Livonius (noble family)
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.
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
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon. Volume VII, p. 422.