Du Plat (noble family)

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Du Plat is the name of a French noble family . Descendants were later also counted among the nobility in Kurhannover , England and Denmark .

history

First representative in Germany was Pierre Joseph du Plat (1657-1709), royal French lieutenant of the Guards , who in the 1697 cellische Dragoon - Regiment of Hahn (later Regiment Garde du Corps ) of the Duke Georg Wilhelm of Brunswick-Luneburg occurred. He became the progenitor of the Hanoverian family of officers, from which numerous members distinguished themselves and reached high positions. His wife was Helène de Sacrée . His eponymous eldest son Pierre Joseph du Plat  (1691-1753), still in Belgium born, was kurhannoverscher captain in the Corps of Engineers in Ratzeburg . Male descendants of his also entered royal Danish and British services. The royal Hanoverian certificate of nobility belonging received in the February 19, 1820 Hannover his descendant Gustav du Plat , later royal British Major General .

coat of arms

Divided; up in red over a golden fringe ornate golden armor one with five (silver, red, silver, red, silver) ostrich feathers tipped helmet , below in blue on a golden bowl, a silver star ; Nobility crown .

Name bearer

Arrangement of the name bearers according to generations and descent:

  1. Pierre Joseph du Plat (1657–1709), French officer and founder of the Hanoverian line, son of Pierre du Plat , director of the royal arsenal in Paris, and Anne du Berger
    1. Pierre Joseph du Plat (1691–1753), Elector of Hanover officer and cartographer
      1. Georg Josua du Plat (1722–1795), lieutenant general and cartographer from the Electorate of Hanover
        1. Georg Carl August du Plat (1770–1815), royal Hanoverian and royal British colonel and brigadier of the German legion
          1. George Gustavus Charles William du Plat (1796-1854), British major general
            1. Charles Taylor du Plat (1823–1900), British major general
            2. John Lowther du Plat Taylor (1829–1904), British Colonel and founder of the Army Post Office Corps
              1. St. John Louis Hyde du Plat Taylor (1865-1936), British Lieutenant Colonel (Lieutenant Colonel)
                1. Joan du Plat Taylor (1906–1983), British pioneer of underwater archeology
              2. Francis Maurice Gustavus du Plat Taylor (1878-1954), British engineer
      2. Peter Joseph du Plat (Deichgraf) (1728–1782), cartographer from the Electorate of Hanover and chief dichgrave
        1. Peter Joseph du Plat (officer) (1761–1824), Royal Major General of Hanover
        2. Johann Heinrich Christian du Plat (1769–1852), royal Danish major general and cartographer
          1. Caesar du Plat (1804–1874), first royal Danish, later Schleswig-Holstein general staff officer
          2. Claude du Plat (1809–1864), Royal Danish Major General
          3. Ernst du Plat (1816-1892), Royal Danish Major General
        3. Christian Friedrich Claude du Plat (1770–1841), Royal Danish Major General
      3. Johann Wilhelm du Plat (1735–1806), lieutenant general and cartographer from the Electorate of Hanover
      4. Anton Heinrich du Plat (1738–1791), lieutenant general of the Electorate of Hanover and cartographer

literature

  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume X, Page 401, Volume 119 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1999, ISBN 3-7980-0819-1
  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Areligen Häuser , series B ( old nobility and letter nobility ), Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha 1932, page 474 f.
  • Otto von Cossel : Die du Plat, a Hanoverian family of officers , in: Deutscher Herold , Volume 62 (1931), pages 27-30 u. 35-38
  • Family tree Pierre Joseph du Plat, b. on August 11, 1691 , confirmed July 18, 1769 by the Royal, Great British, Elector of Braunschweig-Lüneburg in the Duchy of Lauenburg, 1769
  • Fr. Tobiesen: Om Slægten du Plat , in: Personalhistorisk Tidsskrift , Volume 63, Samfundet for Dansk genealogi og personalhistorie, 1942, pp. 204–221

Web links

Commons : Du Plat  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lt. Kneschke's Neues Allgemeine Deutsches Adels-Lexicon ( Volume 7, Page 167 ) was raised to the imperial nobility in 1742 Raymond le Plat ; he is a different family.