Plato (noble family)
Plato (also Plote or Plate ) is the name of an old Hanoverian noble family , which comes from the Lüneburg nobility of the Wendland . The Vorwerk Plate (on the Jeetzel ) belonging to the upper Gut Grabau (today Grabow , district of Lüchow ) is assumed to be the parent house of the Plato family . Branches of the family still exist today.
The gender is to be distinguished from the noble family von Platow from Brandenburg , which also has a different coat of arms.
history
The family first appeared in documents in 1264 with the knight Rabodo de Plotho , with whom the line of tribe also began . In 1466, the four brothers or cousins Pardam, Rabode, Hans and Gevered von Plato received permission from Duke Otto of Braunschweig and Lüneburg to build a castle near Grabow. Nothing remains of the castle today, the declaration of division of the four builders contained information about several buildings on the property, such as the old and the new house, a bakery and a house with a kitchen. The grounds of the former castle of those of Plato are now used as the cemetery of the Plato family.
Possessions
The family's property in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district , which can be verified as early as 1143 , was divided into Obergut and Untergut Grabow in 1702. She owned two other estates in Lüchow .
Status survey
The royal Württemberg chamberlain and court marshal Detlev von Plato was elevated to the Württemberg baron with a diploma on July 29, 1886.
coat of arms
The family coat of arms is split from red and silver by 1 ½ right cross points. On the helmet with red and silver covers an open flight, red on the right and silver on the left.
Name bearer
- Alexander von Plato (* 1942), historian
- Anton Detlev von Plato, Princely Brunswick Office and Treasurer
- Detlev von Plato, Chamberlain and Court Marshal of Württemberg
- Anton Detlev von Plato (1910–2001), Lieutenant General in the Bundeswehr
- Eberhard von Plato, until 2016 patronage of the St. Marien Church in Plate, then the patronage changes to the von Blottnitz family
- Heidi von Plato (* 1954)
Individual evidence
- ^ Gercken, Fragmenta Marchica, Part II, p. 22
literature
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume X, Volume 119 of the complete series, pp. 410-411, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1999, ISSN 0435-2408
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses, 1901, p.692ff