Mellenthin (noble family)
Mellenthin , also Mellentin , is the name of an old Neumark - Pomeranian noble family . The gentlemen from Mellenthin belong to the ancient nobility in Western Pomerania . Branches of the family still exist today.
history
origin
The family is first mentioned with the knight Hermannus de Mellentin , who appears in a document on June 12, 1250. Mellentin (now Mielęcin in Poland ), the family seat of the same name, is located near Pyritz in the former district of Soldin .
Expansion and possessions
Two tribes were formed, but their genealogical connection has not yet been clarified beyond any doubt. As early as 1337, the Mellentin parent company was owned by the family. In the course of time goods could also be acquired in Neumark and in Silesia .
Joachim von Mellenthin was ducal Pomeranian chancellor in 1461 . At the beginning of the 16th century, Loist near Köselitz and Woltersdorf near Saatzig were family-owned. In the first half of the 18th century a von Mellenthin, royal Swedish cavalry master and land commissioner owned the Zansebur estate in Western Pomerania , and his brother's children owned the Duvendick estate, both of which were old family estates near Franzburg .
A part of the village of Loist was sold by Siegmund von Mellenthin in 1737 to Field Marshal Friedrich Wilhelm von Grumbkow . Other possessions in Pomerania were the goods Gersdorf, Groß-Spiegel, Heide, Springe and Falkenburg Castle in the Dramburg district , Klein Lienichen and shares of Langenhagen in the Saatzig district .
In Silesia , Friederike, widowed majoress von Mellenthin and born von Wenzky , owned Gassendorf in the district of Liegnitz and Nieder-Lobendau in the district of Goldberg in 1857 . During the 18th and 19th centuries, numerous members of the royal Prussian state and court services and officers in the Prussian army .
On November 7, 1872, a family foundation was established.
coat of arms
The coat of arms is split. To the right of gold and black, on the left in silver an erect green vine with three leaves and three red (also blue) grapes. On the helmet a board in three rows of gold and black in front of three gold-black-silver ostrich feathers. The helmet covers are black and gold on the right, black and silver on the left.
Name bearer
- Caspar Heinrich von Mellenthin (1717–1781), Prussian district administrator
- Bernhard von Mellenthin (1811–1875), German manor owner, entrepreneur, officer and parliamentarian
- Xaver Edmund Karl von Mellenthin (1827–1915), Prussian officer
- Hans-Joachim von Mellenthin (1887–1971), German frigate captain
- Horst von Mellenthin (1898–1977), German artillery general
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Mellenthin (1904–1997), German major general
- Ira von Mellenthin (1964–2004), German journalist, columnist and author
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Klempin : Pomeranian document book . Volume 1, 1st section; No. 517
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon. Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series, page 412
- ^ New general German Adels Lexicon Volume 6, page 222
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1997, ISSN 0435-2408
- Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Ed.): Year book of the German nobility , Volume 2, 1898, published by WT Bruer, p. 566 - digitized
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 6, Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1865, pages 222-223. ( Digitized version )
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Volume 3, Reichenbach Brothers, Leipzig 1837, page 389. ( digitized version )
Web links
- Coat of arms of those of Mellenthin (here as Mellentine ) in volume 5 of Siebmacher's book of arms in 5 volumes (1701)
