Gag (noble family)
Knebel and Knebel Doeberitz are the names of an old Middle Franconian family who were raised to the Prussian nobility in 1756 .
history
The direct lineage of the family begins with Hanns Knebel , who is mentioned in a document in 1495 in Lentersheim (today a district of Ehingen , district of Ansbach ).
The brothers Kaspar , Hans , Sixt and Lienhart Knebel jointly received a letter of arms from the Imperial Palatine Count Paul Melissus (1539-1602) on July 3, 1581 in Nuremberg .
Nobility rise
Georg Knebel , Margrave of Brandenburg-ansbachischer privy , was on 4 December 1756 in Berlin with crest confirmation in the Prussian charged nobility. His brothers Johann Christian Knebel , Margrave of Brandenburg-ansbachischer consistory and minister in Ansbach , and Johann Wilhelm Knebel , imperial colonel sergeant in Bayreuth'schen Infantry - Regiment , were on 14 May 1759 Vienna made an imperial nobility.
Doeberitz gag
Christian Friedrich's son, the landowner and district deputy Ludwig von Knebel (1783–1840), landlord on Groß-Grünow and since 1819 also on the Friedrichsdorf estate with Klestin, Brandenbrück, Luisenau, Ludwigsberg, Marienau near Wusterwitz, Zetzin, Klebow and Dalow with Martha and Kotzbahn (all in the district of Dramburg , Province of Pomerania ), received permission for the Prussian name and coat of arms association in Berlin on October 15, 1806 with the name " von Knebel Doeberitz ", after he was given by Ludwig Christoph Georg von Doeberitz († October 14, 1807 ) was adopted. As the last of the Doeberitz line, the Prussian Major General Johann Heinrich Albert von Doeberitz died on April 11, 1811.
coat of arms
The coat of arms of 1581 and 1756 shows in silver a red oblique right bar covered with three silver roses with golden lugs. On the helmet with red and silver covers, two buffalo horns divided over a corner by silver and red.
Name bearer
- Christian Friedrich von Knebel (1743–1802), Prussian major general
- Karl Ludwig von Knebel (1744–1834), German poet and translator
- Gebhard von Knebel Doeberitz (1848–1921), Prussian landowner and politician
- Georg von Knebel Doeberitz (1810–1880), Prussian district administrator and politician
- Ludwig von Knebel Doeberitz (1844–1900), Prussian landowner and politician
- Magnus von Knebel Doeberitz (1890–1942), German landowner and agricultural politician
See also
literature
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VI, Volume 91 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1987, ISSN 0435-2408 , pp. 308-309.
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general nobility dictionary. P. 152. (digitized version)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Märkische research. Volumes 4–6, p. 185. (digitized version)