Haeften (noble family)

Coat of arms of those of Haeften

Haeften is the name of an old German / Dutch noble family that originated in the village of Haaften in the Duchy of Geldern .

history

Waardenburg Castle

The family first appeared in a document on August 5, 1265 with Rudolf Cocq (* 1215). His descendants named themselves after the castle he had built in Waardenburg (Werdenburg). His great-grandson of the same name Rudolf de Cocq (* 1285) first called himself Cocq van Haeften . His father Johan appeared in a document in 1301 as Ministerialer of the Archbishop of Cologne Wigbold von Holte as Johann von Waardenburg , married the heiress of Gysbert von Arkel auf Haeften around 1300 and received rule over Haaften (Goudestein) as a dowry. He became van Haaften's first army . The son Rudolf therefore took the name de Cocq van Haeften . His grandchildren renounced the original name de Cocq after 1348 , so that their descendants only had the family name van Haeften . Part of the family later moved to Xanten and Neuss on the Lower Rhine and introduced the Upper German spelling of Haeften . For some of the descendants who remained in the Netherlands , the spelling of the family name was adapted to that of the place name, so that there is also the variant van Haaften .

coat of arms

Under golden shield main , in a black dreilatziger tournament collar in red with blue three iron hats took Fehpfähle . On the helmet with red and gold blankets on the right and blue and gold on the left, two black horse legs turned outwards with silver hooves.

It is very similar to the coat of arms of the Counts of the Châtillon family .

Name bearer (chronological)

• August von Haeften (1832–1871), Prussian state archivist
  • Hans von Haeften (1870–1937), officer and from 1931 to 1935 head of the Reichsarchiv Potsdam
    • Hans Bernd von Haeften (1905–1944), German lawyer and resistance fighter
      • Jan von Haeften (1931–2017), German entrepreneur
    • Werner von Haeften (1908–1944), German lawyer, officer and resistance fighter

• Hans-Georg von Haeften (1904–1942), Lieutenant Colonel, married to Ilse Keffel (1912–1990)
  • Dietrich von Haeften (* 1940), German colonel and non-fiction author

literature

• Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume IV, Volume 67 of the complete series, page 369, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1978, ISSN  0435-2408
• Genealogical handbook of the nobility, noble houses A volume XVI, page 193, volume 76 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1981
• Siegfried Baron von Groß: The House of Chatillon sur Marne and that of Haeften from the de Cocq (Kock) tribe. In: Der Deutsche Herold, Volume 64, 1933

Web links

• Family tree of the von Haeften / van Haeften family

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Charterboeh (of the Duke. Geldern) pp. 574-577