Götz von Olenhusen

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Coat of arms of Götz von Olenhusen

Götz von Olenhusen is the name of a noble family from Lower Saxony with the parent company of the same name near Göttingen.

history

The family appears for the first time with Peter Götz , citizen of Münden since 1533, † 1560, with whom the family line begins. For his son, the ducal Brunswick Chamber Councilor Dr. jur. utr. Joachim Götz auf Olenhusen and Lutterbeck , on July 13, 1591, an imperial coat of arms was improved in the form of a confirmation of nobility. In 1595 Joachim Götz von Olenhusen obtained the position of hereditary kitchen master in Braunschweig between Deister and Leine .

coat of arms

The coat of arms from 1591, divided diagonally to the left, shows a growing silver lion above in red , and a red oblique left bar in gold below. On the helmet with red and gold helmet covers on the right and red and silver covers on the left, an eight-pointed gold star between two gold and red divided lion paws with claws turned inwards.

people

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon, Volume IV, 1978
  2. Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt, Der Hannoeverische Adel, Grosses und Allgemeine Wappenbuch 2.9, Nuernberg: Bauer & Raspe, 1870, page 28