Zierotin

The family achieved the rank of Imperial Counts in the Holy Roman Empire.

The family died out at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, but its indirect lines continue to exist.

The heraldic device is a blazon of arms in gules (red) with a lion sable (black), crowned, on three mountains argent (silver).

The oldest documented member of this family was Blud of Bludov, who was the burgrave of the castle in Přerov in 1213–1215.

[5] After the fall of the Communist rule in 1989, several properties were returned to Karel Mornstein-Zierotin, including Bludov Chateau.