Helpe (noble family)
Helpe also Helpede , Helpte or Helfta , is the name of an old, extinct Mansfeld and Mecklenburg noble family .
history
This old knightly family has its origin in Helfta in the county of Mansfeld , from which it also borrows its name. There they were aftervasals of the noble lords of Hakeborn . In 1216 Epro von Helfta and Knight Conrad von Helfta were mentioned in a document. Around 1630, the Mansfeld male line became extinct.
A branch of the family came to Mecklenburg as early as the 13th century. The Helpt castle location in Mecklenburg is viewed as an early fief of the family after the German immigration to the Wenden areas . A knight Bodo von Helpte appears in a document in 1304. In 1355 Curt von Helpte also sealed an original feud letter in Friedland . In 1381, Pragsdorf is attested as a fief of the family. After Engelke von Helpede signed the union of the Mecklenburg estates for the family in 1523, the male line with Jürgen Helpte († 1549) died. According to other information, a Joachim von Helpe was named as the owner of Wittenhagen at Stargard in 1621 .
Latomus considers Philipp von Rehberg , the bishop of Cammin from 1370 to 1385, to be a son of the above Curt von Helpte.
coat of arms
The main coat of arms shows a slanting silver bar in red , covered with three black double eagles . On the helmet with red, silver and black covers over a bulge, two flowers bent over each other on long stalks with five pointed leaves each. - Friedrich Crull depicts two seals (from 1334 and 1358), the one from 1358 "with two spring wheels on rods as a helmet ornament, from which two roses bent over one another with the stems were made".
Seal of Nicolai de Helpede; Knight 1339
Seal of the knight Otto von Helpte from 1358
Relatives
- Engelke von Helpede, signatory of the Union of Estates in 1523 as an authorized commander of all teams
literature
- Bernhard Latomus : Genealochronicon Mecklenburgicum. Old Stettin 1619, pp. 110–111.
- Christian Friedrich August von Meding : Messages from aristocratic coats of arms. Volume 1, Hamburg 1786, pp. 238-239.
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George Adalbert von Mülverstedt , Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt : J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms , Bauer & Rapse, Nuremberg
- VI. Volume, 6th department, Extinct Prussian nobility: Province of Saxony , 1884, p. 68, plate 43
- VI. Volume, 10th department, Extinct Mecklenburg nobility , 1902, p. 48, plate 26
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Crull: The coats of arms of the genders of the team, which occurred up to 1360 in the present borders of Meklenburg. In: Association for Mecklenburg history and antiquity: Yearbooks of the association for Mecklenburg history and antiquity. Vol. 52 (1887), p. 136, no. 387
- ↑ Friedrich Crull: The coats of arms of the genders of the team that occurred up to 1360 in today's borders of Meklenburg.