Loë (noble family)

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Family arms of those of Loë
Coat of arms of the Counts of Loë

Loë , also Loe , (pronounced "Loh" or "Lo-e", but never "Lö") is the name of an old Westphalian noble family . The lords of Loë belong to the primeval nobility in Vest Recklinghausen . Branches of the family still exist today.

history

Wissen Castle , owned by the von Loë family since 1461
Kasteel van Mheer , Limburg, Netherlands, owned by the von Loë family since 1668
Konradsheim Castle , owned by the family from 1617–1938
Adendorf Castle , family-owned from 1815 until today
Wissem Castle , owned by the family from 1833–1939
Bergerhausen Castle 1894–1984 in family ownership
Lede Castle , owned by the Barons of Loë from 1987–2017

origin

The sex is probably related to the Crampe family, who were first mentioned in documents with the knight Bernhard Crampe in 1256. In 1299 Bernardudus miles dictus Crampe de Sickenbeke (House Sickenbeck near Marl ) et Weszelus suus frater dictus Crampe appear in a document. They carried the same coat of arms as the Loë.

According to Kneschke , Walter von Loë, already mentioned in 1180, and Gerhard von Loë, who appeared in 1200, also belonged to the family. The latter is said to have appeared as a witness in a comparison between Duke Heinrich of Lorraine and the Counts of Geldern . The secured line of trunks begins with the miner Wessel vamme Loe, who appeared in a document from 1359 to 1378 .

The ancestral seat that gave the name was the Loe house near Marl, which Belia van den Loe inherited from her father, the knight Godecke . He appears in a document in 1275 and was treasurer of Werden Abbey .

Spread and lines

The line to Loe expired in the 15th century. The branches to Dornenberg, Holte, Knippenberg, Steinhaus, Funderen and Overdeick could not get into modern times either. In 1461 Johann van den Loe bought Schloss Wissen in the Duchy of Cleves for 9,450 guilders . Since that time, Schloss Wissen was the family seat and was raised by the Duke of Kleve to the rank of a separate lordship with its own jurisdiction .

The descendant of the progenitor Wessel von Loë in the seventh generation, Wessel III., Herr zu Loë, Wilre and Konradsheim with Konradsheim Castle , became the Klevian Chamber President. He married Sophia von Haes, the heir to Konradsheim. Their son Degenhard Bertram Freiherr von Loë, Lord of Knowledge and Chamberlain of Kurbrandenburg , was married to Anna Franziska Freiin von Nesselrode zu Ehreshofen. The couple had 13 children, some of whom became sons of the clergy. The tribe was continued by Philipp Christoph Freiherr von Loë, who was also used as the sole heir to the goods at, among others, Wissen, Konradsheim, Mheer, Obel and Imsterath. He was a privy councilor in the Palatinate Neuburg and swore by the Klevian knighthood in 1691. From his aunt Christina van Imstenraedt born. von Loë, he inherited the Imstenraedt'sche Schloss Mheer in Eijsden-Margraten in the Dutch province of Limburg, which has remained in the possession of a family line to this day, supplemented by Kasteel Terworm from 1841 .

Philipp Christoph's great-grandson Gerhard Anton Edmund Asverus Freiherr von Loë (* 1749), Lord of Knowledge, Puffendorf, Ratheim, Buschfeld and Waldorf, initially a royal Prussian major , was made imperial French state councilor in 1804 , knight of the Legion of Honor and in 1808 was raised to the status of French count . His son Friedrich Carl von Loë († 1849) only called himself Freiherr (until 1840) because his father had not donated a majorate .

Maximilian von Loë (* 1801; † 1850) came from the baronial line . In 1835 he was one of the co-founders of the Cooperative of the Rhenish Knight-born Nobility ( Rhenish Knighthood ), from 1837 to 1845 a member of the Provincial Parliament and from 1837 District Administrator of the Siegkreis . His son from his marriage to Helene Countess von Hatzfeld zu Trachenberg, the owner of Schloss Allner , Friedrich Karl Walther Degenhard von Loë (1828–1908), was one of the most important representatives of the family. From 1863 military attaché in Paris , he took part in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 as a colonel . In 1880 he became adjutant general of the Prussian king and German emperor and in 1884 he was promoted to commanding general of the VIII Army Corps. He died in 1908 as a Prussian field marshal .

Status surveys

Degenhard Bertram von Loë auf Wissen was raised to the status of imperial baron with an improved coat of arms on October 20, 1629 in Vienna together with his siblings, Anna Elisabeth, Sophie Dorothea, Ottilia Sibylla, Johanna Catharina, Christina Sophia and Agnes Maria von Loë . On August 31, 1630, the siblings received imperial approval to combine the coat of arms with that of their mother Sophie von Haes from the House of Conradsheim, who died in 1626. Degenhard Bertram Freiherr von Loë auf Wissen, electoral Brandenburg chamberlain, received on October 15, 1661 in Kleve an electoral Brandenburg confirmation of the baron status .

His sons Phillipp Christoph auf Wissen und Mheer, Bertram Wessel, Knight of the Teutonic Order and Komtur zu Gemert , Carl Gottfried, Knight of the Teutonic Order and Komtur zu Koblenz , Johann Adolf, Cathedral Capitular of Trier and Hildesheim and Wilhelm Arnold Freiherr von Loë, Cathedral Capitular to Liège was raised to the rank of imperial count on July 3, 1707 and there was a coats of arms association with the extinct noble families of Imstenrath and von Mheer. A diploma was not issued.

On September 6, 1740 Vienna later received Christian Friedrich Freiherr von Loe out of the house knowledge Electoral Palatine Lieutenant General and Governor of Dusseldorf , an imperial permission to name and emblem union with those of extinct Barons of Winkelhausen .

Edmund Freiherr von Loë, Senator of the French Empire, received the title of Comte de l'Empire (Count of the Empire) in primogenitur on June 15, 1808 .

In the Kingdom of Bavaria , Ludwig Adam Freiherr von Loë from the house of Wissen, royal Bavarian chamberlain, was registered with the barons' class of nobility .

On October 15, 1840 in Berlin, Friedrich Freiherr von Loë was raised to the Prussian count status (diploma issued on December 12, 1859 in Berlin). The title was awarded in primogenitur from each noble marriage and was linked to the possession of knowledge and Alten-Vehlar in the district of Geldern . His younger son Felix Freiherr von Loë (* 1825; † 1896) on Terpoten near Goch , royal Prussian district administrator out of service , received the title of comes romanus in primogenitur on June 5, 1877 .

Admission into the Belgian nobility as Baron de Loë took place on August 29, 1885 for Alfred Freiherr von Loë, who later became the curator of the royal Belgian museums of art and history.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a horseshoe-shaped black barrel iron (crampe) with six barbs at the bottom . On the helmet with black and silver helmet covers three pairs of twisted ostrich feathers, one black and one silver, on each pair the barrel iron. The Crampe as a family coat of arms is still part of the city coat of arms of Marl , where the Loë family previously had its headquarters.

Name bearer

  • Clemens von Loë (1809–1883), manor owner and Prussian district administrator
  • Eugen von Loë (1839–1911), Prussian district administrator and secret councilor
  • Felix von Loë (1825–1896), Prussian district administrator and member of the Prussian House of Representatives, founder of the Rhenish Farmers' Association
  • Friedrich Carl von Loe (1786–1838), German physician
  • Friedrich Leopold von Loë (1861–1899), German entails owner and member of the German Reichstag
  • Maximilian von Loë (1801–1850), Prussian district administrator and member of the provincial council
  • Maximilian August von Loë (–1817–1879), landowner and member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation
  • Otto von Loë (1835-1892), lawyer and member of the Reichstag (Center Party)
  • Walter von Loë (1828–1908), Prussian Field Marshal General and Adjutant General

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Schäpers: Decay and end of the Loe manor near Marl . In: Vestisches Jahrbuch , vol. 57 (1955), pp. 108–117.
  2. ^ Westphalian document book 3; No. 605
  3. ^ Archives Westerholt and Westphalian Document Book 7; Page 1234, No. 2564
  4. ↑ a b c New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 5, Pages 598-599
  5. ^ New Prussian nobility lexicon . Volume 3, pages 284-285
  6. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series, pages 1–2
  7. ↑ www.schloss-wissen.de