Grell (noble family)
Grell , also Grelle , rarely Groel , is the name of an extinct Pomeranian noble family .
history
The family first appeared in a document in Pomerania with the squire Walter Grelli who received the magistrate's office in Neuenberg hereditary on June 7, 1302 from the voivode Sweczo . From there the family went to Lauenburg , where Robert von Grelle was named in 1410 as the patron of the church in Wunneschin . In 1449 Gunter Grelle († after 1455) was enfeoffed by the Teutonic Order with the villages of Groß Massow , Labuhn and Zewitz . The sex is divided into two lines under his sons Günter and Walter .
The first line, which later spread to the Flemming circle , began with Johann Josua Wilhelm von Grell (* 1742; † 1808). With him the entire race was also extinguished. His only son died young, of his two daughters, the elder Auguste Wilhelmine Charlotte Marie (* 1772; † 1798) married in 1788 to the royal Prussian staff captain Anton Bogislaw von Brockhusen (* 1748; † 1827). She carried Batzlaff , Cummin and Dünow to her husband . The younger daughter, Ernestine Christine Philippine (* 1773; † 1800) also married the royal Prussian Colonel Joachim Ferdinand von Ploetz († 1820) in 1788 .
The second line sat continuously on the Lauenburg estates and found its way out with the royal Prussian cornet, which remained in the War of the Bavarian Succession , in the Hussar Regiment of Belling Friedrich Wilhelm Siegmund von Grell (* 1754; † 1778). After it had been with the Wussow in the meantime, Labuhn came to the District Administrator of the Stargard district , Franz Dietrich von Wobeser (* 1730). He was married to the older sister of the above, Charlotte Friederike von Grell (* 1751; † 1816) since 1776 .
A third line, which has been established in Bochow since around 1700 , has not yet been linked to any filiation. With Matthias Heinrich (* 1736; † after 1802), heir to Bochow B, the line is also decided. His older brother Karl Bogislaw von Grell (* 1731, † 1789), last lieutenant colonel in the infantry regiment v. Wish put his nephew (sister's son) Christian Ernst von Jutrzenka (* before 1758, † after 1810), heir to Chosnitz C, as a universal heir .
More families
Two other noble families , which have also since disappeared, are derived from the Grell . During the Saxon imperial vicariate , Johann Ernst Prell († 1781), after he was able to prove his descent from the Lauenburgischen Grell , the recognition of the imperial nobility with improvement of the coat of arms on August 20, 1741 in Dresden as von Grellen-Prell . His family was mostly in Polish service and owned the Schönhagen estate near Bromberg . His granddaughter Anna Elisabeth Karoline von Grellen-Prell (* 1775; † 1836), mistress of Bremin since 1822, married Johann Nitykowski († 1838) in 1803 . The grandson of the two, the royal Prussian lieutenant colonel of militia cavalry and hereditary lord on Bremin and Noble ZALESIE ŚLĄSKIE Franz Hermann Artur Nitykowski (* 1842, † 1907), was in Potsdam in the Prussian nobility as at 10 August 1892 of Nitykowski-Grelle lifted .
On March 15, 1777, Emperor Leopold II raised Otto Diederich and Carl Ludwig Grell , hereditary lords of Madsow, to the nobility. But I added a coat of arms different from the Grell above : Two silver crossbars in red, accompanied by a golden star between two golden lilies in the upper field, three golden lilies in the middle and two golden lilies in the lower one. On the crowned helmet with red and silver covers on the right and red and gold covers on the left, two wings divided by red and silver, with the star in between.
possession
- In Pomerania: Batzlaff (partly), Bochow, Buckowin , Cummin (partly), Dünow, Groß Massow, Klein Weckow , Labuhn, Langeböse , Lüttkenhagen , Wietstock and Zewitz
- In Mecklenburg : Adloffstorf, Damekow and Madsow
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows in red two silver lances pointing upwards, placed in the St. Andrew's cross , accompanied by a golden star each at the top and bottom. On the helmet with red and silver blankets , a maiden dressed in red, holding a silver tournament ring in each hand .
literature
- Siegfried von Boehn : von Grell. In: Extinct Pomeranian noble families or extinct Pomeranian lines of other noble families. Tutzing 1985.
- Reinhard von Flanss : The von Grelle, a Pomeranian-Lauenburg. Family , 1902
Individual evidence
- ^ Max Perlbach : Pomeranian document book. Scientia, Aalen 1969, p. 537
- ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadlige houses (B) Gotha 1909, p. 563ff (family and older genealogy), until 1935 (continuations)
- ^ A b Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the constitutional hereditary comparisons (1755). Rostock 1864, p. 85