Mellin (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Mellin

Mellin is the name of a Pomeranian and Baltic German aristocratic family , which comes from the Mecklenburg prehistoric nobility and later spread to the territory of Sweden and Russia .

history

The family is said to have come from Lower Saxony to Mecklenburg , where they named themselves after the place Malin and appear for the first time on June 4, 1229 with Gerardus de Malyn , Ritter and Burgmann zu Parchim .

Vahnerow Castle around 1860,
Alexander Duncker collection

The family first appeared in Pomerania in 1372 with Helmond Mellin . 1405 sold Helmond , Reimer and Klaus their share of Castle and Country Gülzow her Duke Bogislaw VIII. The secure regular series begins with Dubislaw Mellyn , Duke Erich II. Of Pomerania on 13 March 1468 the feudal possession of the Pomeranian family estates Triglaff , Vahnerow and Batzwitz confirmed . With Gotthilf Christian von Mellin († after 1787) the Pomeranian line died out.

A Polish line, which was founded by Faustin († after 1547) to Orłowo , has also expired.

Christoph von Mellin from Vahnerow went to Livonia and in 1549 settled on Aggers in Estonia . His grandson Bernd von Mellin became the progenitor of the baronial (1691) and counts lines of the family. Jürgen Mellin was introduced to the Swedish count class in 1696. A baronial line in Finland and the Estonian house Toal (after the estate of the same name, which was owned by the family from 1693 to 1863) are also derived from him. Several new branches were founded in Pomerania from these lines of the family, for example to Vahnerow († 1741, 1760) or to Damzow (Damitzow, now part of Tantow ) -Schöningen († 1836).

The von Mellin family from Westphalia is not related to the tribe.They were wealthy on the West- and Ostuffeln estates in Werl and whose nobility was recognized by Emperor Leopold I in 1708 and whose assets served as the basis for the von Mellin Foundation, which is now a recognized sponsor is child and youth welfare and the disabled. A distinction must also be made between the Brabant and Austrian Mellins .

Coat of arms of the Counts Mellin

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows in gold a rafter made of silver and blue in three rows . On the helmet with blue and gold covers of the rafters decorated with five alternating red and silver ostrich feathers.

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Individual evidence

  1. Mecklenburg record book . Volume I (1863), p. 356.
  2. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 6 Leipzig 1865, p. 226m.
  3. Otto Titan von Hefner: Register of the flourishing and dead nobility in Germany. Volume 3, 1865, p. 35lm.
  4. ^ To "Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels", Adelslexikon. Volume VIII, 1997, pp. 413-414.