Mylius (noble family)

Coat of arms of those of Mylius

Mylius is the name of an old family belonging to the noble " patricians " of the former Free and Imperial City of Cologne , who held important city offices and was elevated to the status of imperial baron in 1775 .

history

The imperial captain in Arnhem Arnold Mylius was raised to the imperial nobility by Emperor Maximilian I on March 2, 1512 in Trier . The mayor of Cologne Hermann Mylius was also ennobled in Regensburg on February 14, 1654 . His son Hermann von Mylius, also mayor of Cologne, received confirmation of imperial nobility from Vienna on March 8, 1698, with an improvement in the coat of arms .

Johann Heinrich Arnold von Mylius (1709–1774), Mayor of Cologne with seven terms in office between 1754 and 1773
Caspar Josef Carl von Mylius (1749–1831), Austrian field marshal lieutenant
Karl Josef von Mylius (1778–1838), President of the Senate at the Court of Appeal and Lord Mayor of Cologne
Eberhard von Mylius (1813–1861), German lawyer, politician and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
Ulrich von Mylius (1896–1974), district administrator in the Jülich district

The family coat of arms shows a silver mill iron in blue , on which a black passion cross stands, around which a silver snake winds. On the helmet with its blue and silver blankets, a growing arm in a silver sleeve with a blue envelope, holding up a black cross in one hand.
The baron's coat of arms from 1775 and 1898 has the shield of the family coat of arms. On the helmet with blue and silver blankets on the right and black and silver blankets on the left, five alternating blue and silver ostrich feathers .

Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume IX, Volume 116 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1998, pp. 309-310