Edelherr, Matthius, von Arschied

   	1609 -1787 

Belehnung der v. Nordeckischen Töchter, u. a. v. Rodenhausen v. Arschied und Zöller mit einem auf kurtrierischem Gebiet gelegenen "Weingarten, gen. "Hopfenkeller"

Reference Sources

1) Archive in Nordrhein-Westfalen: 6680: für fr. Matthias Ayrscheidt O. Praed. 1613 Juli 15

LINK:

[http://www.archive.nrw.de/LAV_NRW/jsp/findbuch.jsp?archivNr=364&tek...]

The German Revolution

Germany and the Reformation: 1517-1648

The decline of the Holy Roman empire is closely connected with the great 16th-century upheaveal in central Europe - that of the Reformation. The German princes, in the many semi-independent territories of the empire, see the religious options suddenly on offer as political opportunities.

The Pope is resented by many as a devious and distant intriguer, who drains away money from local church lands and regularly demands more. The emperor, lord of vast new Habsburg territories, is now also a distant figure with interests far beyond the traditional empire. Once the turmoil of the Reformation begins, in the years after 1517, each German prince assesses his own best chance of securing or expanding his territory and his treasury. The resulting conflicts within German-speaking regions are frequent until the peace of Augsburg in 1555. They then erupt again in the Thirty Years' War of 1618-48.

The great dispute soon becomes a European event. But the original flare-up in 1517 is very much a German phenomenon.

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During and near the end of the German Revolution (in 1555), a branch of the family, 'The French Branch' settled in Vieux-Ferrette France, with many of the other 'Old Ferrette' or 'Old Sandgau', southern Brabant families, i.e.; Blind (Blundt, Blonde, Blount), Libis (Sisbas), Bischoff, etc...

German Free Cities

German States to 1918

Reference

[History of the German People at the Close of the Middle Ages, Volume 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=VizTAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA185&lpg=PA185&dq...]