Ripperda (noble family)
Ripperda is a noble family from Groningen , first mentioned in 1057 , which later belonged to the most important Dutch, Westphalian and East Frisian families.
origin
The Ripperdas are an ancient noble family of chiefs and junkers in East Friesland and Groningen. They first appear in a document in the 11th century with Frerik von Ripperda . The line of tribe begins documented between 1375 and 1398 with the provost and chief Unico I von Ripperda on Farmsum .
The name Ripperda is believed to be a derivative of the male given name Rippert (Rupert). As a curiosity it is also mentioned that Ripperda could be derived from “riding the horse there”. In the family tradition, many members of the family died when they fell from a horse. Historians speak of the "Ripperda death".
Ranks
In 1474, Unico II. Von Ripperda on Farmsum and his descendants were given a certificate from Emperor Friedrich III. recognized as imperial chief and baron . On September 3, 1676 in Vienna, Emperor Leopold I confirmed this imperial baron diploma for the entire family of Ripperda.
The Dutch lines of Farmsum , Winsum , Petkum , Vorden , Weldam and Oosterwijtwerd had already expired at the beginning of the 19th century. The Dutch and Austrian line from Boxbergen became extinct in 1920 and the German line from Ellerburg after the Second World War.
The only remaining Ripperdas are some Danish descendants of the line to Ellerburg and the parent of the German-Dutch line of Ripperda-Cosyn (also Cosyn von Ripperda ), which emerged from the Ellerburg line.
There are also numerous descendants of an illegitimate branch near Lingen ( Germany ) and in the United States . The progenitor of this illegitimate branch is Francois Joseph Ripperda, a second son of Juan Guillermo Riperdá (Johan Willem Ripperda) and Josepha Francisca Ramos, born out of wedlock on May 12, 1731 in The Hague . These descendants are not noble.
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows in black a gold-armored knight with drawn sword on armored horse. On the helmet with black and gold covers a golden dragon head with a forked red tongue, red ear tips and a gold collar with a ring between an open golden flight.
Known members
- Juan Guillermo Riperdá (1680–1738), political adventurer, Spanish minister and duke
- Wigbolt Ripperda dead Winsum, Governor of Haarlem
- Willem Ripperda (1600–1669), envoy of the Dutch States General during the negotiations on the Peace of Westphalia
- August von Ripperda (1779–1863), officer and district administrator of the Düren district
- Bolo von Ripperda (1630–1680), President of the East Frisian Landscape
- Wilhelm Ludolph von Ripperda (1698–1785), Canon of Halberstadt
literature
- Het Geslacht Ripperda by RS Roorda (1954)
- Genealogy van het Geslacht Ripperda by mr. CPL Rutgers (1902)
- Genealogy van het Geslacht Ripperda by Pieter van Agteren (2014)
- Genealogy over 16 generations of the imperial baron family von Ripperda by Udo Reichsfreiherr v. Ripperda (Koenigsberg, 1934)
- Huisarchief van Farmsum in the archive of the Hoge Raad van Adel, The Hague
- Een Spaanse Groninger in Morocco. De levens van Johan Willem Ripperda (1682–1737) by Sytze van der Veen (2007)
- Archives of the von Ripperda family
- Gothic genealogical paperback of the baronial houses (1894, 1904, 1942)
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XI, Volume 122 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 2000, ISSN 0435-2408 , pp. 432-433
- Portraits of the House of Ripperda - A Catalog by Charles F. Ponsonby (2016)
Web links
- Huis Ripperda (Dutch home page)
- Huis Ripperda (German)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oorkondenboek van Groningen and Drenthe 1, No. 630, 820, 829, 952, and 1019