Schimmelpenninck (noble family)

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The Schimmelpenninck gender coat of arms

The noble family of the Schimmelpenninck (van der Oye) (also Schimmelpfennig von der Oye ) came from the Dutch city ​​of Zutphen .

history

In the 14th century, the first family members were members of the local government elite of Zutphen. These patricians fulfilled the offices of mayor and Schepen . The members of the Schimmelpenninck van der Oye family entered into marriages with important noble families of Overijssel and Gelderland .

Nijenhuis Castle near Diepenheim , the seat of Count Schimmelpenninck since 1799

In the 16th century, an illegitimate family branch, simply called Schimmelpenninck, split off, which family members were active as wine merchants in the area around Zutphen and Deventer . At the beginning of the 19th century, the political success of Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck raised him to the new Dutch count . In 1799 he acquired Nijenhuis Castle near Diepenheim , which still belongs to his descendants today.

Also some extramarital Schimmelpennincks carried the French title of count, which was bestowed on them by Napoleon Bonaparte . The noble main branch Schimmelpenninck van der Oye has held the title of baron since that time .

Coat of arms of the Prussian Schimmelpfennig von der Oye from 1788

The Prussian line was founded by the brothers Alexander and Christoph, who left their fatherland in 1602 as a result of religious disputes, bought into the Archdiocese of Warmia and changed the name to Schimmelpfennig.

family members

Barone Schimmelpenninck van der Oye

Herren Schimmelpfennig from Oye in Prussia

Count Schimmelpenninck van Nijenhuis

literature

  • Johannes Baptista Rietstap : Wapenboek van den Nederlandschen Adel . (Part 2), 1887
  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German Adels-Lexikon , Volume 8, S. 172f, digitized
  • Carl Friedrich Benjamin Leupold, General Nobility Archive of the Austrian Monarchy , Part 1, Volume 1, p. 586ff digitized
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XII, Volume 125 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2001, ISSN  0435-2408 , pp. 438-439
  • David van Hoogstraten, ea Groot algemeen woorden-boek, zo historically, geographically, genealogically, as oordeelkundig; behelzenden het voornaamste dat vervat is in de woorden-boeken van Morery, Bayle, Buddeus, enz, volume 9, p. 91ff, digitized

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke , The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families , Volume 1, p. 79, digitized