Burgsdorff (noble family)

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Burgsdorff (also Burgsdorf or Borgsdorf ) is the name of an ancient noble family from the Brandenburg region . Branches of the family still exist today.

They are not to be confused with the "Schiltknechten von Burgdorff" (without s), an aristocratic family presumably extinct in the 17th century, which are documented in the Augsburg area and had a different coat of arms.

history

origin

Little is known about the earliest history of the family. There is no evidence of a derivation from the Swiss town of Burgdorf, which is occasionally mentioned in older literature . It is also uncertain whether Dietrich († 1471), Bishop of Naumburg (term of office from 1463 to 1466), belonged to the family, as he had a different coat of arms .

The family first appears in a document in 1325 with the knight Henning (Hennyche) de Burchardisdorp . He was the father of Zabel , documented mention in 1364, the progenitor of the two lines of the family.

Lines and possessions

Zabel's sons Johann and Peter founded the Mittelmark and Neumark lines.

The houses Podelzig , Reitwein and Rathstock belonged to the Mittelmark line, the houses Dartz, Ziethen and Mellenthin belong to the Neumark line. The latter line owned the goods Dertzow, Pützig, Zehden , Neuenhof, Goldbeck, Bukow, Obersdorf and Groß-Manschow. A branch came to Silesia and came to land in Prittag, Kolzig , Polish Kessel in the Glogauer and Grünberger Land , Korschwitz and Mischkowitz near Munsterberg and Strehlitz near Schweidnitz .

A branch of the Neumark line from the Mellenthin family settled in Saxony . Christoph Gottlob von Burgsdorff († 1807), a member of this branch, was electoral Saxon president of the senior consistory and later royal Saxon director of the accounting deputation .

In the Neumark the family owned the Fideikommiss Markendorf and Kartzig.

After 1945 the family bought the Dobersdorf estate in the Plön district .

Personalities

Members of the family entered influential offices early on. Peter von Burgsdorff was bishop of Lebus from 1437 to 1439 and Ludwig von Burgsdorf from 1486 to 1490 . Arnold von Burgsdorf was elected Bishop of Brandenburg in 1472 and held the office until his death on June 17, 1485.

Conrad Alexander Magnus von Burgsdorff († 1652) comes from the Ziethen family . He was Chief Chamberlain and Privy Councilor of the Electors of Brandenburg and Commander in Chief of all Brandenburg fortresses. His brother Johann Ebenreich von Burgsdorff († 1656) became head stable master of Brandenburg , chamberlain and government councilor of New Mark .

coat of arms

The family coat of arms is split three times by red and silver and covered with a blue bar . The crowned helmet is decorated with three ostrich feathers in red, silver and blue. The helmet covers are red-silver on the right and blue-silver on the left.

The Lord Chamberlain Konrad von Burgsdorff received a coat of arms improvement from Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg on November 15, 1643 in Küstrin . As Helmzier go two in armor arms up, keeping the three red-silver-blue ostrich feathers in his hands.

Known family members (chronological)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anke Winkler: "Genealogical and restoration questions of a Majestätsbriefes", IN: Series of publications Heft 10, Museum and Art Collection Schloss Hinterglauchau, Glauchau, 1994, pp. 16-21 (preserved sheet of a nobility diploma of the "Schiltknechte von Burgdorff" issued by Ferdinand II 1623)
  2. ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis . A, XX, 207.