Delwig (noble family)
Delwig also Dellwig , Delvig is the name of a German-Baltic aristocratic family that spread from Westphalia across the Baltic to Sweden .
Westphalia
The family is attributed to the Westphalian nobility and begins at Dellwig House . Knight Heremanns de Dalewick is mentioned there as early as 1238 . Herebordus de Delwick is mentioned in a document in 1331 and in 1377 Knappe Lambert de Delewig is sealed . The Westphalian line of the family expires in 1727 with Anton Christoph von und zu Delwig . Delwig Castle and all other property that had been with the family up to then went to Droste zu Erwitte through the marriage of his heir daughter .
Baltic states
In the Baltic States, the family first appeared with Johann von Delwig , dean of the ösel church in 1423. The line of tribe began with Melchior von Dellwich , who moved from Westphalia to Livonia in 1454 .
The family belonged to both the Estonian and Livonian knights . On January 17, 1720, the introduction into the baron class of the Swedish knighthood took place , the Swedish nobility naturalization in 1723. The Russian recognition of the baron title took place on June 1, 1868.
Property ownership
Estonia : Toal, Fähna, Odenkotz, Paggar, Hirmus, Woroper, Höbbet, Kurnal, Jeglecht, Johntack, Kochtel, Resna, Pergel etc.
Livonia: Ayakar, Alt-Köllitz, Rüggen, Carolen and Hoppenhof.
Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin : Blücher with Timkenberg, Teschenbrügge; Zahrensdorf with Wiebendorf and Hof Bretzin
coat of arms
Family coat of arms : In silver, an oblique right-hand bar divided by blue and red through a cloud section; on the helmet with red and silver covers a red and a silver ostrich feather. Historical coats of arms also show the helmet crowned , with red-silver-blue-silver covers and a silver and a blue ostrich feather.
The coat of arms in the Swedish barons ' diploma from 1720 is square and covered with a heart shield , in it the family coat of arms, but with an inclined left bar, in fields 1 and 4 a golden lion in blue, holding a gold crown in the right front paw, field 2 in silver A sword with gold framing on the right, accompanied by three (1: 2) (but there are also depictions with four (2: 2)) red balls, field 3 in silver a black bar with three pinnacles ( by Wrangell ); on the shield above a Swedish barons crown two crowned helmets with blue-gold-red-silver covers, on the right a family coat of arms helmet , on the left four (silver, blue, gold, blue) flags on golden spikes.
people
- Heinrich von Delwig (1620–1696), Swedish general.
- Anton Antonowitsch Delwig (1798–1831), Russian poet.
- Andrei Iwanowitsch Delwig (1813–1887), Russian military engineer, later chief inspector of the Russian railways and founder of one of the first railway technical schools in Russia.
literature
- Johann Dietrich von Steinen : Westphalian history. Volume 3, Verlag Meyer, Lemgo 1757, p. 324ff ( [1] )
- Gustaf Elgenstierna : The introducerade svenska adelns ättartavlor med tillägg och rättelser. Bd. II, Stockholm 1926. Adliga ätten VON DELLWIG, no 1771, utdöd.
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume II, page 449f, Volume 58 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1974.
- Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (arr.): Genealogical manual of the Estonian knighthood , part 2, 3: Estonia, vol .: 3, Görlitz, [1930] ( p. 88ff )
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Dietrich von Steinen : Westphalian history. Vol. 3, 1757, p. 325
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume II, page 449f