Knut (noble families)

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Knut , also spelled Knuth , Knuthen or Knauth , is the name of several noble families , mostly found in northern Germany , which are probably only partly related to coats of arms or tribe .

Genders

Knuth (Mecklenburg and Denmark)

The Knuths in Mecklenburg and Denmark come from the Mecklenburg prehistoric nobility and are first mentioned in the 13th century. In Denmark in particular, they produced a number of important politicians and officials, including the first Danish Foreign Minister, Frederik Marcus Knuth . The progenitor of the Mecklenburg Knuths, Heinrich II. Knuth, was the brother of the Pomeranian progenitor Christopherus.

Knuth (Pomerania)

This Knuth family was wealthy in Wangeritz in the Naugard district as early as the beginning of the 16th century. With the Brandenburg colonel sergeant Henning von Knuth († 1693), the sex is said to have already found its way out. Occasionally the family in property ownership, for example Klein Weckow or Koppelin, is mixed up with the following.

The progenitor of the Pomeranian Knuths, Christopherus, was the brother of the progenitor of the Mecklenburg Knuths.

Knut (Western Pomerania)

This family first appears in 1307 with Hermannus Knut as a documentary witness.

The oldest estates of the family were Gieskow in the Fürstenthum district as early as 1378 to 1687 and Hof and Schwenz in the Greifenberg district in the 15th century , and Koplin in the Cammin district from 1504 to 1763 , and from 1618 Morgow , 1589 and 1618 Denthin and Nemitz .

With the Prussian captain Caspar Henning von Knut († 1762/1763), the male family died out. His son-in-law, the Prussian captain Bernhard Ludwig von Plötz, became the heir to the feudal succession.

The coat of arms shows a golden cap in blue. On the helmet, with blue-gold blankets, over three red roses, three ostrich feathers (blue-gold-blue).

Another noble family of the same name, which has its home in Pomerania itself, can be identified from 1523 with Clawes Knuth to Gutzemyn. The family belonged to Gutzmin and Zeblin in the Cammin district. Gutzmin and Lubow went to Natzmer for sale . At the beginning of the 16th century, the family also owned Latzig in the Belgard district . Here they appeared apparently as aftervasals of the Podewils , who were also their liege successors there. The family died out after 1629, but before 1660.

Knut (Neumark)

The Knut or Knuth in the Neumark are mentioned from 1680 until the 20th century.

The silver, red-edged shield shows a red, two-tailed, gold-crowned and armored lion with a silver sword in the right paw and a gold double cross in the left. Heraldic saying: "SI DEUS PRO NOBIS QUIS CONTRA NOS" "Is God for us, who can be against us?"

The coat of arms is divided by silver, red and blue. Three rolled-up flags (white-red-blue) on the helmet.

Knut (Brandenburg)

This presumably noble family, which is also known as Knaut (h), appears in the 18th century as the owner ofShare Cantow near Ruppin.

The coat of arms shows a black bar in silver with a bow turned downwards. Above it a crowned Prussian eagle with wings raised in flight.

Knut (Poland and Prussia)

The brothers Kaspar and Peter Knuth, landlords on Sebelino, received the Starostei Hammerstein bei Schlochau in 1502 , and Kaspar was named among the royal courtiers in 1504. The Knut were also mentioned in Prussia in 1550 and were later in military service there. Samuel Knut was canon in Warmia in 1609 .

One branch also wrote "z Giemel". Justyna z Giemel-Knut was in first marriage with the province governor of Kulm , Ludwik Mort Ballangen, in a second marriage with a man Kuczborski the coat of arms Ogończyk II and his third wife the Starost of Pokrzywno and later Voivode Kulm January Działyński the coat of arms Ogończyk ( * 1590; † 1648), married. Together with her last husband, she founded the Benedictine monastery of Graudenz in 1631 , whose first nun was Dorota Knut († 1641). They also jointly founded the Jesuit Church in Graudenz . In 1798 the Knut zu Czersk were wealthy and in 1825 they provided evidence of nobility.

The coat of arms shows in the overturned drawbar cut or Schächerkreuz divided in each part a lily .

Knut (Baltic States)

The Knut, also written Knaut, occurred in the Baltic States , especially in Riga , Livonia and before.

The coat of arms shows in green its silver, red-tongued and gold-armored griffin with embezzled tails.

Knut (Saxony)

The Knut also Knaut, written Knauten, is said to have been based in Altenburg, but there is no news about it.

The coat of arms shows in red three silver, gold- clad horns (hunting horns) with an overlaid ribbon, placed in the thief's cross, converging on the mouthpieces .

Knut (Thuringia)

The Knut, Knuth, also Knaut (h), written in the plural Knutonen, are an ancient noble family in Thuringia and Saxony . First mentioned in 1140 with Hainrich Knot and in 1174 in Merseburg documents. Hans Knauth , a representative of this line, was a knight, bailiff of Sangerhausen and feudal man of the Counts of Stolberg . In the 15th century the Knut line and the Knaut line derived from it in the 17th century.

Coat of arms is divided three or four times by silver and black.

  • Coat of arms of the Knutons

  • Coats of arms variant of the Knutonen with flight

Literature and Sources

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b From the family history of Knuth
  2. ↑ a b c d e Julius Theodor Bagmihl : Pommersches Wappenbuch . Volume 2, Stettin 1846, pp. 23-28
  3. ^ Albrecht Elzow : Pommerscher Adelsspiegel by Albrecht Elzow from the 17th century, supplemented, corrected and expanded by Christoph v. Heydebreck and Friedrich Wilhelm v. the east plathe in the 18th century. Landesarchiv Greifswald Signature: Rep. 41 vdOsten-Plathe Ost 11 / I. Knuth Department.
  4. ↑ a b c d Adam Boniecki : Herbarz Polski. T. 10, Warszawa 1907, p. 208