Billerbeck (noble family)
Billerbeck is the name of an original Saxon nobility family . It is to be distinguished from three Westphalian families of the same name with different coats of arms and the ancestral seat Billerbeck , one of which died out around 1400, the other around 1650.
history
The main seat of the foundation is the place of the same name near Lüneburg . There it is mentioned in a document on September 13, 1301 with its first representative known by name, Ulricus des Bilrebeke .
Since around 1400, the sex has been divided into several lines, which gradually spread over Mecklenburg , Mark Brandenburg and Pomerania .
In addition to the main family, there is a branch that descends from the illegitimate sons Otto Friedrich and Karl Rudolf Wilhelm Billerbeck of the Prussian Lieutenant Colonel Otto Friedrich von Billerbeck, Lord of Warnitz , who died in 1751 , and Helene Henrika von Gladiß, and the one on July 15, 1751 Prussian nobility legitimation with the settlement of the father's name and coat of arms.
coat of arms
Description of coat of arms : The coat of arms shows three (2: 1) golden cubes in blue , the two upper ones with 5 and 3, the lower one with 6 points (also differently distributed). On the helmet with blue and gold covers, the three cubes, each placed on the corner (also three golden alarm clocks) and each equipped with an ostrich feather (gold, blue, gold) (also with a natural peacock mirror).
Relatives
- Constantin von Billerbeck (1673–1744), Prussian colonel and commander of the Pillau fortress
- Johann Christoph von Billerbeck (1703–1777), Prussian lieutenant general
- Heinrich Wilhelm von Billerbeck (1707–1775), Prussian colonel
- Konstantin von Billerbeck (1713–1785), Prussian lieutenant general
- Christoph von Billerbeck (1714–1790), Prussian colonel
- Carl Gottfried von Billerbeck (1722–1761), Prussian major
- Liane von Billerbeck (* 1957), German journalist
literature
- Julius Theodor Bagmihl : Pommersches Wappenbuch , Volume 1, Stettin 1843, pp. 86-88.
- Gerhard Billerbeck: The Billerbeck in Holstein. In: Norddeutsche Familienkunde 19, 1970, pp. 279–282.
- Gerhard Billerbeck: The family v. Billerbeck in Pomerania. In Ostdeutsche Familienkunde 19, 1971, pp. 1–12 and 33–38.
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Genealogical manual of the nobility , CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn), ISSN 0435-2408
- Adelslexikon , Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, 1972, p. 402.
- Genealogical handbook of noble houses , Volume A 12, Volume 55 of the complete series, 1973, pp. 53-58.
- Genealogical pocket book of the knight and noble families , Volume 2, Brno 1877, pp. 87–90.
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Adeligen Häuser , A, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1921 p.76ff (family series, older genealogy), 1926 to 1939 (continuations).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Max von Spießen , Book of Arms of the Westphalian Nobility , Volume 1, p. 13.
- ↑ a b Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon. Volume I, p. 402, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg, 1972.