Shields

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Coat of arms of those of Schilden from 1738

Shields is the name of the city of Hannover originating noble family whose secure regular series with the Hanoverian organist Anthony Shield († 1635) begins, which is first mentioned in the 1586th The male line of the family died out in 1860. In 1731 the family acquired the Haseldorf estate in Holstein.

Nobility rise

  • Imperial knighthood ( "Edler von Schilden" ) and hereditary-Austrian nobility on May 4, 1738 in Laxenburg for the three brothers Jacob Christoph, royal British and electoral Brunswick-Lüneburg supreme number commissioner, Heinrich Andreas, lord of Haseldorf near Uetersen , and Bodo Friedrich, royal British and electoral Braunschweig-Lüneburg bailiff to Wustrow in Wendland , as well as for her sister Ernestine Schilden, at that time already married to the royal Prussian state and war minister Wilhelm Heinrich von Thulemeyer (1683–1740). The electoral Brunswick-Lüneburg nobility recognition for the siblings Bodo Friedrich and Ernestine took place in Hanover 23 years later on May 4, 1761.
  • Imperial nobility with confirmation of the coat of arms on January 22nd, 1755 in Vienna for Carl Ludwig Schilden, royal British lieutenant colonel from Brunswick-Lüneburg .
  • Imperial nobility legitimation as “von Schilden” and imperial knighthood on September 22, 1744 in Frankfurt am Main ( nobility diploma not resolved) for Anna Henriette Heinrichson, married Friccius, the naturalized daughter of the above. Heinrich Andreas Ritter and Edler von Schilden, landlord of Haseldorf near Uetersen, and Anna Helena Müller. Confirmation of the imperial knighthood with "Noble von" on September 20, 1751 in Vienna for the same.

Description of coat of arms

  • 1738 : Split, on the right a silver bar in blue, accompanied by three (2 - 1) gold stars, on the left an oval green laurel wreath in silver . Two helmets, on the right with blue and silver covers the three stars in front of three (blue, silver, blue) ostrich feathers, on the left with green and silver covers the laurel wreath.
  • 1755 : A wild man in blue, holding a dry tree in his right hand, leaning on a black shield with his left hand, with three (2 - 1) gold stars inside. On the helmet with blue and gold blankets on the right, black and gold on the left, the wild man between the open flight , each covered with the label .

Friccius shields

Haseldorf manor house from 1804

The sons of the Danish Land Chancellor Friedrich Carl von Friccius (1701–1761), who was raised to the imperial nobility by Franz I, and his wife Anna Henriette, b. von Schilden († 1752), the brothers Hans Heinrich (1745-1816) and Christian Friedrich von Friccius, took on the name and coat of arms of the von Schilden family as a result of the will of their grandfather Heinrich Andreas von Schilden and called themselves von Friccius-Schilden . From 1770 Hans Heinrich took over the Haseldorfer Fideikommiss . Today's Haseldorf manor house was planned and built in 1804 for Hans Heinrich von Friccius-Schilden by the Danish master builder Christian Frederik Hansen .

Oppen shields

Karl August Rudolf von Oppen (1792–1872) received from the Danish King Friedrich VI. on December 25, 1833 approval to combine his name and coat of arms with that of his wife Rosalie, b. Friccius von Schilden and divorced von Schilden-Horst (1786–1864), heiress of the von Schilden-Holstein'schen Fideikommissgüter Haseldorf and Haselau under the name "von Oppen-Schilden".

Schoenaich-Carolath shields

Schoenaich-Carolath-Schilden coat of arms

Karl August Rudolf von Oppen-Schilden had a son, who died in 1896 without an heir, and a daughter Emilie Maria Elisabeth (1822–1871), who had been married to Karl Heinrich Friedrich Georg Alexander Prince von Schoenaich-Carolath († 1874) since 1848 . Her son Emil von Schoenaich-Carolath became the heir of the Haseldorfer Fideikommiss in 1896 and received the Prussian permission to combine coats of arms and names to form Schoenaich-Carolath-Schilden .

literature

  • Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume XII, page 421, Volume 125 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2001, ISBN 3-7980-0825-6
  • Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the constitutional hereditary comparisons (1775) , page 232, Verlag JG Tiedemann, 1864 ( Schilden )
  • Karl von Bothmer: The Lower Saxon Family von Schilden , in: Vierteljahrsschrift für Heraldik, Sphragistik und Genealogie , Volume 56, 1930, page 4f. u. 33f. (2 episodes)

See also

List of German noble families N - Z

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