Brackel (German-Baltic noble family)
Brackel , also Brakel, is the name of an old German-Baltic noble family . Branches of the family persist to this day.
Origin and Distribution
The progenitor of the Baltic Brackel was Heinricus de Brakele , who was mentioned in a document as a knight and vassal of the diocese of Ösel-Wiek in the years 1225-1248 .
His presumed son Sifridus de Brakele , mentioned in a document in the years 1270-1283, was in Danish service as captain of Reval . In the years that followed, the von Brackel gentlemen were among the wealthiest and most respected families in Danish Estonia, as well as in the Dorpat and Ösel-Wiek monasteries . The consistently documented line of the family begins with Clawes de Brakele , mentioned in a document in the years 1353-1385, bailiff of Dorpat and vassal of the Archdiocese of Riga .
The Courland Line, founded in the 16th century, registered with the Courland Knighthood in 1841 (No. 140). This line started with the royal Bavarian colonel Heinrich Rudolph von Brackel (* 1790; † after 1848), who was promoted to the status of Bavarian baron in 1836 .
The Swedish and Finnish line founded in the 17th century by the royal Swedish colonel Georg Anton von Brackel (* 1627; ⚔ 1686) received the Swedish nobility naturalization in 1756 and was introduced to the nobility class of the Swedish knighthood (No. 1979). In 1818 it was introduced to the nobility class of the Finnish knighthood (No. 129). At the beginning of the 20th century this line also became extinct.
In 1742 the family registered with the Livonian knighthood (No. 12). Only this line has endured to the present day.
coat of arms
In the silver shield is a crowned, natural deer head placed forward, without a collar and with a tongue stuck out. Natural deer antlers on the helmet with black and silver covers .
According to the coat of arms of the Westphalian nobility , the family is said to come from Westphalia, where the gold coat of arms shows a red deer head from the front. On the crowned helmet with red and gold covers the head of the deer.
Name bearer
- Heinrich von Brakel (* before 1200, † after 1248), clergyman in Paderborn, episcopal and Danish vassal
- Johann von Brackel († 1651), knight captain of the Estonian knighthood
- Heinrich Otto von Brackel (* 1674; † 1713), Royal Swedish Major General
- Casimir Christoph von Brackel (* 1686; † 1742), court master and chancellor in Courland
- Woldemar von Brackel (* 1807; † 1877), Imperial Russian Major General
- Heinrich Rudolph von Brackel (* 1790, † after 1848), royal Bavarian colonel, 1840–1848 colonel in command of the Chevaulegers Regiment No. 5
See also
literature
- Peter v. Brackel: The gender of Brackel. An investigation into the origin and history of the Baltic family v. Brackel with family tables, pedigree, kinship tables, family statistics as well as special excursions and representations of contemporary history. 4 volumes, Bad Honnef 2004
- Peter v. Brackel: The gender of Brackel. Family tables about the lines in Westphalia and the Baltic States with 3 additional excursions. Special issue of the Baltic genealogical tables. Volume 23, Hamburg 1999
- Tor Carpelan (ed.): Ättartavlor för de på Finlands Riddarhus inskrivna ätterna. Volume I, Helsingfors 1954.
- Gustaf Elgenstierna : Den introducerade svenska adelns ättartavlor vol. I, p. 561 ff., Stockholm 1925 ( stem series and older genealogy)
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume II, Volume 58 of the complete series, p. 49, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1974, ISSN 0435-2408
- Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knighthoods (New Series) , Hamburg 2012, Vol. 2, pp. 53–131
- Nicolai von Essen (edit.): Genealogical Handbook of the Oesel Knighthood , 1935, pp. 652–654
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Nobligen Häuser (A) Gotha 1928 (family and older genealogy), 1932 (family), 1937–1941 (continuations)
- Astaf von Transehe-Roseneck (edit.): Genealogical manual of the Livonian knighthood . Part 1, Volume 1, Görlitz 1929, pp. 73-80