Rahden (noble family)

Coat of arms of those of Rahden

Rahden is the name of an originally noble noble family from the archbishopric of Bremen , which expanded to Courland in the 15th century and is currently a baron .

The family is not related to the Rügischen family Rhaden , but to be distinguished from them.

history

The family named itself after its ancestral seat Rhade near Zeven , where it first appeared in a document between 1219 and 1227 with Thetmarus nobilis dictus de Rothe , with which the family line also begins. After 1227 the family gave their goods to the Counts of Oldenburg and became part of their service team and ministeriality . After conflicts with the archbishop , the family moved to the County of Diepholz in 1330 , where they had their headquarters for the next 150 years. After 1500 the Rahden returned to the service of the Counts of Oldenburg and sat on their family estate, Höven , until the 17th century . Lippold von Rahden († after 1549) was a representative of the knighthood at the count's court, still field colonel and envoy, his son Statius († after 1585) was Drost zu Apen and, together with his employer, Count Johann von Oldenburg, often involved in disputes involved with Munster . With Dietrich Conrad Plato von Rahden (* 1670; † 1722), the male line of the family in the empire died out.

With Roleff von Rahden (* before 1503, † after 1541) the family moved to the Baltic States . In 1520 he was a companion of the Commendatore to Goldingen mentioned in a document, took the same year on the relief of the Order in Prussia in part and was no more Bratenstein in Polish captivity. In 1531 he was promoted to deputy to the commander and then advanced to Rositten's Teutonic Order .

Descendants of his brothers enrolled with Gerd von Rahden auf Medsen on October 10, 1620 in the 1st class of the Courland knighthood . All branches of the family that are currently in bloom can be traced back to his son Wulfhard von Rahden. The Russian recognition of the right to use the baron title for the entire family was made by Senatsukas No. 2823 on April 3, 1862. Sons of the family served as officers in the Prussian Army , the Polish Crown Army and the Russian Army , seven of them were able to enter the Advance rank of general. The primogeniture Medsen was up to the Latvian land reform ancestral home of the family. Up to this time, Grauduppen, Kimpahlen and Maihof were also owned by the family.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows three (2: 1) silver roses in blue . On the helmet with blue-silver covers an open blue flight , each covered with a silver rose.

Relatives

Wilhelm von Rahden (1790–1860), officer and writer
Alexander von Rahden (1859–1920), Courland messenger marshal and authorized representative

literature

Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XI, Volume 122 of the complete series, pp. 149-150, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 2000, ISSN 0435-2408
Alexander von Rahden : Document book of the von Rahden family. Mitau 1911-1915
Rotislaw von Rahden: Family tables of the Barons von Rahden. Munich 1987
Oskar Stavenhagen : Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods part 3, 2: Kurland, Lfg. 9-12, Görlitz, pp. 695-736

Web links

Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry to Rahden. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

Individual evidence

↑ Members of both families have historically also appeared under the names of the opposite sex. Furthermore, both families were wrongly mixed up at Zedlitz ( New Prussian Adelslexicon . Volume 4, Leipzig 1837, p. 80 ) and Ledebur ( Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy . Volume 2, Berlin 1856, p. 249 ).
↑ Bremer Urkundenbuch, Volume 1, pp. 223–224, No. 189

[1] Members of both families have historically also appeared under the names of the opposite sex. Furthermore, both families were wrongly mixed up at Zedlitz ( New Prussian Adelslexicon . Volume 4, Leipzig 1837, p. 80 ) and Ledebur ( Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy . Volume 2, Berlin 1856, p. 249 ).

[2] Bremer Urkundenbuch, Volume 1, pp. 223–224, No. 189