Lukowitz (noble family)
Lukowitz or Lukowicz , also Sirwind Lukowitz or Sirwind Lukowicz or Lukowitz-Newlin or Łukowicz-Newlin , is the name of an old Lithuanian - Pomeranian noble family .
origin
The von Lukowitz-Newlin family comes from Lithuania and is said to have originally been called Sirwind. The place Sirwinty in Lithuania or the river Schirwindt is assumed to be the origin . From Hrehory Sirwind Lukowicz, heir to Zadziewo in Lithuania, the original gender name was still used together with the new nickname Lukowitz. Later only the nickname Lukowitz was retained, while the actual gender name Sirwind was forgotten.
The membership of the Sirwind Lukowicz family to the old Polish nobility was presumably brought about by the personal union of Lithuania and Poland , from which time the award or acceptance of the Polish coat of arms of Newlin can be dated. In the course of this, the family also gave up the title of prince , as such nobility titles were not awarded in the Polish nobility.
coat of arms
It is believed that the family carried a Lithuanian coat of arms before the Polonization of the Lithuanian nobility, before those of Lukowitz adopted the Polish coat of arms of Newlin around the mid-15th century. Shield : A vertical golden arrow in blue, with a golden crossbar in the middle, accompanied by a golden star at the bottom right and left. Helmet : On the crowned helmet a black eagle wing turned left, which is pierced from left to right by a silver arrow. Ceilings : blue and white.
Known family members
- Franz von Lukowicz (1722–1769), cupbearer from Czernikau, district judge and Starost von Tuchel
- Joseph von Lukowitz (1748–1829), West Prussian landscape director
- Fabian von Lukowitz (1780–1846), Prussian lieutenant general
literature
- Johann Friedrich Gauhe : The Holy Roman Empire Genealogical-Historical Adels-Lexikon. Leipzig 1719, p. 962f ; Leipzig 1740, p. 1275
- Otto Titan von Hefner : Studbook of the flourishing and dead nobility in Germany , Volume 2, Regensburg 1863, p. 384
- Johann Christian von Hellbach : Adels-Lexikon , Volume 2, Ilmenau 1826, p. 74
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon , Volume 6, Leipzig 1865, p. 29f
- Valentin König : Genealogical Adelskalender - Genealogical aristocratic history or gender description of those noble families in Chur-Saxon and neighboring lands. Part 2, Leipzig 1729, pp. 654ff
- Leopold Freiherr von Ledebur : Adelslexicon of the Prussian monarchy . Volume 2, Berlin 1855, p. 62
- Johann Sinapius : Des Schlesischen Adels Anderer Part or continuation of Schlesischer Curiositäten , Leipzig and Breslau 1728, p. 795
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adels Lexicon , Volume 3, Leipzig 1837, p. 322 ; Volume 5, Leipzig 1839, p. 319