Eyben (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Eyben

Eyben is the name of an East Frisian noble family . Members of the family, some of whose branches still exist today, were mainly in royal Danish service and gained property and reputation there.

history

Hulderich von Eyben
(* 1629; † 1699)
Christian Wilhelm von Eyben
(* 1663; † 1727)
Friedrich von Eyben
(* 1699; † 1787)
Christian August von Eyben
(* 1700; † 1785)
Adolf Gottlieb von Eyben
(* 1741; † 1811)

origin

The family line begins around 1600 with Haykone Aiben , a farmer in Seriem near Esens . His grandson Hulderich von Eyben (* 1629; † 1699) was Imperial Councilor and Imperial Court Judge . On March 16, 1682 in Vienna, he received from Emperor Leopold I a recognition and renewal diploma of the imperial nobility to which he was entitled with the title Edler von Eyben. On March 15, 1688 he was accepted into the Rhenish Knighthood .

In the recognition diploma of the imperial nobility from 1682 it is mentioned that the father of the Huldenreich Eyben, Hajo (von) Eyben, was a councilor and chief magistrate of Count Ulrich von Ostfriesland . In recognition of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land, he is said to have been given the right, presumably based on the nails of the Holy Cross, to have two nails in the Eyben coat of arms (a black eagle in gold).

Spread and personalities

Christian Wilhelm von Eyben (* 1663; † 1727), a son of Hulderich von Eyben, was first margrave of Baden-Durlach court councilor , then ducal court and government councilor of Brunswick-Lüneburg and finally ducal holstein-gottorper minister and envoy to the Reichstag . At a young age he wrote numerous historical and legal works and maintained a lively correspondence with Leibnitz and Winckler . Of the sons from his marriage to Lucia Barbara von Fabrice, a daughter of Weipart Ludwig von Fabrice , only two survive him, Friedrich and Christian August.

The eldest son Friedrich von Eyben (* 1699) died in 1787 as a royal Danish privy councilor and chancellor. His marriage to Georgine Henriette Dorothea von Schlitz called von Görtz, a daughter of Georg Heinrich von Görtz , remained childless. In 1746 he was able to acquire Lütgenhof Castle and Dassow in Mecklenburg .
The second son Christian August von Eyben (* 1700) had been cathedral dean of Lübeck since 1763 . He died in 1785 as a royal Danish chamberlain and privy councilor. Of his sons and daughters from his marriage to Elisabeth Sophia Maria von Hassberge in 1734, Christian von Eyben became royal Danish colonel and August von Eyben became imperial Russian colonel. Daughter Elisabeth Sophia Maria von Eyben (* 1736, † 1780) was Queen Caroline Mathilde's first maid from 1766 .

Son Adolf Gottlieb von Eyben (* 1741; † 1811) was raised in part by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock and later studied law at the universities of Jena and Göttingen . For a long time he was the ducal minister of Saxony and mine and later royal Danish privy councilor and chancellor of Holstein . Since his uncle Friedrich von Eyben remained childless, Adolf Gottlieb was adopted by him and thus heir to the Lütgenhof estates in Mecklenburg. He was then accepted into the Mecklenburg knighthood in 1792 . Her first marriage to Henriette Tugendreich von Rachel (* 1747; † 1778) had three daughters and a son. The second marriage with Benedicte von Qualen (* 1747, † 1808) remained childless.

Friedrich von Eyben (* 1770; † 1825), the only son of Adolf Gottlieb von Eyben, was appointed envoy to the Reichstag in Regensburg in 1803 , then royal Danish envoy to the royal Prussian court in Berlin and finally royal Danish conference councilor and envoy to the Bundestag in Frankfurt am Main . He married Dorothea Caroline Elisabeth von Veltheim (* 1776, † 1811) in 1803 . The couple had a son and a daughter Adelheid Henriette Louise Caroline (* 1808; † 1882). On July 4, 1808 she was entered under the number 867 in the registered book of the Dobbertin monastery for acceptance as a conventual in the local aristocratic women's monastery . She married Friedrich Christian Ferdinand von Pechlin (* 1789, † 1863), governor of Lauenburg and her father's successor as envoy in Frankfurt. After the death of her husband, she became chief steward of the Hereditary Princess Caroline of Denmark . Her brother Friedrich Adolf Gottlieb Graf von Eyben (* 1805; † 1889) acquired the Setzin and Ruhetal estates near Wittenburg in 1830 . In 1842 he became district administrator and in 1854, as Oberlanddrost, served in the service of the grand ducal Mecklenburg-Strelitz . In addition to a daughter, Countess Agnes Maria (* 1839), who remained unmarried and received a pension from the Dobbertin monastery as a grand-ducal pensioner , he left a son, Count Adolf Friedrich von Eyben (* 1834), who was an officer in the grand-ducal dragoon regiment of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . He died on May 9, 1878 while traveling in Assiut , Egypt. With these two the count's branch died out.

The noble branch of the Edler von Eyben, descendants of the officer Joachim Werner von Eyben (* 1746, † 1811), a son of Christian August von Eyben, most recently colonel in Oldenburg , can be found in Denmark to this day.

Status surveys

Friedrich von Eyben , royal Danish chamberlain and envoy to the Bundestag in Frankfurt am Main, received the Danish liege count on October 17, 1817 (diploma issued on November 16, 1817).

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the recognition and renewal diploma

The coat of arms from 1682 shows a black eagle in gold whose head is studded with two nails and two green, three-leaved clover stalks grow from the base of its wings . The eagle growing on the helmet with black and gold helmet covers .

Danish liege's coat of arms

The Count's coat of arms from 1817 has the same shield as the coat of arms awarded in 1682, but the eagle is blue and the eagle's head has three nails. The coat of arms has three helmets, on the right two buffalo horns divided by blue and gold , the middle one the eagle growing, the left a blue eagle wing. As a shield holder on the right a man in armor, the closed helmet with three (green-blue-gold) ostrich feathers, in the free right holding a golden lance, on it a red standard with a silver cross, topped with a blue eagle head with three nails. As a shield holder on the left is a natural lion , holding a lance with a standard.

Name bearer

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Genealogical Handbook of the Adels , Adelslexikon Volume III, Volume 61 of the complete series, page 200
  2. ↑ a b c New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 5, Pages 178–179

literature

Web links

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