Gristow (noble family)

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Seal of Johann von Gristow

The von Gristow gentlemen were a roguish - Pomeranian noble family.

history

They formed a sideline of the Rügen dynasty and descended from Prince Barnuta . This was probably based on a low castle called Gardist or Garchen , which was south of Kirchdorf . With his eldest son Dobislaw de Gristow the name was the first time in 1249 Gristow called by said today in the municipality Mesekenhagen comes lying place. The family owned salt springs in the area north of the Ryck .

In 1309, the Lords of Gristow and the Lords of Putbus renounced the succession in the event that the Rügen Princely House died out.

During the First War of the Rügen Succession , the Mecklenburg troops of Prince Heinrich II, with whom Johann von Gristow had allied, undertook a campaign against the city of Greifswald from Grimmen and Ekberg Castle . The Mecklenburgers were beaten at Griebenow. The troops of the Greifswalds and the cities allied with them and recruited knights then tried twice unsuccessfully to conquer Ekberg Castle.

It was not until 1331, during a renewed feud between the city of Greifswald and Johann von Gristow, that a Greifswald contingent succeeded in taking the castle and completely destroying it. In the document from 1331 in the Greifswald city archive, however, a court settlement between the parties was established, according to which Greifswald had to pay Johann von Gristow 400 marks as compensation.

The family's estates, located between Ryck and Strelasund , were sold to Greifswald citizens and monasteries in the course of the 14th century due to financial problems . Finally the family moved to Schlechtemühl (today Hessenburg near Saal ). It was from here that members of the family entered service in Mecklenburg. Such was Henning von Gristow , Princely Mecklenburg Privy Council, 1644-1645 Commander of Nemerow . In 1740 the family died out.

coat of arms

In the oldest form, the silver coat of arms shows a deer head, in later times the deer antlers were replaced by wings. On the open helmet a tree with nine branches, each with a golden rose.

literature

  • Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen. IV. Theil, Volume I, Greifswald district (general) - especially “City of Greifswald and the royal. University there ”, Anklam / Berlin 1866, p. 581
  • Gunnar Möller: History and settlement of the Terra Gristow from the 7th to the 14th century . In: Contributions to the history of Western Pomerania: the Demmin Colloquia 1985–1994 . Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 1997, ISBN 3-931185-11-7 , pp. 315–321.
  • Gunnar Möller, Das Castrum Ekbergh in Segebadenhau, Nordvorpommern district, in: Archaeological reports from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 1, 1994, p. 67 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Schoebel :  Putbus, gentlemen. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 16 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Vol. 4, Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig 1863, p. 41 ( digitized version )
  3. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Vol. 2, Gebrüder Reichenbach, Leipzig 1836, p. 285 ( digitized version )

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