Prollius (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Prollius

Prollius is the name of one of Hessen originating Mecklenburg noble family .

history

The progenitor of the family originally from Hesse is Merten Proll (also Broll ), * around 1589, † 1659, farmer in Guxhagen near Kassel . The Mecklenburg bailiff Georg Friedrich Prollius, who had acquired the goods Kummin, Tessenow and Mühlenberg from von Bülow's bankruptcy after 1778, was raised to the imperial nobility in 1795 by Emperor Franz II . He is the ancestor of this family who owned estates in Mecklenburg and Pomerania .

Possessions

coat of arms

The coat of arms from 1795 shows in a quartered shield of red, gold, silver and blue in the first field an inwardly turned golden lion, in the second a fallen red cornucopia with flowers missing, in the third a stalk with ears and in the fourth a golden double-headed eagle. On the helmet the double-headed eagle (also shown growing ); the helmet covers are red-gold on the right, blue-gold on the left.

Important representatives

literature

Web links

Commons : Prollius (noble family)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XI, Volume 122 of the complete series, Limburg ad Lahn 2000, p. 48
  2. Lehsten (lit.)
  3. a b c Kösener corps lists
  4. Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 7820 .