Dequede (family)

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Dequede even Degwede , Deckwede or de Quede , the name is an originally altmärk een noble family .

history

The family borrows its name from the Dequede family estate in the Altmark . In 1272, the Dequede are first mentioned as an Altmark knight family. Since the 1330s, the family in the Osterburg district has been named as a fief. From 1371 they appeared as afterfeeds of the Lords of Alvensleben . The Dequede were later able to spread into the Havelland . Many members played in the Prussian army , a military career .

Relatives

The affiliation of the Vice Country Master of the Teutonic Order in Prussia Ludwig von Queden († after 1250) to the Dequede family is controversial.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows three silver stove forks without stems, 2.1 placed in blue. On the helmet with blue and silver blankets, a silver-slipped red hat with four blue and silver feathers.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jiri Fajt (ed.), Wilfried Franzen (ed.), Peter Knüvener (ed.): The Altmark from 1300 to 1600, A cultural region in the field of tension between Magdeburg, Lübeck and Berlin , 2011, ISBN 978-3-86732-106 -8 , p. 135.
  2. Lieselott Enders: The Altmark: History of a Kurmark Landscape in the Early Modern Age (late 15th to early 19th century) , 2016, p. 1419.
  3. "Reiner von Dequede" (GSN: 063-01521-001), in: Germania Sacra (accessed: August 17, 2017)
  4. Peter Bahl : The court of the great elector. Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2001, p. 460.