Girard de Soucanton (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Girard de Soucanton (1882)

Girard de Soucanton is the family name of a German-Baltic noble family of French descent . Coming from France , they moved to East Frisia and later settled in Reval, today's Tallinn , as a merchant family and entrepreneur .

history

The Girards, as their tribe name, had quickly settled in after their emigration to Reval and developed commercial and entrepreneurial skills. Johann Karl Girard (1732–1799) came to Reval in 1770, received citizenship in Reval and was elected councilor . He was followed by his son Johann Karl Girard de Soucanton (1785–1869), who became mayor of Reval, was a commercial councilor , held the office of French consul and was the owner of Thomas Clayhills & Son. On December 10, 1862 , he received the Russian title of baron and was now called "Baron Girard de Soucanton". His son Johann Karl (1826–1896) and his great son Moritz (Maurice) (1846–1898) were accepted into the Estonian nobility register of the Estonian knighthood in 1865 and 1867 . As a result of his marriage to Anna Dorothea Hetling (1746–1815), Johann Karl Girard became the owner of one of the oldest trading houses Thomas Clayhills & Son in Estonia . The last company boss from this family was Johann Karl Etienne Baron Girard de Soucanton (1843–1910), he was accepted into the Estonian knighthood in 1896. André Baron Girard de Soucanton has been on the board of the Association of the Baltic Knighthood eV , district group NRW , since September 2017 .

ancestors

  • Claude Girard, Oldenburg State
    • Jean-Antoine Girard, in Aurich
      • Stephan Karl Girard (* around 1690 in Aurich; † 1740 in Moscow ), 1738 as a surgeon in Moscow
        • Johann Karl Girard (* 1732 in Rastede ; † 1799 in Reval), moved to Reval in 1770, citizen and councilor in Reval, founder of the Baltic line

Baltic barons family

Johann Karl Baron Girard de Soucanton (* August 2, 1785 in Reval, † December 22, 1868 in Reval) Lord of Kunda and Röal , 1805 citizen and merchant in Reval, 1826 councilor, mayor, councilor of commerce, French consul, founder of the Thomas Clayhills company & Son ∞ Eleonora von Scheurmann (1786–1861)

coat of arms

Prangli kirik, Girard de Soucantoni vapp.JPG

The escutcheon is blue with a red head . In the blue field a golden bull stands on the back of a green mountain, which carries a silver tinned tower . In the main shield, arranged in bars: half golden lion , golden 5- pointed star and silver falling moon . The baron's crown on the shield . Helmzier growing golden lion. Blue helmet cover , gold red. The two gold shield holders are lions on arabesques .

Possessions

The Girard de Soucanton family temporarily owned the following estates and farms:

Good Lihula

The estate was founded in the Middle Ages as the common castle of the order and the diocese of Saare-Lääne / Oesel-Wiek . Later it belonged to the Tott, von Stackelberg , von Wistinghausen and von Buxhoevden families . The two-story classicist main building was built in 1824. Today the Lihula / Leal Museum is located there .

Good Selgs

The estate, which dates back to the Middle Ages, was later owned by the Girard de Soucanton family for a long time. The ruins of the two-story early classicist main building (late 18th century) and several stylish outbuildings (partly in ruins) have been preserved.

Gut Waldau and Hermet

The estate, first mentioned in 1412, was expanded by the von Tiesenhausen family at the beginning of the 19th century . The long stately classical main building was burned down in 1905 and its ruins were demolished. Two beautiful side houses with domed roofs have been preserved up to our time . Hermet is part of the Waldau estate.

Good Kunda

The estate was first mentioned in 1443 and belonged to the Möller, von Schwenghelm and von Girard de Soucanton families. The imposing early classical main building, erected in the 1770s, lies in ruins; Some outbuildings have been preserved (mill, distillery, etc.).

Good Röal

Röal was first mentioned as a manor in 1564 and founded at the beginning of the 17th century. In 1797 the princess Jelena Gonchakov was the owner. Röa then belonged u. a. the noble families Baranoff and Girard de Soucanton. In 1874 it was bought by the landowner Ferdinand von Stackelberg, who owned the land until the Estonian land reform in 1919. He kept Röa as a rest farm until 1939.

  • Manor house on the Lihula Estate

  • Manor house on Gut Röal

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A family tradition allows the gender to descend from France. Compare Ermerin: annuaire de la nobless de Russie III. 1900; Georg Adelheim : Revaler Ahnentafel , 1929. In: Otto Magnus von Stackelberg : Genealogical Handbook of the Estonian Knighthood , Bd .: 3, Görlitz, [1930] p. 105, footnote 1.
  2. ^ Georg Adelheim: Revaler pedigree. A continuation of Laurenty's genealogy of the old Revals families . Reval 1929-1935
  3. ^ Association of the Baltic Knighthoods eV - District Group North Rhine-Westphalia
  4. ↑ Coat of arms: Baron Girard de Soucanton. In: Adelsvapen-Wiki.
  5. ^ Lihula / Leal Castle. To: Estonian manors.
  6. ↑ Well Selgs. To: Estonian manors.
  7. ↑ Gut Waldau. To: Estonian manors: Valtu / Waldau.
  8. ↑ Good Hermet. To: Estonian manors Hermet.
  9. ↑ Good Kunda. To: Estonian manors.