Le Tanneux of Saint Paul (noble family)

Coat of arms of Le Tanneux of St. Paul

The Le Tanneux of Saint Paul are a noble family that originated in Brittany and immigrated to Prussia as Huguenots in the 17th century .

history

The first documented name bearer was François de Saint Paul , who is also called François Le Tanneux dit Saint Paul in a document . He was born in 1634, had a master's degree at the Sorbonne , then at the universities of Heidelberg and Halle , until he was appointed to Berlin in 1672 as a language teacher for the Elector of Brandenburg in the Mark Brandenburg . Philipp de Saint Paul (* 1678, † after 1744) was admitted to the Prussian nobility on July 22, 1721, recognizing the French nobility as of Saint Paul .

On June 9, 1866, Ulrich von Saint Paul was named after the Illaire family. Finally the Kgl recognized. Prussian heraldry on January 24, 1889 authorization to use the name Le Tanneux von Saint Paul for the descendants of Major Friedrich von Saint Paul .

coat of arms

In silver, a red oblique left-hand bar covered with three silver pilgrim shells , covered above by a red templar cross , below by a green palm branch , which, according to another reading, can also be an olive branch . The templar cross on the helmet with red and silver covers . Motto: ferme et fidele.

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  Large coat of arms of the Le Tanneux family of Saint Paul

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  Coat of arms of the "de Saint-Paul" with the same shield design, but different colors

family members

• Friedrich von Saint Paul (1768–1813), Prussian officer and holder of the order Pour le Mérite
• Guillaume (Wilhelm) Le Tanneux von Saint Paul (1722–1797), Prussian councilor and judge of the French colony
• Hans Friedrich Le Tanneux von Saint Paul (1897–1961), Prussian district administrator in the Militsch district , Silesia
• Julius von Saint Paul (1803–1849), Prussian officer and commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade, died off Fredericia , Denmark
• Moritz Le Tanneux von Saint Paul (1813–1892), Prussian district administrator and member of the state parliament
• Ulrich Maximilian Le Tanneux von Saint-Paul-Illaire (1833–1902), naval officer, member of the German Reichstag , dendrologist
• Adalbert Emil Walter Le Tanneux of Saint Paul-Illaire (1860–1940), botanist and district administrator in German East Africa
• Wilhelm Le Tanneux von Saint Paul (1776–1850), Prussian Privy Councilor, Lord Mayor of Potsdam

literature

• Marcelli Janecki (arr.): Handbuch des Prussischen Adels , Volume 1, ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1892, pp. 333–337
• Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XIV, Volume 131 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISSN  0435-2408 , S-319-320

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , Volume B XX, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg 1993, p. 473.