Koenigsdorff

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Königsdorff is the name of a noble Silesian family that goes back to Johann Regius (King) from Breslau , Protestant pastor of Lorzendorf near Namslau (later to Kattern near Breslau) between 1560 and 1579 .

His descendant, Samuel Regius , City Counsel in Wroclaw, received on 12 February 1705 the Bohemian knighthood under the name of King Dorff and on April 5, 1727 Bohemian Inkolat .

Houses

Heinrich Ludwig von Königsdorff was raised to the Prussian count on March 23, 1788 , on July 6, 1798 for his brother Ludwig Carl von Königsdorff and on September 28, 1798 for their cousin Carl Sylvius von Königsdorff .

Carl Sylvius Count von Königsdorff

They are the founding fathers of three houses: Peterwitz, Koberwitz and Lohe . However, all three houses are extinguished, Koberwitz in February 1841 and Peterwitz in June 1866. The Lohe house continued into the 21st century. The manor beggars also belonged to Lohe . The last male member of the sex, Ingram Graf von Königsdorff , died on December 12, 2004 in the Großhadern Clinic in Munich at the age of almost 84. The Graf Ingram von Königsdorff Memorial Prize of the Academy of Fine Arts Foundation in Munich, donated by his widow and awarded for the first time in 2006, is named after him. With Ingram Graf von Königsdorff, the Königsdorff family died out.

coat of arms

The coat of arms from 1705 is quartered and in the first field is nested in five rows of red and silver, in the 2nd and 3rd field it has three (1, 2) golden leaves and in the 4th field three (1, 2) golden ones Stars. On the helmet with blue and gold covers on the right and red and silver covers on the left, the three stars between open black flights .

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