Barby (noble family)
Barby is the name of an old noble family from the Magdeburg region . It is not related to the sex of the Earls of Barby . The family name can be traced back to the former Barby Castle on the Elbe and the names of the noble lords and later Counts of Barby who ruled there.
The spelling of the name was initially very inconsistent, e.g. B. de Barbi, de Barbey, van Barby, von Barbye, de Barby, de Barboy, de Barbii , before the current spelling of the name of the city of Barby as well as the gender became naturalized.
history
In 1296 a Joannes de Barbi is mentioned for the first time on the occasion of a donation from Duke Heinrich von Braunschweig to the Jerichow Monastery . Hans von Barby , who is said to have lived around 1223, is considered to be the progenitor of the family . It is proven in 1304 (in the 3rd generation of the family tree ) in a document of the Margrave of Brandenburg Knight Wipard van Barby , which also appears in other documents at the beginning of the 14th century.
The ancestors were initially hereditary lords of Jerichow with Klitzing and Ferchland , from 1423 office holders of Loburg and since 1457 owners of Loburg as well as Isterbies and Kalitz .
The Loburg I estate (Jerichower Land district) was owned by the family until 1945; in 1841 (also until 1945) the Großgestewitz estate ( Burgenlandkreis ) was added. In addition to these two lines, other branches of the family developed in Dessau and Wiesbaden.
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows a rising red unicorn in silver . On the crowned helmet with red and silver blankets a growing red unicorn.
The oldest depiction of the unicorn coat of arms shows the seal of Wyprecht van Barbey on a document from Bishop Burchard II of Havelberg from 1363.
The motto of the coat of arms reads: "Omnia cum deo, nihil sine eo" (Everything with God, nothing without him).
Known family members
- Johannes von Barby (before 1405–1445), cathedral dean of Magdeburg
- Andreas von Barby (1508–1559), Chancellor of the Danish King Christian III. and Bishop of Lübeck
- Levin von Barby (1619–1670), Princely Archdiocese of Magdeburg Chamber, Court and Justice Council
- Wilhelm von Barby (1795–1883), Prussian lieutenant general
- Friedrich von Barby (1801–1871), Prussian major general
- Adalbert von Barby (1820–1905), Prussian cavalry general, General-Barby-Strasse in Berlin-Reinickendorf is named after him
- Rudolf von Barby (1821–1906), Prussian lieutenant general
- Wilhelm von Barby (1866–1925), Duke of Anhalt Chamberlain and Oberhofmarschall in Dessau
- Hans Wiprecht von Barby (1934–2015), Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany in Denver, USA, initiator of the erection of a horse sculpture in Berlin, Clayallee , as a symbol for overcoming the division of Germany
See also
literature
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Uradelige houses, Volume 10, p. 51ff. Justus Perthes, Gotha 1909.
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses A, volume XXVI, p. 21ff. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg / Lahn 2001.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1296 in a document: Ludewig, JP: Reliquiae Manuscriptorum ..., T. 12, 1741, p. 428; 1304 in a document: Riedel, AF: Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis, vol. 2.1, 1867, p. 255.