Blanckensee

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Coat of arms of those of 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

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

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis. Vol. X, p. 199.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ↑ Nobility Lexicon . Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, Limburg (Lahn) 1972, pp. 424-425.
  4. ↑ Nobility Lexicon. Volume XVII (supplements), Volume 144 of the complete series, Limburg (Lahn) 2008, pp. 96–97.