Münnich (noble family)

Münnich is the name of a noble family from Oldenburg , which later achieved great prestige, especially in Russia .

history

The Münnich come from the Stedinger Land . The lineage of the family begins with Hermann Mönnich († 1617)

Anton Günther Mönnich (1650–1721), great-grandson of the former, was ennobled by King Christian V of Denmark in 1688, his older brother Johann Dierich Mönnich not until 1697, and on the occasion also received an improvement in the coat of arms . Emperor Leopold I confirmed both the nobility and the coat of arms in 1702.

The eldest son, Johann Rudolf von Münnich (1678–1730), like the youngest, Christian Wilhelm von Münnich (1686–1768), stayed in Oldenburg. With the middle son, Burkhard Christoph von Münnich (1683–1767), whom the younger brother succeeded in 1731, the family transplanted to Russia. Burkhard was raised to the status of Russian count there in 1728 , which in turn found recognition and confirmation for the German Empire as Münnich von Wartenberg in Dresden in 1741 . In the years 1741 and 1762/63 he was the owner of the Free Standesherrschaft Wartenberg in Lower Silesia . His sex was enrolled in 1732 both with the Estonian Knighthood (No. 253) and in 1747 with the Livonian Knighthood (No. 127).

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Russian counts Münnich

The family coat of arms shows a free-standing, right-facing monk in a silver shield, who is holding a rosary with his hands folded in prayer . On the helmet with the black and silver covers the monk.

Known family members

• Anton Günther von Münnich (1650–1721), Oberdeichgraf of Oldenburg
• Johann Rudolf von Münnich (1678-1730), Oldenburg dikemaster
• Burkhard Christoph von Münnich (1683–1767), Russian field marshal and politician
• Friedrich Franz von Münnich (1788–1870), Lord Chamberlain of Oldenburg
• Eduard von Münnich (1837–1897), Prussian lieutenant general

literature

• Heinrich Banniza von Bazan, Richard Müller: German history in pedigrees. Berlin 1943, Volume I, p. 279.
• Genealogical manual of the nobility, Adelslexikon . Volume IX, Volume 116 of the Complete Series, pp. 275-277. CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1998, ISSN  0435-2408
• Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knighthoods (New Series) , Volume III, Hamburg 2013, pp. 245–276.
• Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : German count houses of the present in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation. Volume 2, TO Weigel, Leipzig 1853, pp. 142-143
• Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (ed.): New general German nobility lexicon . Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig 1865, Volume 6, pp. 412-414
• Romeo Metsallik: The treasures of the St. John's cherry in Tartu, A contribution to the history of the von Münnich family. In: Oldenburger Jahrbuch 96, 1996, pp. 79–86
• Gustav Nutzhorn : The prehistory of the Oldenburg families of Münnich. In: Oldenburg family history. 3rd year 1961, pp. 10-40.
• Gustav Nutzhorn: Genealogy of the family of the Russian Field Marshal Burchard Christoph v. Münnich. In: Oldenburg family history. Born 16, 1974, pp. 1-32.
• Gustav Nutzhorn: Additions and corrections to the Genealogy v. Münnich. In: Oldenburg family history. 18, 1976, pp. 339-341.
• Johann Friedrich von Recke , Theodor Beise , Karl Eduard Napiersky : General encyclopedia of writers and scholars of the provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland . Mitau 1831, Volume III, pp. 284-289
• Detlev Schwennicke : European family tables . New episode, Frankfurt a. M. 2006, Volume XXIII, Tfln. 162-164

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ^ Genealogical handbook of the Estonian knighthood . Part 2, 3: Estonia, Vol .: 3, Görlitz 1930, p. 289.