Gerschau (noble family)

Family coat of arms of the von Gerschau

The combined coat of arms of the Gerschau von Flotows

Gerschau and Gerschau von Flotow is the family name of a noble family from Kurland , which descended from Duke Peter von Biron and which later received the name extension to Gerschau von Flotow.

history

The illegitimate son of Duke Peter von Biron and Agnes Carolina von Derschau (1740–1783) was the progenitor of the noble Gerschau family. In 1840 the family was included in the nobility register of the Courland knighthood . Peter von Gerschau and his descendants were in 1858 by Heinrich XX. von Reuss was raised to baron of the Principality of Reuss-Greiz . On June 20, 1860, the baron received confirmation from the Senate of the Russian Empire , as well as the name extension to Gerschau von Flotow. In 1898 the family was confirmed again as Gerschau von Flotow by means of an imperial ukase .

coat of arms

The coat of arms (1858) is divided , split at the top , a black eagle in gold on the right , a golden lion in blue on the left , and a silver ram's head in the sights below in red . On the helmet with blue-gold covers three (blue-gold-blue) ostrich feathers .

Lineage

Peter von Biron (born February 15, 1724 in Mitau ; † January 13, 1800 at Gellenau Castle ), Duke of Courland and Semgallia , lover: Agnes von Derschau (1740–1783)

• Peter von Gerschau (born October 24, 1779 in Behnen ( Lithuania ), † May 4, 1852 in Copenhagen ) ⚭ Karoline Henriette Schmidt (1784–1848)
  • Karl Peter von Gerschau (* December 4, 1802), major general in the Imperial Russian Army ⚭ Marie von Winter (* around 1821)
  • Maria Agnes von Gerschau (1817–1909) ⚭ Bernhard Friedrich von Flotow (1811–1854)
    • Bernhard Friedrich Peter Emil Gerschau von Flotow (* 1853 in Saint Petersburg , † 1911 in Vitebsk ), governor of Vitebsk , in 1891 the nobility was expanded to include "Baron Gerschau von Flotow" ⚭ Sophie Marie Auguste von Klopmann (* 1863 in Petershagen ; † 1938 in Ducherow )
  • Pawel Petrowitsch von Gerschau (1821–1908), Privy Councilor (1894), Senator (1894)
  • Alexander Petrovich von Gerschau (1825–1904), Russian general of the artillery
  • Karl Petrowitsch von Gerschau, Major General

literature

• Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knighthoods (New Series) , Volume IV, Hamburg 2014, pp. 143–155

Web links

Commons : Coats of arms of Flotow family  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry on Gerschau. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
• United coat of arms of those von Gerschau and von Flotow (Russian)
• Geršavi

Individual evidence

1. ^ Carl Arvid Klingspor : Baltisches Wappenbuch , Stockholm 1882, p. 76 , Tfl. 38.
2. ^ Karl Eduard Napiersky : General Lexicon of Writers and Scholars of the Provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland , Volume 2, Mitau 1829, p. 27.
3. ↑ Entry on DNB.