Anrep (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Anrepp
Coat of arms of the Counts Anrep-Elmpt

Anrep is the name of a Baltic German aristocratic family that originally came from Westphalia and later spread to the rulership of Sweden , Poland , Denmark and Russia .

history

The family probably comes from Anreppen , a district of Delbrück in North Rhine-Westphalia since 1975 , where there were several prehistoric noble families of the same name, but no connection has been documented to any of them. The place still has a coat of arms identical to the ancestral coat of arms of the Anrep.

In Livonia , the family appeared for the first time in a document from 1470–1501 with Goswin Anrep , who held a number of fiefs in Helmetschen from the German Order . The line of stem of the sex begins with him .

In 1635, the Swedish lieutenant Gustaf Anrep was given the Swedish nobility naturalization and was introduced to the nobility class of the Swedish knighthood .

The Livonian lines were registered with the Livonian knighthood in 1742 , Friedrich Wilhelm von Anrep because of his estate Tecknal in 1745 with the Estonian knighthood .

1853, the Russian was Lieutenant General and Adjutant of the Emperor Josef Karl von Anrep in the Russian count conditions raised . Emperor Nicholas I approved a coats of arms and name association with that of his wife, Countess Cäcilie Philippine von Elmpt († 1892), the last of her sex. The Counts Anrep-Elmpt ( Russian Анреп-Эльмпт ) took over the Elmpt's successor in Burgau , but already died out in the male line in 1888 in the next generation. The daughter Cäcilie von Anrep-Elmpt (* 1847) married Count Keyserlingk . Their daughter Margarete Countess von Keyserlingk (* ​​1876) became Burgau's heir.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the Livonian lines shows in gold a slanting black comb with the prongs pointing downwards. On the helmet with black and gold covers, the crest between open, right golden and left black flight . (The combined coat of arms of the Russian Counts of Anrep-Elmpt, however, depicts the crest in blue, in the same color as the Swedish line.)

The coat of arms of the Swedish lines shows a horizontal blue comb in gold with the prongs pointing upwards. On the helmet with blue-gold covers, the crest between open, right gold and left blue flight.

The Count's coat of arms Anrep-Elmpt (1853) shows in the quartered shield in fields 1 and 4 in gold, inside a slanted blue comb with 13 prongs pointing upwards (Anrep); in fields 2 and 3 a red lily in gold ; on each of the curved leaves there is a green, right- sighted parakeet with a gold collar (Elmpt). The count's crown rests on the shield . Three helmets over the crown, each crowned by a gold count's crown. Above the right helmet is an open eagle flight , the right wing of which is golden, the left blue, with a blue crest (anrep) floating in between. The helmet on the left has two golden buffalo horns , with the shield of fields 2 and 3 in between. Two ostrich feathers protrude from the middle helmet , the right one is blue, the left one is red. The covers are blue-gold on the right, red-gold on the left. Shield holder : on the right an upright, right-turning, double-tailed, golden lion , on the left a facing man in silver armor with two left-facing blue ostrich feathers on his helmet.

Relatives

Sleeping Lion , monument to the Imperial Russian Lieutenant General Reinhold von Anrep, killed in the Battle of Mohrungen in 1807, erected in 1844 by his son General Joseph von Anrep

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schlossarchiv.de: Castle and Manor Burgau.
  2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, 1972 p. 97.
  3. ^ Herrmann Wagener: "New Conversations-Lexicon: State and Society Lexicon", Volume 2, Verlag F. Heinicke, Berlin 1859, p. 335 f. + Description addition.