Meding (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Meding

Meding is the name of an old noble family from Lüneburg .

history

The family first appears in a document in 1155 with Wernerus mariscalcus , who as Ministerial Heinrichs des Löwen already held the office of Hereditary Marshal of the Principality of Lüneburg . The family seat, Altenmedingen (today Uelzen district ), was first mentioned in a document in the 12th century. The brothers Werner and Gebhard von Meding , who lived there , founded a Cistercian monastery in 1241 , which was moved to the nearby town of Tzellensen an der Ilmenau in 1336 while retaining its name, Medingen . Until 1376 the family owned their own castle in Horn near Dahlenburg . In 1360, in connection with the Hereditary Marshal's Office and the Lüneburg castle loan, the Schnellenberg estate near Lüneburg, which is still owned by the family, was enfeoffed .

The von Meding family belonged to the Burgmann family of the Lüneburg dukes.

The family was also based in Mecklenburg. In the registration book of the Dobbertin monastery there are six entries by the daughters of the von Meding families from the Mecklenburg villages of Kirch-Kogel, Suckwitz and Bellin (Krakow am See) from 1844-1893 for inclusion in the local aristocratic women's foundation . The grave of No. 1258, Conventual Marie von Meding, who died on July 22, 1905, is located in the Dobbertin monastery cemetery . Gut Kägsdorf has also been owned by the family since the 19th century.

coat of arms

Seal of Werner von Meding, Marshal of Lüneburg, 1307

The coat of arms, verifiable since 1303, shows a lying eight-tailed black stag in silver with a red tongue knocked out to the left, the right fore leg jumping up and covered with a blanket striped in red and silver up to the neck. On the helmet with its red and silver covers, there are two outwardly curved sickle bars (silver on the right, red on the left) in front of 13 (six on the right, seven on the left) little red flags on silver poles, inclined to the left and right. Behind the escutcheon are two crossed marshal's staffs sprinkled with red hearts.

Well-known namesake

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Jordan, The Documents of Heinrich the Lion, 1949, p. 45, no. 31
  2. ↑ Lüneburg Lehnregister in v. Lenthe's Archive for the History and Constitution of the Principality of Lüneburg, Volume 9
  3. ^ Death sign for Werner von Meding in the Museum for the Principality of Lüneburg.
  4. ↑ Death shield for Boldewin von Meding in the Museum for the Principality of Lüneburg.
  5. ↑ CelleHeute, Merit Medal for Elke von Meding, January 31, 2014, in: http://celleheute.de/verdienstmedaille-fuer-elke-von-meding/

literature

  • Thomas Vogtherr: Economic and social change in the Lüneburger Landadel , Verlag Lax, 1983, ISBN 3-7848-2525-7
  • WFCL von Meding: History of the old nobility living in the Principality of Lüneburg, their von Meding , Leipzig, 1866 digitized
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1997, ISSN  0435-2408
  • Genealogical handbook of the nobility, Adelige Häuser A , Volume 93, 1988, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn)
  • WFCL von Meding, history of the old noble family of the von Meding, who live in the Principality of Lüneburg, since Otto von Meding , Leipzig, Denicke, 1866, digitized

Web links

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