.B. Vein in Resister of Noble Families, with their Coat of Arms, had this to say:

The race of Herr descended from a very ancient family; is free -- that is to say, of noble origin ... Likewise from time immemorial, its knights were brave and worthy ... posessing in Schwaben vast and rich estates, the name of which was call the Schwabish Knight Hugo, Herr or Lord of Bilreid ... in the year 1009 flourished and was known to all, the family from whom that of Herr is descended ... But in the 15th century several of their race resigned their nobility and settled as citizens ... They, however, retained their noble name and their Coat of Arms, and in the year 1593 John Herr, or Lord of Bilreid, obtained from the emporer Ferdinand, in Schwabish Hall, a written testimonial, proving for his flourishing family their Coat of Arms, their free and noble descent and the posession of their race to the last generation.

1. ↑ Source: #S92