Damerau (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of the Damerau-Wojanowski

Damerau is the name of several Pomeranian noble families , some of which are of the same origin.

From the Damerau-Dombrowski (Kulmerland)

Coat of arms of those from the Damerau-Dabrowski ad line Zukowken

Around the year 1400, a family of the Damerau appeared for the first time in the Kulmerland at Rehden Castle (later called Adelig Dombrowken), who sat as starosts at Rehden Castle for several generations . Various lines of the sex ran out over the centuries, while the Zukowken-West Prussia line continues to this day.

coat of arms

Shield: A white battlement wall on red, behind which a crowned woman dressed in white grows, with two golden horns to her mouth. Helmet: Crowned woman growing, with each hand one of the horns on the home crown. Ceilings: red and white A modified coat of arms is proven for the Zukowken line. Shield: A crowned woman dressed in white on red, with two golden horns to her mouth. Helmet: a growing silver bear head. Ceilings: red and white.

From the Damerau-Woyanowski (Schwetz / Wappenstamm Leliwa)

Coat of arms of those von der Damerau-Woyanowski

The von der Damerau-Woyanowski family takes its name from the Damerau manor in the Schwetz district .

history

Clanckow von Woyano was first mentioned in 1398. In 1409 a Stephan von Damerau was the lord of Woyanow. Before 1498, Christoph von der Damerau-Woyanowski ("Christoffir von Woynaw") still sealed with the family coat of arms of those of the Damerau-Dombrowski, before they were sealed with the Leliwa coat of arms at the latest from the middle of the sixteenth century. From their ancestral home in Woyanow, the family expanded into West and East Prussia.

Property ownership

Property ownership is proven at the following manors: Woyanow Krs. Schwetz, Simkau Krs. Schwetz, Czarnica Krs. Konitz, Pynnau, Aweyken, Draulitten.

coat of arms

Shield: in blue a golden crescent moon with the horns turned upwards, above it a golden star. Helmet: crowned, seven ostrich feathers, alternating blue and gold. Ceilings: blue and gold

Personalities

  • Cristoffir von Woynaw (before 1498), district judge in the Danzig district, castellan of Danzig

From the Damerau (Schlochau)

history

The von der Damerau family from the Schlochau area takes its name from the Damerau manor near Prechlau.

coat of arms

In the shield a moon open to the top. Since only a stamp of the coat of arms has survived, the coloring is not known.

Personalities

  • Georg von der Damerau (around 1466), Starost von Schlochau, commissioner of the Duke of Pomerania.

literature

  • Johann Siebmacher , Department 4, Vol. VI, Prussia, Dead Nobility
  • Iwan Baron von der Damerau-Dambrowski, were the “v. Dombrowski ”of Kashubia“ v. Mondri "or were the" v. Mondri "of Kashubia" Dombrowski "?, A heraldic-genealogical sketch on the history of the Kashubian nobility, part 2, in: DR. F. Lorentz and I. Gulgowski (eds.), Mitteilungen des Verein für Kaschubische Volkskunde, Heft 2, Leipzig 1908, p. 33 ff
  • August Bertling, Die Wachsafeln der Danziger Stadtbibliothek, in: Zeitschrift des Westpreußischen Geschichtsverein 11, 1884, pp. 1-64

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Iwan Baron von der Damerau-Dambrowski, were the “v. Dombrowski ”of Kashubia“ v. Mondri "or were the" v. Mondri "of Kashubia" Dombrowski "?, A heraldic-genealogical sketch on the history of the Kashubian nobility, part 2, in: DR. F. Lorentz and I. Gulgowski (eds.), Mitteilungen des Verein für Kaschubische Volkskunde, Heft 2, Leipzig 1908, p. 46 f
  2. ^ Johann Siebmacher, Department 4, Vol. VI, Prussia, Dead Adel, p. 14, plate 10
  3. ↑ August Bertling, The wax tablets of the Danzig City Library, in: Journal of the West Prussian History Association 11, 1884, No. 56
  4. ^ Johann Siebmacher, Department 4, Vol. VI, Prussia, Dead Adel, p. 110, plate 79
  5. ↑ Iwan Baron von der Damerau-Dambrowski, were the “v. Dombrowski ”of Kashubia“ v. Mondri "or were the" v. Mondri "of Kashubia" Dombrowski "?, A heraldic-genealogical sketch on the history of the Kashubian nobility, part 2, in: DR. F. Lorentz and I. Gulgowski (eds.), Mitteilungen des Verein für Kaschubische Volkskunde, Heft 2, Leipzig 1908, p. 46 f
  6. ↑ Iwan Baron von der Damerau-Dambrowski, were the “v. Dombrowski ”of Kashubia“ v. Mondri "or were the" v. Mondri "of Kashubia" Dombrowski "?, A heraldic-genealogical sketch on the history of the Kashubian nobility, part 2, in: DR. F. Lorentz and I. Gulgowski (eds.), Mitteilungen des Verein für Kaschubische Volkskunde, Heft 2, Leipzig 1908, p. 46 f
  7. ^ Johann Siebmacher, Department 4, Vol. VI, Prussia, Dead Adel, p. 110, plate 79
  8. ↑ Iwan Baron von der Damerau-Dambrowski, were the “v. Dombrowski ”of Kashubia“ v. Mondri "or were the" v. Mondri "of Kashubia" Dombrowski "?, A heraldic-genealogical sketch on the history of the Kashubian nobility, part 2, in: DR. F. Lorentz and I. Gulgowski (eds.), Mitteilungen des Verein für Kaschubische Volkskunde, Heft 2, Leipzig 1908, p. 46 f
  9. ↑ Scr. Rer. Prussic. Vol. IV, 596, 632, 633