Linsingen (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of the von Linsingen family in Siebmacher's coat of arms book from 1870

Linsingen is the name of a German Uradelsgeschlecht noble free origin with the master castles Linsingen and Jesberg in today Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse .

The first representative of the family appears in 1170/77 as the Burgmann of Count von Ziegenhain at Schönstein Castle . The complete line of trunks begins in 1230 with dominus Ludowicus de Linsingen, miles , who is mentioned in a document from 1230 to 1265. From the Hessian lineage, which died out in 1721, the Elector Palatinate governor Friedrich von Linsingen (original until 1490) became the leading official of the Electorate of Mainz, Rusteberg im Eichsfeld ; With his feudal and allodial possessions he laid the foundations for the three Eichsfeld lines of the family that formed from the middle of the 16th century: (I.) zu Birkenfelde and Uder, (II.) zu Rengelrode and (III.) zu Burgwalde. Branches of the sex were in Thuringia, Hanover, Schwarzburg, Limburg and Pomerania. Secondary lines branched out from the Eichsfeld lines to Holland, England, France, South Africa and Brazil. The original noble family von Linsingen was knightly, donor and tournament wise and belonged to the Knighthood of Althess, the Middle Rhine Imperial Knighthood of the Burggrafschaft Friedberg , as well as the Knighthood of Eichsfeld and the Knighthood of Calenberg-Grubenhagen . The sex is still flourishing today in Germany and Brazil.

Manor and Linsingen Castle

In the plain between the Schwalm and the Knüllgebirge , 9 km north of Ziegenhain, the family's ancestral seat, Linsingen , has been part of Frielendorf in the Schwalm-Eder district since the municipality reform in Hesse in 1971 . This former lordship of the noble lords of Linsingen, "nobilium a Linsingen", is mentioned for the first time in a document from 1241. The center of this manorial rule was a castle , which was abandoned in the 12th century , of which no building remains are visible. The castle stood on a spur-like step, presumably on the site of the current church. The swampy terrain suggests a moated castle . It is not known whether the castle was destroyed, perished or fell into disrepair.

The lordly allodial and fiefdom holdings of the Lords of Linsingen in Hesse comprised, with different durations and different proportions: noble estates (e.g. Espe), village shares (e.g. Bernigerode, Ellnrode), free float (to Operterode, Großenenglis , Brünchenhain , Vockenrode , Gemünden an der Wohra, Zwesten ) and fiefdoms (at Wolmersdorf , Brommershausen, Richerode , Hundshausen , Niederhainer Lehne, Lembach , Freudenthal , Gungelshausen , Schlierbach ). The Linsinger Forest, which was still counted among the larger forests in Hesse in 1466, was rich in game and was very popular with the Landgraves of Hesse. After some resistance from the Linsingen to the Landgraves' intention to buy, they agreed and in 1358 sold the Linsinger Forest and the high hunting rights to the Landgrave of Hesse .

The Hessian lineage had feudal relationships with the Landgraves of Thuringia and Hesse, the Counts of Ziegenhain , the Archbishops of Mainz , the Haina Monastery , the Counts of Schaumburg , the Canons of St. Peter zu Fritzlar and the Imperial Abbeys of Hersfeld and Fulda .

Surname

The name of the noble landlord was probably "Linus" (after St. Linus, the successor of St. Peter and 1st Pope). His descendants named their ancestral home “Linsingen” by adding the suffix “ -ing ” or “ingen” to the name Linus - in the shortened form “Lins” . This suffix denoted the descent and made it clear that they were the descendants and masters of the manor. Place names with the ending “–ing” or “–ingen” have their origins in the period from the 6th to 9th centuries and are part of the Agilolfing-Carolingian place-name groups, as can be found in the Duchy of Baiern (the Agilolfinger ) (Aying, Freising etc.) or in the names of duchies and principalities in connection with the first name (Lothar, Sigmar), such as Lothringen or Sigmaringen.

Etymologically, however, the part of the name “Lins” can also mean swamp, since the center of the manor, the castle, was in the meadow with a gallery forest.

Further castles

Lenswideshusen Castle

In the triangle of the confluence of Gilsa and Treis, about 25 km from Linsingen, the Lords of Linsingen still held a fortified tower castle in the 12th century . Etymologically, the name components “lens” and “wides” can be interpreted as swamp or willow and wood or forest (wida). This is the name given to the tower castle in the document about the stone Jesberg castle as its forerunner. The village was called Lenswideshusen until the 16th century. Following the historical form of the name “–h (a) usen”, the building would be on 10/11. In the history of castles, tower castles were built on the plains in the 9th and 10th centuries and were surrounded by moats.

Jesberg Castle

Jesberg Castle
Jesberg Castle 1623

Around the year 1200 the Linsingen built the Romanesque castle complex Jesberg, also called "the Linsing" to this day, on the 235 m above sea level high mountain, which was also called Jagdsberg or Jah Mountain. According to the document of April 2, 1241, the castle was built on its own land, so it was not a feudal castle, but ( allodial ) property castle . It became the second headquarters of Linsingen in Hessen. It dominated the valley from the Gilserberger Höhe to the Löwensteiner Grund , located on the old Fritzlarer Straße, one of the oldest trading routes in Hesse, which connects the Wetterau with the Fritzlar / Gudensberg area, the route from Niederhessen to Upper Hesse. With this location, Jesburg was strategically important for Kurmainz in the 13th century to protect the connection to the Archdiaconate Fritzlar and as a fortified castle against the Landgraves of Hesse. Therefore, Archbishop Siegfried III bought. In 1241 the castle was built by the brothers Ludwig and Wortwin von Linsingen and had it expanded into a main base against the landgraves. But either the purchase contract was ineffective or there had been problems in handling the purchase price, because in 1403 Archbishop Johann II reached a settlement with Dietrich and Lotz von Linsingen, in which he confessed to a debt of 1,000 guilders and gave them half of the castle pledged. The other half was considered Linsingen's property by the Hessian side. In the battles for the castle in the 14th and 15th centuries, it was destroyed several times, rebuilt, then fell to the Landgrave of Hesse, who in turn reached a settlement with the Linsingen in 1586. In the 16th century the castle had lost its importance as a border fortress, it was no longer inhabited and left to decay. From 1982 to 1987 the existing structure of the stately castle ruins was renovated, the keep is accessible with a spiral staircase and a viewing platform was added. Today the castle with its high keep is the landmark of Jesberg.

Schönstein Castle

Castle ruin Schönstein

Schönstein Castle, 15 km north of Ziegenhain, was founded in 1368 with villages (Schönau, Monscheid, Treisbach, Sachsenhausen, both Winterscheid and Lichtenscheid) and court and with income from Gilserberg by Count Gottfried von Ziegenhain for 900 schillings and 300 small gold ducats to Gottfried von Linsingen and Hans and Helwig von Gilsa pledged, who were allowed to strengthen the castle. In 1380 the lords of Linsingen transferred their share to the lords of Gilsa.

Rosenthal Castle and City as well as other fiefdoms

The Linsingen were Mainz pledges of Rosenthal Castle and the city of Rosenthal in Hesse and in 1445 heirs to the castles and fiefdoms of Buchenau and Werdau.

Ranks

Members of the von Linsingen family received the following status enhancements and confirmations for themselves and their descendants:

  • Vienna, March 7, 1684, imperial baron status with "Well-born" for Johann Friedrich von Linsingen on Jesberg, Imperial Councilor of the Imperial Court
  • Kurmainzische confirmation of the baron status Mainz 1769 for the barons of Linsingen Eichsfeld line.
  • Vienna, December 4, 1783, Imperial Baron as "Reichs Panner Freyherren" with "Wellborn" and coat of arms improvement for the brothers Adolph Ernst von Linsingen, on Agnesdorf, Münchhof, Hessenau, Burgwalde, Tilleda and Sittendorf, Kurmainzer Real Chamberlain, and August Christian Wilhelm von Linsingen, on Tilleda, a Saxon-Gotha lieutenant colonel in Dutch service.
  • Royal Westphalian confirmation of the baron class (with baron) Kassel February 2nd a. April 2, 1813 for the brothers: Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander Freiherr von Linsingen, Kgl. westphäl. Legation Secretary to Paris, and Ernst August Adolph Freiherr von Linsingen, Kgl. westphäl. State Council Auditor.
  • Royal Prussian count status with "Hochgeboren" Berlin January 17, 1816 for Carl Freiherr von Linsingen, on Birkenfelde, royal British. Lieutenant General, Royal Hanoverian General of the Cavalry and General Inspector of the Cavalry, Kgl. hannov. Recognition of the earliest rank of London, Carlton House, March 14, 1816 for the same; engl. personal knighthood as Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath , London April 12, 1815 for the same as Charles Baron Linsingen, Kgl. great britain. GenLt.
  • Royal English personal knighthood as Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath, London June 22, 1815 for Christian Wilhelm Freiherr von Linsingen, on Burgwalde, as William Baron Linsingen, Kgl. great britain. GenLt.
  • English Naturalization London May 8, 1818 for William Frederic Linsingen, Count Linsingen of Linsingen (of the Kingdom of Prussia), Baron Linsingen (in the Kingdom of Hanover), Kgl. great britain. Colonel
  • Royal Saxon nobility Dresden May 12, 1847 for the step-daughter and adopted daughter Agnes Gilli of Arwied Ludwig Freiherrn von Linsingen, heir to Viatrow, and his wife Ida, geb. Freiin von Goldstein-Berge, married Gilli.
  • Aristocratic naturalization in the Second Empire in France Paris, November 28, 1862, as Baron de Linsingen for Arwied Freiherr von Linsingen and his wife Ida Baroness von Linsingen as Baronne de Linsingen and inclusion of the noble family Linsingen in the Dictionnaire de la Noblesse Française .

Overview of the history of the family in Hessen and in Eichsfeld

Knight Friedrich de Linsing, Chur-Palatinate governor, Chur. Mainz. Burgmann on Rusteberg, enfeoffed in 1466

The origin of the noble family von Linsingen is obscure. The family appears for the first time in Hesse in 1170/77 with the Ziegenhainer Burgmann Godutch de Linzingen. The uninterrupted line of the noble noble family begins with "dominus" and "miles" Ludowicus de Linsingen, who appears in a document from 1230 to 1265. In 1232 he is mentioned in the investigation as a secular witness of the miracles at the grave of St. Elisabeth , Landgrave of Thuringia and daughter of King Andrew II of Hungary , which Pope Gregory IX. had caused her canonization to be justified. Ludwig's son Dietrich ("Theodericus filii domini Ludowici de Linsingen"), appearing in 11 documents between 1253 and 1264, was the truchess of the Counts of Ziegenhain, married to Hedwig von Falkenberg from the noble family of the Lords of Lever of the Falkenberg branch.

At the same time, Ludwig's four brothers appear in a document: dominus (W) Ortwinus de Linsingen in seven documents between 1241 and 1259 as a co-owner of Jesberg Castle, as co-owner of the Battenhausen bailiwick and the allodial property Asphe (Esphe) and with donations to the Cistercian monastery Haina. The second brother, Dominus Wigandus de Linsingen, prior of the Haina monastery, is mentioned in more than 15 documents from 1231 to 1263. Between 1231 and 1248 the third brother Bruno was mentioned as a monk of the Haina monastery and the fourth brother Humbold as a converse (lay brother) of the Haina monastery. At the same time, another family member appears with the family name Ludwig, Ludowicus de Linsingen, original between 1238 and 1268, who, along with Konrad von Elben and Wittekind von Holzheim, was one of the three leading officials of the Landgraves of Thuringia in Hesse. His seal from 1263 shows a left-turning, growing, soaring lion wearing a three-pointed crown of leaves. The lion is very likely to indicate a feudal relationship with the landgraves. Ludowicus' four sons, Arnold, Volpert, Wigand and Ludwig, mentioned in a document, were the last-named stewardess of the Counts of Ziegenhain from 1271 to 1273.

Hessian trunk line

The medieval history of the family is closely connected with the Landgraves of Thuringia and Hesse and with the Archdiocese of Mainz, which exercised its political and spiritual rule over large parts of the originally Thuringian Eichsfeld. The Hessian trunk line to Linsingen and Jesberg divided into two lines in the 14th century, the older Jesberg-Marburg line and the younger Jesberg-Marburg line. The younger line died out with Dietrich von Linsingen in 1623. Their ownership fell entirely to the older Jesberg-Marburg line. From this older line three Hessian court masters had emerged, government and chamber councilors, officials, imperial officers and canons. The penultimate member of this line was Johann Friedrich von Linsingen (1646-1696), Electorate Mainz Privy Councilor, then Imperial Court Councilor in Vienna (from 1684 to 1696), who was raised to the status of imperial baron in 1684. He had inherited the property of the younger Jesberg-Marburg line, which fell to Ludwig Eitel von Linsingen on his death, the last Linsingen of the older Jesberg-Marburg line.

Ludwig Eitel von Linsingen (* 1655), was a Saxon-Gotha court councilor in 1689 and from 1697 until his death in 1721, headmaster of the noble donors in Hesse. In 1718 he was sworn up in the Reichsburg Friedberg of the imperial knighthood of the Rhenish knight circle, canton Mittelrheinstrom, with 32 primeval ancestors and accepted into the castle team of the burgrave. When he died with no descendants, the entire Linsingen fiefdom fell to the Landgrave of Hesse. In the event of his widow's remarriage (who married Otto Heinrich von Adelebsen for the second time), he bequeathed his allodial fortune to the noble founders in Hesse. However, a few years after his death, the chief rulers of the donors renounced the inheritance in favor of the King of Sweden, Landgrave Friedrich I of Hessen-Kassel , who had married the Swedish heir to the throne and was crowned King of Sweden in 1720. Sweden, which had become poor through the war campaigns of his father-in-law, King Charles VII , could not provide Friedrich with sufficient funds, so that he was supported by Hessen-Kassel.

Eichsfeld line

Rusteberg Castle

The Eichsfeld line was founded in 1466 by Friedrich von Linsingen (born around 1430, originally until 1490). He was the son of Henne von Linsingen zu Jesberg and Elisabeth von Falkenberg zu Densburg, co-owner of Densberg Castle. Their marriage resulted in three sons, Friedrich as the eldest and Gottfried and Johann. Gottfried was the counsel and companion of Landgrave Heinrich III. from Hessen, z. B. with the introduction of the Archbishop Ernst of Saxony in Magdeburg as well as with the capture of the county Katzenelnbogen and from 1486 to 1494 burgrave of Marburg. Johann became a monk of the Benedictine order, 45th cathedral dean of Fulda and 23rd provost of St. Peter there.

Friedrich von Linsingen, who, like his maternal cousins, had probably studied in Italy, was initially governor of the Electorate of the Palatinate , representative of Elector Friedrich the Victorious of the Palatinate (1449–1479). He was one of the highest officials in the Electorate of the Palatinate, was an experienced administrative expert, an energetic organizer and had a representative charisma. Archbishop Adolf II of Mainz , who was looking for a strong personality for his Vice Dominate Eichsfeld, who could consolidate the Mainz territorial policy in Eichsfeld against the Eichsfeld interests of the Landgraves of Hesse, offered Friedrich von Linsingen the office of Vicedomus with his seat at Rusteberg Castle , in addition the entire fiefdom of the Rengelrode family , which died out in 1459 , to which further fiefs were added, a total of Rengelrode, Birkenfelde with two farms, farms at Eilrode, Marth and Marsfelde. Although the office of governor of the Electoral Palatinate was more attractive than the vice-dominate of Eichsfeld, Friedrich decided in favor of the Archbishop's offer and took office at the Rusteburg in the autumn of 1466. His offices in the Electoral Palatinate, on the Eichsfeld and later again in Hesse as a bailiff at Sichelnstein Castle and as a councilor to Landgrave Heinrich III. prove the largely independent, status-determined power of many wealthy aristocratic families who only entered the service of one or more sovereigns on a case-by-case or temporary basis or at the same time.

Friedrich von Linsingen became the founder of the Eichsfeld lines. Thus, after the Hessian line died out in 1721, the noble family Linsingen continued to flourish in Eichsfeld and then in other German and foreign countries. The Eichsfeld holdings were divided into three lines by Friedrich's great-grandchildren in the 16th century:

  1. Line to Birkenfelde and Uder (also called Udra) with Georg Adam (died 1592), presumably with Anna von Keudel zu Schwebda,
  2. Line to Rengelrode with Friedrich (died 1595), presumably with Ursula von Boyneburg,
  3. Line to Birkenfelde Oberhof with Reinhard (died 1598), presumably with 1. Agnes von Hardenberg, 2. Catarina von Trott zu Solz. This line branched out to Burgwalde, Tilleda and Hessenau.

Over time, the Eichsfeld and other possessions comprised a total of goods in Birkenfelde, Rengelrode, Burgwalde, Hessenau, Gänseteich, Vogelsang, Elbickerode as well as in the Goldenen Aue Sittendorf, Tilleda (from 1609) and Agnesdorf and in the Gothaischen Münchhof. The division of the entire property into three lines and further branches around the middle of the 16th century was a turning point in the property situation. The real estate has had a considerable size since Friedrich's time, so that he counted among the large knightly possessions in Eichsfeld (with jurisdiction, partly with state parliament), so there were repeated subdivisions in the following centuries. On the one hand, this was due to the lack of the right to birthright, which led to the division of property. The property was held or even increased through acquisitions, marriages and the improvement of agricultural production, but on the other hand it was reduced through indebtedness, dowries of daughters who were entitled to inheritance, as well as through sales and warlike devastation. Fideikommisse were partly founded, but they had the disadvantage of not being marketable because they could neither be sold nor borrowed. As a result of these various factors, Linsingen's real estate in Eichsfeld was reduced, for example through dowries from daughters who were entitled to inherit who married out, land sales by childless landowners, through the interest in new capital investments in goods in other principalities, especially in the Electorate of Hanover, and through the acquisition of several city palaces. The last property in Eichsfeld was sold in the 19th century.

III. line

From the line to Birkenfelde, Oberhof and Burgwalde came Mainz, Saxon-Coburg, Hanover and Prussian officers, a district administrator, court master and chamberlain as well as two Anhalt-Zerbstian chancellors. The Electoral Mainz Chamberlain Adolph Ernst von Linsingen and his brother Christian Wilhelm were raised to the status of imperial baron by Emperor Joseph II on December 4, 1783. The five generals from this line also include the Royal British Lieutenant General (Sir) William Baron Linsingen (1756–1839), Companion of the English Bath Order, Commandeur of the Guelph Order, etc., whose descendants now live in Brazil. In Germany this is III. Line extinguished in the male trunk.

One branch settled in France during the Second Empire in the 19th century and was naturalized in Paris on November 28, 1862 as Baron de Linsingen . The Linsingen family was then included in the Dictionnaire de la Noblesse Francaise . Since the middle of the 18th century it has also been recorded in the Dictionnaire de la noblesse by François-Alexandre Aubert de La Chenaye-Desbois .

II line

Johann Philipp von Linsingen (1674–1721), who was admitted to the Fulda Monastery in 1701 and in 1715, became a lord of the capitular, comes from the II. His brother Philipp Caspar von Linsingen (d. 1680) was Kaiserl. General of the Franconian district and imperial troops. Both sister Catharina (born 1698) became nuns of Duisburg and the great niece Johanna Dorothea (1751-1812) became abbess of the monastery of Sterkrade (Oberhausen). This line expired in 1830.

I. line

The first line to Birkenfelde and Uder is the only line that still blooms in the male line in Germany today. The elector of Mainz confirmed the baron status for this line in 1769. Since the 18th and 19th centuries, numerous members of this line were in the Hanoverian court, state and military services and, due to the personal union of the kings of Hanover and Great Britain, also in English military services. This line was a continuity family of the court nobility in the Kingdom of Hanover.

From a branch of the first line of Eichsfeld, two brothers entered the service of the Kingdom of Westphalia , which existed between 1807 and 1813 and to which the Eichsfeld belonged. Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Linsingen (1786–1861) and his brother Ernst August Freiherr von Linsingen (1788–1824) were Kgl. Westphalian state council auditors, Friedrich Wilhelm also legation secretary in Paris. Since the nobility in the Kingdom of Westphalia had to be confirmed, both brothers received the confirmation of baronage on February 2nd / 2nd. April 1813. With the end of the kingdom in October 1813, the professional end of the civil servants in the Kingdom of Westphalia was by no means to be feared, despite the extensive anti-Bonapartism, but that did not necessarily lead to a career break, as the following example shows: Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Linsingen became 1815 Kgl. hannov. Legation Councilor in Berlin; 1815 court cavalier and 1818 ruler of the court system of the Duke of Clarence, later King William IV of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover. In 1819 he received from the Prince-Regent of England the supervision of the education of the princes, later dukes, Carl and Wilhelm von Braunschweig; lived in Lausanne for a short time; was chargé d'affaires in 1823 and ambassador to the Berlin court in 1825; Chamberlain of the Duchess of Cumberland, in 1837 her Chief Chamberlain as Queen Friederike of Hanover, in 1851 Chief Chamberlain of Queen Marie of Hanover.

His nephew Carl Baron von Linsingen (1822–1872), the son of the Kgl. Westphalian State Council auditor Ernst August Baron von Linsingen (1788–1824) and his wife Auguste Ernestine, b. Countess of Linsingen (1792–1829), was Kgl. Hanoverian Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the court of the Emperor of the French, Napoleon III. Carl Baron von Linsingen had tried in 1866 on behalf of King George V of Hanover in vain to win Napoleon III. to move to avert the Prussian annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover.

Lieutenant General Johann Wilhelm Freiherr von Linsingen (1724–1795) was heir, feudal lord and court lord of Birkenfelde and Uder. He had already been sent to the court of Hanover as a page and knew the wife of King George III. von Great Britain and Hanover, born Princess von Mecklenburg-Strelitz, from his youth and accompanied her in 1761 as court cavalier to the wedding in London. He became a confidante of the royal couple and often stayed at the London court. Johann Wilhelm Freiherr von Linsingen had acquired Söder Castle near Adenstedt, but sold it again, and a palace in Herrenhausen (Hanover), the summer residence of the Kings of Hanover (with the former Linsingen garden).

His brother, Carl Christian Freiherr von Linsingen (1742-1830) joined the British Army and became a British Lieutenant General. He represented Adolphus Frederic, Duke of Cambridge, the commander in chief of the King's German Legion , which was formed from the Hanoverian army, which was dissolved in 1803 and which was the only German association in Europe to fight against Napoleon. After 1815 Carl von Linsingen was appointed General of the Cavalry and Inspector General of Hanover, and in 1816 he was raised to the rank of Count by the King of Prussia for his services in the fight against Napoleon. He was in England the Hon. Knight Commander of The Most Honorable Order of The Bath, with the personal nobility and title of Sir. His son, the Kgl. Great Britain Lieutenant Colonel William Frederic, was naturalized in England in 1818 as William Frederic Linsingen, Count Linsingen of Linsingen (of the Kingdom of Prussia) and Baron Linsingen (in the Kingdom of Hanover), act Linsingen from 1818, House of Lords, London.

The son of Lieutenant General Johann Wilhelm von Linsingen zu Birkenfelde and Uder, Ernest von Linsingen (1775-1853), was initially in English service, was adjutant to Field Marshal Lord Wellington, was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the English army in 1815, and to major general in Hanover in 1836 , and in 1838 General Adjutant of the Army. In 1845, at the age of 70, he retired from the army as a general. He was the bearer of the Grand Cross of the Guelph Order.

The general tradition continued in the First World War with Colonel General Alexander Freiherr von Linsingen (1850-1935), who was Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Army, the Bug Army and the Army Group Linsingen (summary of the Bug Army and the Austrian-Hungarian 4th Army). He broke the offensive of the Russian general Brusilov, captured Brest-Litovsk and Pinsk and occupied Odessa and the Crimea in 1917/18. In 1918 he became Commander in Chief in the Marken and Governor General of Berlin, where he saw the end of the German Empire. Pour le Mérite with oak leaves, Black Eagle Order, Grand Cross of the Red Eagle Order with Swords, Grand Cross of the Austrian. Order of the Leopold etc. etc. In 1938 the Linsingen barracks in Hameln was named after him.

His youngest son Hans-Carl von Linsingen (1896–1968) was a lieutenant at the end of the First World War and went to Holland as a merchant. During the First World War, he flew temporarily in the 11th Squadron, later the Richthofen Fighter Wing, with Baron Richthofen. In the Second World War he volunteered as a reservist in the air force, was Colonel d. Res. Of the air force, commodore of a squadron and at times adviser to the Romanian general staff. After the end of the Second World War, he went to Switzerland, was a corporate broker and died there in 1968.

Seven generals emerged from the first line in Birkenfelde, chambermen, members of the diplomatic and civil service, lawyers, board members of companies and medium-sized entrepreneurs. In the last 100 years some family members died without (male) descendants and in both world wars 10 mostly young Linsingen remained on the battlefields.

coat of arms

Seal of Ludevicus de Linsingen (1263)
Linsingen's seal 1291–1424
Coat of arms of Count v. Lentil singing
Coat of arms of the barons v. Lentil singing
Coat of arms of the Barons v. Linsingen (English with hat)

The oldest surviving coat of arms of the Linsingen family is that of Ludewicus de Linsingen from 1263, which is in the Marburg State Archives. The shield is divided: at the top it shows a left-turning, growing, soaring lion wearing a three-pointed crown of leaves, and at the bottom it is geometrically damascene. The lion most likely refers to the feudal relationship with the Landgraves of Thuringia and Hesse.

The oldest version of the coat of arms still in use today is documented in the nineties of the 13th century by seal impressions. The shield carries four rows of silver-blue cloud fehs (the furry feh, a Siberian subspecies of the European squirrel, was a status symbol of the high clergy and secular nobility in the Middle Ages because of the enormous procurement costs), with the number of silver belly sides from top to bottom is reduced by one per row (4: 3: 2: 1). In the course of the 14th century, the Linsingen coat of arms developed further. In addition to the four-row shield, a three-row shield appears, with the silver belly sides and the blue-gray back sides now standing vertically on top of each other (cloud stakes) and the number of silver belly sides in the top and middle rows on three and in the bottom row one is reduced. In the course of the 14th century, a heraldic shield appears, which is divided five times by red and silver-blue clouds, with the number distribution in three rows (3: 3: 1) being adopted. The three coats of arms existed side by side until the end of the 14th century. The last form of the coat of arms prevailed in the 16th century.

Shortly after 1500 it can be seen from seal impressions that the silver-blue cloud mist was no longer understood as such, but that the silver belly sides were reinterpreted as rings or bowls. The fivefold division of red and silver-blue clouds is simplified to three blue bars in red. An open flight, which is covered with the shield image, appears as a crest; a lentil bush sprouting from silver bowls is set between the wings. In the first half of the 16th century, an open eagle flight prevailed and, with the lentil bush, made it half-talking, although the family and place name of the headquarters in Linsingen has absolutely nothing to do with lentils.

1783: In the diploma for the award of the imperial baron status, the bowls are transformed into silver lenses; In addition, two golden, red-tongued lions that stand against him are introduced as shield holders and the coat of arms is augmented by a second helmet with a growing saber-wielding Moor as a cimper. Sitting on the shield is the old form of the baron's crown with five pearls sitting on it and a string of pearls. (ÖSTA, AVA, Adel, RAA, Linsingen 1783). In the early 19th century, the second helmet with the Moor came to an end.

1816: The motto "spes, patientia et perseverantia" (hope, patience and perseverance) comes from the increase and improvement of the coat of arms, which is connected with the elevation of a branch of the family to the count of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1816. The disregard of the heraldic rule that color should not come into contact with color, which was caused by the reinterpretation of the silver-blue cloud flaw as three blue bars with seven silver lenses or balls 3: 3: 1, was eliminated by the fact that the Tinging of the bars and the balls was swapped: now there were three silver bars in red, occupied by seven blue balls 3: 3: 1. The two resisting golden, red-tongued lions holding shields were made into leopards (looking lions). Following the example of the English heraldry, the helmet with an open flight and set lentil bush hovered over the shield with a nine-pearl count's crown.

19th century: Family members who settled in Great Britain in the 19th century carried a coat of arms seal in which the crown of an English baron rests on the shield.

The shape of the coat of arms used today in Germany corresponds to that of the coat of arms from 1783 without the second helmet with moors and instead of the baron's crown with the old shape of the seven-pearl pegs. Part of the family carries the shield (according to the heraldic rule that color must not touch color) as in the count's coat of arms in red with silver bars, topped with seven blue balls 3: 3: 1.

Communal heraldry . In the course of the 20th century, the coat of arms of the von Linsingen family found its way into the Hessian and Thuringian municipal heraldry. In the communities of Jesberg (Schwalm-Eder district) and Birkenfelde (administrative community Uder, Eichsfeld district), the Linsingen were wealthy for centuries. Due to historical ties, both municipalities included the Linsingen coat of arms in their municipal coats of arms. The place Linsingen (Frielendorf-Linsingen, Schwalm-Eder-Kreis) traditionally carries the Linsingen coat of arms.

Personalities

1170 - 1721 (Hessian lines)

  • dominus Ludowicus de Linsingen (urkdl. 1230–1265), owner of the allodial Jesberg Castle, with him the unbroken line of trunks begins. (Urkdl. 1241 he is called the builder of the castle, synonymous for the builder family of Linsingen; because the Romanesque castle complex was built before 1200.)
  • dominus (W) Ortwinus de Linsingen (Urkdl. 1241–1259), co-owner of Jesberg Castle, owner of the Battenhausen Bailiwick
  • dominus Wigandus de Linsingen (original 1250–1263), prior of the Haina monastery
  • dominus Ludowicus de Linsingen (urkdl. 1238–1268), leading office holder of the Landgrave of Thuringia in the county of Hesse
  • Gottfried von Linsingen (original until 1494), Burgrave of Marburg
  • Johann von Linsingen (around 1464), 45th dean of the cathedral in Fulda and 23rd provost of St. Peter in Fulda
  • Cyriacus von Linsingen (d. 1526), ​​Elector of Mainz, with 5,000 riders in armor, called on Emperor Maximilian I to help in the battle for Milan
  • Johann I of Linsingen (died 1544), court master of Philip the Magnanimous of Hesse
  • Johann II. Von Linsingen (died 1544), steward of Landgrave Ludwig III.
  • Johann IV von Linsingen (1608–1655), Hesse-Darmstadt court master
  • Catharina von Linsingen (around 1620), abbess of the Giesecke monastery
  • Philipp Caspar von Linsingen (died 1680), Kaiserl. General der Frank. District and Imperial troops
  • Johann Friedrich Baron of Linsingen (1646–1696), Kaiserl. Reichshofrat zu Vienna.
  • Ludwig Eitel von Linsingen (1655–1721), Hzgl. sachs.-cob. Councilor, head of the noble donors in Hesse

1466 - 18th century (Eichsfeld lines)

  • Friedrich de Linsingen (originally until 1490), Electoral Palatinate. Governor, Vicedomus d. Kurmainz. Vicedominats Rusteberg, founder of the Eichsfeld lines
  • Hans Albrecht von Linsingen (1645–1718), Kurmainz. Colonel and chief of the Kurmainz. Eichsfeld Regiment, Higher Regional Court Assessor, Dr. iur., member of the government of the Eichsfeld
  • Ernst Friedrich Hartmann Baron von Linsingen (1677–1756), Lieutenant Colonel Kurmainzer, Commander of the Starkenberg Fortress, founder of the Dutch-Limburg line to Weert, Lord of Weert.
  • Dietrich Ernst Heinrich von Linsingen (1687–1762), on Burgwalde, Hessenau and Sittendorf, Fstl. persistently zerbst. Privy Councilor and Chancellor, Diplomat
  • Adolph Ernst Baron of Linsingen (1723–1784), from Agnesdorf, Hessenau, Burgwalde, Tilleda, Sittendorf, Electoral Mainz Chamberlain, family genealogist
  • Ludwig Carl von Linsingen (Louis Charles Baron de Linsingen) (1731–1805) in Burgwalde, French colonel of the cavalry
  • Otto Christian Wilhelm von Linsingen (1730–1805), Elector General of Hesse
  • Johanna Dorothea von Linsingen (1751–1812), abbess of the Sterkrade monastery

18th century - 1866 Hanoverian lines

  • Karl Christoph von Linsingen (1703–1787), lieutenant general of the Electorate of Hanover
  • Johann Wilhelm Freiherr von Linsingen (1724–1795), Lord and Court Lord of Birkenfelde, Kgl. hannov. Lieutenant General, at the Court of London
  • Bernhard Thilo Freiherr von Linsingen (1736–1807), at Schlossricklingen, Hanoverian general
  • (Sir Charles) Carl Christian Graf von Linsingen (1742–1830), Kgl. great britain. Lieutenant General, Chief of the Engl. 1st Guards Hussar Regiment, Hanoverian general of the cavalry
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Linsingen (1748–1813), Obersalinendirektor a. Oberstlt., 1786–1789 Hofmeister of the three Kgl. English princes Ernst August, August Friedrich and Adolph Friedrich during their stay in Germany
  • (Sir) William Baron Linsingen (1756–1839), Royal British Lieutenant General, fought against Napoleon in Spain and near Waterloo.
  • Caroline von Linsingen (1768–1815), 1791–1793 wife of the Duke of Clarence, later King Wilhelm IV of Great Britain and Ireland and of Hanover (not based on sources)
  • Ernst von Linsingen (Ernest Baron Linsingen) (1775-1853), Lieutenant Colonel. in the engl. Army, Kgl. hannov. Adjutant General of the Army
  • William Frederic Linsingen (1785–1837), Count Linsingen von Linsingen (in the Kingdom of Prussia) and Baron Linsingen (in the Kingdom of Hanover)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander Baron von Linsingen (1786–1861), Kgl. westphäl. Legation Secretary. in Paris until 1813, 1815 Kgl. hannov. Legation councilor, 1823 chargé d'affaires and 1825 envoy at the Berlin court, 1837 chief steward of Queen Friederike of Hanover, 1851 chief steward of queen Marie of Hanover General rank, exc.
  • Georg Carl Friedrich von Linsingen (1792–1870), Hanover general
  • Bernhard Baron von Linsingen (1805–1883), Herr auf Gestorf III, Major General of Hanover, Chief of the Hanover Cadet Corps.
  • Carl Baron von Linsingen (1822–1872), Kgl. hannov. Go Legation Councilor, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the King of Hanover at the court of Sr. Majesty of the Emperor of the French (Napoleon III)

from 1866

  • Carl August von Linsingen (1803–1899), Prussian mining captain in Clausthal , whose uniform with saber is in the local mining museum
  • Henriette Grace von der Gabelentz-Linsingen, b. von Linsingen (born in England in 1813, died in 1892, daughter of the Royal Hanover General in English service Augustus Baron Linsingen), married to Hans Conon von der Gabelentz on Poschwitz and Lemnitz, Hzgl. sachs altenb. Khr, WGehRat, Minister, member of the Academy of Arts. Gh plus. Saxon name and coat of arms association "von der Gabelentz-Linsingen" Weimar November 18, 1859
  • Heimart von Linsingen (1818–1894), Prussian major general
  • Baron William CF von Linsingen, CMG (1822-1880), Kgl. great britain. Major, Commandant of the Keiskamma District, South Africa, 2nd Commander of the English troops in the Transkei District, Commandant of Fort Linsingen, called by the natives "Great Chief non zinyana", Farmer, founder of the South African line
  • Baron Frederick von Linsingen (1831–1928), editor of the Queenstown Representative and Daily Representative, Queenstown City Councilor, Chairman of the Queenstown Club and Girls High School Committee, Co-Founder of Swifts Rugby Club, President of Queenstown Cricket Club
  • Beatrice von Linsingen (1905–1992), biologist, mayor of Queenstown, married to Professor Dr. Dr. John VL Rennie, President of Rhodes University
  • Barão Georg Wilhelm von Linsingen (1835–1903), farmer in southern Brazil, founder of the Brazilian line
  • Arwied Ludwig Freiherr von Linsingen (1798–1848), lord of Viatrow, father of the founder of the French line to Paris and Nice
  • Ferdinand Léo Louis Freiherr von Linsingen (1824–1914), Bavarian Chamberlain, lived at Vevey and Paris, founder of the French line, naturalized November 28, 1861 in the 2nd French Empire as "Baron de Linsingen"
  • William Frederick Linsingen, Count Linsingen of Linsingen, Baron Linsingen (1785–1837), Kgl. great britain. Colonel, naturalized in England in 1818, founder of the English line
  • Adolphus Frederick Graf von Linsingen (1814–1895), chamberlain to the last Queen of Hanover
  • Mary Countess of Alten-Linsingen, b. Countess von Linsingen (1850–1926), married to the Prussian chamberlain Carl von Alten zu Linden, Wettbergen, Ricklingen, Prussian counts with the name association “Graf von Alten-Linsingen” (primog.) Berlin January 18, 1901
  • Alexander von Linsingen (1850–1935), Prussian Colonel General
  • Gustav von Linsingen (1854–1935), Prussian Privy Senior Justice, President of the Senate at the Supreme Court
  • Hugo Magnus von Linsingen (1861–1934), Prussian major general
  • Thilo von Linsingen (1862–1943), Prussian major general
  • Lucy Freifrau von Linsingen (1887–1961), 1926 founder and 1st President of the German Ladies Automobile Club eV (DDAC)
  • Margot von Linsingen (1885–1970), owner of the Heintzmann & Co. Group, Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class.

Names of streets and other objects

Abridged overall representation of the lineage, possessions and elevations of the rank of the von Linsingen family
  • Linsingenstrasse in Hanover and Linsingenallee formerly in Stettin, named after Colonel General Alexander von Linsingen,
  • Linsingenstrasse in Uelzen, named after Mayor Ernst Otto von Linsingen,
  • Von-Linsingen-Straße in Bad Fallingbostel, named after Major General Thilo von Linsingen,
  • Linsingenstrasse in Oberhausen, named after Margot von Linsingen, entrepreneur,
  • Linsingenstrasse in Rio Negro, Paraná, Brazil, named after Carlos von Linsingen, a city councilor, farmer and entrepreneur
  • Linsingenstrasse in Mafra, Santa Catarina, Brazil, named after Emilio Ernesto von Linsingen, city councilor, entrepreneur
  • The Linsing, Jesberg Castle in Hesse,
  • Linsingen Garden, formerly in Herrenhausen (Hanover)
  • Fort Linsingen, on the Chicala River near Komga , near East London, South Africa, named after Captain Baron William CF von Linsingen
  • Linsingen barracks in Hameln, British barracks with the double name Gordon Baracks after the Second World War, named after Colonel-General Alexander von Linsingen (now dissolved).

literature

  • Gerhard Friedrich Albrecht: Genealogical manual which contains the genealogical tables of those ... Freyherr and noble families ...; to the year ... 1776, p. 254 .
  • François-Alexandre Aubert de la Chenaye-Desbois: Dictionnaire de la noblesse: contenant les généalogies, l'histoire et la chronologie des Familles Nobles de France ... Seconde Édition, Paris, Tome IX, 1775, pp. 52–58 (Art . Linsingen).
  • Philippe Dayre de Maihol: Dictionaire de la noblesse française. Tome II, Paris 1896, reprint Hildesheim 2001, Col. 416-417 (Art. Linsingen).
  • Adolph Ernst von Linsingen : Gender sequence of the ancient knight and monastery-like family von Linsingen. Erfurt 1774.
  • Detlev Freiherr von Linsingen: On the history of the lords, barons and counts of Linsingen zu Linsingen, Jesberg, Asphe etc. in Hesse, to Birkenfelde, Udra, Rengelrode, Burgwalde etc. in Eichsfeld, to Ricklingen, Adenstedt, Gestorf etc. in Hanover as well in Holland, France, England, South Africa and Brazil. (= Series of publications of the home and history association Jesberg e.V., 1), 2004.
  • Detlev Freiherr von Linsingen: The Kgl. Westphalian baronates and the emergence and development of the nobility. A contribution to current issues of the historical German nobility. Augsburg 2012.
  • Ludwig Carl Freyherr von Linsingen : Authentic proof of the agnation beyder, the Hessians who died out in 1721 and the branches of the knightly and monastery-like Freyherr family von Linsingen that were flourishing in Eichsfelde. Heiligenstadt 1792.
  • Wolfhard Vahl: The change in coats of arms, especially that of the von Linsingen family. Marburg 2012.
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses, 1856, p. 409
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of aristocratic houses: at the same time the nobility register of the German aristocratic association. Part A, 1916, pp. 544ff
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses, 1902, third year, p. 534ff (with stem series) +
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses, 1857, thirtieth year, p. 462

Web links

Commons : Linsingen family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Valentin Ferdinand von Gudenus: Codex diplomaticus exhibens anecdota ab anno DCCCLXXXI, vol. I, Göttingen, 1743, p. 568f, no. 234, April 2, 1241: “nobilium a Linsingen”. - Johannes Rogalla von Bieberstein: Aristocratic rule and aristocratic culture in Germany, Limburg ad Lahn, 1998, pp. 54, 114.
  2. ↑ Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen, Gudensberg-Gleichen, 2000, 3rd edition, p. 160.
  3. ^ Rudolf Knappe: Medieval Castles in Hessen, Gudensberg-Gleichen, 2000, 3rd edition, p. 85.
  4. ↑ Gerhard Bätzing: 1085-1985. 900 years Densberg , Jesberg, 1985, p. 29, 34. as well as: Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen, Gudensberg-Gleichen, 2000, 3rd edition, p. 163f.
  5. ↑ Eckhart Franz: Kloster Haina, Regesten und Urkunden, Marburg, 1962/1970, 2nd volume, index, p. 572. - StArchiv Marburg, list of goods of the monastery Haina from 1229.
  6. ↑ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New German general Adels-Lexikon, 5 vol., Leipzig 1864, reprint Hildesheim 1973, vol. L, p. 570: Linsingen, also barons and counts. - Leopold Freiherr von Zedlitz-Neukirch: New Prussian Adels-Lexicon, 2nd volume, Leipzig, 1842, p. 258, and 5th volume, Leipzig, 1839, p. 312: Linsingen, the counts, barons and lords of.
  7. ↑ Philippe Dayre de Maihol: Dictionnaire de la Noblesse Française, Tome II, Paris, 1896, reprint Hildesheim, 2001, p. 416 (Art. Linsingen).
  8. ^ Dictionary of South African Biography, Cape Town, 1977, Vol. III, p. 825: Von Linsingen, Baron Wilhelm Carl Ferdinand.
  9. ↑ Liuta Pfeiffer Utsch: A Familia von Linsingen no Brasil, Curitiba, 2nd edition 2012.
  10. ↑ Adolph Ernst von Linsingen: Genetic sequence of the ancient knight and monastery-like family von Linsingen. Erfurt, 1774. - Document d. Burgrave of the Reichsburg Friedberg v. August 26, 1781. Document d. High Teutonic Order v. April 8, 1785.
  11. ↑ StArchiv Würzburg, Mainzer Domkapitel, documents, L 34, No. 32a (copy of the revolt of Ludwig Eitel von Linsingen (1655–1721) on September 20, 1718 with 32 ancestors of primeval nobles).
  12. ↑ Gudenus, as note 1.
  13. ^ Heinrich Bischoff: 750 years of Linsingen, Frielendorf, 1991, p. 13 (Fig. D. Urk.); Franz, as in note 5, 1st vol. P. 83, no.131.
  14. ↑ Felix von and zu Gilsa: Historical writings on the castles Schönstein and Jesberg , series of writings from Heimat- u. History Society Jesberg eV 2009, Vol. 5, pp. 49–51. Document v. 1241 on p. 50.
  15. ↑ Hans Bahlow, Germany's geographical world of names, Etymological Lexicon of River and Place Names of Old German Origin, Frankfurt am Main 1985, pp. 304f.
  16. ^ Felix von und zu Gilsa: Historische Schriften, as note 15, p. 49. - Knappe, as note 2, p. 85.
  17. ^ Adolf Bach, Deutsche Namenkunde, Vol. II / 1: The German place names, Heidelberg 1953, p. 308, § 318.
  18. ↑ Felix von und zu Gilsa: Historische Schriften, p. 43 ff.
  19. ^ Felix von und zu Gilsa: Historische Schriften, p. 81.
  20. ↑ StArchiv Würzburg, Mainz Ingrossaturbücher 10 fol. 318, 313.
  21. ↑ Felix von und zu Gilsa: Historische Schriften, p. 67. - Georg Landau: Hessische Ritterburgen, 2nd volume, Kassel, 1833, p. 143.
  22. ^ Austrian State Archives Vienna, Adel RAA 251.63.
  23. ↑ Hartmann, OTribunalrat: The provincial law of FSTT. Eichsfeld, Berlin 1835, on behalf of d. prussia. Justice Min. P. 369, note 1, p. 370: churmainz. Acta Linsingen 1769. - Kurmainz. Lehnhof, genealogy of the barons v. Linsingen Eichsfeld line, Kurfstl. Seal Mainz April 25, 1782.
  24. ^ Austrian State Archives Vienna, Adel RAA 251.64 . Waldstein-Wartenberg, Berthold, Austrian Nobility Law 1804-1918, Communications from the Austrian State Archives, vol. 17/18 (1965, pp. 109-146 (137)).
  25. ↑ FWBF Freiherr von dem Knesebeck: Historical paperback of the nobility in the Kingdom of Hanover, Hanover 1840, p. 372. - Detlev Freiherr von: Linsingen, The Royal Westphalian Baronates and the emergence and development of the nobility. A contribution to current topics of the historical German nobility, Augsburg 2012, first part, directory of the nobility files p. 20–24.
  26. ^ Nicholas Harris Nicolas: History of the orders of knighthood of the British Empire, London 1842, Vol. 3: History of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, List of Knight Commanders 1815.
  27. ↑ Nicolas, see note 27, List of Knight Companions 1815.
  28. ^ Act Linsingen, 58 George III, chapter 61, May 8, 1818, House of Lords, London.
  29. ^ Otto Titan von Hefner, register of the blooming and dead nobility in Germany, Regensburg 1860, 2nd vol. P. 367; Leopold Freiherr von Zedlitz-Neukirch: New Prussian Adels Lexicon, 2nd volume, Leipzig 1842, p. 258.
  30. ↑ s. FN 7
  31. ↑ Bätzing, as note 4, p. 29.
  32. ^ Franz, as in note 5, 1st volume, index p. 572.
  33. ^ Franz, as in note 5, 1st volume, index p. 572.
  34. ↑ Karl E. Demandt, Das Canonherrenstift St. Peter zu Fritzlar, Marburg 1985, p. 68.
  35. ↑ StArchiv Marburg, Urk. 87, No. 127 (old signature: Urk. X 2, Haina Monastery, 1263 Aug. 9). Wolfhard Vahl: The change in coats of arms, especially that of the von Linsingen family, Marburg 2012, p. 6 (Fig.)
  36. ↑ Detlev Freiherr von Linsingen: On the history of the gentlemen, barons and counts of Linsingen, Oberursel 2004, series of publications by the Jesberg home and history association, vol. 1.
  37. ^ Wilhelm Bach: Geschichtliche Nachrichten von das Courts und der Pfarrei Jesberg, Cassel 1828, pp. 1–75.
  38. ↑ Bach, as in note 35, § 14, p. 43 footnote or similar.
  39. ↑ Ludwig Carl Freyherr von Linsingen: Authentic proof of the agnation beyder, the Hessians who died out in 1721 and the branches of the knightly and monastery-like Feyhrrlichen family von Linsingen, Heiligenstadt 1792, which flourished in Eichsfelde.
  40. ^ Deutsches Adelsblatt 1997, pp. 210f .: 1. Deutsch-Brasilianischer v. Linsingen family day.
  41. ↑ Art. Linsingen, as note 7, Col. 416–417 and s. FN 31, François-Alexandre Aubert de la Chenaye-Desbois: Dictionnaire de la noblesse: contenant les généalogies, l'histoire et la chronologie des Familles Nobles de France, ..., Seconde Édition, Paris, Tome IX, 1775, p. 52-58 (Art. Linsingen).
  42. ↑ Detlev Freiherr von Linsingen: Genealogy of the lords, barons, barons and counts of Linsingen, Rome 2007, 2nd edition 2008, 3rd edition 2014 (all editions remain unpublished).
  43. ^ War Office (ed.): A List of Officers of the Army, London 1830 (Ranking list of the English Army), passim.
  44. ↑ Cornelia Roolfs: Der hannoversche Hof from 1814 to 1866, Hannover 2005, p. 224f.
  45. ↑ Linsingen, as in note 26, Part I, p. 23.
  46. ↑ Reichs-Gesetz-Blatt for the Austrian Empire 1865, p. 385; Ordinance sheet for Schleswig-Holstein and Lauenburg 1865, p. 237.
  47. ↑ Roolfs, FN 45, p. 64.
  48. ↑ s. FN 27.
  49. ↑ see Gritzner, Maximilian Ferdinand, Chronological register of the Brandenburg-Prussian status increases and grace acts, Berlin 1874, p. 79.
  50. ↑ Wolfhard Vahl: The change in coats of arms, especially that of the von Linsingen family, Marburg 2012. Linsingen's coat of arms seals have been in the Marburg State Archives since 1263. - For the coat of arms cf. also: The coat of arms d. Closed from Linsingen, in: Mitt. D. Herald. Club Zum Kleeblatt in Hanover 1902, pp. 20–21. - The coat of arms of the barons and that of the counts v. Linsingen, ibid. Pp. 27-28. - Herold Yearbook New Volume 17th Volume 2012, pp. 261–279.
  51. ↑ StArchiv Marburg, Urk. 87, KL. Haina.
  52. ↑ StArchiv Marburg, Urk. 16, Nos. 46, 47, 87, class Haina.
  53. ↑ StA Marburg, Urk. 49, Nos. 2558, 2568, 2575, 2577, 2579, 2583-2587, 2598, 2615.
  54. ↑ Wolfhard Vahl: The change of coat of arms images, as note 51, p. 15 (fig.).