Grauvogl (noble family)
Grauvogl is the name of a Bavarian aristocratic family whose aristocratic lineage begins in 1779 with Joseph Grauvogl.
history
On August 23, 1779, Joseph Grauvogl, Electoral Palatinate Bavarian Court Chamber Councilor and Nursing Commissioner of Osterhofen , was elevated to the nobility of Electoral Palatinate Bavaria by Elector Karl Theodor von Pfalz-Baiern with Edler von Grauvogl . Enrollment in the aristocratic class in the Kingdom of Bavaria took place for the same, meanwhile royal Bavarian district judge in Augsburg , on November 23, 1812.
In 1939 the family inherited Mering Castle .
coat of arms
Quartered, 1 and 4 in silver a gray bird soaring from a green mountain of three , 2 and 3 in a square inwards a black wing. On the helmet, with black and gold covers on the left and black and silver covers on the right, the bird soaring from the Dreiberg between open flight, divided by black and gold on the left and silver and black on the right.
Known members
- Ludwig von Grauvogl (1844–1910), Bavarian lieutenant general
swell
- Genealogical manual of the nobility. Adelslexikon, Volume IV, Limburg an der Lahn 1978, p. 241
- Genealogical manual of the aristocracy enrolled in Bavaria, Volume XXVII, Stegaurach 2008, pp. 785–786