Derfflinger (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Derfflinger

Derfflinger also Dörflinger is the name of an extinct baron noble family .

The Derfflingers (formerly: Dörffling ) were originally a wealthy farming family who owned the farm in Allhaming in Upper Austria . Georg von Derfflinger's grandfather Hans Dörffling was a farmer and owner of the Kamptnergut on Hundsfußberg between Sipbach and Krems in 1577. His son, Hans Georg Dörffling, was a wine tavern in nearby Neuhofen an der Krems and belonged to the Protestant denomination . In 1624 he emigrated with his family from Austria because of the Counter Reformation , possibly exiled to Bohemia . His daughter Regina Dörffling was married to the theologian Christoph Crinesius since 1617 . His son Georg Dörffling / Derfflinger (* 1606, † 1695), who in 1624 had also been out of the family home was on March 10, 1674 in recognition of his military service at the instigation of the mark brandenburg een Great Elector in the realm baron lifted. On June 26, 1674, the Brandenburg diploma was recognized . His older son, Friedrich von Derfflinger (* 1663; † 1724), however, died without leaving any children after the younger son Carl von Derfflinger († 1686) died as a volunteer for Brandenburg in the Turkish War . This is how the family found its way out into the second generation. It produced two generals who achieved historic significance in their work.

The family should not be confused with the Dorfinger , as is often the case with the coat of arms, apart from the similarity of names, there is no connection between the two sexes.

possession

Klessin , Gusow , Hermersdorf , Platkow and Wulkow near Lebus , Kerkow and Schildberg near Soldin , Theeren near Königsberg in the Mark Brandenburg; Wildenbruch near Pyritz in Pomerania ; Quittainen and Samrodt near Mohrungen in Prussia

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Silesian village fingers in Siebmacher 1697

The shield is four-sided with a silver heart shield , inside a red crowned eagle with golden clover stems (Brandenburg eagle), 1 and 4 in black two crossed, gold-studded silver marshal's baton , 2 and 3 in blue a rising, curved silver tip, inside a black winged, golden armored griffin foot , accompanied at the top by two golden lion heads . Two helmets: the right one with black and silver covers carries the eagle like in a heart shield, the left one with blue and gold covers carries an armored arm, propped up with the elbow, in his fist holding a marshal's baton as in a shield. Fields 2 and 3 essentially correspond to the coat of arms of the old, previously extinct Silesian noble family of the Dorfinger . The brothers Peter Salomon, Johann Michael and Andreas Dorfinger received this in a letter of nobility dated June 3, 1561.

Relatives

⚭ January 26, 1646 Margarete Tugendreich von Schapelow * 1623; † 1661
  • Baron Beate Luise von Derfflinger * October 3, 1647; August 15, 1715
⚭ May 3, 1677 Kurt Hildebrand von der Marwitz * December 14, 1641; † July 2, 1701, Prussian lieutenant general
  • Luise Freiin von Derfflinger † December 23, 1704
⚭ February 11, 1694 Joachim Balthasar von Dewitz * February 25, 1636; † April 9, 1699, Prussian lieutenant general
  • Charlotte Freiin von Derfflinger * 1651; † after 1690
⚭ May 8, 1683 Johann Anton von Zieten * July 12, 1640; † April 20, 1690, Prussian major general and governor of Minden
  • Ämilia Freiin von Derfflinger * 1658; † April 26, 1727
⚭ Hans Otto von der Marwitz * 1653; † May 5, 1703, Prussian colonel
  • Baron Dorothea von Derfflinger * 1659/1661; † after 1695
⚭ 1662 Barbara Rosina von Beeren 1626; † 1665
⚭ June 27, 1695 Ursula Johanna von Osterhausen * 1669; † March 23, 1740
  • Baron Carl von Derfflinger; † June 25, 1686 near Budapest

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Hülber: Georg Derfflinger - His ancestors and the living space of his early youth , OÖHbl 37 (1983), pp. 23–33.
  2. ↑ a b c Peter Bahl : The court of the great elector. Studies on higher office holdings , 2001, p. 460.
  3. ↑ Hans Saring:  Derfflinger, Georg Frhr. from. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 605 f. ( Digitized version ).
  4. ↑ Rodo von Haken: The old Derfflinger and his coat of arms , in: Archive for Stamm- und Wappenkunde, 1912, p. 13 f.
  5. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : Neues Prussisches Adels-Lexicon , Volume 1, Leipzig 1836, p. 410 and p. 436 ; Military weekly paper , 21st year, Berlin 1836, p. 4.
  6. ^ Adalbert Král von Dobrá Voda : The nobility of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia , Prague 1904, p. 46.