Barnekow (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of the Rügen von Barnekow

Barnekow is the name of two families, the primeval nobility of Mecklenburg († 16th century) and Pomerania and the Rügen family, who were not related to each other.

The Mecklenburg family of Barnekow

The Mecklenburg Barnekows were of Low German origin. They borrowed their family name from the village of Barnekow near Wismar.

The family with the progenitor Alverich Barnekow (1230/1271) is first mentioned in a document. The Ratzeburg tithe register from 1230 listed him under his first name. As a member of the Mecklenburg castle crew and then the new state castle in Wismar, Alverich Barnekow was one of the councilors of Johann I and Heinrich I of Mecklenburg. His descendants established four lines. The most important of these was the Roggenstorf line, which died out at the end of the 14th century, with the sovereign councilors Ulrich Barnekow (1303/1318), Heinrich Barnekow (1318/1337) and Raven Barnekow (1333/1378). These three councils belonged to the closest circle of Heinrich II. And Albrecht II. Of Mecklenburg and acquired various pawn bailiffs in Mecklenburg as war entrepreneurs in their service. The family acquired further pawns in Sweden under Albrecht III.

In contrast, the Gustävel line established by the sovereign councilor Reimar Barnekow (1279/1306) in terms of national political importance was far behind. With the sale of the indebted Gustävel estate near Schwerin, the Barnekow family finally disappeared from the Mecklenburg knighthood at the end of the 16th century.

coat of arms

The Mecklenburg Barnekows and the Rütz family, related to them, had a bull's forehead over a flight as their coat of arms. According to the colored illustration in the Armorial Bellenville from the end of the 14th century, the coat of arms had the following tinging: On a silver background a red bull's forehead over a black eagle flight. In Siebmacher's coat of arms of 1902 is emblazoned: in red two golden flights placed side by side with drooping feathers, above a forehead horn with golden horns. On the helmet with the red and gold covers, a ball covered with peacock feathers.

  • Seal of Heinrich von Barnekow, Knight 1333

  • Coat of arms of the Mecklenburg noble family Barnekow in the Armorial Bellenville

  • Coat of arms of the von Barnekow (Mecklenburg) in Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms books, 1902

The Barnekow family

The Rügen Barnekows were of Slavic origin.

The place and Gut Klein Kubbelkow belonged to the family from the 14th century until 1945.

On April 25, 1825 , King Friedrich Wilhelm III. a baron diploma for Christoph Gottlieb Bogislav von Barnekow .

The Klein Kubbelkow estate , which has been managed by the family since the 14th century, is located in Klein Kubbelkow, with the manor house from 1908 and the estate park from around 1700, which was expanded around 1860.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the Rügischen Barnekows shows a right jumping (crowned) half red ram in the silver field. The ram growing on the helmet with red-silver covers (between peacock feathers) .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Biereye: About the people in the Ratzeburg tithe register of 1230. In: Mecklenburg-Strelitzer Geschichtsblätter 9 (1933), pp. 1–160.
  2. ↑ MUB 375.
  3. ↑ Friedrich Crull : The coats of arms of the genders of the team that occurred up to 1360 in today's borders of Meklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Verein für Meklenburgische Geschichte und Alterthumskunde 52 (1887), p. 34–182, here: p. 67 f.
  4. ↑ Armorial Bellenville, p. 34r.
  5. ↑ George Adalbert von Mülverstedt : J. Siebmacher's large and general Wappenbuch , VI. Volume, 10th department, extinct Mecklenburg nobility , Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg 1902, p. 7, Tfl. 3.