Monroy (noble family)

Coat of arms of those of Monroy

Monroy , actually du Verger de Monroy , is the name of an originally French, Huguenot noble family that settled in Kurhannover and Mecklenburg .

history

The gender is said to have its origin in Poitou . Charles du Verger de Monroy, Seigneur de Paisni, Monroy, Bessé et de Rhé first fled to Holland with his family after the edict of Nantes was repealed in 1685. From there he came to Celle with other Huguenots from Poitou , where he got a job at the court of Prince Georg Wilhelm . He died in Ratzeburg in 1718 . His son Louis Auguste du Verger de Monroy lost a leg in the battle of Dettingen in 1743 and died in the same year as a Hanoverian lieutenant general and commander of Celle. He received a wall tomb in the Walloon-Dutch Church in Hanau . With the Neustrelitz house marshal Ernst von Monroy (1768–1855) the family came to Mecklenburg.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows three (2.1) silver upward facing crescents in the blue field . On the shield a crowned helmet without jewelry with a blue-silver cover. Two golden lions as a shield holder .

Coat of arms of those of Monroy

Representative

Grave of Louis Hippolyte Aug. Ernst von Monroy on the plate grave field of the Neuenhauser cemetery in Celle (Lower Saxony)

Louis Auguste du Verger de Monroy (1675–1743), Hanoverian lieutenant general
Georg von Monroy (1722–1792), Hanover major general, governor in Beedenbostel
Ernst von Monroy (1768–1855), house marshal from Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Louis Hippolyte August Ernst von Monroy (1773–1858), Royal Hanoverian Chief Forester in Celle
Karl von Monroy (1808-1894), Mecklenburg lawyer
Ernst von Monroy (1839–1895), Mecklenburg lawyer
Carl von Monroy (1846–1924), Mecklenburg Oberlandforstmeister
Karl Axel von Monroy (1880–1915), Mecklenburg ministerial assessor
Johann Albrecht von Monroy (1900–1964), German forester
Ernst Friedrich von Monroy (1914–1941), German art historian and emblem researcher

literature

Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 6, Leipzig: Voigt 1865, p. 339
Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the constitutional hereditary comparisons (1755). Rostock 1864, p. 174
Stephan Kekule von Stradonitz : Family history news about the family du Verger de Monroy (from Monroy). Schwerin: Bear jump 1914

Web links

Commons : Monroy family - collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature about Monroy (noble family) in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

↑ Description by August Winkler and Jakob Mitteldorf: The architectural and art monuments of the city of Hanau. Festschrift for the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Neustadt Hanau. Hanau 1897, pp. 141-142
↑ Hans-Joachim Heerde: The audience of physics: Lichtenbergs Hörer , p. 437
↑ Hans-Joachim Heerde: The audience of physics: Lichtenbergs Hörer , p. 437
↑ Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 6750 .
↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal

[1] Description by August Winkler and Jakob Mitteldorf: The architectural and art monuments of the city of Hanau. Festschrift for the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Neustadt Hanau. Hanau 1897, pp. 141-142

[2] Hans-Joachim Heerde: The audience of physics: Lichtenbergs Hörer , p. 437

[3] Hans-Joachim Heerde: The audience of physics: Lichtenbergs Hörer , p. 437

[4] Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 6750 .

[5] Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal

[6] Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal