, now located beside the
Pfälzer Schloss at the centre of the city • William Curtius
FRS, 1st Baronet (Born Johann Wilhelm di Curti on 12 August 1599 in
Bensheim, died 23 January 1678 in
Frankfurt am Main). • Charles (William) Curtius, 2nd Baronet (26 December 1654 – 13 April or September 1733) • Wilhelm Adam von Curti, 4th Baronet (21 July 1742 - 15 January 1823). Sir Charles petitioned the English Parliament to pay the substantial fees promised Sir William by "Kings Charles the First, and Second". The petition sought "for a Debt incurred upon the Account of Publick Service by his Father Sir
Wm. Curtius, that to the Amount of Fourteen thousand Two hundred Fifty-five Pounds, as appears by the Accompt signed by his late Majesty King
Charles the Second; who was pleased to grant him a Privy Seal for Two thousand Pounds; but only Five hundred Pounds, Part thereof, was paid." The petition was unsuccessful. Since 1785, the church in the village of
Wald-Amorbach,
Breuberg has rung its bells at 10am daily in the "Curti-Peal" for the salvation of the von Curti family. The peal was established by Carl August Adolf von Curti's widow, Erhardine Catharina Louise von Wahl (* around 1700, † 17. Februar 1786), when she gave the Curti forest to
Gross-Umstadt. The baronetcy became extinct in 1823 with the death of Wilhelm Adam, the last male descendant. ==References==