Meyendorff (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Meyendorff / Uexküll since 1475
Baron coat of arms

Meyendorff , even Meijendorff of Yxkull , Uexküll Meyendorf , Meyendorff of Yxkull Russian Мейендорф , is the name of a Baltic German noble family , which in the 17th century from the in Wiek (now Lääne , Estonia -based) branch of the noble family Uexküll emerged and in the Baltic States and in imperial Russia came to high esteem.

history

(For the history, see Uexküll )

With a royal Swedish diploma of April 16, 1679, the sons of Wolter Uexküll: Jacob, Swedish lieutenant general , Otto Johann, Swedish colonel, his grandson Wolter Reinhold and Lage Uexküll on Schattmansöge from the Kasti family were raised to the Swedish baron class. The older tribe name of the sex was brought out again and the barons received the name of Meyendorff from the house of Uexküll . The shortly before extinction of both families of origin, those of Meyendorff in Magdeburg (1667) and those of Meinsdorf in Holstein (1664), may have had an impact on bringing back the name , which has been brought up to fabulous antiquity, and wrenching it from oblivion . The introduction to the knight's house in Stockholm took place in 1680 (No. 74 of the baron class). The protest of other members of the Uexkull dynasty against the choice of the name was rejected by a royal resolution of September 22, 1682.

Of the four recipients of the baron diploma, the brothers Jacob and Otto Johann died without heirs. Lage von Meyendorff continued the tribe in Sweden, but where it died out in the 18th century. All of today's descendants can be traced back to Wolter Reinhold von Meyendorff on Angern, Oerten and Sallentack. His sons Jürgen Reinhold auf Oerten and Fabian auf Sallentack founded two lines, of which the Jürgen Reinholds became extinct in the male line in 1811. Fabian von Meyendorff's sons again founded two lines: an Estonian and a Livonian , which came into being when Georg Johann acquired Gut Klein-Roop (today: Mazstraupe) in 1742 and Hochrosen Castle in 1759. In 1826 the Ramkau estate also came into the possession of the family through marriage.

The family was registered with the Livonian Knighthood (No. 26) since 1742 , with the Estonian line also with the Estonian Knighthood and the House of Klein-Roop with the Courland Knighthood .

The baron title was the family by Imperial Russian Senate ukase of December 20, 1865 confirmed .

From 1888 the family had run the Freiherrlich Meyendorff Family Foundation , whose statutes were confirmed by the Estonian state in 1937.

After the October Revolution , family members fled to Denmark, France, Great Britain and Germany.

Possessions

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  • Mausoleum in the churchyard of Keila (June 2011)

  • Meyendorff Castle (before 1917)

  • Augstroze castle ruins

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

The family coat of arms is that of Uexküll and shows a crowned leoparded red lion in gold. On the helmet with red and gold covers, two facing silver sickles with red shafts, studded with natural peacock feathers.

Baron coat of arms

The shield is square with a center shield . Middle shield: 1 and 4 in gold, a red, crowned lion holding a silver halberd ; 2 and 3 in black, two silver hammers set in the St. Andrew's cross and covered with a golden crown: family coat of arms; Main shield all silver: l a black, crowned double-headed eagle; 2 a red-clad rider jumping to the right on a red horse with a red pointed cap flying to the left and holding a sword; 3 a wild man holding his arms forward, crowned with foliage and girdled ; 4 two swords placed in the St. Andrew's cross, the point sweeping under.

Important representatives

House Klein-Roop

  • Georg Johann von Meyendorff (1718–1771), Livonian district administrator and country marshal
    • Kasimir von Meyendorff (1749–1813), Russian general of the cavalry, 1789 commander in chief of Riga, 1795 civil governor of Finland
      • Kasimir von Meyendorff (1794-1854), landlord on Klein-Roop,
      • Georg von Meyendorff (1795–1863), explorer, diplomat, state councilor, conductor of the Reich debt repayment commission, Livonian district administrator 1837–47
      • Peter von Meyendorff (1796–1863), diplomat
      • Alexander von Meyendorff (1796–1865), Real Councilor of State, Chairman of the Moscow Department of Commerce and Manufacturing Council

House Ramkau

House Ocht / cone

Gravestone of Kitty von Meyendorff in Türi
  • Georg von Meyendorff (1794–1879), Adjudant General of the Tsar, President of the Ev.-luth. Consistory
    • Bogdan Theophil von Meyendorff (1838–1919), general of the cavalry, adjudant general of the tsar, lord of the manor on Kumna (from 1893)
      • Theophil von Meyendorff (1886–1971), painter
        • John Meyendorff (1926–1992), Russian Orthodox theologian, university professor and author
          • Paul Meyendorff (* 1950), Russian Orthodox theologian and university professor
    • Fedor von Meyendorff (1842–1911), lieutenant general, commander of the imperial headquarters
    • Gottlieb von Meyendorff (1847–1923), landlord of Ocht und Kegel (until 1919) and Kumna (until 1893)

literature

Web links

Commons : Meyendorff (noble family)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Eduard von Napiersky : News about the Meyendorff family. Historical-genealogical reading fruit. In: Archives for the history of Liv, Estonia and Curland. 8 (1861), pp. 101-104
  2. ↑ matrikel öfwer Swea rikes ridderskap och needle. Stockholm 1754, p. 117f digitized