Ploennies (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Ploennies from 1487
Coat of arms of the von Ploennies from 1532

Ploennies , also Plönnies , Plönies or Plonies is the name of a Lübeck patrician and imperial noble family originally from Westphalia .

history

The origin of the sex lies on the Lower Rhine . It can be traced for the first time with Peter Plonies , who was mayor in Kempen in 1425 . In 1487 his grandson Willibald Plonies , wall cutter , long-distance trader and mayor of Münster in Westphalia received a letter of coat of arms. At the beginning of the 16th century the family came to Lübeck, where they became part of the imperial city patriciate . Emperor Charles VI. confirmed with a diploma dated October 30, 1719 to Joachim Georg von Ploennies that Emperor Charles V, with a diploma dated June 12, 1532, recognized the imperial councilor and mayor of Lübeck Hermann Plönnies , along with his brothers Willeprand and Walther, as aristocratic and in the Imperial knighthood raised and the innate coat of arms improved.

The son of councilor Friedrich von Ploennies , Friedrich von Ploennies (1631–1686), went to the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer as procurator and founded the Palatinate-Hessian branch of the family. In 1740 Georg Friedrich Plönnies achieved a renewal and confirmation of the status of the Imperial Knight with the right to call himself Edler von Plönnies .

Several family members entered government services as officers or diplomats. Hermann Ritter von Plönnies († 1914) achieved the rank of major general in the Austro-Hungarian Army. His son of the same name became an Austrian diplomat and was temporarily ambassador in Zagreb .

Friedrich Wilhelm von Ploennies († 1906) came to Australia as a German consul. His descendants lived there.

Franz von Plönnies became a princely leiningen forest officer in Amorbach and was enrolled in the Bavarian aristocratic class in 1823. Even after him, members of the family headed the Princely Forestry Office in Amorbach for several generations.

Possessions

  • Penzin (Crivitz), today part of Blankenberg , 1680–1802 and 1813–1817

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a red diagonal right bar covered with three gold stars in blue. On the helmet with red and gold covers a silver star between open red flights.

With an imperial diploma from 1532, the coat of arms was improved and since then has shown a red-tongued, silver double-headed eagle in blue, covered by a red diagonal bar with three gold stars. On the crowned helmet with blue and silver covers a blue and a silver eagle wing, each with a gold star. The coat of arms from 1719 is essentially identical, but shows an oblique left bar.

Important representatives

Friedrich von Ploennies (1631–1686), Procurator at the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer
Joachim Georg von Ploennies (1666–1733), assessor at the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar
Erich Philipp Ploennies (1672–1751), mathematician, builder and cartographer
Georg Friedrich von Ploennies (1708–1762), lawyer at the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar
August von Ploennies (1796–1847), Hofmedicus in Darmstadt , married to Luise von Plönnies , b. Leisler (1803–1872), poet
Wilhelm von Ploennies (1828–1871), military writer and translator
Friedrich Wilhelm von Ploennies (1860–1906), Imperial German Consul in Brisbane
Maximilian von Ploennies (1863–1914,) Prussian major, director of the artillery depot in Darmstadt, knight of honor of the Order of St. John
Ludwig von Ploennies (1865–1923), Prussian lieutenant colonel
Hermann Ritter von Ploennies (1834–1914), Austrian general
Hermann Ritter von Ploennies, Austrian envoy
Gotthard Ploennies (1657–1726), German lawyer and brief councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck

literature

Web links

Commons : Ploennies (noble family)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to GHddA, according to Lehsten in silver