Mörner (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Mörner

Mörner is the name of an old noble family of the Mark Brandenburg , which was wealthy in the Uckermark and in the Neumark . A line that emigrated to Sweden at the end of the 16th century still exists today.

history

The family name is derived from the village Mohrin , but refers to immigrants from the west. The Mörner appeared for the first time in a document on June 1, 1298 with Henningus Morner in Soldin. Around this time they had received the order from the Ascanians to convert Zellin , 15 km south of Mohrin on the Oder, into a German town with the law.

A few decades later, under the encouraging influence of the cleric Dietrich Mörner, the Mörner boom, which in the forties of the 14th century should lead them into the top group of the Neumark nobility. The Dietrich brothers: Otto Mörner , Reineke Mörner and Heinrich Mörner were enfeoffed in 1349 by Margrave Ludwig with the villages of Ortwig, Mädewitz near Wriezen, Neutrebbin in the Oderbruch and Kriescht in the state of Sternberg. Most recently, Margrave Ludwig gave the Mörner brothers and their cousins ​​full control over the above-mentioned localities as well as Klossow, Mohrin, Stolzendorf, Berneuchen and Oderberg .

After the deaths of Dietrich and Otto Mörner and the transfer of the Mark to Emperor Charles IV, however, the Mörner lost their high position in the New Mark nobility and withdrew to their estates in the Oderbruch. Since then, they have hardly appeared politically. Around 1500 only Zellin and Klossow, half of Schulzendorf and the Feldmark Mohrin remained of their once extensive property. The family line began in 1450 with Otto Ludwig von Mörner , who was wealthy in Zellin and Klossow in Neumark .

The family had possessions in the Altmark in the district of Jerichow . In the Neumark, the manors of Zellin and Klössow near Königsberg in the Neumark and Tornow in the Sternberg district were the most famous estates.

Otto Helmer Mörner (1569–1612) and his brother Berndt Dietrich (1570–1610) from the Zellin family founded the Swedish line of the Mörner family. The branch Mörner af Tuna became extinct at the beginning of the 19th century (the count's branch in 1821, the baronial branch in 1824), the branch Mörner af Morlanda in its branch, which was baronial since 1674, in 1946, while the count's branch since 1716 is still in bloom. In 1893 Wilhelm von Mörner received the Prussian recognition of his Swedish count. The Counts Mörner have lived at Björksund Castle in Nyköping since 1776 .

Name bearer

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows three green holly leaves growing upwards from a transverse brown branch in a golden shield . On the helmet with green and gold covers a green holly leaf between an open silver eagle flight.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis , A XVIII, p. 443.
  2. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . P. 418f.
  3. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume IX, Volume 116 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1998.