Schlippenbach (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Schlippenbach

Schlippenbach is the name of an old Westphalian noble family that later spread to Prussia , Sweden , Pomerania and the Baltic States . The family, some of whose branches still exist today, originally belonged to the nobility of the Duchy of Berg and the County of Mark .

history

Christoph Karl von Schlippenbach (1624–1660)
Ulrich von Schlippenbach (1774–1826)
Alexander von Schlippenbach (* 1938)

origin

The family is mentioned for the first time under the Westphalian knight-born with the brothers Hannes , Rotger and Herman Slippenbeke in a document dated August 31, 1386. You are named there as a helper of Heydenreich van Plettenbracht in his feud against the city of Cologne . Herman and Rotger appear later, in 1388/90 in a Dortmund feud book, as helpers of the Counts of the Mark and the Archbishops of Cologne .

The secured lineage of the family begins with Johann Schlippenbach auf Bornhusen ( Livonia ), who appears in a document between 1518 and 1542. The parent company that gave it its name is probably Schlittenbach, today a district in the east of the city of Lüdenscheid .

Spread and personalities

In 1410 Johann Luttekenbole called Slyppenbeck appears as a judge in Menden . In 1413 he seals with the Schlippenbach coat of arms and is mentioned in 1420 as a citizen of Menden. Members of the family were also officially active in the city of Iserlohn , which at that time belonged to the county of Mark. The German religious clerics Henry Schlippenbach transferred on August 23, 1464 his inheritance at court Haitzenrode in the Duchy of Berg his eponymous nephew mayor and jury . In 1479 Heinrich von Slypenbecke acquired the municipal license in Cologne for eight guilders and 80 groschen for the life of his daughter Lijsabeth .

The family first appeared in Livonia in 1428 with Heinrich Slyppenbecke, who appeared as a witness together with a vassal of the Teutonic Order, and in 1438 as scribe for the Bailiff of Karkus .

The oldest fiefdom of the family in Livonia is the village of Heres, also Herres, near Karkus, in the area that will later become Bornhusen. It belonged as an undivided property to the father of the brothers Johann II and Markus. Johann sealed the seal in 1518 as a witness and in 1519 received further goods in the Bornhusener Land zu Lehn from the Teutonic Order Master Plettenberg. From 1542 he was named van Bardenhusen as a will witness. His son Johann III. died without an heir. The ownership of Bornhusen went to his nephew Friedrich III. while his brother Johann V received Heris in 1582. Both possessions could not be reunited until 1630. The great-grandchildren of Friedrich III., Who died in the battle against the Russians in 1577, divided the estate in 1678 and established the lines to Alt-Bornhusen and Neu-Bornhusen. Neu-Bornhusen was sold in 1725. In 1748 the Livonian male line became extinct and Alt-Bornhusen went to Otto Johann von Schlippenbach, who came from Kurland and was the son-in-law of the last owner of the estate. Otto Johann was raised to the status of imperial baron in 1768 .

Friedrich I, brother of Johann III, appeared in Courland as early as 1564. In the same year he was in possession of the Sahlingen family estate in the parish of Goldingen, which Hermann von Dönhoff still owned in 1552 . As a pledge he also received Behnen in the parish of Autz, from 1572 he was border inspector. His son Friedrich III. later inherited Bornhusen and his brother Johann V. is the actual progenitor of the Kurländisch-Sahlinger line. From this line came among others Friedrich Christoph Carl von Schlippenbach (1624-1660), who was chamberlain of the Swedish Queen Christina and court marshal of the Count Palatine Karl Gustav . He was also involved in the negotiations that brought Karl Gustav the Swedish royal crown in 1654. In the same year he was given the status of Swedish count as thanks . His son Karl Friedrich Graf von Schlippenbach (* 1658) initially served in the Swedish army, but entered Prussian military services in 1686. In 1714 he was governor of Kolberg and Pomeranian behind fortresses and Amtshauptmann to leeches. He died in 1723 as a royal Prussian general of the cavalry (from 1715).

In the middle of the 19th century, the count's house flourished in two lines, one in Mark and one in Silesia. Theodor Graf von Schlippenbach (1788–1847), lord of the rule Hennersdorf near Neisse in Silesia, came from the Silesian line. From his marriage to Auguste von Gaza came son August Graf von Schlippenbach (* 1821) and his sisters the countesses Melanie (* 1827) and Elisabeth (* 1830).

Karl Graf von Schlippenbach (1795–1836), a Prussian captain , who married Luise Freiin von der Reck in 1832 , came from the Brandenburg line . He had six sisters and five brothers. Of his sisters, Countess Emilie married in 1830 the doctor of theology Richard Jelf, Canon of Oxford and Chairman of Kings College, and Countess Rosalie in 1832 Johann von Ozeroff, Imperial Russian Chamberlain, Real Councilor of State, Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister to Lisbon . Of the brothers, Wilhelm Graf von Schlippenbach (1797–1842) was Prussian major and personal adjutant to Prince Carl von Prussia , Ferdinand Graf von Schlippenbach (1799–1866), Prussian lieutenant general and Ernst Graf von Schlippenbach (1804–1885), ruler Heiligenkreuz in Croatia , Prussian major general and member of the Croatian magnate table .

Count Albert von Schlippenbach (1800–1886), also one of the five brothers, was an important poet and writer. In 1848 he donated Schönermark , which had been in family ownership since 1686, with Arendsee, Christianenhof, Raakow, Wilhelmshof, Wittstock and Ferdinandshorst as Fideikommiss .

Wilhelm's son Karl (1830–1908) became the Prussian infantry general and governor of Mainz . Of the sons of Count Ernst, Hans Graf von Schlippenbach (1846–1926) was a Prussian Major General and Stephan Graf von Schlippenbach (1842–1910) was an Austro-Hungarian Lieutenant Field Marshal . Stephan's son of the same name (* 1907) became a business editor for the daily newspapers Die Welt and Rheinischer Merkur and most recently worked for the Federation of German Industry in the field of environmental protection. His son Alexander Graf von Schlippenbach (* 1938) is a composer and pianist. In 1966 he founded the Globe Unity Orchestra and has directed the Berlin Contemporary Orchestra since 1988. In 1994 he received the first German Jazz Prize . He married the Japanese jazz musician Aki Takase (* 1948). Their son Vincent Graf von Schlippenbach (* 1980) is also known as DJ Illvibe .

Status surveys

An Imperial Russian recognition for the use of the baron title was given by Senatsukas on April 27, 1857 and April 3, 1862.

From the Sahlingen line, the royal Swedish custodian, lord chamberlain and colonel of the life guard Carl Christoph von Schlippenbach on Skövde (Sweden), Liuksala (Finland) and Klein-Sahlingen (Kurland) received the Swedish count on June 1, 1654. The introduction to the count class of the Swedish knighthood took place in 1654 under the number 20. His son Carl Friedrich Graf von Schlippenbach (1658–1723), Prussian lieutenant general, commander of Kolberg and pawnbroker on Wollin (Pomerania), and his descendants carried the title of count in the kingdom Prussia unopposed.

Also from the Sahlingen line came Christopher III von Schlippenbach auf Allmahlen (Kurland), royal Spanish-Dutch major general who received the Spanish Conde title in primogenitur in Barcelona on February 28, 1711 , and Otto Johann von Schlippenbach auf Jöggis (Estonia), who on October 25, 1768 in Vienna to the imperial baron status with the salutation Well- born.

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

The tribe arms shows in black and pale as a abgeledigte silver chain of three whole and half two members. On the helmet with black and silver helmet covers, the chain between an open flight , silver on the right and black on the left .

Baron coat of arms
Swedish Count's coat of arms

Baron coat of arms

The coat of arms of the imperial barons, awarded in 1768, shows a silver chain made of three whole and two half links (ancestral coat of arms) within a golden shield border in black. On the helmet with black and silver covers, the chain between an open flight, silver on the right, black on the left. As a shield holder two silver armor with golden helmet feathers, the right one holding a lance, the left one holding a stinging shield.

Count's coat of arms

Swedish count coat of arms

The Swedish count's coat of arms, awarded in 1654, is quartered and covered with a heart shield divided by black and silver obliquely to the left , in which a chain of three whole and two half links in confused colors (ancestral coat of arms) is staked. 1 in blue a red-clad arm emerging from a gray cloud on the edge of the shield, holding a golden aristocratic crown in his bare hand , 2 in gold a rod of Mercury wound around two blue serpents , 3 in gold a brown lance with a silver tip, around which two wreath-shaped green laurel branches are tied, 4 in blue a jumping horse . The coat of arms has three helmets. On the right with blue and gold helmet covers a green wreathed silver clad maiden, in the right a golden balance, in the left holding the aristocratic crown, on the middle helmet with red and silver covers a Janus head with a blue hat, which is decorated with two silver wings, between four two outwardly inclined golden and blue flags on golden poles, on the left helmet with black and gold covers a silver armor with an open helmet equipped with three (gold, silver, blue) ostrich feathers, in the right a golden Turkish saber, in the On the left holding a silver-edged shield with a golden Medusa head . Two inward-looking crowned golden lions serve as shield holders .

Spanish count coat of arms

The Spanish count's coat of arms, awarded to Christopher III von Schlippenbach in 1711, is quartered and covered with a heart shield (family coat of arms). 1 and 4 a tower, 2 and 3 an armored saber-swinging arm emerging from the left edge of the shield. A count's crown of leaves on the shield . As a shield holder on the right a griffin and on the left a lion, both opposing, each holding a banner, on it a crowned helmet tied with a hanging chain.

Known family members

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sources on the history of the city of Cologne. Volume 5, No. 371 or Regest in the communications from the Cologne City Archives 8, p. 95. No. 165.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Genealogical manual of the Courland knighthood. Pp. 461-488.
  3. ^ Contributions to the history of Dortmund and the county of Mark. Volume 4, No. 102.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume XIV, Volume 131 of the complete series, p. 462.
  5. ^ Hermann von Bruiningk , Nicolaus Busch (ed.): Livländische Güterurkunden. Volume 1, No. 235.
  6. ↑ Liv-, Est- and Curland document books. Volume 9, No. 330.
  7. ↑ a b c New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 9, pp. 233-234.
  8. ^ A b Franz Menges :  Schlippenbach, barons and counts. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 92 f. ( Digitized version ).