Polenz (noble family)
Polenz , also Polentz , is the name of an old Meissen noble family with the parent house of the same name in Polenz near Meissen (Saxony).
history
In a document issued by Bishop Martin von Meißen on May 24, 1180 in Meißen , Christianus von Polenzke is named as the penultimate witness. 1198 Gottschalk von Polenz is mentioned as a witness on the Landding in Collm . A Ramvolfus de Polenzke testified in 1216 a court decision between the Margrave of Meißen and the city of Leipzig . In 1283 the knight Vriczolt called von Polenzch (also Fritzcolt de Palencz ) testified on July 12th the sale of the village of Ganzig to the Altzelle monastery . With Him begins the sure lineage of the sex. In addition to Polenz and Polentz , there have been the spellings Pohlenz , Polenczk , Polenske , Palenzch and Polenczigk throughout history .
Own
The Poles (t) z had possessions in the Mark Meissen , in the Lausitz and in East Prussia . Early possessions were Nassau , Polenz, Deila , Porschnitz and Gröbern .
Later there were possessions in Lintz , Gärtitz , Obercunewalde , Neustädtel , Beesdau in today's Saxony, as well as Langenau , Progen , Allenburg , Schönberg , Rosenberg and Bellschwitz in East Prussia. Most of these were fiefdoms of the margraves or the burgraves of Meissen and von Leisnig .
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows a silver wing covered with a red bar in blue . On the helmet with red and silver blankets on the right and blue and silver on the left, a red and blue clad man's torso with a silver collar and a red cap with three peacock feathers on top.
Personalities
- Christoph von Polentz (before 1574–1618), manor owner in Linz near Großenhain
- Eduard Karl Friedrich von Polenz (1792–1863), Saxon civil servant
- Fritzsche von Polentz , bailiff von Döbeln
- Georg von Polentz (~ 1478–1550), Bishop of Samland and Pomesania
- Georg Friedrich August von Polenz (1741–1815), Saxon lieutenant general
- Hans von Polenz (~ 1380 / 85–1437), governor of Lower Lusatia
- Hans Albrecht von Polenz (1692–1760), Prussian colonel
- Julius von Polenz , Saxon chamberlain and monastery bailiff of Marienthal, landowner in Cunewalde
- Maximilian von Polenz (1837–1907), civil servant and member of the German Reichstag
- Peter von Polenz (1928–2011), German linguist
- Samuel von Polentz (1698–1746), Prussian major general
- Wilhelm von Polenz (1861–1903), German writer
swell
- New general German nobility lexicon, edited in association with several historians by Prof. Dr. Ernst Heinrich Kneschke, Volume 7, Leipzig 1867
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch der Uradelige houses, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1909
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume X, Volume 119 of the complete series, pp. 463-464, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1999, ISSN 0435-2408
- The town and state of Schievelbein have been part of the Mark Brandenburg again . In: General Archives for the History of the Prussian State , Volume 15, Berlin Posen Bromberg 1834, pp. 289-317 ( full text ).
- Maria Emanuel Duke of Saxony : Patronage in Saxony , Verlag Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1968, explanations and mentions of the von Polenz family, pp. 23, 39, 48