Post (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Post Office
Coat of arms of the Post Office

Post is the name of a Westphalian-Lower Saxon nobility family from the county of Schaumburg , which later settled in Scandinavia .

history

The sex appears for the first time in a document from 1220-1241 with the knight Fridericus Post , with whom the tribe series begins. Several canons from this family are notarized at the Minden cathedral chapter .

The Swedish lieutenant colonel Wilhelm Moritz von Post at Bodenengern Castle ( Auetal ), Gut Posteholz (owned by the family until 1764) and Gut Bosfeld (today in Rheda-Wiedenbrück , until 1647) was introduced to the nobility class of the Swedish knighthood in 1664.

The imperial captain August Otto von Post was raised to the bohemian baron status on August 13, 1793 .

The matriculation in the noble class of the Finnish knighthood took place on January 28, 1818 for the Swedish lieutenant colonel Johan Adolf von Post auf Pockar. The Finnish branch died out in 1855.

Rockelstad Castle in Södermanland County has been owned by von Post since 1973.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a crowned silver lion in blue . On the helmet with blue-silver helmet covers, the lion in front of a blue (also red or silver) column decorated with three (five) peacock feathers. In the coat of arms of the Westphalian nobility, a silver lion's paw holds three blue ostrich feathers as a helmet ornament .

Coat of arms in Sweden

The coat of arms of the Post Office in Sweden shows an uncrowned silver lion in blue

The coat of arms in Sweden shows an uncrowned silver lion in blue .

people

literature

Web links

Commons : Post family  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume X, Volume 119 of the complete series, 1999, p. 508