Roëll (noble family)

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Roëll , also Röell , Roehl or Röhl , is the name of a family from Westphalia who were wealthy there in the county of Mark , later also in Silesia and are wealthy in the Netherlands and from which numerous Prussian officers and Dutch officers and statesmen emerged . Branches of the family persist to this day.

History

Alsace or Sweden was previously assumed to be the origin of the Westphalian family .

The reliable family line begins with Jacob Roëll (Ruell, Rueil), a citizen and pharmacist in Dortmund, who was documented in 1573 .

His son Johann Roëll (* 1594 or 1599; † 1656) had only entered the Hessian military service and had been in Brandenburg since 1642 . As colonel of the cavalry , he acquired the Dölberg manor near Lünern in 1647 and, with his descent, transferred to the landed gentry. Previously he was for his services rendered by his prince, the "Great Elector" Friedrich Wilhelm , with the tax-free status of his estate Wicke Brock (Wiedeburg) belehnt Service. His death shield from 1656 is in the church in Lünern. His first marriage was to Clara Bockelman and his second marriage to Elisabeth Brüggemann († 1655). Good Dölberg remained until the end of the 19th century Familienfideikommiss .

German line

Johann Roëll zu Dölberg's († 1656) eldest son was Johann Jakob von Roëll zu Dölberg (* around 1640, † February 21, 1682 at Haus Nierhofen). He is said to have been granted the status of baron by Emperor Leopold I. The German line is derived from him. He had married Maria Gödde von dem Brinck (* around 1631, † February 4, 1715), heiress of Nierhofen, the daughter of Johann von dem Brinck, on March 28, 1663 zu Derne . A son of the same name is said to have died as a captain in the battle of Malplaquet in 1709 .

A renewal diploma of the old nobility due to the family received at Königsberg in Prussia on June 5, 1798 from King Friedrich Wilhelm III. the brothers Arnold Ludwig, Prussian staff captain in the fusilier battalion "von Yorck" , and Ernst Andreas (August) Roehl, Prussian lieutenant in the field artillery , on the assumption that these brothers from Westphalia belonged to the sex discussed here, for which their coat of arms (in the split shield Eagle in front and sloping branches in the back) just doesn't speak and so the GHdA -Adelslexikon, Volume XI (2000) also assigns them to a separate gender. One brother, Arnold Ludwig von Röhl , died in 1813 as a major and battalion commander in the German-Russian legion . His brother Ernst Andreas von Röhl died in Breslau in 1830 as major general and left behind a son, Karl von Roehl . He rose in the Prussian army to lieutenant general and commandant of Königsberg . At the beginning of the 18th century this family owned Salzwedel Castle hereditary and peculiarly .

Several members from this genus, which is actually being dealt with here, were given higher military posts in the Prussian army. It is said that Friedrich Alexander von Roehl died in 1745 in a meeting near Meißen at the age of 69 as lieutenant general of a dragoon regiment, Christoph Moritz von Roehl became the commander of a hussar regiment and was later a Prussian major general until 1797 .

The great-grandson Friedrich Albrecht of Johann Roëll zu Dölberg, who entered service in Brandenburg, died as a major in the Battle of Prague in 1757 and was buried in the monastery church of St. Margareta near Prague. His son was Adelhard Rulemann Freiherr von Roëll († 1819 zu Gumbinnen ), who owned the manor Kattern (today Gmina Siechnice ) near Breslau for several years . His eldest son was Friedrich Wilhelm Adelhard Theodor Gustav Freiherr von Roëll, former Prussian Premier Lieutenant. D. zu Breslau, who married on May 1, 1836 to Cosel Eugenie Marie Eleonore von Jeanneret, Baroness von Beaufort. The marriage came from Jean Louis Adelhard Freiherr von Roëll, born on February 19, 1837 at Cosel, who later became the director of this line.

Fellendorf was an estate of his great uncle, the Prussian Major General Christoph Moritz Freiherr von Roëll (* November 11, 1711 - April 27, 1797), his son Friedrich Ernst Christoph Ferdinand von Roëll (* November 30, 1767; † 1830) district administrator of Trebnitzer District and hereditary lord on the small and large rich in the district of Lüben . He had been married to Luise Friederike Wilhelmine, daughter of Lieutenant General Friedrich August von Erlach , since 1790 .

Paul von Roëll (1850-1917) founded the Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft in 1880 and the German Adelsblatt in 1883 . He tried to get the title of baron recognized for the Prussian and German line of his sex. Several times it could be proven to him that he had given incorrect or embellished information in order to present himself and his family well. The Prussian Herald's Office in Berlin passed the final judgment on April 11, 1903, which prohibited the use of the title of baron.

Dutch line

Johann Roëll zu Dölberg's († 1656) younger son was Hermann Alexander Roëll († 1718), a Dutch Reformed theologian and philosopher. The Dutch line descends from him and through his eldest grandson Johannes Frederik also a branch in Belgium that is not legitimized under nobility law .

Dutch nobility recognitions were made in 1817, 1818, 1836, 1886 and 1892.

The Dutch baronate ( primogenitur ) received

coat of arms

  • Roëll coat of arms in the "Book of Arms of the Westphalian Aristocracy"

  • Variant of the Roëll coat of arms with a bear as a crest

  • Coat of arms of a German Röhl family who call themselves "Baron von Röhl" since 2006 in the German Herald's coat of arms under DWR 11007/06

The family coat of arms shows in gold an upright black bear with (silver collar). On the helmet with black and gold helmet covers, seven alternating black and gold ostrich feathers, as a variant a growing black bear with a silver collar.

The coat of arms of a German Röhl family, who called themselves "Baron von Röhl" without authorization (and without a complaint from the German Nobility Committee ), was entered and registered in the German herald's roll of arms in 2006 under DWR 11007/06. It shows a red-armored and tongued black bear walking in the golden head of a shield , in red three (two to one) three-leaved golden oak branches with two acorns each. On a golden helmet Crown occupied and red and gold helmet cover helm a growing red-reinforced and -gezungter black bear, holding paws with a pedunculated golden oak leaf with two acorns.

Relatives

Tribe Dortmund

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Tribe Bielefeld


Stralsund tribe

  • Maximilian von Roehl (1853–1922), Prussian artillery general, ennobled in 1912 , does not belong to the family.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g GHdA , Adelslexikon, Volume XI, Limburg an der Lahn 2000, p. 482 f.
  2. ^ A b c d e Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German Adels Lexicon , Volume 7, Leipzig 1867, pp. 546-547
  3. ↑ a b c Nederland’s adelsboek (1907) p. 552 f. and (1916) p. 373 f. and Nederland's patriciaat, Volume 1, 1910, p. 379
  4. ↑ a b Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon . A reference book of general knowledge. Sixth, completely revised and enlarged edition. Leipzig and Vienna 1905–1909. Volume 6, Col. 49 to 50 (article "Roëll")
  5. ↑ After Nederland's adelsboek (1907) f p 552nd and (1916) p. 373 f. or Nederland's patriciaat, Volume 1, 1910, p. 379 , Johann Roëll died on May 26, 1656 on his estate Dölberg. According to the death shield in Lünern, he passed away blissfully on May 26, 1656. The death shield at Lünern and its date were also known to Zedlitz. Irrespective of this, however, he states that Johann Roëll zum Dölberg fell at the side of the Great Elector in the Battle of Warsaw , although this did not take place until the end of July 1656: Zedlitz, Volume 4 (1837), p. 465
  6. ↑ Nederland's adelsboek (1907) p. 552 f. and (1916) p. 373 f. or the Genealogiewerk Nederland's patriciaat, Volume 1, 1910, p. 379
  7. ↑ a b Zedlitz, Volume 4 (1837), p. 465
  8. ↑ a b Erich Kuß, Rahlenbeck: Malörchen in the house of Grütern zu Altendorf, upswing in textile production in Hagen and Lumpenkrieg between the Vorster paper mills in Delstern and Eilpe (2012), p. 14 f.
  9. ↑ Nederland's adelsboek (1907) p. 552 f. and (1916) p. 373 f. and the Genealogiewerk Nederland's patriciaat, Volume 1, 1910, p. 379 , name his elevation to the Reichsfreiherrenstand. However, the GHdA Adelslexikon, Volume XI (2000), does not mention anything about this.
  10. ↑ Reinhold E. Lob, The former house Nierhofen near Dortmund-Derne - report on a missing moated castle , In: Festschrift 950 years Derne, Dortmund-Derne (1983), pp. 21-24
  11. ↑ 1687: Guda Elisabeth von den Brink Wwe. Of Joh.Jakob von Roell zu Haus Dölberg bei Lünern sued Jakob Leopold von Neuhof zu Haus Wenge for payment of a total of 1,221 florins from the sale of the house Nierhof in the Lünen district (historical) and immission for this reason in capital of the defendant in Hörde and Schüren in 1687 before the court court in Kleve and in 1693 before the Reich Chamber of Commerce. → GenWiki: Haus Nierhofen (accessed on September 20, 2014)
  12. ↑ According to Zedlitz, Volume 4 (1837), p. 465 , he is said to have been granted the Reich Freiherrnstand. [Zedlitz does not mention a year: "after he was earlier" (i.e. before his death on the battlefield in 1709)]. According to Nederland's adelsboek (1907) p. 552 f. and (1916) p. 373 f. or the Genealogiewerk Nederland's patriciaat, Volume 1, 1910, p. 379 , but the father of the same name has already been awarded the status of baron. But the GHdA -Adelslexikon, Volume XI (2000), does not mention anything.
  13. ↑ Kneschke erroneously cites “1789”, but means “1798” and the same brothers: Neues Allgemeine Deutsches Adels-Lexicon , Volume 7, Leipzig 1867, pp. 546-547 .
  14. ↑ JA / Konrad Tyroff (ed.), Book of Arms of the Prussian Monarchy , Volume IV, Nuremberg 1846, Plate 36
  15. ↑ Martin Sprungala, The Meseritzer District Administrator Paul v. Roëll (1850–1917) , online from Heimatkreis Meseritz e. V. (accessed on September 22, 2014)
  16. ^ Article "Roëll, Hermann Alexander" by Julius August Wagenmann in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, published by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Volume 29 (1889), pp. 41–42, digital full-text edition in Wikisource (version of September 18, 2014, 21:02 UTC)
  17. ↑ a b Otto Titan von Hefner , Alfred Grenser , George Adalbert von Mülverstedt , Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt : J. Siebmacher's large and general Wappenbuch , III. Volume, 2nd Division, 1st Volume; The flourishing nobility of the Kingdom of Prussia: Edelleute , Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg 1878
  18. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 1, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632764 , p. 264, no. 306.
  19. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff: Soldatisches Führertum. Volume 2, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632772 , p. 20, no. 543.
  20. ↑ Martin Sprungala, The Meseritzer District Administrator Paul v. Roëll (1850–1917) , online from Heimatkreis Meseritz e. V., resp. Claus Heinrich Bill, references to files and literature on the résumés of German aristocrats from the Middle Ages to 1999 online from the Institute for German Aristocracy Research (each accessed on September 22, 2014)