Koenigsmarck

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Family coat of arms of those von Königsmarck

Königsmarck is the name of an old Altmark noble family , which in the 17th century had its greatest flowering.

history

The family first appears in a document in 1225 with Henricus de Cungermarck and in 1247 with the knight Walter as marshal of the margraves Johann I and Otto III. of Brandenburg. The main seat was Königsmark Castle near Stendal. The older family possessions in Prignitz included Kötzlin , Roddahn , Berlitt , Vehlin , Stüdenitz and the like. a. Kötzlin and Berlitt remained in the family until their expropriation in 1945, as did Plaue Castle .

Hans Christoph von Königsmarck (1600–1663), Swedish field marshal

The royal Swedish field marshal lieutenant Hans Christoph von Königsmarck from the house of Kötzlin was a successful military leader in the Thirty Years' War . The Swedish Queen Christina made him count in 1651 . As Governor General of the Swedish duchies Bremen-Verden based in Stade , he had built a small castle, which he by his wife Agathe in the neighboring village Lieth of Leesten the name Schloss Agathenburg awarded. In 1662 he ceded his claims to the Brandenburg goods to his brother Joachim Christoph von Königsmarck auf Kötzlin.

His granddaughter Aurora von Königsmarck , born in 1662, spent most of her childhood in Agathenburg. Her brother Philipp Christoph von Königsmarck , heir to Agathenburg Palace, disappeared without a trace in 1694 after he was actually murdered - the Königsmarck affair because of his relationship with Sophie Dorothea von Braunschweig-Lüneburg , wife of the Hanoverian elector and later British King Georg I caused a sensation across Europe. His sister Aurora therefore went to the court of Augustus the Strong to receive support in clearing up the affair; Due to her beauty, she became the Elector's mistress and in 1696 the mother of his son Moritz Graf von Sachsen , a French general and marshal who later became famous. In 1740 Agathenburg was sold to the Electorate of Hanover .

In 1708 the brothers Hans and Christoph received confirmation of the title of Reich Baron von Königsmarck.

On March 3, 1817, King Friedrich Wilhelm III. from Prussia to the Prussian privy councilor , majorate lords on Netzeband and Stöffin ( Steffin ) as well as hereditary court steward of the Kurmark Brandenburg (October 30, 1802) Hans Valentin Ferdinand von Königsmarck the Prussian count status with the settlement of the coat of arms of the now extinct branch of the Swedish counts of Königsmarck. Since January 19, 1854, the family had the right to present to the Prussian mansion.

In 1839 Plaue Castle near Brandenburg an der Havel came to the Counts of Königsmarck, who owned it until 1945.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Counts of Königsmarck 1817
  • The family coat of arms shows three red tips emerging from the right edge in silver. A gold-crowned, silver-clad maiden grows on the helmet with its red-silver blanket, in her right hand holding three silver-filled roses on green leaf stalks.

The similarity with the coat of arms of the von Beust family, also from Altmark, suggests a tribal relationship between the two sexes; Likewise, a (extinct) Altmark family von Moellendorff and the ministerial family von Havelberg carried the red and silver top coat of arms (from the latter it was also adopted by the von Rohr family, who immigrated from Bavaria in 1304 ).

  • The Count's coat of arms from 1817 shows a squared shield with a central shield. In the silver central shield three red tips, one above the other, going across to the left from the right edge. 1 in blue a golden, right-turned lion, which with both front paws holds up a silver key, whose beard is turned upwards and to the right; 2 in gold an armored rider galloping to the left on a silver horse with a black blanket, who holds a command baton in his right hand; 3 in silver over a river an arched bridge of red masonry drawn diagonally to the right with a tower on the upper right side, and 4 in blue a left-facing golden lion with a silver passion cross in its front paws. Above the count's crown covering the shield rise three helmets crowned with counts' crowns. The lion of the 1st field, holding a key in front of him, grows up out of the right helmet; from the middle helmet a white-clad maiden with flying hair, her head crowned with a count's crown, who holds a branch of roses with three roses in her right hand, while her left hand is braced in her side, and from the left helmet an armored knight, his open helmet with three ostrich feathers, red, silver and red, and who holds a red flag waving to the right in his right hand and a silver passion cross in his left. The helmet covers are silver and red on the right and left. - As described, this coat of arms can be found not only in the coat of arms of the Prussian monarchy , but also in the Mecklenburg coat of arms, which has been revised as precisely as possible. The illustration in the heraldic beech of the serene world differs by the fact that in the silver central shield there are four red tips going across from left to right and that the lions are silver and are placed inwards with the rider depicted as a general. Also, the knight's flag on the left helmet is silver and flies to the left. - According to the genealogical paperback: the count's houses have the key and passion cross gold and the horse of the rider, who is armed with a lance, is black. - As for the center shield

and when it comes to the ornament of the middle home, v. Meding the coat of arms of those v. Königsmarck, as follows: in the silver field three red tips on the left. On the helmet a bulge and above it a growing virgin clad in red and girdled in silver, with flying hair, a golden crown and a silver collar, holding a golden goblet in her right hand and putting her left on her side. In the Siebmacher the helmet is crowned and the clothing of the Virgin is divided lengthways by silver and red.

Name bearer

Grave slab depicting Adam von Königsmarck, Brandenburg Cathedral

Family relationships

literature

  • Historical-heraldic manual for the genealogical paperback of the count's houses. P. 444ff. Digitized
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon. Volume VI, Volume 91 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1987, ISSN  0435-2408 .
  • George Ezekiel : News on the history of the family of the Counts Königsmarck. Duncker, Berlin 1854. ( digitized version )
  • District of Stade (Ed.): Pictures from three generations of Königsmarck. Exhibition in Agathenburg Castle. Stade 1991, 48 pages, ISBN 3-9802018-2-1 .
  • Beate-Christine Fiedler: The Königsmarcks - splendor and fall of a Swedish count family. In: Rieke Buning, Beate-Christine Fiedler, Bettina Roggmann (eds.): Maria Aurora von Königsmarck - A noble woman's life in Europe during the Baroque period. Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22386-1 .

Web links

Commons : Königsmarck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis : Collection of documents, chronicles and other source documents . Main part 1st volume VI . Berlin 1846, p. 399 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis : Collection of documents, chronicles and other source documents . Main part 1st volume XVII . Berlin 1859, p. 370 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ a b Prof. Dr. Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : German count houses of the present: in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation , 1st volume AK, Verlag TO Weigel, Leipzig 1852, p. 467
  4. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon , Volume VI, Page 377, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg, 1987