Brandis (Lower Saxon noble family)
Brandis is the name of an old Hildesheim family who immigrated there with Hans Brandes in 1444. The reliable line of trunks begins with Cord Brandis zu Alfeld (Leine) in 1383/1384, who is perhaps identical to the councilor Cord Brandes zu Gronau (Leine) near Alfeld, mentioned in 1366 .
Nobility uprisings
- Imperial nobility and coat of arms confirmation on March 2, 1769 in Vienna for Friedrich Christian Brandis , landowner in Döhren and an electoral Brunswick-Lüneburg grenadier - captain .
- Royal Hanoverian baron on June 10, 1856 in Hanover for Eberhard von Brandis , royal Hanoverian general of the infantry and minister of war.
- Entry in the royal Saxon nobility book on May 2, 1907 for the retired royal Prussian lieutenant . D. Eberhard von Brandis .
coat of arms
Family coat of arms (oldest seal from 1469): Divided, above a growing black twelve-end deer in gold, below in silver three black diagonal bars. On the helmet with black and silver covers, two outwardly inclined black and gold tournament lances or sticks, divided diagonally to the right .
Name bearer
- August von Brandis (1859–1947), German painter and draftsman
- Cordt von Brandis (1888–1972), officer and free corps leader
- Cordt Freiherr von Brandis (1874–1945), Lieutenant General
- Eberhard Freiherr von Brandis (1795–1884), Infantry General and Minister of War of the Kingdom of Hanover
- Georg Freiherr von Brandis (* 1948), German major general
Noble families of the same name
The Lower Saxon nobility dynasty must be distinguished from the South Tyrolean nobility dynasty of the Counts of Brandis , which is still flourishing today, and the Swiss nobility dynasty of the Lords of Brandis, which died out in 1512 .
literature
- Genealogical handbook of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume II, page 61, Volume 58 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1974
- Richard B. Hilf: Brandis. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 524 ( digitized version ).
