List of noble families named Dehn

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Coat of arms of the von Dehn family

Dehn , also known as Daehn , is the family name of a German, a Danish, a Dutch and a Finnish-Russian noble family . These were located in the Baltic provinces , whether a genealogical connection existed between families and individuals could not yet be proven.

Other people with the name Dehn in the Baltic States

In the period between 1530 and 1630 , several people with the name Dehn, or in other spellings such as Deen, Dane or Dehne, were entered in various registers in the Baltic States , especially around Reval and the surrounding area . There was also no clear connection or relationship between these sexes . Besides the mint master Urban Dehn, who died in 1560 , there were for example:

  • 1591 an urban stretching in an application,
  • in another application from 1595 Urban Deyne,
  • 1587 and 1607 the former councilor and then mayor of Reval Simon von Then,
  • 1621 is remembered a blessed Simon von Then,
  • 1611 Hans Dehne,
  • 1615 Jacob Dehne,
  • 1644 Hinrich Dehne and
  • 1657 Urban Dähn
  • 1716 Martin Daehne, ancestor of the Baltic-Dutch aristocratic family

Origin of name

The Latin name Dehn is traced back to Danus, which without a doubt means "the Dane". This tribal name is not necessarily a name of origin , but can be a " generic name" that has some relation to the nation in question , such as Saxo = Sasse = the Saxon or Friso = Vrese = the Frisian.

Other noble families

In the case of families of German origin in the Baltic States, it can be assumed that there are two documented family lines - one from Jülich and one from Rostock . The coat of arms introduced by the Rostock lawyer Arnold Dehn, the progenitor of the German-Baltic aristocratic family, is the basic coat of arms ; it later appeared in a modified form in the other families. No member of the Jülich family was raised to the nobility.

The Dutch-Danish von Dehn, whose progenitor was Conrad von Dehn (formerly van Pott), came from Holland and came to the Baltic States via Mecklenburg and Braunschweig .

The Baltic-Dutch aristocratic family descended from Martin Daehne from Livonia , whose descendants were in Mecklenburg service. One of his later descendants moved to the Batavian Republic (later the Kingdom of Holland) and continued the family line there.

Another noble family from Dehn came from Samuel von Dehn, who came from Braunschweig via Finland to the Baltic States and served at the Russian court of the tsars . This family came to be known as the Finnish-Russian line.

  • Base coat of arms of the von Dehn family

  • Coat of arms of the Dutch-Danish family

  • Coat of arms of the Baltic-Dutch noble family

  • Coat of arms of the Finnish-Russian family

Elevations to the nobility

In the 18th and 19th centuries , the following people were raised to the nobility: 1762 Arnold Dehn joined the Russian nobility , in 1878 his great son Paul Andreas von Dehn was accepted into the nobility register of the Estonian knighthood , in 1788 the mayor of Reval Joachim Dehn became Roman Imperial nobility raised, his son Joachim von Dehn was accepted into the Estonian knighthood in 1809. 1789 the Rittmeister of the Blackheads in Reval Eberhard Dehn was raised to the Russian nobility, his son district judge August von Dehn was enrolled in the Livonian knighthood in 1860 .

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  1. ↑ Danus - Noun -Maskulinum - O-declension - nominative - Singular of Danus: the Dane. Entry on frag-caesar.de
  2. ↑ a b Dehn . In: Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods . Görlitz 1929, p. 352 ff. Personen.digitale-sammlungen.de ; accessed on May 22, 2018
  3. ↑ Joachim von Dehn. Entry on the coat of arms of the nobility in the Estonian Historical Archive ra.ee ; accessed on March 25, 2019