Angel breakers (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Engelbrechten, inherited in the 16th century by those of Segebergen
The coat of arms, which was awarded in 1744 in Frankfurt am Main to the line of Hermann Heinrich von Engelbrecht zu Greifswald

Engelbrechten , also Engelbrecht and Engelbrechten-Ilow , is the name of an originally Pomeranian noble family , which later spread to Prussia and Bavaria , among others , and achieved a certain reputation. Branches of the family persist to this day.

There is no proven kinship to also including as Engelbrechten ennobled eponymous family, which with Hans Engelbrecht, 1442 councilman in Nordhausen takes their proven origin, nor to the family Engelbrecht, who with Marquard Engelbrecht, 1448 citizens in Kolberg , her regular series begins . However, both families partially existed at the same time in Pomerania , so that a clear delimitation is not always easy. There is also no relationship to an older Alsatian noble family Engelbrecht , which appeared in a document at least from 1260 to 1495, and the noble family Engelbrecht , who came from Limburg and whose ranks lived around the same time as the Stralsunders in northwestern Germany.

history

Personalities and rankings

The West Pomeranian Engelbrechten can be traced back to the family of the Swedish national hero Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson . Your line of trunks, recognized as secure, begins with Wilken Engelbrecht , who was councilor in Greifswald from 1489–1502 .

Dr. jur. Georg Engelbrecht , Professor of Rights at the University of Greifswald and Royal Swedish Appellate Council and Assessor at the Tribunal in Wismar , was raised to the Swedish nobility on March 17, 1684 in Stockholm as an angel breaker . His son Georg Bernhard von Engelbrechten , Vice Director of the Royal Swedish Judicial College in Bremen , received the introduction to the nobility class of the Swedish knighthood in 1699 (No. 1350). This line became extinct with Knut Malte Leonard von Engelbrechten (* 1820, † 1899) in the male line .

Dr. jur. Hermann Heinrich Engelbrecht , Professor of Law at the University of Greifswald, royal Swedish and ducal Pomeranian consistorial councilor, was raised to the imperial nobility on January 25, 1744 in Frankfurt am Main as von Engelbrecht . Also as von Engelbrecht , the imperial nobility came to the royal Danish lieutenant Carl Philipp Engelbrecht (* 1730) in Vienna on October 3, 1757 .

The royal Prussian secondary lieutenant and translator at the royal Bavarian courts and authorities in Nuremberg enrolled in the aristocratic class of the Bavarian knighthood on March 28, 1868.

Angelbreak Ilow

Hermann von Engelbrechten (* 1800; † 1842), natural son of the royal Swedish major general and adjutant general of the king as well as later royal Prussian lieutenant general Hermann von Engelbrechten , received the Swedish nobility legitimation on March 12, 1814. For his son, Hermann von Engelbrechten (* 1840, † 1902), an extraordinary cabinet order in Hanover issued on September 5, 1881 with a diploma from June 21, 1882 after the marriage with Clara von Ilow, the name and coat of arms union with that of Ilow .

Relatives

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Segeberg zu Lübeck

The coat of arms (1684) shows in blue a round silver castle with two round tin towers and an equally round gold-tinned silver wall as well as a golden crown of leaves between the towers, overlaid by a golden lily . On the helmet with blue-silver covers on the right and blue-gold covers on the left, the lily.

The coat of arms is modeled on that of the maternal ancestral family of Greifswald, the Segeberg, an old patrician family that belonged to the Lübeck council as early as the 13th century and then to the aristocratic Lübeck Circle Society, which also branched out to Stralsund. Joachim I. Engelbrecht († 1543/44), treasurer of Greifswald 1518–1540, patron of the Brigittenkapelle, had married Gertrud Segeberg, daughter of Heinrich Segeberg († 1497), 1467–1497 councilor of Greifswald and representative of Greifswald at the Hanseatic Days , a son of Bertold Segeberg , who founded the University of Greifswald in 1456. Regina Engelbrecht, the wife of the Greifswald councilor Martin II. Völschow and daughter of Joachim II Engelbrecht († 1573), councilor of Greifswald, who was a son of Gertrud Segeberg, was related like her brother, the merchant and lawyer Peter Engelbrecht (1539 –1619), the Segeberg coat of arms as theirs on their grave slab of St. Nikolai and Peter zu St. Marien . The grave slab of Peter Engelbrecht, which had already been used before, came into his possession in 1613, i.e. six years before his death, but it was in Engelbrecht's possession even earlier, namely, as Theodor Pyl believes it is likely, in the possession of Peter's father Joachim II. Engelbrecht († 1573), the son of Gertrud Segeberg.

The coat of arms (1744) shows three silver-winged, natural angel heads one above the other. On the helmet with its blue and silver covers, a gold-lined silver rose on a two-petalled golden stem between an open black flight .

The coat of arms (1757) shows a three-pinned silver wall in blue with an open, round gate. On the helmet with blue-silver blankets, a praying gold-clad and winged angel grows.

The coat of arms (1882) is split ; on the right the coat of arms from 1684; on the left in the field divided by gold over blue a green wreath covered with four roses ( family coat of arms of those of Ilow ). Two helmets; on the right the helmet of the coat of arms from 1684 ( Engelbrechten ) crowned ; On the left, crowned with blue and gold blankets, a growing virgin , whose dress is divided by gold over blue, on her head with blonde hair a rose-adorned wreath, in her hands holding two stunted branches growing out of the helmet ( Ilow ).

literature

Web links

Commons : Engelbrechten family  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GHdA-Lex, Volume III, 1975, p. 149.
  2. ↑ DGB, Volume 15, 1909, pp. 115-123.
  3. ↑ Engelbrecht family table. In: Sedina-Archiv vol. 2, 1956, episode 6
  4. ↑ Vogel / Soya family research: Western Pomeranian ancestors (accessed on January 9, 2014)
  5. ↑ inschriften.net
  6. ↑ inschriften.net
  7. ^ Pyl, Greifswalder Kirchen, p. 427 (C), 568 (A)