Radolin (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Radolin

Radolin , also Radolinski or Radolin-Radolinski , is an old Polish noble family , some of whose branches still exist today.

history

origin

The Radolin family comes from the ancient Polish nobility of the Koszucki tribe. The Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility begins the uninterrupted line of the family with Simon Pierschensky (also Coschuti ), who appears in a document between 1397 and 1413.

Through the marriage of Stanislaus Koszucki called Policki , Lord of Policko, with Dorothea Maczudka von Radolin , part of the Radolin estate near Czarnikau came into family ownership . Stanislaus son Sedziwoy Koszucki called Policki took the name of the property as the family name Radolinski around 1513.

Hugo Prince of Radolin
(* 1841; † 1917)
The castle in Jarotschin (around 1860)
Manor Behle (around 1860)

Spread and personalities

After Zedlitz-Neukirch , Peter auf Radolin, who is said to have taken the nickname Visch (Wysz), also belonged to the family. He became Bishop of Cracow and Archbishop of Poznan , State Chancellor, Papal Nuncio , envoy of King Jagiello and the Catholic Church of Poland at the Council of Pisa . He was also a close confidante of Queen Jadwiga , who appointed him executor of her will. He is believed to have died in 1414 after returning from a pilgrimage to Palestine. His brother Matthias auf Radolin was therefore the first voivode of Inowrazlaw and the progenitor of the later counts of Radolin-Radolinski. His daughter Barbara is said to have been the wife of Zawisza Czarny .

According to Kneschke , Johann von Radolinski was castellan of Inowrazlaw around 1646 and his son Andreas von Radolinski appears in 1676 as castellan of Kriewen and ruler of Jarotschin . Of his sons, Albert became land treasurer of Fraustadt , Andreas Starost of Santor and Stanislaus Cajetan Starost of Rogasen . The manor and the city of Jarotschin were already bought in 1660.

The trunk could be continued permanently in several branches. Count Andreas Radolinski founded the city of Radolin in 1759 . In 1836 the family was elevated to the Prussian count . In the middle of the 19th century, the count's house flourished in three lines. Stanislaus Julius Graf Radolin-Radolinski (* 1806), Joseph's only son, ruler of the Radenz lordship in the former Krotoschin district and royal Prussian treasurer came from the second line . From the third line came, among others, Count Emmerich Ladislaus Radolin-Radolinski (* 1808; † 1879), royal Prussian chamberlain , lord of the Jarotschin and Radlin lords in the former Pleschen district and a member of the Prussian manor house . In 1840 he married Countess Josephine Radolin-Radolinska (* 1809; † 1880).

Their son was Hugo Fürst von Radolin (* 1841, † 1917), one of the most important representatives of the family in recent times. Hugo initially worked as an attaché and legation counselor in the diplomatic service. On August 20, 1879 he became a hereditary member of the Prussian mansion, in 1888 he received from Emperor Friedrich III. the Prussian princes and was High Steward and Oberhoftruchsess of Wilhelm II. Due to its prince stand was also the station Jarotschin to Fürstenbahnhof . Hugo married in London in 1863 Lucy Katharina (* 1841; † 1880), daughter of the British Lieutenant Alfred Howard Wakefield, and in their second marriage from 1892 Johanna Countess von Oppersdorff (* 1864; 1947).

Possessions

In the parts of Poland that later belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia, the family owned the lords of Lobsens in the district of Wirsitz , Radolin, Behle and Hammer in the district of Czarnikau , Schoken and Siernik in the district of Wongrowitz , Napachau near Posen , Jarotschin and Kretkow in the district of Pleschen , Borzeciczki in the district Krotoschin as well as Gola and Dobra at Lissa .

Status surveys

The cousins ​​Emmerich Wladislaus, on Jarotschin, Johann Ignaz, on Behle, and Stanislaus Julius von Radolinski, on Borzenciczki, were raised to the Prussian count status in Berlin on February 17, 1836 .

Hugo Count Leszcyc von Radolin-Radolinski, Fideikommissherr on Jarotschin, royal Prussian chamberlain, real secret council , upper court and house marshal and envoy at disposal , received the Prussian prince's status as von Radolin on April 16, 1888 at Charlottenburg Palace with the salutation Serene Highness . The title was in primogenitur and linked to the possession of the entails commissioner Jartoschin, who was also elevated to a county. The later born bear the title Graf or Countess of Radolin.

coat of arms

Coat of arms Prince of Radolin

Family coat of arms

The family coat of arms ( Wappengemeinschaft Leszczyc) shows in red a golden thatched roof (Polish Brog ) on four silver posts . On the crowned helmet with red and gold helmet covers, the shield image is placed diagonally in front of a natural peacock plume.

Princely coat of arms

The coat of arms of the Prince of Radolin, awarded in 1888, shows the family coat of arms with the princely hat and coat of arms . As a sign holder two against seeing royal winning black Prussian eagle .
The motto is: Coelestium in ira tueor.

Coat of arms and family legend

According to a legend, the Radolin family derives its origin from the Leszczyc family, which is said to have belonged to the twelve oldest tribes in Poland. After the death of the regent Visimir from the Lech family, they chose the twelve palatines ( Latin for voivode ), who are said to have ruled the country from 700 to 710, from among their number. The coat of arms, in the red shield they lead a golden straw roof resting on four silver stakes and tapering to a point, is said to go back to the following tradition. When Lech separated from his brothers Mech and Czech and conquered part of the Polish Empire, he is said to have built a wooden town on the spot where he saw the eyrie of an eagle to secure a shelter for his followers for the coming winter . But since he did not want to have anything ahead of his subjects, he contented himself with a simple thatched roof for himself and his belongings, which, like those of his subordinates, only rested on four stakes. In memory of this humble sense of Lech, his descendants kept the thatched roof resting on four stakes as a symbol of the family.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XI, Volume 122 of the complete series, pages 139–140
  2. ↑ a b New Prussian Adelslexicon Volume 4, Pages 80–81
  3. ↑ a b c New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 1, Pages 282–284
  4. ↑ Johann Georg Theodor Grasse : Legends of gender, name and coat of arms of the nobility of the German nation . Reprint-Verlag, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-8262-0704-1 , page 126.