Damitz (noble family)
Damitz is the name of a Pomeranian noble family with the parent houses Dumzin (until 1780), Funkenhagen (until approx. 1775) and Groß Möllen (1333 to approx. 1800) in the former Kolberg-Körlin district in Western Pomerania . The family name Damitz also appears in documents from the city of Dahme in Niederlausitz, as an alternative name for the extinct family of the Lords of Dahme , who owned the Dahme rule and the Golsin burgraviate .
history
The family, which was mentioned in a document around 1240, was long -established and wealthy in the historical region of the Principality of Cammin . In 1243 Gerhard von Damitz appeared as a witness in Stettin . The family line begins with Alexander de Damyz , who is mentioned in a document dated August 27, 1282. Herrmannus Dametze (or Damiz ) from Kolberg bought the village of Groß Möllen from the Kolberg patrician family Schlieffen in 1333 . Nikolaus von Damitz , son of Hermann von Damitz , who lived around 1400, was successively Chancellor of the Pomeranian Dukes Erich II and Bogislaw X. Johannes von Damitz was Chancellor of Cammin in Pomerania and around 1630 governor in Pomerania .
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows a red bar in silver accompanied by two red-tongued black boar heads. On the helmet with black and silver covers on the right and red and silver covers on the left, three (black, red, silver) ostrich feathers, surrounded by a gold ring with precious stones.
Name bearer
- Nikolaus von Damitz , was the 2nd Chancellor of the Pomeranian Duke Erich II in 1464 and then Chancellor of his son and successor, the Pomeranian Duke Bogislaw X.
- Moritz von Damitz was an envoy from the Pomeranian dukes at the time of the Reformation
- Paul von Damitz , was governor of Cammin in 1623
- Siegfried von Damitz , commandant of Stettin during the Thirty Years War
- Karl Christoph von Damitz , chamberlain to King Friedrich I of Prussia
- Karl von Damitz († 1836), landlord, police superintendent
- Karl von Damitz , military historian and writer
- Emma von Damitz (1844–1921), German writer
literature
- Julius Theodor Bagmihl : Pommersches Wappenbuch , Volume 3.Settin 1847, p. 18
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Areligen Häuser (A) Gotha 1908, p.158ff ( stem series , older history) 1910–1936 (continuations)
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume II, Volume 58 of the complete series. CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1974, pp. 415-416, ISSN 0435-2408
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 2, Leipzig 1860, p. 412.
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Leipzig 1836, Volume 1, pp. 392-393
Web links
- Genealogies of the von Damitz family (Rambow genealogy)
- Coat of arms of those von Damitz in Johann Siebmacher's Wappenbuch from 1605, plate 171 or colored
- The von Damitz family in the Wildenfels castle archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Friedrich Wutstrack : Addendum to the short historical-geographical-statistical description of the royal-Prussian duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Stettin 1795, p. 276.
- ^ Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . Part III, Volume 1, Anklam 1867, p. 318.
- ^ Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . Part III, Volume 1, Anklam 1867, p. 323.
- ^ A b Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . Part III, Volume 1, Anklam 1867, p. 384.
- ^ Leopold von Ledebur : Dynastische Forschungen . Volume 2, Berlin 1855, page 55, footnote †††) .
- ^ Johann Friedrich Gauhe : Des Heil. Rom. Reichs Genealogisch-Historisches Adels-Lexicon . 2nd edition, Leipzig 1740, p. 394, right column.
- ↑ Mecklenburgisches Urkundenbuch 4, p. 228