Blanckensee
Blanckensee , also Blankensee , is the name of a nobility from New Mark , who were counted among the most influential and powerful there and later spread to Pomerania and Posen . Branches of the family persist to this day.
history
The family appears for the first time with Aluericus de Blanckensee , who appears as a witness on October 15, 1234. The consistently secured family line begins in 1333 with Gyso de Blankenze , heir to Schlagenthin . He was married to Gertrud von Güntersberg from the Dölitz house . His great-grandson of the same name, the Brandenburg Secret Council Gyso III. von Blanckensee acquired 1/2 Schönwerder in 1449 , owned besides Schlagenthin from his father's inheritance also Raddun and Arnswalde . Gyso III. excelled in the war when he captured and defended the Marienburg for Margrave Joachim I. He was banned from church by the Pope . He was married to Sophie von der Osten from the Woldenburg family. His son Hans donated the two main lines of the family around 1460, while his son Hans , who was married to Katharina von Güntersberg from the Ravenstein family , received Schlagenthin and Neuenkirchen and his son Tyde Schönwerder.
Although Elzow mentions a witness Peter von Blanckensee in Pomerania as early as 1331 , the family can only be identified there in a document in 1523 with Johachim von Blanckensee , heir to Schönwerder, mentioned in a sample roll . In 1583 Tönnies von Blanckensee , heir to Schönwerder and Reichenbach, had to provide three horses for inspection. Various purchases and sales of goods in Pomerania by the Lords of Blanckensee are documented between 1704 and 1787 .
Schlagenthin line
Several members of the Schlagenthin line served in the Electoral Saxon army , through this also in the Danish army , but above all in the Prussian army .
Hans Adam von Blankensee , heir to Schlagenthin, had married Margaretha von Delitz from the Morstein house near Nörenberg . His son Bernd Sigismund von Blanckensee (1693–1757) had distinguished himself at Chotusitz and was wounded at Kesselsdorf . In 1751 he became a knight of the order Pour le Mérite , became head of the former Saxon Guard and rose to the position of Prussian major general.
Schönwerder line
From the Schönwerder line, the royal Prussian chamberlain , cathedral dean of the bishopric of Cammin and general landscape representative of West Prussia, Alexander Sigismund Friedrich Richard Georg von Blanckensee (1747-1817) acquired the rule of Filehne from a princess Sapiéha , to which the mid-19th century City itself and 56 other localities with a total of 13,252 inhabitants belonged. On June 5, 1798 he was raised to the Prussian count status. He was married to Baroness Auguste Dorothea von Hagen (1757-1819) and became the progenitor of the Counts of Blanckensee .
More families
Count Blankensee- Fircks
Prussian Count Blankensee-Fircks in 1857, when a Fideikommiss was founded , hereditary according to the law of the firstborn for Baron Clotar von Fircks , married the same year to Countess Marie von Blankensee
Count Blankensee- Pückler
In 1885 the names and coats of arms of both count families were united for Count Friedrich von Pückler , Baron von Groditz, Prussian Premier Lieutenant in Hussar Regiment No. 4 . In 1901 the name was changed to Graf von Pückler and Blankensee for the same, hereditary tied to the property at Blankensee'schen Fideikommiss Wugarten.
possession
- in the Neumark: Bollenhagen in the Soldin district ; Wugarten in the Friedeberg district ; Nantikow , Radun, Rohrpful, Schlagenthin and Steinberg in the Arnswalde district ; Trossin in the Koenigsberg district
- in Pomerania: Blankensee, Hohenwalde , Hohengrape , Krüssow , Reichenbach , Schönberg and Schönwerder in the Pyritz district ; Alt-Damerow , Mellen, Uchtenhagen and Wulkow in the Saatzig district ; Giesebitz , Poblotz , Warbelin and Zipkow in the Stolp district ; Butzke and Pumlow in the Belgard district ; Fritzow and Plauentin in the Fürstenthum district ; Zemlin in Cammin County ; Jellentsch in the Bütow district ; Klützow and Ritzig in the Schivelbein district ; Dünow and Moritzfelde in the Greifenhagen district ; Rienow in the Regenwalde district ; Santzkow in the Demmin district
- in Posen: the rule, later Fideikommiss Filehne in the district of Czarnikau
- in East Prussia : Bareuken in the Fischhausen district
- in Westphalia : Erkentrup in the Bielefeld district
coat of arms
- The family coat of arms shows three (2, 1) silver six-pointed stars in blue. On the helmet with blue-silver covers, three white-blue ostrich feathers with a six-pointed silver star.
- The count's coat of arms (1798) shows three (2, 1) silver six-pointed stars in red. Three helmets without blankets, the middle one like the family coat of arms, the two outer ones each with an inward-facing, gold-valued, black eagle with a red tongue. Two wild men holding a shield , each holding a club in their free hand that has been propped on the ground .
Known family members
- Peter von Blanckensee (1659–1734), Prussian general of the cavalry, reformer of the tax system in Western Pomerania
- Anton von Blankensee († 1740), Prussian colonel, chief of the Berlin Land Regiment
- Bernd Siegmund von Blankensee (1693–1757), Prussian major general, chief of Infantry Regiment No. 30
- Wolf Alexander Ernst Christoph von Blanckensee (1684–1745), Prussian Major General, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 23
- Busso Christian von Blanckensee (1695–1765), Prussian colonel, chief of garrison regiment No. 10
- Georg Christoph von Blanckensee (1710–1781), Prussian councilor and Pomeranian district administrator in the Pyritz district
- Christian Friedrich von Blanckensee (1716–1757), Prussian major general, chief of Dragoon Regiment No. 2
- Adam Christian von Blanckensee , Prussian officer, 1747 knight of the order Pour le Mérite
- Georg von Blankensee (1792–1867), writer and musician
- Adolf von Blanckensee (1812–1871), Prussian major general, commandant of Torgau
- Waldemar von Blanckensee (1828–1906), Prussian major general, commander of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade
- Peter von Blanckensee (1858–1914), Prussian major general, led the 98th Reserve Infantry Brigade during the First World War
- Cuno von Blanckensee (1862–1938), Prussian major general, led the 78th Reserve Infantry Brigade during the First World War
literature
- Julius Theodor Bagmihl : Pommersches Wappenbuch . Stettin 1843, Volume 1, pp. 126-128 , Volume 46
- Genealogical handbook of the nobility , CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn)
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses Justus Perthes, Gotha 1860, volume 33 p. 98
- Historical-heraldic manual for the genealogical paperback of the count's houses. Verlag Perthes, Gotha 1855, p. 65
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Leipzig 1859, Volume 1, pp. 461-463
- Leopold von Ledebur : Nobility Lexicon of the Prussian Monarchy . Berlin 1855, Volume 1, p. 54 ; Volume 3, p. 203
- Karl Friedrich Pauli : Lives of great heroes of the present war , Volume 8, Halle 1763, pp. 123–150
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Nobility Lexicon . Leipzig 1836, Volume 1, pp. 248-250
Web links
- The von Blanckensee family in the Wildenfels castle archive
- Homepage of an Australian branch of the family
- "Blanckensee" coat of arms in Siebmacher's Wappenbuch, Volume 1, Plate 172, original and colored
Individual evidence
- ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis. Vol. X, p. 199.
- ^ Albrecht Elzow : Pommerscher Adelsspiegel by Albrecht Elzow from the 17th century, supplemented, corrected and expanded by Christoph v. Heydebreck and Friedrich Wilhelm v. the east plathe in the 18th century. Landesarchiv Greifswald Signature: Rep. 41 vdOsten-Plathe Ost 11 / I. Blanckensee department.
- ↑ Nobility Lexicon . Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, Limburg (Lahn) 1972, pp. 424-425.
- ↑ Nobility Lexicon. Volume XVII (supplements), Volume 144 of the complete series, Limburg (Lahn) 2008, pp. 96–97.