Rzewuski (noble family)
Rzewuski , in the female form Rzewuska , is the name of a Polish aristocratic family that originally came from Podlasie and appears for the first time in 1541 with Christopher Rzewuski . The family produced numerous starosts , voivods , military officers and bishops.
Nobility uprisings
- Legitimacy in the Galician Landtafel as Knights of Rzewuski on 10 September 1782 for Joseph Rzewuski , Starost of Nowosiolki , and on 12 November 1782 for Stanislaus Ferdinand Rzewuski , squire to Podhorce in Galicia and large banners Lord in Lithuania , and on December 3, 1782 for the Crown Grand Marshal Franz Rzewuski and the Crown Grand Notary Casimir Rzewuski .
- Elevation to the Austrian hereditary counts on February 20, 1783 in Vienna for the aforementioned Stanislaus Ferdinand Ritter von Rzewuski as Grand Ensign of Lithuania.
- Elevation to the Austrian count on April 21, 1819 in Vienna for the kk privy councilor Casimir Edler von Rzewuski and by extraordinary decree (AE) of January 10, 1857 in Ofen with a diploma of April 20, 1858 in Vienna for Leo Rzewuski , landlord on Podhorce .
- Elevation to the Russian count status on November 18, 1856 in Saint Petersburg for Florian Rzewuski and for the brothers Heinrich Rzewuski , writer and lord of the Cudnowie , Adam Rzewuski , lord of Pohrebyszcze , and Ernst Rzewuski , lord of Dziuńków .
- Russian count confirmation on May 28, 1885 for Stanislaus , Adam and Leo , sons of the aforementioned Adam Rzewuski .
Coat of arms (1858)
Krzywda family coat of arms : In blue, a silver horseshoe that is open at the bottom and encloses a silver cavalier cross , topped with a silver cavalier cross that lacks the right arm. On the helmet with blue-silver covers three (blue, silver, blue) ostrich feathers . Motto: Quo via virtutis .
family members
- Wacław Rzewuski (1706–1779), Polish military leader and statesman
- Seweryn Rzewuski (1743-1811), Polish general
- Henryk Rzewuski (1791–1866), Polish writer
- Paweł Rzewuski (1804-1892), Archbishop of Warsaw
- Leon Rzewuski (1808–1869), Polish business writer, art and history collector
- Walery Rzewuski (1837–1888), Polish photographer and local politician
- Catherine Radziwill b. Rzewuska (1858–1941), Polish-Russian writer
See also
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Rzewuski, the counts, genealogy . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 27th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1874, p. 343 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume XII, page 151, Volume 125 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2001, ISBN 3-7980-0825-6