Hucking (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Hucking family

Hucking (also: Hoeckinck (from Mülfort) , Hocking , Hueckinck or Hücking ) is the name of a Jülich-Bergisch noble family . A branch of the von Hucking family moved to the Baltic States at the end of the 15th century and has been known as Heyking to this day .

Naming

While Anton Fahne assumed the Lower Rhine town of Huckingen to be the origin of the Lords of Hucking and others followed him, recent research has come to the conclusion that Fahnes unconfirmed assumption was wrong and the Lords of Hucking had no connection to the place Huckingen. The origin of the name is therefore open.

history

The family of the Hoeckinck von Mülfort , later named after the property in the historical district of Gemünd von Buir , appeared for the first time in a document with the knight Conradus dictus Hukinc on August 10, 1303. The Heyking line appears between 1490 and 1500 with Wilhelm Heyking in Kurland , where Wilhelm's descendants described themselves as coming from Jülich and the Buir family. In the Lower Rhine trunk line, the family died out on October 31, 1757 with Johann Bertram Ferdinand Freiherr von Hucking, lord of House Bechhausen in Bechhausen (Leichlingen) .

The death shield of Henrich von Hucking zu Bechhausen († November 4, 1693) can still be found in the church of Witzhelden .

coat of arms

The blazon of the von Hucking family coat of arms reads: In a black shield with a silver crossing, in it three (2: 1) ermine tails, three (1: 2) golden sea leaves. A silver goat hull on the helmet. The helmet cover in black and silver.

The Heyking branch who emigrated to Courland adopted a new coat of arms.

literature

  • Alfred Blömer: Albert von Huicking zu Mülfort and his origin - genealogical investigation of a noble family from the parish of Odenkirchen , Mönchengladbach 1989. (available from WGfF )
  • Anton Fahne: History of the Cologne, Jülich and Bergisch families in family tables, coats of arms, seals and certificates , Volume 2, Cologne 1853, pp. 67 and 230.
  • Herbert M. Schleicher (arrangement): Ernst von Oidtman and his genealogical-heraldic collection in the University Library of Cologne , Volume 8 (folder 585–665, Heimbach – Hoven), Cologne 1995, pp. 379–396.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume V, Volume 84 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag Limburg (Lahn) 1984, pp. 201 f.
  2. ^ Anton Fahne: The dynasties barons and current counts of Bocholtz , Volume 1, 2nd section, Cologne 1858, p. 232.
  3. ^ Johann von Trostorff: Contributions to the history of the Lower Rhine with special consideration of the church and monastery history and the history of individual noble families . III. Teil, Jüchen 1899, p. 94 f .; Toni Erlinghagen: Small chronicle of the place Huckingen, in: Jubilee issue of the Kolping family , 1952.
  4. ↑ Dietmar Ahlemann: The alleged gentlemen of Huckingen and the Huckinger coat of arms , in: Huckinger Heimatbuch, Volume 3, Duisburg 2015, pp. 94-106.
  5. ^ LAV NRW R, Herrschaft Odenkirchen, No. 2.
  6. ^ Lothar Müller-Westphal: Wappen und Genealogien Dürener Familien , Düren 1989, p. 469.