Kronenfeldt (noble family)

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The von Kronenfeldt family is a German-Bohemian noble family . The family originally came from near Prague ; A family chronicle allows the members to be traced back to the early 17th century.

history

The family is said to have been known by the name in Bohemia as early as the 15th century and was called Dohalski von Dohalick . According to other sources, the progenitor of the family with the name Kronenfeldt is said to have been raised to the nobility in the 17th century, presumably by the King of Sweden Gustav II Adolf . After the Battle of the White Mountains , the von Kronenfeldts left Bohemia and first moved to Grünendeich near Stade in what would later become Kurhannover , where the progenitor of the family owned a property.

As a result, around five generations of the family went through careers in the Hanoverian military service . The Hanoverian Karl von Kronenfeldt and his brother Christoph von Kronenfeldt served the British Empire at the time of the coalition wars by joining the King's German Legion , which was founded on December 19, 1803 . The two brothers later returned to Hanover and served as "elite soldiers" in the armed forces of the Royal Hanoverian Army .

Family personalities (selection)

coat of arms

The family's coat of arms shows in blue a right-facing, silver, double-curled lion, who wears a green laurel wreath around his head and holds a gold star in the raised right front paw, while a gold crown is in the upper left and lower right corners of the shield floats.

literature

  • Agathe Sauseng: The Kronenfeldt / Malcher family - settlers and collectors of ethnographic objects from South Africa in the second half of the 19th century , diploma thesis 2010 at the University of Vienna, Vienna 2010; Digitized via docplayer.org

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Agathe Sauseng: The Kronenfeldt / Malcher family - settlers and collectors ... (see literature), p. 49f. u.ö .; Digitized via docplayer.org
  2. ↑ a b c d e Ernst Heinrich Kneschke et al. (Ed.): Kronenfeldt , in ders .: New general German Adels Lexicon . Volume 5: Kalb – Loewenthal , Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig, 1864, p. 299; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ a b c d Friedrich Wilhelm Boldewin Ferdinand von dem Knesebeck : von Kronenfeldt , in ders .: Historical paperback of the nobility in the Kingdom of Hanover , Hanover: Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung, 1840, pp. 184f .; Digitized via Google books