Black (Swedish noble family)

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Black is the name of a Swedish noble family . The family is currently flourishing in the baron class .

There is no proven tribal relationship to the homonymous, originally Thuringian, noble family Rappen , who later became wealthy in Prussia , or the noble family Rappe , who came from Courland and were also historically wealthy in Prussia .

history

The sex has its origin in Heinrich Rapp (1608–1676), who pretended to come from Courland and since 1635 in Swedish services, u. a. as general auditor of the Livonian troops. He was a black horse in the Swedish nobility in 1675 lifted . His grandson Erik Henry Black (1661-1727), later veteran of Poltava and Swedish lieutenant colonel , was in 1697 in the aristocratic class of the Swedish knighthood introduces (no. 1284). With Friedrich Rappe (1864-1929), first secretary in the Swedish Foreign Ministry and Councilor in Stockholm, the male line of the untitled von Rappe has expired.

Christoffer Johan Rappe (1719–1776), judge and governor of Turku , was raised to the status of Swedish baron in 1771 together with his brother Tomas Carl Rappe (1721–1790). However, he died without leaving children, whereupon only Tomas Carl Rappe , Swedish lieutenant general, was introduced to the baron class of the Swedish knighthood in 1776 (No. 287). The baronial line flourished in California at least into the 20th century .

Relatives

  • Niklas Rappe (1668–1727), Swedish major general
  • Baron Christoffer Johan Rappe (1719–1776), Swedish judge and governor of Turku
  • Baron Tomas Carl Rappe (1721–1790), Swedish lieutenant general
  • Baron Axel Emil Rappe (1838–1918), Swedish lieutenant general and minister of war
  • Baron Curt Vilhelm Rappe (1863–1939), Swedish lieutenant general
  • Baron Signe Rappe (1879–1974), Swedish soprano
  • Baron Axel Oscar Rappe (1884–1945), Swedish major general

  • Baron Axel Rappe (1838–1918), Swedish Minister of War

  • Baron Signe Rappe (1879–1974), Swedish soprano (1909)

  • Baron Axel Rappe (1884–1945), Swedish major general

coat of arms

The coat of arms (1675) shows a trained black horse in silver on a green ground . On the helmet with silver-black covers two laurel branches stuck through a crown and crossed at the top between two buffalo horns divided by silver and black across the corner .

The baron's coat of arms (1771) shows a trained black horse in gold on a green ground. On the right the helmet of the family coat of arms (1675), but the buffalo horns divided across the corner by blue and gold; on the left a growing red lion , holding a crossbow . Two golden lions with chipped red tongues serve as shield holders .

literature

  • Gabriel Anrep : Svenska adelns ättar-taflor , Volume 3, Stockholm 1862, pp. 310-312
  • Maximilian Gritzner : J. Siebmacher's large book of arms. Volume 3, Section 11: The Nobility of the Russian Baltic Sea Provinces. Part 2: Those not enrolled in the Baltic provinces of the Baltic Sea. Nuremberg 1901, pp. 159-160, Tfl. 104

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy . Volume 2, Berlin 1856, p. 257
  2. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . , Volume 7, Leipzig 1867, p. 345