Gfug

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Family coat of arms of those of Gfug

Gfug , historical spellings also called Gefug , Gefuge , Gefüeg or Gfug and Föllerdorff (Foellendorf, Fellendorf, Foellerndorf, Foellersdorf) , is the name of a Silesian noble family that later also gained a certain reputation in Saxony and Prussia . The family continues to the present day.

history

The family line of the Silesian family von Gfug begins with the ducal Liegnitz chamberlain and court judge Adam von Gfug, who in 1437 exchanged the bailiwick Niklasdorf for Bienowitz and bought Liebenau in 1438.

Carl Christian von Gfug and Fellendorf († 1721), heir to Manze, was elevated to the bohemian baron status in Vienna on March 2, 1667 . On April 7, 1701, a Bohemian count's diploma was issued for him in Vienna . Since his marriage to Countess Eleonora Charlotte (Carolina) von Hochberg and Fürstenstein (1676–1739) remained without a biological heir, the dubbed line of his sex died out with him .

His widow, Countess Eleonora Charlotte von Gfug, Baroness von Fellendorf, wife of Manze, Marck-Bohrau, Stein, Glofenau, Grünhartau, Dürhartau, Kaltenhäuser, Peterkau and Schönfeld, took Friedrich Wilhelm von Posadowsky, Baron von Postelwitz (1721–1781) , later royal Prussian court marshal , as foster son . He was the eldest son of Karl Friedrich von Posadowsky , who was raised to the rank of count in 1743 , and his paternal grandmother was a sister of the late Count Carl Christian von Gfug, Baron von Fellendorff. His foster mother and widow of his great-uncle had made him a universal heir, which is why Friedrich Wilhelm von Posadowsky acquired the gfug rule of Manze, located in the Duchy of Brieg , in 1739 , consisting of the Manze, Bohrau, Stein, Glofenau, Grünhartau, Dürhartau, Kaltenhäuser, Peterkau, Schönfeld and Deutsch-Landen came.

Sons of the von Gfug family distinguished themselves several times as officers in the Saxon and Prussian armies .

Historical property

According to Ledebur , the property of the family was essentially in Silesia.

coat of arms

  • Family coat of arms of those of Gfug (variant)

  • Count's coat of arms of those of Gfug

The family coat of arms shows a shield divided diagonally to the right by a silver stream (sometimes shown in blue), above a running (“ docile ”) silver horse , below in gold three red (occasionally silver) roses.

The coat of arms belonging to the Bohemian counts of 1701 is a four-quarter main shield with a heart shield , in which the family coat of arms. The fields of the main shield are Habsburg signs of grace : Fields 1 and 4: a black eagle's wing in gold, stands for the old Silesian eagle ( diminished ); Spaces 2 and 3: red and silver chess , represents the coat of arms of the old dukes of Liegnitz . On the shield (covered with a count's crown) three crowned helmets with red and silver covers: on the right the eagle's wings as in the shield, on the middle the growing steed of the heraldic helmet , on the left the shield board of the Dukes of Liegnitz.

The gfug'sche tribe crest helmet with the growing silver Ross crest was because of the extensive Erbanfalls 1739 gfug'schen rule Manze to the Posadowsky of their way into the gräflich Posadowsky'sche crest that in 1784 the last time was a royal Prussian expansion, namely on the occasion of the name and coat of arms association with those of the extinct von Wehner, where the helmet received fourth place in the upper coat of arms .

Relatives

  • Karl Heinrich von Gfug († after 1730), Saxon major general
  • Georg Friedrich von Gfug, † May 29, 1746, 1715 royal Polish - Electoral Saxon colonel of the cavalry, 1724 major general, 1733 lieutenant general, 1741 cavalry general
  • Johann Ludwig von Gfug († after 1832), October 29, 1794 Knight of the order Pour le Mérite for personal use in the Battle of Kaiserslautern with the Vietinghoff Infantry Regiment z. F. ( No. 38 ), 1806 major in the Third Musketeer Battalion of the Schimonsky Infantry Regiment ( No. 40 ), farewell in 1810, then postmaster in Braunsberg

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ European Family Tables : New Series. Brandenburg and Prussia 1, edited by Detlev Schwennicke , plate 91 ; see. also Melchior Friedrich von Stosch, Genealogia of the Hoch-Gräflich Freyherrlich- and Hoch-Adelichen family of Stosch , Volume 2, 1736, pp. 26 and 227
  2. ↑ Register of funeral sermons by those of Gfug ( Memento of the original from June 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ad H. Fellendorf on uni.marburg.de  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cgi-host.uni-marburg.de
  3. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon , Volume IV, Volume 67 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1978, p. 107
  4. ↑ a b Authority record for Eleonore Charlotte von Gfug and Foellendorf (1676–1739): GND 1011335026 . Access date: December 26, 2019.
  5. ↑ GGT GB, 1866 (Appendix), p. 1087
  6. ↑ CERL Thesaurus
  7. ^ Funeral pamphlet, written by her foster son, Friedrich Wilhelm von Posadowsky, Freiherr von Postelwitz (1721–1781)
  8. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm von Posadowsky von Postelwitz in the DNB
  9. ↑ Count Arthur Posadowsky-Wehner, History of the Silesian nobility of the Count Posadowsky-Wehner , Breslau 1891, pp. 81–87
  10. ↑ Ledebur : Adelslexikon (lit.)
  11. ↑ Leonard Dorst von Schatzberg : Schlesisches Wappenbuch or the arms of the nobility in the Sovereign Duchy of Silesia , Volume 1, Görlitz 1847, p. 54
  12. ↑ GHdA , Adelslexikon , Volume X, Volume 119 of the complete series, Limburg an der Lahn 1999, p. 498 f. or illustrated in Alfred Freiherr von Krane, coat of arms and handbook of the nobility resident in Silesia (including Upper Lusatia) , Görlitz 1901–1904 ( digitized version )
  13. ↑ Buried in the Dresden Frauenkirche , cf. Register at frauenkirche.de, accessed on May 28, 2014
  14. ↑ Heinrich August Verlohren: tribe Register and Chronicle of Kur u. Royal Saxon Army from 1670 to the beginning of the twentieth century , 1983 reprint ( Degener Verlag ) of the edition of 1910 Verlag Carl Beck in Leipzig, p. 239
  15. ↑ Buchwälder, Johannes in the DNB