Ramel (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Ramel

Ramel also Rahmel earlier Romele is the name of an old Pomeranian noble family . The family now lives in the baron in Sweden .

history

origin

The history of research does not provide a uniform picture of the origins of the family. So far, research has not been able to provide evidence of the previously frequently postulated descent from a Brunswick family of the same name , which also flourished in Mecklenburg between 1190 and 1378 . Neither can the assertion made that the Ramel came to Pomerania from the Margraviate of Brandenburg .

Pomerania

In any case, the Ramel are counted among the oldest, and later also among the castle-sitting and therefore most respected families of Pomerania.

The Ramel and Gerborg, the widow of Herbert Romele zu Lassan, were first mentioned in a document in 1256 when she exchanged her village of Banzin on Usedom for the Grobe monastery for the now- disappeared village of Rauene near Lassan .

Both the presumed son Johannes von Ramel († after 1303) was Lord of Lassan, Alt Schlage and Persanzig . The family came to Western Pomerania with him . He was married to Miroslawa, the widow of Casimir , castellan of Kolberg from the house of the Swantiborids , which underlines the high reputation of the early Ramel. Two daughters and four sons are known from the next generation, with the two sons Arndt († after 1336) and Egberdt († after 1313) continuing the family line and becoming the founders of the two main lines Alt Schlage- Wusterwitz and Nemitz - Weitenhagen . Both lines were divided several times in the period that followed.

The Wusterwitz line was also able to take over the office of Hereditary Marshal in the Cammin monastery . When they lost this office during the secularization, in 1657 they were given the office of hereditary kitchen master of Western Pomerania by Elector Friedrich Wilhelm , which they held until 1773. The last male member of the family in Pomerania was the District Administrator Caspar Friedrich von Ramel (* 1727, † 1795).

Denmark and Sweden

Ovedskloster Castle , Sweden

In 1584 the Danish nobility naturalization for Henrik Ramel from the Wusterwitz line, whose descendants, the brothers Ove and Hans Ramel, received the Swedish nobility naturalization in 1664. In 1770 the Ramel were raised to the status of Swedish barons . Only this line has survived to the present day and has been based at Övedskloster Castle since 1753 .

Livonia and Poland

From the Weitenhagen line, Heinrich von Ramel († before 1612) entered the Polish service, advanced to Rittmeister, was Starost von Orla in Livonia and Dziewieniszki in Lithuania , treasurer of Wenden and was in command of the Polish until the surrender on December 27, 1600 Occupation of Dorpat . He sold his Livonian property while he was still alive, or the Swedes collected it. In 1607 he received the Polish indigenous government and in 1611 was royal secretary. His only daughter Elisabeth from his marriage to Margaretha von dem Broel called Plater , he married Henrich Szmeling († 1634), who also followed him on his two Starosteien.

possession

Ledebur gives a rough overview of the historical property ownership of German provenance of the family . a. Hagemeister .

Coat of arms of those of Ramel

coat of arms

The divided coat of arms shows a hexagonal gold star in red above, and below it is made of blue and silver. On the helmet with blue-red-gold covers nine vines of three (blue, red, gold) twisted into one another. Kneschke goes into detail on deviations in tinging and the gem with reference to Meding and Bagmihl .

Relatives

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pommersches Urkundenbuch 2, p. 37
  2. ↑ Ramel . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 13 : Pelli – Reravius . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1899, p. 373-377 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
  3. ↑ Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy . Volume 2, Berlin 1856, pp. 253-254 ; Volume 3, 1858 p. 328
  4. ^ Heinrich von Hagemeister : Materials for a history of the country estates of Livonia. Riga 1836/1837, p. 186 , p. 233
  5. ↑ Adelslexikon Volume XI, 2000, SS 160
  6. ↑ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families. Volume 3, Leipzig 1856, pp. 373-376