Bagge by Boo

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Bagge von Boo (also Baage af Boo or Bagge af Boo ) is the name of a Scandinavian-Baltic noble family , which was raised to the status of Swedish baron on June 9, 1556 . In 1627 they were included in the register of nobility (No. 202) of the Courland knighthood . The family spread from their country of origin Norway to Sweden via Denmark , Livonia , Russia and Prussia to Saxony . In the Swedish Book of Imperial Knights three main lines are listed, these include Bagge af Berga, Bagge af Boo (extinct in the male line) and Bagge af Söderby.

history

Admiral Jakob Bagge

The dynasty of the Bagges, which first wrote "Baggr", was divided into nine lines across the Scandinavian kingdoms . In Norway they rose to the highest positions in the Reich. Eric Baggr, who was slain in 1227, had been Jarl . His great-grandson Harald Sieverson Baggr became Norwegian Councilor in 1388 , as did his grandson Olof Knutsson (around 1400). The ancestor of the noble family "Baage af Boo" is this noblewoman Olaf Knutsson Bagge, who came from Norway and settled in Halland , Sweden around 1400 . His son Tord Olafssön Bagge served as a Danish captain during the siege of Stockholm in 1518 and switched to the Swedish side in 1522. In 1523 he became the castle commandant in Wiborg . He was married to the Norwegian noblewoman Ingeborg Jakobsdotter and died in 1534. He was followed by his son Jakob Bagge the Elder (1502–1577), who went down in Swedish history as a famous seafarer and admiral . When he was raised to the Swedish nobility in 1556, he was named "Bagge af Boo" (Bagge von Boo). His two sons Johann (1548? - 1636) and Jakob the Younger (1538-1611) were also Swedish admirals, Jakob also being the castle commander in Stockholm . The Swedish line continued with Johann, he was married to Marta Eriksdotter († 1604). His son Erik, whose life dates are unknown, married Brita Lind and moved to Germany, while his son Erich founded the Baltic line as a Livonian cavalry master . Erich Bagge von Boo (1676–1698) was married to Dorothea von Vietinghoff and thus gained family connections to the Baltic nobility. In male successor who led Kammerjunker Lieutenant Carl (1671-1774), the lineage continues, he received in 1731 Pilten the Indigenat for the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia , his sons were the Gentleman Gustaf Ludwig Johann (1703-1765) and the composer , musician and Prussian chamberlain Charles-Ernest de Bagge (1722–1791), who was in the service of Friedrich Wilhelm II (1744–1797) , among others . It followed in the tribe of Gustav Ludwig Johann:

  • Carl Johann Gustaf Ludwig Bagge von Boo, judge in Pilten, Courland (1732–1806), married. with Anna Sybilla von Medem (1728–1784)
    • Gustav Eberhard Bagge von Boo (1761–1829), married. with Agnes Sybilla von Buchholtz (1756–1836)
      • Wilhelm Ewald Bagge von Boo (1792–1871), married. with Lydia Catharina von Behr (1807–1868)
        • Hermann (Harry) Carl Gustav Bagge von Boo, district marshal , governor aristocratic marshal for the governorate of Courland (1827–1897), married. with Friedricke Louise Countess von Moltke (1834–1890)
          • Carl Wilhelm Adam Joachim Bagge von Boo (1856-1894), married. with Anna Louise von der Recke (* 1883)
            • Hermann (Harry) Nikolaus Olaf Bagge von Boo (April 29, 1886– August 18, 1953), retired Rittmeister . D. , m. with Lucie Julie von Engelhardt (October 5, 1883 - December 23, 1971)
              • Erich Georg Bagge von Boo (September 5, 1910 - July 29, 1982)
              • Georg Olaf Bagge von Boo (January 9, 1915 - January 21, 1944) as German Major i. G. fallen in World War II .

The graves of Hermann (Harry) Nikolaus and his wife Lucie Julie née von Engelhardt as well as his two sons Erich Georg and Georg Olaf, bearers of the German Cross in silver , are located in the Russian Orthodox cemetery in Berlin-Tegel.

coat of arms

The old coat of arms, which the Baggr's already carried in Norway, was an upright black bear in a golden field, two black bear claws rose on the helmet . King Gustav I Wasa of Sweden confirmed it in 1554. King Erich XIV of Sweden extended the coat of arms in 1565 as a reminder of the famous sea ​​battles near Bornholm : a gold and silver cross-divided coat of arms , in which a black bear ascending with an open top Throat appears, below are 3 red grape balls , 2 and 1 in order. On the helmet rests a band wound with red and silver, decorated with 3 red flags with a button on top, each flag is covered with the same silver cross (as the Danish Orlog flag). In between, two black bear paws, turned outwards, rise. The helmet cover is red and silver.

Web links

Commons : Jacob Bagge  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Baltic Wappenbuch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual references / comments

  1. ↑ Adliga atten Bagge af Boo nr 122. Entry on Adelsvapen Wiki
  2. ↑ Svea Rikes Ridderskaps och Adels Vapen-Bok Published 1830, original from Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, digitized 19 Aug 2010 Register no. 118, 122 and 147 [1]
  3. ↑ Note: In the Kalmar Union since 1397 Denmark, Norway, Iceland , Sweden and Finland were united, which was under Danish rule. In 1523 Sweden achieved its independence under King Gustav I Wasa (1496-1560).
  4. ^ Classical composers, Charles Ernest Bagge
  5. ^ Bagge af Boo, Baron, Georg Olaf. Entry on ww2 awards
  6. ↑ Photography by Georg Olaf Bagge from Boo. Entry on DIGIPORTA - digital portrait archive.
  7. ^ The Russians buried in the Russian Orthodox cemetery in Berlin Tegel [2]
  8. ^ The Russian buried in the Russian Orthodox cemetery in Berlin Tegel [3]
  9. ↑ The Russian buried in the Russian Orthodox cemetery in Berlin Tegel [4]
  10. ^ The Russian buried in the Russian Orthodox cemetery in Berlin Tegel [5]
  11. ↑ Orlog is an outdated word for war. "An Orlog flag is a [...] partially common name for a war flag". In: Jörg M. Karaschewski , A Hall of Fame for Emperor's Flags: The flags and flags of the Reichs-Marine-Sammlung in the Museum für Meereskunde, Berlin, Edition 2, Verlag BoD - Books on Demand , 2016, ISBN 3732236889 , p. 106 ( restricted Preview in Google Book Search, accessed June 28, 2017).
  12. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch: New Prussian Adelslexicon . 1842 ( digitized in Google Book Search, accessed June 29, 2017).