Meerscheidt-Hüllessem (noble family)

Family coat of arms of the von Meerscheidt

Meerscheidt-Hüllessem is the name of a primeval German aristocratic family that still exists today , which is part of a tribe with the Earls of Hillesheim , who died out in 1785 in the male line .

Origin and Distribution

According to its origin, the family belongs to the nobility of the former county of Berg and derives its name from the Meerscheid family home in the former Solingen district. The father of being a juror to Mülheim an der Ruhr Henricus de Merenscede considered, the documentary appears first on 23 September 1325th From its descent , Heinrich von Meerscheidt, called Hillessem, emigrated to Courland in 1530 and founded the only flourishing line of the family there today. The family belonged to the Kurland knighthood and was enrolled in the first class of knighthood with Robert von Meerscheid called Hillessem on Balgern and Petendorf when the Kurland knighthood register was established in 1620 on October 17, 1620. Prussian approved to manage the Baron title by AOK from 10 February 1838 through Senatsukas of 10 June 1863, the recognized Russian government the right to fly the Baron title to.

coat of arms

The tribe coat of arms shows three upright black tree trunks, three times on the right and four times on the left, raised by three red stars . On the helmet with black and gold blankets a growing black ibex with a gold collar marked with black tree trunks and a red star in front of its mouth.

Coats of arms variant of the Courland branch

The Courland family branch led a variant: Usually the tree trunks are placed at an angle and in the upper part of the shield there are alternating three stars or just one. The coat of arms set up in the Courland knight's hall shows a red shield with three branches in natural color, which are notched several times, one below the other, and above them three silver stars. A silver, gold-horned ibex growing on the crowned helmet.

Well-known namesake

• Otto Kasimir von Meerscheidt called Hüllessem (1721–1803), Prussian major general
• Oskar von Meerscheidt-Hüllessem (1825–1895), Prussian infantry general
• Hermann von Meerscheidt-Hüllessem (1830–1899), Prussian lieutenant general
• Otto Karl von Hüllessem-Meerscheidt (1831–1902), member of the Reichstag, district administrator of the Königsberg district
• Carl von Meerscheidt-Hüllessem (1837–1917), President of the Evangelical Lutheran Consistory
• Leopold von Meerscheidt-Hüllessem (1840–1902), German criminalist
• Emil von Meerscheidt-Hüllessem (1840–1923), Prussian general of the infantry
• Johann von Meerscheidt-Hüllessem (1861–1943), Russian major general

literature

• Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Ed.): Yearbook of the German Adels , Volume 2, published by WT Bruer, Berlin 1898, pp. 557-565
• Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knighthoods , Volume 1, Görlitz 1939, pp. 107-117
• Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series, pp. 392-393, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1997, ISSN  0435-2408

Individual evidence

1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Volume AA XX, CA Starke-Verlag, 1988, p. 284.
2. ↑ Main State Archives Düsseldorf , Werden No. 152.
3. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series, p. 285.
4. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series, p. 292.
5. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series, p. 286.
6. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series, p. 303.
7. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series, p. 287.