Blomberg (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Blomberg

The noble family of the Barons von Blomberg probably comes from the area of ​​the city of the same name in Blomberg in today's Lippe district , North Rhine-Westphalia . One line emigrated to Courland at the end of the 13th or beginning of the 14th century , where it belonged to the German-Baltic nobility.

history

The family is traced back to a Pawel Blomberg (documented 1307) in Courland as an ancestor. A Paul von Blomberg, Lord of Sexaten (today Sieksātes in Latvia) and Puhnen, died in 1394. His grandson may have been Siegfried von Blomberg , Archbishop of Riga from 1370 until his death in 1374.

Gender is divided into two main genealogical lines:

  • the Lippe line (extinct at the beginning of the 15th century)
  • the Courland line (its branches have expired except for the younger branch to Sergemit (h) en, from this, however, individual family members migrated back to Westphalia / Lippe, as well as to the Neumark )

In the historical literature a third, Swabian line is sometimes mentioned:

  • The Lords of Blumberg (12th – 14th centuries, extinct) at Alt-Blumberg Castle and Donaueschingen , with their sideline from Blumegg to Blumegg Castle (extinct in 1577). However, these have no proven common origin with the Blomberg in Lippe, even if the ancestral coats of arms of the two sexes in the baron diploma of Emperor Leopold I of 1670 (for Johann Albrecht von Blomberg , on sergemites, sexates and perennials, imperial ambassador in Moscow, as well as his brothers Heinrich and Sebastian ) were amalgamated to give credit to the Blombergs for the merits of the long-extinct Blumberg / Blumegg for the House of Habsburg.

The vassal family of the Kurland diocese appears in a document with Hermann Blomenberch auf Puhnen (1442–1467) and begins with Johann Blomberg the reliable line of tribe mentioned in 1583 on Sergemit (h) en. This manor (also called Groß-Sernaten) was located 12 km south of Hasau (today's Užava in the Ventspils district in Latvia ).

From there a branch came back to Lippe and was established in 1769 at Gut Iggenhausen in Lage (Lippe) . This came recently through Wiltrud Freifrau von Eckardstein, b. Freiin von Blomberg, (1911–1999) to the Barons von Eckhardtstein .

Karl Gotthard Freiherr von Blomberg auf Perbohnen acquired the Liebthal estate in Neumark, today Lubiatów in Dąbie (Lebus) , at the end of the 18th century , and his brother Georg Dietrich, through marriage to Amalie Grote, bought the Vortlage house in Lengerich (Westphalia) , which was sold in 1830 has been.

As a result of inheritance from the Barons von Münchhausen , the Nienfeld estate came to the von Blomberg family in the 20th century , and they still manage it today.

coat of arms

  • The family coat of arms shows one of three (2: 1) Mühleisen accompanied by black bars in silver. On the helmet with black and silver covers a mill iron as in the shield between an open, right silver and left black flight.
  • The baronial coat of arms from 1670 is quartered and covered with a silver heart shield, in it two blue bars, three times white clouded above (ancestral coat of arms of the Swabian von Blumberg). In fields 1 and 4 a black eagle at the gap in gold, in fields 2 and 3 the coat of arms with the black bar accompanied by three black mill irons. On the right of the two helmets with blue and silver covers a growing, two-tailed silver lion with a small red cross in its throat; on the left with black and silver covers, the open blue flight on the right and black on the left with the mill iron of the family coat of arms. Shield holder: on the right a black eagle, on the left a silver lion.

  • Coat of arms of those von Blomberg (Baltic Wappenbuch, 1882)

  • Coat of arms of the Barons von Blomberg from 1670 (register of arms of the Westphalian nobility, 1902) with the heart shield of the Swabian Blumberg / Blumegg

Known family members

Alexander von Blomberg (1788–1813), liberation fighter
Alexander von Blomberg monument in front of the Bartholomäuskirche in Otto-Braun-Strasse in Berlin

Members of this family were:

Younger Lippe Line

Courland Line

Prussian nobility legitimation from 1771

Founded by Julius von Blomberg (1769–1842), who, as the illegitimate son of Karl August von Blomberg , received nobility legitimation in 1771

Julius von Blomberg (1769–1841) ⚭ Leonore Friederike von Petersdorff (1770–1851)
Ludwig Ernst Adolf von Blomberg (1803-1892) ⚭ Amalie von dem Borne (1807-1851)
Emil Leopold von Blomberg (1840–1904) ⚭ Emma von Tschepe (1847–1938)
Werner von Blomberg (1878–1946), German field marshal as well as Reichswehr Minister and Reich Minister of War from 1933 to 1938

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Liv-, Est- and Kurländisches Urkundenbuch, Volume 10, Nos. 204–404
  2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Vol. 1, 1972