Mellin (noble family)
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 .
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
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.
Relatives
- Jürgen Mellin (1633–1713), Swedish field marshal and governor general of Bremen, Verden and Swedish Pomerania
- Count Georg Bernhard Petrus von Mellin (1704–1785), Prussian major general
- Count Ludwig August Mellin (1754–1835), Baltic German politician and cartographer
literature
- Unlike Anton von Stiernman, Johan Adam Rehbinder, Carl Fredric Rothlieb, Carl Gustaf Kröningssvärd: Matrikel öfwer Swea rikes ridderskap och adel . 1754, pp. 127-128 and pp. 573-574
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Volume 3. Leipzig 1836, pp. 390-391
- Julius Theodor Bagmihl : Pommersches Wappenbuch . Volume 1. Stettin 1843, pp. 148-152
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : German count houses of the present . Volume 2. Leipzig, 1853, pp. 96-99
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 6. Leipzig 1865, pp. 223-226
- Otto Titan von Hefner : Register of the thriving and dead nobility in Germany . Volume 3. 1865, p. 35ro
- On the history of the extinct von Mellin in Pomerania . In: Der Deutsche Herold , 32, 1901, pp. 178–179 and pp. 200–201.
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Uradelige houses . Justus Perthes , AA, Gotha 1917 (additions 1919–1939).
- Astaf von Transehe-Roseneck : Genealogical manual of the Livonian knighthood . Part 1, 1: Livonia, vol .: 1, Görlitz, 1929 pp. 251–262
- Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods . Part 2, 1.2: Estonia, Görlitz, 1930, pp. 715–716
- Genealogical manual of the count's houses A 2, 1955, pp. 292–293, volume 10 of the complete series; A8, 1976, pp. 264-266, volume 63 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn).
- Werner Buchholz : Mellin, from. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 22 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VIII, pp. 413-414, Volume 113 of the complete series, 1997, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn).
- Mellin . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 2 : L – Z, including supplement . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 136 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
- Mellin . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 18 : Mekaniker – Mycale . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1913, Sp. 62 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Web links
- Line of the entire family
- The von Mellin family in the Schlossarchiv Wildenfels schlossarchiv.de and schlossarchiv.de
- Mellin's coat of arms in Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book from 1701, Volume 5, Plate 166-2
- via Count Ludwig August Mellin eha.ee and muuseum.harju.ee (Estonian)
- Mellin family at riddarhuset (Swedish)
- Family tree with numerous biographies
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mecklenburg record book . Volume I (1863), p. 356.
- ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 6 Leipzig 1865, p. 226m.
- ↑ Otto Titan von Hefner: Register of the flourishing and dead nobility in Germany. Volume 3, 1865, p. 35lm.
- ^ To "Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels", Adelslexikon. Volume VIII, 1997, pp. 413-414.