Campe (Brunswick noble family)

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Family arms of those of Campe

Campe , also Campe (n) von Isenbüttel or Campe from the House of Campe , is the name of an old Brunswick-Lüneburg noble family . The family belongs to the Uradel in Lower Saxony .

history

origin

The Brunswick von Campe family must not be confused with other noble families of the same name. For example, a noble von Campe family from the Diocese of Hildesheim appears in the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility from 1974 , which also has a different coat of arms . In Kneschke's New General German Adels Lexicon from 1860, Volume 2, Page 203 f., Six noble families with the name Campe are mentioned.

The family coat of arms appears for the first time as the seal of the Saxon truchess Jordan in an undated document from the period from 1212 to 1215. Around 1268, bathing sinus et Heinricus fratres dicti de Campe are mentioned in a document with a seal and under the surname Blankenburg . The uninterrupted lineage of the family begins with the knight and trustee Jordan von Campe on Wettmarshagen and Neindorf, who appears in documents in 1282 and 1316.

The parent company that gives it its name is Campen Castle, near Braunschweig , in Flechtorf , a district of the community of Lehrer in the Helmstedt district in Lower Saxony. The castle was first mentioned in a document in 1279, but was probably built much earlier to protect the trade route from Braunschweig to the Altmark . In 1279, the year it was first mentioned, the castle was conquered by the troops of Dukes Heinrich I and Albrecht II . They led a feud against their uncle, Bishop Otto von Hildesheim, and took 70 of his vassals prisoner in the castle .

According to the yearbook of the German nobility , the von Campe were a branch of the ancient von Blankenburg noble family, which has been attested since 1120 with Bernhard and Erich as Burgmannen zu Blankenburg . Under Emperor Lothar and Duke Heinrich the Lion, the Lords of Blankenburg held the office of treasurer , chief food and tavern in Brunswick , which centuries later passed to family members. During the 13th century, several branches are said to have branched off from the main trunk, which were named after their new ancestral seat: von Campe, von Neindorf and von Bodendik. According to this, all genders, with the exception of von Campe and the probably belonging von Meding , are said to have died out.

Spread and personalities

Anno von Blankenburg and von Campe, a son of the progenitor Jordan and his wife Gertrud von Wenden, is mentioned in documents from 1307 to 1342. He was the master of Isenbüttel , Wettmershagen and Fallersleben, as well as a squire and a truchess. Jan von Campe, mentioned in a document from 1331 to 1371, emerged from his marriage to Margarethe von Garssenbüttel. Jan was lord of Isenbüttel, Fallersleben and Essenrode and a ducal squire and Vogt of Wolfenbüttel . He married Ilsabe von dem Knesebeck . Her sixth generation descendant was Jan von Campe auf Isenbüttel, Wettmershagen and Oehren. It appears in a document from 1549 to 1600 and was the son of Heinrich von Campe († 1546) and his wife Ilse von Mandelsloh . Jan became the ducal captain of Heimburg in Brunswick-Lüneburg . He was married twice, first to Sophie von Ahlden and second to Sophie von der Schulenburg from the Beetzendorf family.

Among his descendants was Werner Heinrich von Campe (* 1684; † 1743) on Isenbüttel, Oehren and Wettmershagen, who was appointed royal court judge of Great Britain and the Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg as well as the oldest district administrator in Cell (presented as landscape director ). He died on July 16, 1743. His marriage to Dorothea Louise von Krosigk (* 1696; † 1746) in 1720 resulted in son Heinrich Wilhelm August (* 1722; † 1781). Like his father, he became a royal British and electoral court judge of Brunswick-Lüneburg as well as captain of Eicklingen . He was married to Louise Antoinette Charlotte von Weferlingen († 1775) from 1760 and Wilhelmine Charlotte Amalie von Behr from 1777 . His son from his second marriage, Ernst Georg Ludwig von Campe (* 1781; † 1829) in Isenbüttel, Oehren, Wettmershagen and Nienhagen in the Kingdom of Hanover and Hülseburg , Presek and Vortsahl (both districts of Hülseburg) in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , received from the king Jérôme von Westfalen , Napoleon's brother , received recognition as a baron in 1813 . He was a royal British and electoral Hanoverian privy councilor and landdrost as well as a knight of the Order of St. John . His marriage to Mathilde Albertine Wilhelmine von Staffhorst (* 1787; † 1833), which he entered into in 1806 at Hoya, resulted in six children, three sons and three daughters.

Amalie Juliane von Campe (* 1807, † 1856), the couple's eldest daughter, married the royal Hanover government councilor Georg Friedrich Hilmar Graf von Kielmansegg in Hanover in 1828. Of her brothers, Karl August Alexander Ernst von Campe (* 1817; † 1853) was the master of Isenbüttel, Oehren and Nienhagen. From his marriage to Adolfine Wilhelminie Auguste von Witzleben (* 1829; † 1893) there were six children, two of whom settled in the USA and got married there. Albert Hans August Freiherr von Campe (* 1819) in Isenbüttel, Oehrenfeld, Wettmershagen, Jelpke and Oehrenholz in the Gifhorn office in the Kingdom of Hanover, as well as Hülseburg, Presek and Vorsahl in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, another brother of Amalie Juliane and Karl August Alexander Ernst , became a royal Hanoverian chamberlain and knight of honor of the Order of St. John. In 1847 he married Karoline Auguste Elisabeth Countess von Westphalen zu Fürstenberg (* 1826, † 1873) and in 1878 received recognition as a baron. The couple left three sons and a daughter.

Balduin Gottlieb Joseph Freiherr von Campe (* 1851), royal Saxon major out of service , last served in the 2nd Uhlan Regiment No. 18 and was a son of Albert Hans August. He was entered on April 10, 1912 under the number 394 in the royal Saxon nobility book. Because of the possession or partial ownership of numerous goods in the Kingdom of Hanover, the family belonged to the knightly nobility of the Lüneburg landscape .

Status surveys

Ernst von Campe, on Isenbüttel Wettmershagen and Nienhagen, received on 10 July 1813 Kassel a Westphalian recognition of the Baron object, which, however, later in the Kingdom of Hanover was no recognition. The royal Prussian second lieutenant in the 2nd Guard Regiment Asan von Campe, on Nienhagen, received a Prussian recognition of the baron on March 20, 1876 in Berlin and Albert von Campe on Wettmershagen on June 26, 1878 in Schwerin, a Mecklenburg-Schwerin recognition of the baron.

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a silver zigzag bar in red , above with five whole points, below with four whole and two half points. On the helmet with red and silver helmet covers a black stag with a red cover as indicated in the shield in front of a silver column with a natural peacock whisk. Two golden griffins as a shield holder .

The motto is: Perseverando

  • Coat of arms of those of Campe from 1896

  • Coat of arms of the Barons von Campe from 1840

  • Coat of arms of the barons of Campe zu Isenbüttel 1852

Coat of arms history

The coat of arms appears early on, between 1212 and 1215, on imprints of seals . The silver zigzag bar with long tips appears on a family seal from 1297. The triangular shield is black or iron-colored. Appears to be on a seal of 1320 Helmzier a peacock's tail with five feathers. Seals from the years 1330, 1344 and 1368 show the tips of the bar shaped like this. On older seals, the number of tips varies, usually five, rarely four and even more rarely three.

On a crest of illustration 1530 of the helmet with a red and silver is bead coated and carries two red, a toppled, silver rafters occupied, buffalo horns without port. In another illustration of a seal, the helmet bears a silver column with a green peacock's tail, next to which a black deer runs. The stag is covered with a red tournament blanket and the silver bar has six points. The stag appears on a seal from 1345, there with its tongue knocked out and with a tournament blanket that runs around the neck and hangs down to the claws in two longer strips. The bar shows five peaks.

In Johann Siebmacher's Wappenbuch, plate 179, the coat of arms appears as v. Camping near Braunschweigischen. In the blazon the beam is listed as a rafter and has three whole points at the top and two whole and two half points at the bottom. The deer, "by its color", jumps on the left and the column is decorated with three peacock feathers. In the Book of Arms of the Kingdom of Hanover, C12 and page 5, the bar has three whole and two half points at the top and two whole and two half points at the bottom. The shaft is covered with three peacock feathers, the deer is black. Two golden, inward-looking griffins as a shield holder. In the Mecklenburgischen Wappenbuch, X 37, the helmet is covered with a bead wound seven times in red and silver.

In Kneschke's coats of arms of the German baronial and aristocratic families , the von Campe figures include: “In the red shield there is a silver crossbar drawn ten times or at the top five whole, but below four whole and two half-pointed silver bars. On the shield there is a helmet, which carries a golden pillar decorated with three ostrich feathers, in front of which a red deer with eight-pointed antlers, covered with a red ceiling covered with the silver, pointed bar of the shield, with eight-pointed antlers, freely passes by to the right. The outer feathers of the ostrich feathers are silver and the overhanging part red, the middle part red and the overhanging part silver. The helmet covers are red and silver. "

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 2, pp. 203-204 ( books.google.de ).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon. Volume II, Volume 58 of the complete series, p. 221.
  3. ↑ Nobility Lexicon. Volume II, Volume 58 of the complete series, p. 222.
  4. ↑ a b Original in the Wolfenbüttel State Archives .
  5. ↑ a b c d e of Campe . In: Marcelli Janecki , Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the German nobility . First volume. WT Bruer's Verlag, Berlin 1896, p. 397-402 ( dlib.rsl.ru ).
  6. ↑ Matthias Blazek: From the Landdrostey to the district government. The history of the Hanover district government as reflected in the administrative reforms . ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-89821-357-9 , p. 40 and 82 .
  7. ↑ a b c d The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families. Volume 2, pp. 77-79 ( books.google.de ).