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Stein Family Crest - Digital Download - Stein Coat of Arms JPG File - Heraldry, Genealogy, Ancestry, Surnames, Shields
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vom Stein of Solothurn, Switzerland - In Rot silberner Gürtel mit goldenen Einfassung und Schnalle, besteckt mit drei silbernen Lindenblätter.
A knightly family from the 13th to 16th centuries, whose ancestral seat was probably in Steinhof in the lordship of Aeschi (SO). The first member of the family mentioned is Heinrich de Lapide (von Stein), who is recorded in 1201 as a vassal of Duke Berchtold V of Zähringen. Subsequently, the von Stein family were vassals of the Counts of Kyburg. In the 14th century, members of the family settled in the cities of Solothurn, Thun, Burgdorf, and Bern. The von Stein family possessed extensive judicial rights and landholdings in the Upper Aargau region and in the area around Bern and Thun, including, for example, the lordship of Utzigen from 1386, the lordship of Blumenstein from 1439, and the lordship of Strättligen from 1464. In the 15th century, they also acquired considerable property in the city of Bern. This formed the basis of the von Stein family's rise to become one of the leading families involved in the city's government. The descendants of Hartmann (1399), the founder of the Bernese branch, held the title of Junker (minor nobleman) and belonged to the aristocratic society of the Fools and Thistle.
The Vom Stein family continued to exercise their power from the second half of the 15th century onwards in municipal offices and in the urban and confederate territorial administration, for example as mayors of Bern and Thun, as bailiffs of Nidau and Lenzburg, and from the end of the 15th century as governors of Aigle and as bailiffs of Echallens and Grandson. Sebastian was the first Swiss Confederation bailiff in Locarno in 1514. The Vom Stein family represented Bern's interests vis-à-vis Savoy, France, and Milan, as well as at the Swiss Federal Diets. Kaspar (c. 1507), Albrecht, and Sebastian (1551) served as envoys on several occasions. In the military conflicts of Bern and its allies, members of the Bernese branch served as captains and mercenary leaders, for example Georg (1493) and Brandolf (1500) in the Burgundian Wars, the latter again in 1499 in the Swabian War. The family died out with the death of Sebastian in 1585.