Platow (noble family)
Platow (also Platen ) is the name of an aristocratic family from the Brandenburg region that owned properties in the Mark Brandenburg and the Duchy of Prussia (East Prussia) around the 15th century .
The gender is to be distinguished from the old Lower Saxon noble family of Plato , which also has a different coat of arms.
Possessions
In addition to the Mark Brandenburg with Boossen (1572), Haselberg (1455), Prötzel (1455), Reitwein (1578), Harnekopf (1580) and Blumenthal (1610) and Klessin (1635), the family was also wealthy in East Prussia a. a. in Bauditten , Kanthen , Kattern, Mitteldorf and Talpitten .
coat of arms
The shield shows three red roses in silver and three garden lilies with entwined stems on the helmet.
Name bearer
- Caspar von Platow (around 1570), manor owner for Reitwein and Boossen
- Conrad von Platow (around 1635), commissioner of the Lebus district and owner of the manor in Klessin
- Hans von Platow (around 1606), owner of the manor at Prötzel
literature
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (Ed.): New general German nobility lexicon , 7th volume, Friedrich Voigt's bookstore, Leipzig 1867, p. 173. ( Online with Google Book Search ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Central and State Library Berlin - Duncker Collection: Reitwein (pdf, 225 kByte) ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
