Mitzlaff (noble family)

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Mitzlaff coat of arms

Mitzlaff is the name of an old Pomeranian noble family . The family, some of which still exist today, belongs to the ancient nobility in Western Pomerania .

history

origin

The lineage of Wissike filius Meslaf is first mentioned in a document on June 19, 1389. The seal of Hans Misslaf appears for the first time in a document dated July 14, 1403.

There is probably a tribal relationship to the von Zitzewitz family , who come from the same area and have the same coat of arms .

Spread and personalities

Georg Mitzlaff appears in 1389 as a resident of Carzien . Conradus de Mitzlaff was mayor of the city of Stolp in 1463 , an office that seven members of the family also held over time. Hans von Mitzlaff and his underage brothers Jürgen and Carl were the Duke Bogeslaw X. of Pomerania solemnly with the Good Carzien on Tuesday after Carnival of the year 1490 invested .

Joachim von Mitzlaff was Imperial Colonel during the Thirty Years War . Carl Gustav von Mitzlaff, Herr auf Schwuchow , was under King Karl XII. of Sweden captain . Franz Gustav von Mitzlaff came from his marriage to Catharina Marie von Bandemer . In his youth he was a page with Sophie Dorothea von Hannover , the wife of the soldier king Friedrich Wilhelm I. In 1727 he joined the Sonsfeld dragoon regiment as a Junker , in which he was promoted to major in 1757 . In 1766 he received the Amtshauptmannschaft to Hornburg, 1767 was promoted to lieutenant colonel , colonel in 1769 and 1771 to Major General . In 1778 he resigned from active service and died on August 13, 1789 in Frankfurt (Oder) . He was married to a daughter from the von Lauterbach family. The couple had several children.

Ober-Schüttlau in the Duncker Collection

The general had left the old Mitzlaff fiefdom Schwuchow near Stolp to his brother Leopold Wilhelm von Mitzlaff. He sold it on December 1, 1780 to Lieutenant Colonel Karl Sigismund von Pirch . The Carzien family owned the Carzien estate for much longer, since the end of the 14th century. In the middle of the 19th century, the Mitzlaff in Pomerania zu Bansekow, Damm, Beversdorf and Drossendorf, all located in the former Stolp district, were wealthy. In the second half of the 19th century Otto Ludwig von Mitzlaff was a royal Prussian chamberlain and lord of Oberschüttlau in the district of Guhrau . Three other members of the family sat in Schimmerwitz in the Lauenburg district , in Beversdorf in the Stolp district and in Großendorf and Dochow , also in the Stolp district.

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

The coat of arms is split from black and silver and covered with a gold-reinforced double-headed eagle in a confused color. On the helmet with black and silver helmet covers three (silver-black-silver) ostrich feathers.

Coat of arms history

The coat of arms appears on imprints of seals . According to Johannes Micraelius , Six Books from Old Pomerania (1639/1640), the Mitzlaff wield a double eagle half white and half black and three yellow ostrich feathers on their helmets. In Johann Siebmacher's Wappenbuch, edition in five volumes (1701), the coat of arms appears as with Micraelius. Friedrich August von Meding takes into account Micraelius and Siebmacher in his messages of noble coats of arms (1791). Julius Theodor Bagmihl mentions in his Pomeranian Wappenbuch (1843–1855) that on the documents seals of Berend Mitzlaff from 1574 four feathers and that of J. С. von Mitzlaff, from about the same time, seven feathers appear.

Name bearer

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Voigt : Codex diplomaticus prussicus. Volume 4, page 80
  2. ↑ City Archives of Szczecin
  3. ↑ a b Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume IX, Volume 116 of the complete series, page 104
  4. ↑ Otto Hupp : Munich Calendar 1931. Page 31
  5. ^ A b New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 6, Page 312
  6. ^ The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families , Volume 1, page 299

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