Plater

This article deals with the Lithuanian noble family Plater. For other meanings, see Plater (disambiguation) .

Family coat of arms of those of the Broel called Plater

Plater , also Plater-Syberg and Plater-Zyberk is the name of the count's noble family in Poland , Lithuania and Russia , which as of the Broel called Plater the Westphalian nobility of the County of Mark comes.

history

The family came from Westphalia with the Broel parent company (desolate since the 15th century). It appears for the first time in a document in 1274 and 1277 with Hinricus de Broyle and appeared for the first time in 1392 with Rötger von dem Broel called Plater with the surname. The family died out in Germany in 1659, but continued to exist in several lines in Polish Livonia , Lithuania, Poland and Russia.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows three black bars in gold, overlaid with a red diagonal bar. On the helmet with black and gold covers, an open flight, as marked as the shield.

Motto : Melior mors macula .

people

Emilie Plater was one of the most famous fighters during the Lithuanian-Polish uprising of 1830–1831

• Johann von dem Broele called Plater, 1502–1529 Land Marshal of the Teutonic Order in Livonia
• Jan Ludwik Broel Plater († 1736), the Patriarch of Livonia
• Kasimir Konstantin Plater (1748–1808), Lithuanian Chancellor
• Ludwig Graf Plater (1774–1846), Polish patriot
• Michael Graf Plater (1777–1862), Polish engineer major, member of the Courland government, Lithuanian lieutenant governor, ⚭ 1803 Baron Isabella Helena Syberg zu Wischling (1785–1849) → first parents of Count Plater-Syberg
• Stanisław Plater (1784–1851), count, historian and antiquarian
• Emilie Plater (1806–1831), Countess, from the Dussiaty line of Vilna , participant in the uprising of the rural people .
• Cezary Plater (1810–1869), Count, President of the Polish Literary Society
• Władysław Plater (1808–1889), Count, brother of the previous one, Rozick's adjutant in the uprising in Lithuania, country messenger from Wilejka
• Isabella Countess von Plater-Syberg (1809–1883), mother of the Catholic Archbishop Eduard von der Ropp (1851–1939)
• Józef Broel-Plater (1890–1941), Polish politician and bobsledder
• Maria Broel-Plater-Skassa (1913–2005), Polish resistance fighter during the Nazi era

literature

• Plater . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 13, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 118.
• Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume X, Volume 119 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1999, pp. 408-409; Volume XVII, Volume 144 of the complete series, 2008, p. 476, ISSN  0435-2408
• Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods part 2, 1.2: Estonia, Görlitz 1930, p. 723
• United Kurländische foundations (ed.): Genealogies kurländisch-knightly sexes: the present, neither Genealogical Handbook of Baltic Ritterschaften , part Kurland, still in the genealogical manual of the aristocracy have appeared ., Arr by Klas Lackschewitz, Andrzej Prus-Niewiadomski and Tomasz Lenczewski , Wolf Baron v. Buchholtz, Seevetal 2004, pp. 53–170; Vol. 2., "Supplements, corrections", edited by Klas Lackschewitz and Andrzej Prus-Niewiadomski, special edition 2012, pp. 17-29

Individual evidence

1. ^ Westfälisches Urkundenbuch 7, no., 1508 and 3, no., 1044.
2. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : German Count Houses of the Present , Volume 3, Leipzig 1854, p. 312 u. P. 388

Web links

• IS Osiński. Platerowie (Polish)
• Homepage of Plater in Lithuania (English, Lithuanian, German)
• Coat of arms of those von dem Broel called Plater , plate 51 and two other Plater coats of arms , plate 246 in the register of arms of the Westphalian nobility