Basedow (noble family)

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Basedow is the name of the Lüneburg and Lübeck patrician belonging noble family that at least a registered and crest identical continued in 1833 ennobled Anhalt is family. It is at least controversial whether there is a tribal relationship with the older noble family, who used to be wealthy in the Uckermark zu Basedow .

history

As early as 1280, the Uuckmark family of the same name, which was found near Prenzlau zu Basedow, Baumgarten and Feld-Vorwerk, is mentioned in a document. The family is also associated with Basedow , the later ancestral estate of the Hahn family. Heinrich II. Basedow , who was bishop in Courland from 1501 , is also assigned to this or the following sex. With him, in the march already before 1500, this tribe died. On April 12, 1515, Bishop Basedow certified a coat of arms for Heinrich Wessel (Wesseler) from the Valant court, which was based on the Basedow coat of arms and represents a unique process during the period of the order.

Basedow's coat of arms on the gender table of the Lübeck Circle Society from 1703

In 1333 a family of the same name settled in Lüneburg. In 1338 Godeke Basedowe was mentioned in a document in Lüneburg. Albertus , Johann and Bernd Basedow are mentioned in Lüneburger wills . Later the family spread to Mecklenburg and Lübeck . In 1456, the family appointed a councilor in Malchin, Claus Basedow . In Lübeck, the Basedow family became advisable in the second half of the 15th century. Dietrich Basedow († 1501), son of the Lübeck citizen Bernhard Basedow , was elected to the Lübeck council in 1477 and joined the circle society in 1479 . He was one of the members of the circle society, which Emperor Friedrich III. 1485 wearing the Collar of permitted as a sign of nobility equality. His sister Tibbeke Basedow († 1504) married the councilor Volmar Warendorp , who came from the long- established patrician family Warendorp . Dietrich Basedow's son Jordan Basedow († 1555) was initially a member of the 64 committee and was elected councilor in Lübeck in 1535. The same Jordan Basedow received in 1552 from Emperor Charles V both the status confirmation as a nobleman, as well as an improvement in the coat of arms and the accolade . This tribe is said to have found its way out with him. However, in the 17th century Berend († 1712) and Hinrich (* 1610; † 1672), namesake still lived in Lübeck, who should also be in a filiation connection with the trunk described below.

The Anhalt-Dessau Real Secret Council and District President Ludwig von Basedow (* 1774; † 1835), a son of the pedagogue Johann Bernhard Basedow (* 1724; † 1790), learned of a nobility renewal from the Duke in 1833 with the settlement of the noble coat of arms improved in 1552 . His son, in turn, was the royal Prussian medical councilor Carl von Basedow (* 1799; † 1854), who in 1840 described Basedow's disease , which was named after him . The nobility was confirmed to him again in 1836 in Merseburg by the Prussian king . In the 19th century, the family was able to appoint another district president of Anhalt-Dessau. In 1848 a member served with the rank of captain in the Brandenburg Infantry Regiment No. 20 .

coat of arms

Seal of Lübeck Councilor Dietrich Basedow (1499)

The family coat of arms shows in a red shield with a green crossbar, covered with two silver sickles turned to the left on black handles. On the helmet with green and gold covers on the left and red and gold covers on the right, the two inclined, inward-facing sickles.

The coat of arms (1552, 1833) shows a growing black eagle above the crossbar. On the helmet, between the sickles the eagle. Inscription of the adjacent coat of arms: S (igillum) dyderich basdouwen

Name bearer

Further:

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Leipzig 1836, Volume 1, p. 138
  2. ^ Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : History and documents of the Hahn family. Schwerin, 1844, Volume 1, p. 4
  3. ^ Leonid Arbusow : Livonia's clergy from the end of the 12th to the 16th century , Steffenhagen, 1904.
  4. ^ Karl Eduard Napiersky : Index corporis historico-diplomatici Livoniae, Esthoniae, Curoniae. Riga and Dorpat 1835, Volume 2, p. 367
  5. ↑ Representation of the coat of arms in the yearbook for genealogy, heraldry and sphragistics , 1897, p. 9ff, grant of the coat of arms s. Website of the Herder Institute, Kurländische Güterurkunden, Urk. Bauer 358, 357a; s. a. German Family Archives, 1986, vol. 93, p. 120.
  6. ↑ Harald Witthöft: Outlines of a historical metrology for the benefit of economic and social historical research: Measure and weight in the city and country of Lüneburg, in the Hanseatic region and in the Electorate / Kingdom of Hanover from the 13th to the 19th century. 1979, p. 590
  7. ↑ Uta Reinhardt: Lüneburg Testaments of the Middle Ages. 1996, pp. 71, 102, 130, 144, 326, 476
  8. ↑ Only Lisch sees the Malchiner Basedow as another independent family. see FN 2
  9. ↑ a b c Fehling: Council line. No. 559, No. 563., No. 644.
  10. ^ Bernhard Basedow: From the life of two Lübeck Basedowen. 1940
  11. ^ Bernhard Friedrich Voigt: New Nekrolog der Deutschen. Weimar 1837, 13th year, Volume 2, No. 316, pp. 1064-1067

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