Koskull (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Koskull

Koskull , also known as Koschkull (also pronounced like this) is the name of a Baltic noble family that also came to prominence in Sweden , Prussia and Russia and whose branches continue to exist today.

history

The Koskull belong to the oldest German families in Livonia . They are heraldic and probably tribe related to the von der Pahlen . The common progenitor came to Livonia as a crusader in the middle of the 13th century . The homeland of origin is not known, the two family names probably come from fiefdoms that have been preserved there: The Kosküll farm near Dickeln (today Dikļi near Valmiera , Latvia) was on the Pahle stream. The knight Andreas de Koskele is mentioned for the first time in 1302 as an archdiocese-rigaic vassal .

With their extensive estates, the Koskull belonged to the most influential and respected Rigian vassal families. The family was already widespread around 1400 and settled in Estonia , Courland , Sweden and Finland until the 17th century , and in Prussia in the 18th century .

Adsirn, Latvia

In the 14th century the goods Koskullshof (also called Stumpen), consisting of Lappier with Carlsberg (today Ozolu / Latvia) and Schujenpahlen (or Buddenbrok) belonged to the family. Pernigel came to her from 1467 to 1490. Later Napküll with Sutzen, Kulsdorf and the village of Lemskull came to them. Until the 18th century Klein-Autz (Mazauce) and Ostrominsky (Košķele) belonged to the property. The Asuppen estate (Aizupe in the Kandava / Kandau district) came to Peter von Koskull in 1719 and remained in the possession until 1793. It also owned Goldbeck and Wisikum and from 1714 until it was expropriated by the land reform in 1920, the Adsirn estate (Aizdzires muiža in the Kandava district).

The family was in 1742 in the Livonian Knighthood , 1777 in the Estonian Knighthood and 1841 in the Courland knighthood enrolled. A Prussian baron diploma was issued as early as 1834, and in 1862 and 1879 the entire family was allowed to use the Russian baron title . In 1803 the imperial count came to a branch of the family and in 1898 a Russian count's diploma was awarded again.

In Sweden, Anders d. J. Koskull naturalized by Maidellshoff and introduced into the nobility class of the Swedish knighthood with the number 248 . His mother-in-law was Constantia Eriksdotter, an illegitimate daughter of King Erik XIV. In 1719 his descendants, the later Lieutenant General Anders Koskull with the number 160 and the major general Otto Johan Koskull zu Stensholm in 1720 with the number 184 were raised to the baron class. The Engaholm estate near Alvesta with 6,200 hectares has belonged to the Swedish Barons Koskull since the beginning of the 18th century.

coat of arms

The tribe and baronial coat of arms shows three green sea ​​leaves (2: 1) in blue (or in silver ). On the helmet with green-gold-blue covers a golden peacock mirror consisting of four feathers, three natural cattails between the feathers .

  • Tribal and baronial coat of arms of the Koskull family

  • Count's coat of arms of the Koskull family (1803)

Known family members

  • Karl Reinhold von Koskull (1731–1804), captain-lieutenant of the Russian Life Guard Regiment

  • Ulrica Katharina Koskull (1759–1805), wife of Magnus Fredrik Brahe (1756–1826)

  • Peter August Friedrich von Koskull (1763–1827)

  • Aurora Wilhelmina Koskull (1778–1852), Swedish salonnière, second wife of Magnus Fredrik Brahe

  • Mariana Koskull (1785–1841), Swedish court lady, mistress of Charles XIII. and Charles XIV.

  • Constance Koskull (1788-1840)

  • Anders Gustaf Koskull (1831–1904), painter of the Düsseldorf School

  • Wilhelm Georg Woldemar von Koskull (1864–1923)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Even if Palenberg near Aachen was occasionally assumed to be the headquarters: Stackelberg, vol. 1, p. 159ff
  2. ^ A b Carl Arvid von Klingspor : Baltisches Wappenbuch. Coats of arms of all noble families belonging to the knights of Livonia, Estonia, Courland and Oesel. Stockholm 1882, p. 79 , fig. 57.
  3. ↑ Anders Koskull in Svenskt biografiskt lexikon ( Swedish ).
  4. ↑ Koskull, Josepha Benita Baronesse von . In: Ostdeutsche Biografie (Kulturportal West-Ost); Heinrich von Lersner : Obituary for Josi von Koskull. In: Herold-Nachrichten, NF 15, 1996/00, pp. 17-18.