Cosijn from Ripperda
Cosijn von Ripperda (actually: von Ripperda-Cosyn) is the name of the youngest branch of the baronial family von Ripperda . Ancestors of this line are among the last members of this ancient, German-Danish-Dutch family.
coat of arms
The coat of arms of Cosijn von Ripperda is quartered. Fields one and four show a golden rider in armor (Ripperda) in black, fields two and three each in blue three (two, one) silver birds (Cosijn). The coat of arms has two helmets: on the bulged right one two silver eagle wings, on the crowned one on the left a golden, growing winged dragon sticking out an arrow-shaped tongue.
history
The Cosijn von Ripperda line was founded on the third son of the von Ripperda zu Ellerburg family, Georg Wilhelm Unico, Imperial Baron von Ripperda (1784–1812). He married (1810) Johanna Cosijn, a Dutch descendant of the Huguenot cousin from Lyon .
literature
- Genealogy van het Geslacht Ripperda by mr. CPL Rutgers (1902)
- Genealogy van het Geslacht Ripperda by Pieter van Agteren (2014)
- Genealogy over 16 generations of the imperial baron family von Ripperda by Udo Reichsfreiherr v. Ripperda (Koenigsberg, 1934)
- "Het Geslacht Ripperda" by RS Roorda (1954).
- Archives of the Ripperda-Cosyn family
- Genealogical handbook of the nobility - baron houses