Briest (noble family)
Briest is the name of an old, extinct Magdeburg noble family that spread to Brandenburg early on .
history
The family first appears in a document between 1368 and 1380 with the squires Heinrich, Klaus and Gebhard von Briest . The parent company Briest was the homonymous estate in the former district of Jerichow II , in which the family owned Bähne in 1446 and Schmetzdorf in 1477. In West Havelland , the family owned Premnitz as early as 1451. The Bamme and Nennhausen estates remained in the family from 1682 until the tribe died out in 1822.
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows a blue anchor in silver between two red roses. On the helmet with red and silver blankets, a red hooded silver cap hanging backwards between two dry natural tree branches, each of which is decorated with two stalked red roses on the outside.
Name bearer
- Jakob Friedrich von Briest (1695–1768), Prussian major general
His brother August Siegmund von Briest (1702–1771) was married to Augusta Dorothea Louise Cordula von Rohr (1709–1768). Their son was the last of the sex:
- Philipp Friedrich August Wilhelm von Briest (1749-1822), Rittmeister a. D.
he had three daughters:
- Caroline Philippine (1773–1831), married I) to Adolf Ludwig Rochus von Rochow (1770–1799), II) to Friedrich Baron de la Motte Fouqué (1777–1843)
- Karoline Friederike Auguste von Briest (1804– after 1818)
- Friedrike Klara Charlotte (1806-1885)
Theodor Heinrich von Rochow , a grandson of Philipp Friedrich August Wilhelm von Briest, received permission to carry the Briest name on April 20, 1816. However, since his marriage remained without sons, the name finally expired on his death on April 19, 1854.
Others
Theodor Fontane gave his Roman name Effi Briest . As an ancestor of the imaginary heroine, however, the District Administrator Jakob Friedrich von Briest (1631-1703) is explicitly named, of whom it is said in Chapter 8 that he was the Briest "who carried out the attack on Rathenow the day before the Battle of Fehrbellin ".
Individual evidence
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume II, Volume 58 of the complete series, p. 110
- ↑ Kneschke , New General German Adels Lexicon , Second Volume, Leipzig 1860, p. 73
- ^ August Siegmund von Briest at worldhistory.de
- ^ Schmidt, Fouqué and some of his contemporaries, Darmstadt 1958, p. 505
- ^ Theodor Fontane: Effi Briest . Eighth chapter
literature
- New general German nobility lexicon, second volume, Leipzig 1860, p. 73
- Zedlitz-Neukirch, New Prussian Adels Lexicon, Supplement-Volume, Leipzig 1839, p. 74
- Zedlitz-Neukirch, New Prussian Adels Lexicon, First Volume, Leipzig 1836, p. 310
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume II, Volume 58 of the complete series, p. 110, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1974, ISSN 0435-2408