Grabow (Brandenburg noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Grabow from the Prignitz, Danish branch

Grabow is a Markbrandenburg isches noble family from the Prignitz with the parent house of the same name . The sex is more of the same, but ordinary and coat different genders Grabow to distinguish. The latter include the Pomeranian - Mecklenburg een Grabow , the smal - Lüneburg Grabow and Magdeburg, Grabow .

history

Prignitz

The family is one of the oldest in Ostprignitz. It appears in a document for the first time in 1144 with Heinricus de Grabow . Bantikow owned it in 1536 (until 1810), Grabow near Blumenthal in 1542 and Lögow (now part of Wusterhausen / Dosse ) in the Ruppin district in 1556 . Later on, others such as Wutike (now part of Gumtow ) were added to these goods . In 1817 Gartow in the Ruppin district (now part of Wusterhausen / Dosse) was owned by the family.

Denmark

As early as the 15th century, Morten Grabow and Herbert Grabow, two members of the family in Denmark, are attested. Around 1660 the Danish Grabows owned land and were accepted into the Danish nobility .

Joachim von Grabow (Køn Joakim Grabow) († June 23, 1669) from Wuticke received an appointment as a Danish lieutenant in 1624. He later rose to admiral and was enfeoffed with goods in Skåne in 1640 . In the sea ​​battle on the Kolberger Heide he commanded the 2nd squadron of the Danish fleet. In 1650 he bought Sørup, Vetterslev Sogn .

His relative Hans von Grabow (* 1549, † March 28, 1628) had come to Denmark with Eustachius von Thümen in 1582 and had entered the Danish military service. He acquired the Pederstrup estate in Vesterborg Sogn . From his sons from his first marriage, Joachim Grabow (* October 18, 1599; † November 15, 1634) went on an extensive European trip and entered the Venetian and Florentine military service until he returned home in 1625; with his son Johan Joakimsen Grabow (* February 8, 1626, † after 1673) the Danish line ends in the male line.

Coat of arms of the von Grabow (Prignitz)

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows in a blue shield a golden, half, crowned lion growing up from a nested ground . Chess has three rows on older seals and four rows on newer seals. On the latter, not a growing up, but a leoparded lion advancing to the right is depicted. The chess is gold and red.

Name bearer

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel , Codex diplom. brandenb. Part 1, Volume 3, p. 79
  2. ↑ Danmarks adels aarbog 11 (1894), p. 152
  3. ↑ Danmarks adels aarbog 11 (1894), p. 153
  4. ↑ cf. also Andreas Engel : Holsteinische Chronica , Volume 1, 1597