L'Estocq (noble family)
The noble family of L'Estocq comes from France. Estoc is the French word for tank breaker .
history
Like many Huguenots , they emigrated from France to Germany because of their Protestant faith . The first family member living in Germany, with whom the family line begins, was Jean "Johann" L'Estocq (1647–1732). He was born in Vitry-le-François , came to Hanover , where he worked as the Electoral Braunschweig-Lüneburg General Surgeon and died in 1732. Numerous family members of his descendants reached high Prussian military ranks. His fourth childless son, Johann Hermann "Armand" L'Estocq (1692–1767), was elevated to the rank of imperial count on April 27, 1744 as the personal surgeon of the Russian Empress. The noble leadership of the sex has not been objected to in Prussia since 1744 without formal recognition of the nobility. This became superfluous when the Prussian general Anton Wilhelm von L'Estocq was awarded the Order of the Black Eagle , as this award was always associated with the elevation to the hereditary Prussian nobility.
coat of arms
Quartered: 1 and 4 in gold a silver snake, 2 and 3 in silver a natural tree trunk from which 3 green leaves grow; on the helmet with blue-silver-red-gold covers a red rooster. Motto : Dieu mon estoc .
Well-known namesake
- Anton von L'Estocq (1868–1932), Prussian major general
- Anton Wilhelm von L'Estocq (1738–1815), Prussian cavalry general, provost of Brandenburg, knight of the Order of the Black Eagle
- Anton Wilhelm Karl von L'Estocq (1823–1913), Prussian lieutenant general, knight of the order Pour le Mérite
- Johann Hermann von L'Estocq (1692–1767), Imperial Russian Real Privy Councilor and personal surgeon to Empress Elisabeth
- Johann Ludwig L'Estocq (1712–1779), German lawyer
- Heinrich von L'Estocq (1756–1837), Prussian major general, knight of the order Pour le Mérite
- Jean von L'Estocq (1647–1732), surgeon general
- Karl Franz Philipp von L'Estocq (1759–1845), major general in Württemberg
- Rudolf von L'Estocq (1862–1942), Prussian lieutenant general
literature
- Stephan Sehlke: Das Geistige Boizenburg: Education and the educated in and from the Boizenburg area from the 13th century to 1945 , 2011, ISBN 3844804234 , page 279f
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch , New Prussian Adels Lexicon , Volume 2, p.146f
- Genealogical paperback of the knights and Aristocratic families, 1879, fourth year, p.293ff
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility, Volume 61 , Verlag CA Starke, 1975, page 188
- ^ Genealogical Manual of the Nobility, Volume B XI, page 224, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg, 1974.