Le Coq (noble family)

Le Coq is the name of a Huguenot family who used to live in Metz ( Lorraine ) and who emigrated to Germany after fleeing . Various branches of the family still exist today.

history

origin

The established lineage of the family begins with Toussaint Le Coq, who married Jeanne Doron in Metz in 1565. Assumptions that the family descended from Antoine Le Coq, whose ancestor Jean Le Coq was ennobled in 1363 , as claimed by Béringuier, followed by Ermann and Knüppel, cannot be proven in the absence of evidence. On the contrary, referring to Toussaint's marriage contract and his will , a pertinent descent is credibly questioned. The future Berlin merchant Jean Le Coq (1669–1735) and his two future wives Jeanne Perrin (1679–1713) and Louise Marguerite Morgues (1680–1762) were Huguenots after the Edict of Nantes was repealed by Louis XIV in 1685 Fled from Metz to Prussia from religious persecution and emigrated.

Ennoblement

Johann Ludwig Le Coq was a Saxon major general (later lieutenant general ) and commander of the infantry regiment "Prince Carl" (No. 7) . On November 9, 1775, he was raised to the rank of imperial knighthood in Vienna as the "Edler von Le Coq" . The Prussian Secret Legation Councilor Gustav Le Coq received the nobility there on November 4, 1838 in Berlin for the Prussian line of the family. The coat of arms union with that of the Saxon line took place in 1874 for the same as a real privy councilor . The merchant and co-director of the Berlin life insurance company August Le Coq also received the Prussian nobility on September 17, 1875 in Liegnitz .

coat of arms

• The coat of arms from 1775 is split and shows on the right in blue an obliquely upturned golden sword , on the left in blue three (2: 1) silver lilies . Two helmets with blue and silver helmet covers , on the right a growing golden lion , on the left a golden rooster .
• The coat of arms from 1838 shows three (2: 1) golden roosters in blue. On the helmet with blue-gold helmet covers a golden rooster (also a growing golden lion).
• The quartered coat of arms from 1874/1875 shows within a golden shield border in fields 1 and 4 the cocks like 1838, field 2 in blue three silver lilies, field 3 the sword like 1775. On the helmet a growing golden lion.

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  Coat of arms from 1775 (Saxony)

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  Coat of arms from 1838 (Prussia)

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  Coat of arms from 1874/1875 (Prussia)

Karl Christian Erdmann Edler from Le Coq

Albert from Le Coq

Well-known namesake

• Johann Ludwig von Le Coq (1719–1789), Saxon lieutenant general
• Ludwig Daniel Le Coq (1756–1816), Prussian High Court and Privy Legation Councilor
• Karl Ludwig von Le Coq (1757–1829), major general and cartographer
• Karl Christian Erdmann von Le Coq (1767–1830), Lieutenant General of the Kingdom of Saxony , Commanding General of the Saxon Army
• Jean Pierre Le Coq (1768–1800), Hamburg merchant and consul, ⚭ Juliane Henriette Chodowiecka (1770–1818), daughter of Daniel Chodowiecki (1726–1801)
• Paul Ludwig Le Coq (1773–1824), Police President in Berlin and Privy Councilor, ⚭ Charlotte Elisabeth le Fevre (1766–1840)
• Gustav von Le Coq (1799–1880), Prussian diplomat, member of the first chamber of the Prussian state parliament , from 1863 member of the Prussian mansion
• Jean Louis Albert Le Coq (1800–1875), German businessman, winery and brewery owner, founder of the A. Le Coq brewery in London and later in Estonia
• André Auguste Le Coq (1827–1894), wholesaler and grocer, ennobled in 1875
• Albert von Le Coq (1860–1930), German archaeologist and researcher for Central Asia

literature

• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the letter aristocratic houses. 1907. First year . Justus Perthes, Gotha 1908, pp. 470–472.
• Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon . Volume VII. Volume 97 of the complete series. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1989, ISSN  0435-2408 , pp. 224-225.
• Marcelli Janecki (edit.): Handbuch des Prussischen Nels , Volume 2, ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1893, pp. 399–400.

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ^ Richard Béringuier : Family trees of the members of the French colony in Berlin . Association for the History of Berlin, Berlin 1885, p. 31 ( digitized version ).
2. ^ Wilhelm Ermann: Paul Ermann, a Berlin learned life 1764-1851 . Verlag des Verein für die Geschichte Berlins, Berlin 1927, p. 10 ( digitized version ).
3. ↑ Michael Knüppel, Aloïs van Tongerloo: Albert von Le Coq (1860-1930) - The awakening Manis . Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, New Series, Writings of the Commission "Manichean Studies", Volume III, Berlin 2014, p. 195, ISBN 978-3-11-034799-9, ( digitized ).
4. ↑ J (ean) -L (ouis) Calbat in: GENEALOGIE LORRAINE, Publication périodique trimestrielle de l 'Union des Cercles Généalogiques Lorrains , Website , Nancy, No. 115, 2000, p. 105 (French). After that the father is Guillaume Le Coq from Blois
5. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the letter aristocratic houses. 1907. First year . Justus Perthes, Gotha 1908, p. 470 ( digitized version ).
   
6. ^ Marcelli Janecki (ed.): Handbuch des Prussischen Adels , Volume 2, Berlin 1893, pp. 398–399 ( digitized version ).
7. ↑ Carl Maria von Weber Complete Edition. Digital edition from January 20, 2020 ( digitized version ).
8. ^ Henri Tollin: History of the French colony of Magdeburg: Jubiläumsschrift , Volume 2, 1887, p. 233 ( snippet view )
9. ^ Nadja Stulz-Herrnstadt, Entrepreneur careers and migration. Families and social circles in the capital of Brandenburg-Prussia. The elders of the Korporation der Kaufmannschaft zu Berlin, 2012, pp. 209 ff and footnote 186, ( digitized version ).