Bilow
Bilow is the name of an old noble family from West Pomerania with the parent company of the same name, Bilow near Loitz in West Pomerania.
The family is not to be confused with the von Bibow , von Below or von Bülow family . Branches of the sex persist now.
history
The sex appears for the first time in a document in the years 1320-1325 with Hinricus Bylowe and Dominus Hermannus de Bylowe . The uninterrupted line of trunks begins in 1387 with Radeke von Bilow on Bilow .
Members of the family have served with distinction in the Swedish , Prussian and Danish military.
Historical property
- in Pomerania: Bilow, Borgstedt, Drosedow, Gasgow, Grellenberg, Grischow , Gülzow, Landsdorf, Rakow, Schmoldow, Schönenfelde and Schönenwalde
- in Mecklenburg: Brookhusen, Guthendorf, Schlackendorf and Wahrstorf
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows three transverse, silver axes in red, the irons turned to the right and downwards. On the crowned helmet with red and silver covers, two upward sloping silver axes.
Relatives
- Georg von Bilow († after 1659), Swedish general, commandant of Thorn
- Karl Gustav von Bilow, Prussian captain († after 1793), knight of the order Pour le Mérite
- Nils Ferdinand von Bilow (* 1800; † 1846), Pomeranian landowner, politician and historian
literature
- Julius Theodor Bagmihl : Pommersches Wappenbuch . Volume 1, Stettin 1843, pp. 84-85 ; Tab. 32 and 35
- Genealogical handbook of noble houses A 2, Volume 11 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1955, pp. 102-103
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, p. 403, 1972, ISSN 0435-2408
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Nobligen Häuser (A) Gotha 1915 (Stammreihen and older genealogy), 1917–1935 (continuations, I. lineage), 1939 (continuation)
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 1, Leipzig 1859, p. 431
- Family v. Bilow. In: Der Deutsche Herold 45, 1914, pp. 184-185
- Leopold von Ledebur : Nobility Lexicon of the Prussian Monarchy . , Volume 1, Berlin 1855, p. 65 ; Volume 3, 1858, p. 201
- Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the constitutional hereditary comparisons (1755). Rostock 1864, p. 23
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Pomeranian document book , directory of vassals of the Rügen prince Wizlaw III.