Baltic heraldic book

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Carl Arvid from Klingspor

The Baltic heraldic book includes the heraldic collections of the Baltic knighthoods of Livonia , Estonia , Courland and Oesel . The book of arms was drawn up and published by Carl Arvid Klingspor in Stockholm in 1882 . Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt took over the graphic design of the coats of arms .

  • Coat of arms of the Livonian knighthood

  • House of Estonian Knights in Tallinn

  • Coat of arms of the Courland Knighthood

  • Knight's house of the Ösel knighthood in Arensburg

history

Extract from Johann Christoph Brotzke's collection of various monuments (tombstone and coat of arms)

The Baltic knighthoods had heraldic drawings made for their archives and had heraldic shields hung up in their knightly houses. At first there were only published heraldic books of the Courland and Estonian knighthood. There were two copies of heraldic books for the Livonian knighthood, but they were not published, including the heraldic book of Anna Gertrude von Vegesack from 1759 and the Livonian heraldic book of the archaeologist Johann Christoph Brotze . Since these two copies did not meet the strict requirements of the genealogical and heraldic regulations, they were not published. Johann Eberhard Neimbts had published a coat of arms of the Courland nobility in 1793, but it had not been completed. In 1837 the Estonian Wappenbuch by Paul Eduard Damier was published, it contained 179 coats of arms and, according to Klingspor, was fraught with many errors. Between 1840 and 1850, with the technical assistance of the Genealogical Commission, an edited book of arms was published by Ernst David Schabert in 1852 . It comprised 320 coats of arms, but according to Klingspor also did not meet the criteria set for them, contained several errors and was not stylistically perfect.

The creation of his book of arms, as Klingspor emphasized, is not just for organizational reasons, but:

“The“ Baltic Wappenbuch ”is intended to bring back memories of the shared past of the Baltic knighthoods; it should contribute to strengthening the consciousness of centuries of tradition! "Also nice signs of the coat of arms" are able to serve this purpose in their own way and in this custom they are not only distinctive signs, but also symbols of association "

- Carl Arvid von Klingspor [3]

structure

Front cover of the Baltic Book of Arms (1882)

contents

Preface

1. Heraldic introduction

2. Overview of the current constitution of the Baltic knighthood

3. Notes on the history and prehistory of the registers of the Baltic Knighthoods

4. Legal provisions on admission to and exclusion from knighthoods, the right to use titles, etc.

annotation

Side dishes

I. Register of the Livonian Knighthood

II. Register of the Estonian Knighthood

III. Register of the Courland Knighthood

IV. Register of the Knights of Oesel

V. List of those families whose coats of arms are included in Schabert's Kurländisches Wappenbuch, but could not be included in the Baltic Wappenbuch

VI. List of missing coats of arms

VII. Appendix, containing the alphabetical index of the names and surnames of all those families whose coats of arms are contained in this register of arms, together with corrections etc.

literature

  • Carl Arvid Klingspor: Baltic Wappenbuch Wappen all the noble families belonging to the knights of Livonia, Estonia, Courland and Oesel , Stockholm 1882 [4]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anna Gertrude, född 1721-09-21, död ogift 1775-12-29. Hon visade tidigt håg för teckning och utförde en vapenbok över livländska nobility, innehållande 396 vapen, vilken förvaras på riddarhuset i Riga. ( German :… developed a book of coats of arms about the Livonian knighthood, which contains 396 coats of arms and is kept in the knight's house in Riga). In: Adelsvapen-Wiki, Adliga ätten von Vegesack nr 679 TAB 20 [1]
  2. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Johann Eberhard Neimbts. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
  3. ^ Paul Eduard Damier: Wappen-Buch of all families belonging to the Estonian aristocratic registers. Reval 1837, ( online version )
  4. ↑ Ernst David Schabert, Complete Book of Arms of the Kurlaendischen Nobility, under the supervision of the commission set up for the processing of the knightly genealogies, lithographed and published [2]