Lüninck (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Lüninck family

Lüninck (also Lüning , Lünig , Lenick or Luninck ) is the name of an old Rhenish - Westphalian noble family . The lords of Lüninck belong to the Lower Rhine nobility. Branches of the family still exist today.

history

Origins

According to Kneschke , the line of tribe begins with Menfried von Lüninck , who lived around 1315. The family was first mentioned in a document from 1444 to 1489 with the ducal Jülich-Berg chancellor Dietrich Lunynck († 1494). He was married to Anna von Bellinghausen zu Altenbernsau.

His sons belonged to the Bergisch and Ravensberg nobility. Wilhelm († 1530) also worked in the Jülich-Bergisch chancellery from 1484 to 1528 and Dietrich († 1538) became Drost zu Ravensberg.

Expansion and possessions

Ostwig house
Bourheim Castle

In 1530 the family was in Wittenstein (today Ennepetal ), in 1550 in Niederpleis , in 1562 in Cappelen and in 1580 in Honrath . In 1628 Johann von Lüninck zu Niederpleis signed a protest of the Jülich-Bergischen knighthoods to uphold their rights at the state parliament in Düsseldorf . Wilhelm Bertram von Lüninck zu Niederpleis, Chamberlain of the Electorate of the Palatinate , swore up in 1666 with the Bergisch knighthood.

In 1771 the Ostwig house in the Sauerland came from the inheritance of the von Hanxleden family and has remained in their possession to this day. Johann Theodor Franz Freiherr von Lüninck (* 1749, † 1814), lord of Ostwig, Borg and Meineringhausen , became chamberlain for the Electorate of Cologne and royal Spanish lieutenant colonel . His brother Paul Franz Bernhard Freiherr von Lüninck (* 1754) died in 1816 as a royal Prussian colonel . Another brother, Ferdinand Hermann Maria Freiherr von Lüninck (* 1755), became the 65th abbot in Corvey Monastery in 1795 . He died in 1825 as the last Prince-Bishop of Corvey and Bishop of Münster .

After the establishment of the province of Westphalia at the beginning of the 19th century, members of the family entered Prussian state and military services and became officers in the Prussian army .

From the inheritance of the Barons von Fürstenberg -Körtlinghausen, Bourheim Castle near Jülich came into the possession of the von Lüninck family in the 20th century .

Status surveys

On February 6, 1845 in Berlin , Engelbert von Lüninck, royal Prussian premier lieutenant in the 5th Uhlan Regiment , and his siblings Carl, Joseph and Francisca von Lüninck, canon of Gesecke , received Prussian recognition of the baron class .

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows in silver a natural (also black) sparrow striding to the right . On the helmet the sparrow between a black eagle flight . The helmet covers are black and silver.

The coat of arms is eloquent , as the sparrow is also called Lüning in Low German .

Name bearer

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 6, page 43
  2. ^ Main State Archives Düsseldorf , Jülich-Berg 1, 1374; Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine 57, page 174.