Lüdinghausen called Wolff

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Family coat of arms of those von Lüdinghausen called Wolff

Lüdinghausen called Wolff is an ancient noble family from Westphalia , which later also settled in the Baltic States . Name-bearing descendants of a line that was raised to the baron status in 1858 are still alive today.

Origin and history

The family first appears in a document in 1174 with Conradus de Ludenkhusen among the ministerials of the Prince-Bishops of Münster at their Lüdinghausen Castle . The line of the family begins in 1185 with Hermann. Herimannus, miles de Ludynghusen, seals 1260.

In 1271 Bernardus, dictus Lupus de Ludinchusen , first recorded the nickname Wolf (Lupus). That Bernhard Wolf von Lüdinghausen (also Bernhard Wolf zu Wolfsberg ) († 1312) was the builder of Wolfsberg Castle in Lüdinghausen. Since Bernhard and his brother Hermann I von Lüdinghausen had built this seat, a little south of Lüdinghausen Castle, probably without the consent of the Bishop, Bishop Gerhard von der Mark left Vischering Castle as a fortress on an approximately 80-meter-long sand island in a stone arm in 1271 to secure his sovereign rights against the rebellious brothers. He enfeoffed his Ministerial Albert III. von Wulfheim (1268–1315), who then called himself Droste zu Vischering ; his descendants still own Vischering Castle to this day.

Said Bernhard Wolf von Lüdinghausen married Regelindis, the heir to the old mayor of Soest . His great-grandchildren included the Prince-Bishop of Münster, Heidenreich Wolf von Lüdinghausen († 1392). As a result of the Soest hereditary connection, a son of Bernhard named himself after office and seat Schultheiss (var. Schulte, Latin Scultetus) of Soest : Knight Henrich Wulff (documented as early as 1276; † 1305) documented Soest with the lion's coat of arms as Scultetus . In addition to his maternal grandfather, the mayor Heinrich von Soest, he also entered the Hovestadter Burgmannschaft as early as 1289 . In the 14th century the wolves of Lüdinghausen were also represented as heirs to the last of the noble mayors of Soest in the Neheimer Burgmannschaft : Heinrich Wolf , who owned the main estate at Voßwinkel , became Turm-Burgmann zu Neheim in 1369.

Since the middle of the 14th century, the Wulffe von Lüdinghausen appear as castle men from Neheim in possession of the main courtyard in Voßwinkel . In 1364 Heinrich Wulf von Lüdinghausen received the main courtyard as a fief. A descendant of Heinrich Wulf was enfeoffed by the archbishop in 1415 with the castle fief in Neheim and the court and timber court at Vosswinkel. The Wulfe later lived at Haus Füchten , which they had obtained by marrying the von Uffeln near Werl . A heiress of this family married Arnold Christoph von der Horst , who received the castle loan at Neheim in 1678 , the court at Voßwinkel, court and wood court and the archbishop's services at Voßwinkel.

A branch of the von Lüdinghausen family called Wolff turned to the Baltic States in the 15th century, while the family later died out in the Westphalian homeland. Georg was a knight of the Teutonic Order in Livonia until 1559 and father of Georg († 1638), the city of Starost von Dünaburg . His sons were Fromhold († 1665), Voivode of Smolensk, Senator, Governor of Cracow and Commander of the Royal Guard, Alexander († 1679), Voivode of Dorpat and Senator, later Cistercian Abbot of Pelplin, since 1674 Bishop of Livonia, Friedrich Johann, Polish lieutenant general and Georg († 1647), Starost general of Livonia and father of the Jesuit Friedrich von Lüdinghausen Wolff (1645–1708).

Georg von Lüdinghausen Wolff (1751–1807), chancellor, then court master of the Courland High Court in Mitau

Other descendants of the Teutonic Knight Georg spread in Sweden and Poland, later in Russia and Prussia. Georg (1751–1807) was chancellor from 1797–1801, then court master of the Courland High Court in Mitau, Otto (1850–1910) was a Prussian lieutenant general and commander of the 2nd infantry division, Albert (1851–1931) was a Prussian lieutenant general and Bernd ( 1864–1930) Police chief of Berlin-Wilmersdorf and -Schöneberg.

The knight bank judge and ducal Courland captain to Frauenburg Johan Lüdinghausen called Wolff was enrolled on October 17, 1620 in the 1st class of the Courland knighthood . The Prussian recognition for the use of the baron title took place through the highest cabinet orders of June 9, 1858, July 29, 1856 and November 11, 1865, after the Russian recognition of the baron title for the entire family by Senatsukas on April 3, 1862.

coat of arms

Family coat of arms of those von Lüdinghausen called Wolff, which was also carried by the side line called Schulte von Soest

Three red bars in silver, covered with a (two-tailed) gold-crowned blue lion; on the helmet with red-silver blankets, the lion growing between a silver flight covered with three red bars.

Well-known namesake

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Westfälisches Urkundenbuch , Volume 2, No. 371
  2. ↑ Westfälisches Urkundenbuch, Volume 3, No. 670
  3. ↑ Westfälisches Urkundenbuch, Volume 3, No. 899
  4. ^ The Diocese, Volume 3, p. 450 f.
  5. ↑ Johann Diederich von Steinen , Attempt at a Westphalian history especially of the county , Volume 3 p. 944
  6. ↑ Peter Florian Weddigen , Westphaelisches Magazine on Geography, History and Statistics , Volume 1, p. 31
  7. ↑ The older castle team from Hovestadt , website with information from: Studies on the history of Soest by Dr. Friedrich von Klocke , first volume “Essays primarily on social history” Soest 1928 (accessed on October 2, 2015)
  8. ^ The Neheim Castle and its team , website with information from: Friedrich von Klocke, 600 years of civil liberty Neheim - Hüsten , published by the city of Neheim - Hüsten in 1958
  9. ↑ Nikolaus Thoemes , III. P. Friedrich Baron v. Lüdinghausen, called Wolff, SJ , in: The share of the Jesuits in the Prussian royal crown from 1701 , Berlin 1892, p. 11
  10. ^ Editing, "Lüdinghausen called Wolff, von." In: Neue Deutsche Biographie 15 (1987), p. 457 ( online version )
  11. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon, Volume VIII, CA Starke-Verlag 1997, page 98.
  12. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility , Volume FA XI, CA Starke-Verlag, page 151.
  13. ↑ von Lüdinghausen called Wolff on the website http://www.schlossarchiv.de/ of the Institute for Genealogy and Heraldry (accessed on October 2, 2015)
  14. ↑ Bernd Warlich, The Thirty Years' War in personal testimonies, Lüdinghausen, called Wolff, Wilhelm von (accessed on October 5, 2015)
  15. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Nels , Volume FA XI, CA Starke-Verlag, p. 152.
  16. ↑ Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , Volume FA XI, CA Starke-Verlag, p. 154.
  17. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Nels , Volume FA XI, CA Starke-Verlag, p. 159.
  18. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Nels , Volume FA XI, CA Starke-Verlag, p. 166.