Livonius (noble family)

Coat of arms of those of Livonius

Livonius is the name of a family from Mecklenburg who were raised to the Prussian nobility in 1860 .

history

The family line begins with Sebastian Livonius , who was "collega scholae Mansfeldiensis" around 1570. His son Sebastian came to Mecklenburg, where he was rector in Waren and, in 1599, pastor in Basedow . The royal Prussian councilor George Livonius on Seegenfelde, Deutsch Krone district in West Prussia , received the Prussian nobility on March 10, 1860 and his brother Alexander Livonius auf Grunau, Flatow district in the province of Posen , also a Prussian councilor, received the nobility on October 18 1861. Their nephew Wilhelm , Prussian lieutenant colonel and commander of Landwehr Regiment I in Berlin, was ennobled on September 19, 1888 .

Possessions

At the end of the 19th century, the Livonius were among others to Borcken , Dammen (Kashubian or Polish Damno (Damnica) ), Grumbkow (Polish Grąbkowo (Potęgowo) ), Hammerstein (Polish Czarne ), Velsow (Polish Wieliszewo), Wendisch-Karstnitz ( Polish Karznica) and Wohnwitz (Polish Zamek Wojnowice ) possessively.

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  Wohnwitz Castle

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  Grumbkow manor house

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  Hammerstein manor

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  Wendisch Karstnitz manor house

coat of arms

• The coat of arms from 1880 shows a golden cannon barrel in blue, between the handles of which three heraldic golden lilies grow fan-shaped on golden stems. The shield image on the helmet with its blue and gold covers .
• The coats of arms awarded on the occasion of further ennobling are each supplemented by a shield head , in 1861 it is covered in purple with the Prussian royal crown, in 1888 in silver with a black star.

Known family members

• Adelheid von Livonius (1906–1945), German author
• Britta von Livonius (* 1976), German player in the national hockey team
• Eberhard von Livonius (1902–1967), German officer and author
• Ernst-Manfred von Livonius (1940–2018), German lawyer
• George von Livonius (1792–1867), manor owner and member of parliament
• Hilger von Livonius Frhr. von Eyb (* 1970), German lawyer and author
• Wilhelm von Livonius (1840–1905), Prussian lieutenant general
• Willy von Livonius (1871–1946), German major general

literature

• Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch der nobeligen houses, Volume 2, Verlag des Deutschen Adelsarchivs, p. 284 ff., Marburg, 2016, ISSN 2364-7132
• Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon. Volume VII, Volume 97 of the complete series, p. 422, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1989, ISSN  0435-2408
• Genealogical manual of the nobility, Volume 57 of the complete series, p. 249 ff., CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1974
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen Häuser, p. 483 ff., Justus Perthes Verlag, 1909
• Karl-Heinz Pagel : The district of Stolp in Pomerania, evidence of its German past. Lübeck 1989.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon. Volume VII, p. 422.