Bellows (noble family)

Coat of arms of the bellows

Bellows , also Belge, is the name of a noble family from Lauenburg in eastern Pomerania .

history

The debate about the origins of the family, which has sometimes been controversial among historians, seems to be leaning towards the Kashubian origin.

The family first appears with Matthias of bellows , hereditary lord on Gartkewitz , in 1530. His sons Peter and Hans were the inherited father's estate in 1551 by Duke Barnim invested . In 1575 Mathias , Moritz , Hans Georg and Peter owned the estate. The family still owned their Gartkewitz family estate in 1787 and 1803.

The family provided numerous officers in the Prussian army , for example Siegmund Casimir von Balgen was a major in the Prince Leopold von Braunschweig regiment and in 1794 two second lieutenants from the family served in the regiments v. Klinckowström and Graf Hertzberg .

In 1842 a relative was still wealthy on Mystkoi in the Schroda district , while the family in Pomerania had already found their way out at the turn of the century.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows in silver a natural stag with a green leaf in its mouth protruding from a red ladder on the left. On the helmet with silver and red covers , a branch with two golden lilies , between two green leaves.

Sometimes gold is emblazoned instead of silver.

See also

• Heraldic group of deer over chess
• List of German noble families

literature

• Julius Theodor Bagmihl : Pommersches Wappenbuch Stettin 1854, Volume IV., S. 142, Tab. 47
• Robert Klempin and Gustav Kratz (eds.): Matriculations and registers of the Pomeranian knighthood from the XIV. To the XIX. Century. Berlin 1863, pp. 17-18
• George Adalbert von Mülverstedt (arr.): J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms : The dead nobility of the province of Pomerania. Nuremberg 1894, Volume 18, p. 4, Tfl. 1 u. 2

Individual evidence

1. ^ Horst FE Dequin: Origin and career of Hermann Balk, the first Landmeister of the Teutonic Order in Prussia - a genealogical-personal-historical investigation. Self-published, Westerhorn 1996, p. 31
2. ↑ Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy . Berlin 1855, Volume 1, p. 30 ; 1858, Volume 3, p. 187