Rosenkrantz (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of the Rosenkrantz family
Rosenvold was owned by the Rosenkrantz from 1550 to 1621
Rosenholm Castle has been in the family since 1559
Barony Villestrup was owned by the Rosenkrantz from 1755 to 1812
The Rosenkrantz Tower in Bergen
Barony of Rosendal

Rosenkrantz , also Rosencrantz or historically Rosenkrands , is the name of a widespread, multiple titled Danish noble family , which also achieved some reputation in Norway and Sweden .

history

Denmark

The Rosenkrantz are coats of arms and possibly tribe related to the Friis från Haraldskjær . The secured lineage of the sex begins with Niels Iversen († before 1355) 1308 on Hevringsholm in Djursland / East Jutland. This family estate gave the name to the oldest line of the family until around 1600. Around 1500 the family name Rosenkrantz was adopted referring to Rosenkranz . In the 16th century, the family was one of the most influential and widespread aristocratic families in Denmark. In total there were ten other lines of the sex named after their main estates . Jørgen "George" Rosenkrantz, grandson of Anne Meinstrup , father of Holger Rosenkrantz , built Rosenholm Castle , which is still owned by the family today. The family has been ennobled several times . Ole Rosenkrantz on Egholm was raised to the Danish baron status on May 25, 1671 , but left no heirs. On February 2, 1748 for Major Holger Rosenkrantz zu Totternholm and on April 7, 1754 for Chamberlain Verger Rosenkrantz zu W. Mestrup, further baron diplomas were awarded.

The Danish diplomat and minister Niels Rosenkrantz (1757-1824) was dubbed a count , but there is no documented ennoblement.

On March 25, 1805 a patent was issued for a daughter line , which took the name Rosenkrantz and continued the line.

Norway

Around 1560 that made Castle captain to Bergenhus , Eric Rosenkrantz, a residential and defensive tower built. Ludvig Rosenkrantz (1628–1685) received the Hatteberg farm in Rosendal through marriage in 1658 . Here he had a castle built from 1661 to 1665. On January 14, 1678, King Christian V of Denmark-Norway raised him to the baron status , the entire complex to the Barony of Rosendal . The line expired in 1723.

Sweden

Around 1500, Eric Rosenkrantz got married to Glimmingehus and Örup in Skåne , in German Schonen , so that the family lived in Sweden from 1658. Among his sons, the line is divided into the houses of Glimmingehus ( naturalized on May 25, 1752 and extinguished in 1809) and Örup. Descendants from the House of Örup were also naturalized on May 25, 1752 and introduced in 1756 to the noble class of knighthood with the number 1967 as Rosencrantz . The line currently continues.

The Rosencrantz af Granhammar, who were ennobled in 1612, introduced to the aristocratic class in 1633 and already extinguished in the male line in 1672, are not related to the Rosenkrantz family.

Germany

Some family members served as officers in the Prussian army . In addition, there are several genders created through name association, which are derived in the daughter line from the Rosenkrantz.

Moltke-Rosenkrantz

Georg Moltke -Rosenkrantz (1786–1846) was raised to Baron Moltke-Rosenkrantz in 1828, under the name and coat of arms association with the feudal barons Rosenkrantz .

Düring-Rosenkrantz

On May 30, 1845 was issued in Copenhagen for Karl Frederik von During married (1792-1876) with Marie Baronesse Rosenkrantz (* 1797), a Danish barony named association Duering-Rosenkrantz in primogeniture linked with the ownership of the Fideikommißkapital of Villestrup. The male line of this line is extinct.

Weber von Rosenkrantz

The Danish court hunter Dr. jur. Robert Weber (1797–1846), heir to Rosenkrantz and Rathmannsdorf , married to Axeline Rosenkrantz adH Søby Søgaard on Funen (1804–1867) since 1824 , was given the title of Rosenkrantz in saxony-coburg and in Gotha on September 9, 1862 Gothic nobility and baron class. A Danish confirmation was issued on December 19, 1862. The family bears the name Weber von Rosenkrantz .

Relatives

coat of arms

The tribe crest is of red and blue with a black and silver in two rows geschachten oblique beams divided.

The baronial coat of arms (1671, Baron Rosenkrantz) is square with a crowned golden heart shield and border decorated with black and silver , inside a red rose . All fields are diagonally divided, 1 and 3 of blue and red, 2 and 4 of red and blue. In 1 and 4 a silver crowned lion , in 2 and 3 a sloping beam in two rows. The baron's crown on the shield.

The baronial coat of arms (1678, Baron Rosenkrantz) is the same as that of 1671, only the heart shield has no border and shows three (2.1) roses.

The baronial coat of arms (1748, Baron Rosenkrantz af Rosenlund) is also quartered, with the coat of arms from 1671, but without a central shield , as a heart shield. 1 and 4 in blue three silver cross-currents, above a gold star (coat of arms Juel), 2 and 3 in silver three (2.1) inward-turning black birds (coat of arms Krag). Two helmets , 1 Rosenkrantz, but instead of the crown, five red and silver alternating roses next to each other, above them buffalo horns in black and silver sheathed and each set with four peacock feathers. 2 Juel, two growing bent arms holding a gold star.

The baronial coat of arms (1757, Baron Rosenkrantz af Villestrup) is quartered with a heart shield (1748). 1 and 4 (Sehestedt coat of arms) in blue a red rose, set in a three-pass with elongated silver leaves. 2 and 3 (Roklenger coat of arms), in gold an ascended blue unicorn . Two helmets, 1 like 1748, 2 Roklenger, the growing blue unicorn in front of five silver ostrich feathers . Shield holder : on the right a golden lion, on the left the unicorn.

  • Coat of arms around 1500

  • Coat of arms of the Barons Rosenkrantz af Rosendal

  • Coat of arms of Anne Beate Rosenkrantz (1707–1777)

  • Coat of arms of the Swedish Rosenkrantz ???

Trivia

The play Rosenkrantz and Güldenstern are dead (1966) and the film Rosenkranz & Güldenstern (1990) by Tom Stoppard are based on the original supporting characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet .

literature

Web links

Commons : Rosenkrantz family  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Maximilian Gritzner , Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt : J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms , III. Volume, 8th section, The flourishing nobility of the duchies of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg , Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg 1870, p. 22 , Tfl. 18th
  2. ^ Gustaf Elgenstierna : The introducerade svenska adelns ättartavlor. Stockholm 1925/36, Rosencrantz ( no.1967 ).
  3. ^ Gustaf Elgenstierna: The introducerade svenska adelns ättartavlor. Stockholm 1925/36, Rosencrantz af Granhammar (no.197).
  4. ^ Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexicon der Prussischen Monarchie , Volume 2, Berlin 1856, pp. 311-312.
  5. ↑ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume IX, Volume 116 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1998, ISSN  0435-2408 , pp. 141 ff.
  6. ↑ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume III, Volume 61 of the complete series, Limburg (Lahn) 1975, p. 44.
  7. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume XV, Volume 134 of the complete series, Limburg (Lahn) 2004, pp. 495–496.