Judge (noble family)

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Family arms of the von Richter family

Richter is the family name of the Baltic noble family "von Richter", which settled in Poland , Livonia , Estonia , Courland , the island of Oesel and Sweden . Its origin lies in Silesia and is notarized with Christoph Richter. From this sex , which was in Polish, Swedish and Russian service, important members of parliament, district administrators , land marshals and knighthood secretaries grew up , who were a socio-political and formative noble family for the Baltic countries for over 300 years.

history

Christoph Richter is listed in Polish records from 1599 as a person from Silesia ("natione Silesius"). He was secretary in the service of the Polish governor of Livonia , Jan Karol Chodkiewicz (1560–1621) and was raised to the nobility on July 19, 1569 by the Polish King Sigismund II. August (1520–1572) . He was married to Anna von Mengden , a widow of Meck, and thus came into possession of the Siggund and Wattram estates , which were owned by the family until 1920. In 1601 King Charles IX pledged . from Sweden (1550-1611) the village of Groß-Lechtigall to the Richter, which was then sold in 1624 by Gustav II Adolf to the Baranoff family . The family was entered in the Livonian knight bank in 1742 under registration number 50. In 1745 and 1747 it was transferred to number 60, and they were given indigenous status for Estonia, Courland and Ösel. In 1908 Otto von Richter’s widow and her descendants were elevated to the status of Russian barons, and in 1912 District Administrator Theodor von Richter and his descendants were given the status of barons.

Possessions

Since the 1550s, their family headquarters have been the Siggund and Wattram estates, and family members in the Estonian district of Kawast, Kayafer , Somel, Weißensee , Gawern, Neu-Rusthof, Waimel , Saarjerw, Bentenhof and Löwenküll have at times owned them. In the Latvian district Marzingshof, Wattram, included Kastran , Schliepenhof, Hilchensfähr, Ramkau, Seßwegen , Aiskuje, Grawendahl, Butzkowski, Modohn , LODENHOF and As-Drostenhof to their possessions. In addition, they were owned by Adamshof and Schillinghof from 1598 to 1920 and from 1709 to 1920.

Pedigree

  • Christopher I (1569-1607)
    • Christoph II. (1621 - 1657), Livonian district administrator
      • Engelbrecht (1663 - 1683), Swedish colonel
        • Otto Adam (1655-1732), Swedish captain
        • Christoph Adam 1694 - 1758 Livonian district administrator
      • Adam (1630-1710), Swedish colonel, Livonian district administrator
        • Otto Christoph von Richter (1678-1729), Livonian land marshal
          • Christopher III. 1713 - 1762 Court Judge Assessor , Knighthood Secretary
            • Christoph Adam II. Founder of the Siggund family
            • Otto Johann Magnus founder of the Kusthof-Waimel family

Lineage

House Siggund

Christoph Adam II. (1751–1815), Lord on Siggund, Knighthood Secretary, Economics Director, Civil Governor of Livonia, Privy Council

House Kusthof-Waimel

Otto Johann Magnus (* 1755; † 1826 in Dorpat ) Lord of Kusthof and Waimel, Livonian district administrator

coat of arms

According to the coat of arms of July 19, 1569, the von Richters have the following coat of arms : Golden diagonal right bar divided from blue to black, top with gold armored deer body under 3 silver roses placed in a semicircle against the bar. Crest : above the barons crown between golden deer antlers 3 silver roses on green, leafless thorny stems. Helmet cover : blue-gold and black-silver

literature

Web links

Commons : Richter family (Baltic nobility)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on judges. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Richter, Otto Theodor. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
  2. ↑ Carl Arvid Klingspor / Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt , Baltic Wappenbuch , all coats of arms, the noble families belonging to the knights of Livonia, Estonia, Courland and Oesel, Stockholm, 1882 plate 91, [1]