Renard (noble family)

Renard is the name of a Polish or Prussian-Silesian noble family.

history

The family is said to come from Danzig on the one hand , "where they belonged to the patriciate under the name" Reinhard ", on the other hand from Hamburg (allegedly of French descent). After the family moved to Warsaw , the name was pronounced in the Polish language "Réjnard" , which then became "Renard", which should suggest the French ancestry.

According to Siebmacher , Band Moravia of 1899, the Renard family is said to have been admitted to the "Polish baron class" (?) With Johann Baptist Renard in 1720 .; according to the Siebmacher volumes

• Prussia, Counts and Barons (1857)
• Nobility of Austrian Silesia (1885)
• Dead nobility of the Prussian Province of Silesia (1887)
• and Moravia (1899)

was accepted into the Polish nobility on October 28, 1726 and on October 16, 1741 in the imperial count status in the Electoral Saxon imperial vicariate (Reichsgrafendiplom, electoral Saxon recognition of the count status February 21, 1742). In 1761 the family acquired the Olomouc fiefdom Dorfteschen.

family members

• Andreas Maria von Renard (1795–1874), Silesian coal and steel industrialist
• Johannes Maria von Renard (1829–1874), Prussian industrialist and politician

See also

• Oberlichtenau Castle

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms, Volume IV, Section 10; The Moravian nobility; Author: H. von Kadich, C. Blazek; Publication: Nuremberg: Bauer & Raspe, 1899. p. 111. Plate 87.
2. ↑ ^{a b} J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms, III. Volume, 1st Division; The nobility of the Kingdom of Prussia: counts and barons; Author: OT von Hefner; Publication: Nuremberg: Bauer & Raspe, 1857. p. 23. Plate 26
3. ^ ^{A b} J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms, Volume IV, Section 11; The nobility of Austrian Silesia; Author: C. Blazek; Publication: Nuremberg: Bauer & Raspe, 1885. p. 137, plate 34
4. ↑ ^{a b} J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms, VI. Volume, 8th section, 1st part; The dead nobility of the Prussian province of Silesia; Author: C. Blazek; Publication: Nuremberg: Bauer & Raspe, 1887. page 86, plate 63.