Brunn (noble family)

Coat of arms of the Central Markets of Brunn

Brunn is the name of a middle-market nobility family with the same name as the parent company in Havelland. Since 1853 the name Brunn called von Kauffungen has also been used, the management of which was approved by Prussian cabinet orders. The von Brunn are of the same tribe and coat of arms as the Itzenplitz .

history

The family is first mentioned in a document in 1257 with Daniel de Brunnen . The family line begins in 1540 with Hans von Brunn. In 1788 only two living members of the von Brunn family are named. These are Albrecht Georg Friedrich Wilhelm von Brunn and Casper Siegmund Julius Friedrich von Brunn. Both were lieutenants in the Möllendorf infantry regiment ( Old Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 15 ).

coat of arms

Arms of the von Brunn family, mistakenly with mastiffs instead of bears

The family coat of arms shows in red a silver diagonal right bar covered with three black bear heads with gold collars and rings. On the helmet with red-silver blankets a growing black bear with a ringed gold collar made of three (red-silver-red) ostrich feathers.

In the first half of the 19th century, brown mastiffs' heads were mistakenly shown in Tyroff's coat of arms, and the mastiff was shown growing on the helmet.

Important representatives

• Balthasar von Brunn (1593–1643), Brandenburg statesman
• Adalbert von Brunn (1842–1907), officer
• Florian von Brunn (* 1969), member of the Bavarian State Parliament

Alsatian noble family

There was also a nobility from Alsace . The headquarters are presumed to be in Niederbronn-les-Bains . In 1378 a Wilhelm von Born (or Burne) was recorded on the nearby Wasenburg , which could possibly mean the father of the later Würzburg Bishop Johann II von Brunn , Wilhelm von Brunn († 1401).

The verifiable coat of arms differs significantly from the aforementioned Mittelmark gender, which suggests that the names are identical without any family ties.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of those of Brunn

A red fish hook on silver. Visible, among other things, as a relief on the outer wall of Forchheim Castle .

Important representatives

• Lamprecht von Brunn (1374–1398), Prince-Bishop of Bamberg
• Johann II von Brunn (1411–1440), Bishop of Würzburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Riedel, Adolph Friedrich , CDB I, Vol. III, p. 341
2. ↑ History of Wasenbourg Castle (French)
3. ↑ New German Biography: Johann II. Von Brunn ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

literature

• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Areligen Häuser , Part A, 33 Jg., Gotha 1934, p. 83
• Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume II, Volume 58 of the complete series, page 139-140, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1974, ISSN  0435-2408

Web link

• from Brunn rittergueter.de