Below (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Below from Mecklenburg
Coat of arms of the von Below from Pomerania

Below is the name of an old Mecklenburg - Pomeranian noble family with a parent company (today Bälau ) near Bredenvelde , which is mentioned in Ratzeburg as early as 1194 and a later parent company Below near Goldberg .

history

The family first appeared in a document in 1217 with Nicolaus de Below as a witness to donations from the Counts of Schwerin to the Ratzeburg diocese . In 1296, Wluoldus de Belowe appears as the truchess of Duke Bogislaw IV of Pomerania . With him, the sex was established in Western Pomerania and later also in Western Pomerania . Mecklenburg's Below was first mentioned in 1296 when Prince Nikolaus II von Werle sold his property in Below and other places in the vicinity of Goldberg to the Cistercian monks of the Neuenkamp monastery in Franzburg in Western Pomerania . Witnesses at that time were Ywanus de Belowe, whose family were the locators of Below and who gave the village its name. In 1249 the brothers Ivan I and Nikolaus II von Below were still part of the retinue of Prince Pribislaw I.

In the account book of the Dobbertin monastery, which was kept from 1491, it is noted that in 1682 the virgin Dorothea Elisabeth von Below was given to the monastery . In the registration book of the Dobbertin monastery from 1696 to 1918 there are further entries from daughters of the von Below family from 1797 to 1872 for inclusion in the local aristocratic women's monastery . The coat of arms with attached star of the order of the conventual Caroline von Below is on the nun gallery in the monastery church , her grave place in the monastery cemetery Dobbertin .

In the 19th century, the von Below owned possessions in Western Pomerania in the Greifswald district. The goods were in Salchow and Jargelin between Greifswald and Anklam. Through these possessions they were permanent members of the district council. In the Greifswald district building a coat of arms frieze of the members was attached, which also contained that of the von Below.

On May 15, 1900, the family was granted the right to present the Prussian manor house by the crown because of the 600-year ownership in Pomerania .

coat of arms

  • The seal of those von Below from 1299 shows a shield with three double-headed eagles (2 over 1). “Like other genders, the v. Below, instead of the threefold shield figure, it was only taken once into its seal, in 1353, without a doubt, because with the smaller formats that were becoming common, a sufficiently clear representation of the shield figure in the majority was not feasible. "
  • The Mecklenburg tribe carries a black double-headed eagle in silver . On the helmet with its black and silver covers stands a black double-headed eagle held by two armored arms.
  • The Pomeranian tribe has three (2, 1) male heads in blue with hanging silver caps with blue facings. On the helmet with blue-silver blankets a head with the cap in front of a natural peacock bump .

Historical coats of arms

  • Seal of Nicolaus de Belau 1299

  • Coat of arms of the von Below in the district building in Greifswald

  • Coat of arms of the von Below I and II in Siebmacher's Wappenbuch 1605

  • Coat of arms in Danmarks nobility Aarbog 1888

  • Coat of arms of the von Below I and II in the new Siebmacher 1878

  • United Below coat of arms in the Baltic Book of Arms

Known family members

literature

swell

Web links

Commons : Below family  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mecklenburgisches Urkundenbuch (MUB) Volume I. Schwerin (1863) No. 633.
  2. ↑ MUB, Volume I.
  3. ^ Copiar in the Council Archives Greifswald, Bl. 19-20; printed in the Pomeranian Document Book, Vol. III, p. 289, No. 1783
  4. ↑ MUB Volume III. (1865) No. 2251.
  5. ↑ MUB Volume I. (1863) No. 633
  6. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Nobility Lexicon. Volume ICA Starke-Verlag, Limburg 1972, p. 299.
  7. ↑ Friedrich Crull: The coats of arms of the genders of the team that occurred up to 1360 in today's borders of Meklenburg. ( Memento from May 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 52 (1887), p. 50.
  8. ↑ Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knighthoods , Part 2,3 ,: Estland, Vol. 3, Görlitz, 1930, pp. 354–355 .