Graeve (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the nobles von Graeve, according to the diploma dated October 2, 1786, in Leonhard Dorst's Book of Arms in Silesia

Graeve is the name of a Prussian noble family .

history

On the one hand, the gender is said to come from Saxony . However, according to Zedlitz , one should wisely differentiate the individual Graeve families, and so according to him the old Saxon family von Graeve with the son of Hans von Graeve, who was beheaded in Weißenfels in 1537, died out in the 16th century. According to Gerber , Johann Hieronymus Gravius or Grave, who came from “ noble families” , was actually Graf or Graff, the progenitor . Born in Sulzbach in 1648 , he was a pupil in Heidelberg and a student in Leiden, then from 1677 cantor and school colleague in Bremen , and then again cantor and music director at the Reformed Parochial Church in Berlin, where he died after 23 years in 1729. The secured trunk row begins with (his son), the judicial councilor and senior bailiff in Joachimsthal in the Uckermark Heinrich Gravius ​​(1680-1752). His sons Johann (Jerome; 1734-1798), Domänenrat and war council in Berlin and David Konrad Gravius (1737-1792), marsh and District Commissioner of the district Kosel were the occasion of the Hereditary Homage in Berlin on 2 and in Wroclaw on October 15 1786 by . Friedrich Wilhelm II with the predicate Edler von Graeve ennobled . The war councilor Johann Hieronymus von Graeve owned the Dutch palace for several years before it was ennobled . His brother David Konrad was the heir to Niebe and Borkwitz near Falkenberg, Constadt, Ellguth and Sophienthal, on October 15, 1786 he received the Silesian Inkolat , in 1790 his request for elevation to the baron class with the title of Privy Council was rejected. He was married to Dorothea Louise von Skal and Groß-Ellguth (1741–1806). Her son was Heinrich Ludwig Friedrich von Graeve (1760–1839). He was arrested in the city in 1789 because of a duel, and in 1790 he married Charlotte Helene Juliane von Reibnitz (1767–1843), daughter of the Glogau war and domain councilor Gottfried Diprand Freiherr von Reibnitz. In 1793 he himself advanced to Glogau War and Domain Council. In 1801 his request for elevation to the baron class was rejected. After lengthy quarrels and a fiscal process, he was adopted in 1803 after 15 years of service with a pension of 300 thalers. The king lifted the six-month prison sentence for this. He was considered to be highly indebted, but asked for the title of Finance Councilor after his Dimission in 1803 , which was rejected. After further insults against the governments in Glogau and Breslau, he had to take up a year of imprisonment in Glatz in October 1806. He died in 1839 as the heir to the Nimmersatt estates near Bolkenhain , Straßenbach, Oberkunzendorf, Rückers and Hartau. He was also canonicus at the collegiate monastery in Magdeburg.

coat of arms

The coat of arms (October 2, 1786) is square within a silver shield border with a heart shield , within a golden shield border in blue a silver wheel with five spokes. I in silver (according to Zedlitz and the GHdA in gold) a right-facing, gold-armored, crowned, black eagle . II in blue two upward slanted swords with golden handles. III in blue an armored sword arm growing from the split line . IV in gold, a natural stag emerging from a green bush (similar to Graffen ). Two crowned helmets with blue and silver covers . On the right helmet a armored sword arm resting between an open flight covered with golden clover stalks , on the left helmet the Prussian eagle between two natural buffalo horns .

Johann Friedrich Graeve also had a silver wheel on the heart of a quartered coat of arms (but without a heart shield) on March 20, 1732 in Vienna when he was raised by Emperor Charles VI. received in the old knighthood with the predicate "Noble of Clenodio". At the suggestion of the later Prussian Grand Chancellor Samuel von Cocceji , Graeve represented Prussia as an agent before the Reichshofrat from 1715 . When Frederick the Great ascended the throne in 1740, he was promoted to the position of secret legation councilor and resident. He died on January 7, 1751 as a Prussian secret legation councilor and accredited minister at the imperial and royal Hungarian courts in Vienna at the age of 63 and was also known in Prussia with the title “Edler von Graeve”. In fields I and IV, however, he led half a black eagle at the gap in gold, but two silver rafters in fields II and III, which are also blue. Also two crowned helmets, on the right one with black and gold covers a whole black eagle, on the left one with also blue and silver covers also two buffalo horns, but blue. It is unclear whether there is a regular relationship with that Prussian diplomat. The coat of arms from 1732 could have served as a template for the coat of arms of October 2, 1786 because of the similarity.

The coat of arms (October 15, 1786) shows, differently in I and IV in gold, a man in armor with a blue-black-blue feathered helmet, holding up a natural falcon in his right hand, on green ground; in II and III in blue an inward-facing, floating, armored sword arm. Two crowned helmets with blue and gold covers, on the right three ostrich feathers (blue-black-blue), on the left a ready-to-fly, red-armored, silver eagle .

Relatives

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Preussisches Adels-Lexicon , Volume 2, Leipzig 1836, p. 275.
  2. ^ Moritz Fürstenau :  Graf, Johann Hieronymus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 548 f.
  3. ^ Ernst Ludwig Gerber , Historisch-Biographisches Lexicon der Tonkünstler , Volume 1, Leipzig 1790, p. 539 f.
  4. ↑ Maximilian Gritzner : Chronological register of the Brandenburg-Prussian class elevations and acts of grace from 1600–1873. Berlin 1874, pp. 44 and 46 .
  5. ^ Rolf Straubel , Biographical Handbook of the Prussian Administrative and Justice Officials Munich 2009, p. 339 f.
  6. ↑ Money, Commerce, Economy: Supreme Courts in the Old Kingdom as Arbitration Body (2013). P. 132 f.
  7. ^ New genealogical-historical news , Volume 2 (1751), p. 38.
  8. ^ Johann Friedrich Seyfart : Life and government history of Friedrich the other king , Volume 2, 1786, p. 155.
  9. ^ Austrian State Archives , AT-OeStA / AVA Adel RAA 151.36 Graeve, Johann Friedrich, imperial Reichshofrat agent, old knighthood, "Edler von Clenodio", 1732.03.20