Roses (noble family)
Rosen is the name of an old German-Baltic noble family that comes from the ancient Livonian nobility . Branches of the family today live mainly in Germany, Sweden, France, Austria, Poland, USA, Canada, Brazil and Australia.
Gender is not to be confused with the family of the same name from Pomerania (1617), which first occurred in Estonia and whose descendants now live in Canada and Portugal, as well as with that of Liege originating sex de Rosen (1680), also not with the of Roses from the Kaiserlitz family on Rügen , starting with Andreas Rose in 1662 in Stralsund and whose descendants now live in Germany, Denmark and Sweden. Even if the latter family has an identical coat of arms as the Livonian roses, there is no between the two families as well as with the other two families strain relationship .
history
The family first appears in a document on September 8, 1282 with Otto et Waldemarus fratres , still without the family name. In 1288 Woldemar is mentioned as Dominus de Rosen in Riga and on July 17, 1291 Ottone dicto Rosen in Ribe, Jutland . At the same time, both brothers are vassals of the Archbishop of Riga in Livonia and vassals and councilors of the King of Denmark in Estonia. The lineage of today's descendants of the family begins with knight Woldemar von Rosen in 1282.
Various members of the family experienced a rise to higher nobility:
- 1680 Count status for Conrad von Rosen († 1715), who later became Maréchal de France in Alsace.
- March 31, 1693 imperial baron status for Georg Gustav von Rosen († 1737) by Emperor Leopold I.
- June 14, 1731 Swedish baron for the later Swedish imperial council Gustav Friedrich von Rosen († 1769).
- November 21, 1751 Swedish counts for the aforementioned.
- September 13th 1772 Swedish baron for Otto Wilhelm von Rosen, after he was accepted into the aristocratic bank of the Swedish knight house on January 12th, 1752 .
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows three red roses (2: 1) in gold on a gold background, on the helmet with a crown and red-gold blanket a six-feathered peacock bump , accompanied by two jumping silver ermines .
Name bearer
Swedish line
- Birgitta Countess von Rosen (Birgitta Wolf) (1913–2009), Swedish-German publicist and prisoner care worker
- Carl Gustaf Graf von Rosen (1909–1977), pilot for humanitarian aid (including Biafra)
- Eric Graf von Rosen (1879–1948), naturalist and ethnologist
- Georg Graf von Rosen (1843–1923), painter
- Hans Graf von Rosen (1888–1952), show jumper and two-time Olympic champion
Livonian line
- Alexander von Rosen (major general) (1780–1833), Russian major general
- Alexander von Rosen (actor) (1930-2004), German actor
- Alexei von Rosen (1811–1879), Russian major general
- Andreas Baron von Rosen (1800–1884), Russian officer and participant in the Decembrist uprising
- Conrad Graf von Rosen (1628–1715), Maréchal de France
- Erich Dietrich von Rosen (1650–1701), imperial general
- Erich Dietrich von Rosen (1689–1735), Estonian knighthood captain
- Friedrich von Rosen (1767–1851), Russian lieutenant general
- Friedrich von Rosen (1834–1902), Russian mineralogist
- Georg von Rosen (1800–1860), Russian poet
- Georg Andreas von Rosen (1781–1841), Russian general
- Georg Gustav Baron von Rosen (1645–1737), Russian general
- Grigori von Rosen (1782–1841), Russian infantry general
- Gustav Friedrich Graf von Rosen (1688–1769), Swedish general and Imperial Councilor
- Johann "Hans" Otto Baron von Rosen (1870–1945), Livonian state politician, member of the Russian Duma and the Imperial Council as well as Livonian district administrator
- Hans Freiherr von Rosen (1900–1999), national spokesman for the Weichsel-Warthe Landsmannschaft (1959–1969 and 1977–1981)
- Karl Gustav Freiherr von Rosen (1706–1772), Royal Prussian Major General
- Luise Margarethe (Francoise) Countess von Rosen (1670–1746), Abbess of the Visitation de Nancy
- Reinhold von Rosen (1605–1667), French marshal
- Reinhold Carl Marquis de Bollweiler Count von Rosen (1666–1744), French general
- Roman Romanowitsch Baron von Rosen (1847–1921), Russian diplomat and member of the Imperial Council
- Rüdiger Freiherr von Rosen (* 1943), business economist and university professor
- Viktor Romanowitsch Baron von Rosen (1849–1908), Russian orientalist
- Woldemar von Rosen (General, 1742) (1742–1790), Russian lieutenant general
- Woldemar von Rosen (General, 1810) (1810–1868), Russian lieutenant general (1741–1790), Russian lieutenant general
- Richard von Rosen (1922–2015), German major general
Individual evidence
- ↑ see: Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knighthoods, Part 2, 1: Estonia. Delivery 1 p. 171 or : Elisabeth von Rosen: Bogislaus Rosen from Pomerania 1572 to 1658, ancestor of the Estonian family of "white" roses. (with table of descendants in the appendix), Berlin, 1938 or : Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume XII, Volume 125 of the complete series, Limburg (Lahn) 2001, pp. 26-27.
- ↑ cf .: Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume XII, Volume 125 of the complete series, Limburg (Lahn) 2001, p. 27.
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume XII, Volume 125 of the complete series, Limburg (Lahn), pp. 25-26.
- ↑ Friedrich Georg von Bunge , Liv-, Esth-, and Curländisches Urkundenbuch 3, Reval 1857, p. 80, no. 481a
- ^ Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the land constitutional hereditary comparisons (1755). Rostock 1864, p. 222.
literature
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XII, Volume 125 of the complete series, pp. 22-25, 2001, ISSN 0435-2408 and (supplements) Volume XVII, Volume 144 of the complete series, p. 491, 2008, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg ( Lahn)
- Genealogical manual of the nobility. Volume 13 of the Complete Edition, Freiherrliche Häuser A, Volume II, Edition 1956, pp. 420–437; Volume 39 of the Complete Edition, Freiherrliche Häuser B, Volume IV, Edition 1967, pp. 396–403; Volume 59 of the Complete Edition, Freiherrliche Häuser A, Volume IX, Edition 1975, pp. 418–435; Volume 69 of the Complete Edition, Freiherrliche Häuser, Volume XV, Edition 1989, pp. 426–449
- Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods . Part 2, 1: Estonia, Görlitz, 1930, pp. 208-236
- Astaf von Transehe-Roseneck (edit.): Genealogical manual of the Livonian knighthood. Part 1, 2: Livonia, Lfg. 9–15, Bd .: 2, Görlitz, approx. 1935, pp. 1049–1155
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser , Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1849 Rosen (additions 1853–1941); 1900 roses adH Hoch-Rosen (additions 1902–1940)
- August Wilhelm Hupel : Nordic Miscellanees , Volumes 15-17, pp. 158ff digitized
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Leipzig 1867, Volume 7, pp. 574-575
- Claus Frhr. von Rosen: The family v. Roses in military and civil service. In: Baltische Ahnen- und Stammtafeln, Vol. 47, 2005, pp. 21–37
- Claus Frhr. of roses: Huljell branch from Hochrosen. In: Archive for Family Research 57, 1992, pp. 1-41
- Hans Frhr. von Rosen: From eight centuries. Family chronicle of a Livonian family. In: Lüneburg East German Documentations, Vol. 10. Lüneburg, 1986
- Hans Frhr. von Rosen: Rose Chronicle. Rosbach vd H. 1980
- Hans Frhr. von Rosen: The Herdening Roop. Key to the origin problem of the gentlemen of roses. In: Archive for Family Research, Vol. 44, 1978, pp. 449-468
- Hans Frhr. von Rosen: The Livonia driver Helmoldus de Luneborg. A contribution to the problem of origin of the sex of roses. In: Archive for Family Research, Vol. 34, 1968, pp. 488–495
- Rosenscher Familienverband (Hrsgb.): Archive catalog of the association of barons and counts of roses. Flensburg 1977
- Woldemar, Fabian u. Ingeborg von Rosen: family history of the barons and counts of roses. 2 volumes, Flensburg 1972
- Peter Wörster: Roses, from. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 49 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Leipzig 1837, Volume 4, p. 129