Schmeling (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Schmeling family

Schmeling is the name of an old Pomeranian noble family . Branches of the family still exist today.

history

The family first appeared in a document on November 30, 1283 with Smelingus miles , which was enfeoffed by Duke Barnim I with Gülzow Castle as early as 1250 .

The family was mostly wealthy in Pomerania for centuries. Regular goods were, for example, Rötzenhagen , Groß Möllen , Giesekow, Todenhagen , Streitz and Güdenhagen .

Relatives achieved considerable ranks in the imperial-royal , but above all in the Prussian army . Individual members of the family were raised to the baron rank.

The Blecken v. Schmeling was created through adoption with royal Prussian approval under the continuation of the Schmeling coat of arms, for the siblings Peter Friedrich , Gottlieb Wilhelm and Johanna Amilie . These were the children of Catharina Hedwig Hues , widowed Blecken († 1841) who was married to Carl Ludwig Wilhelm von Schmeling († 1850) for the second time . The family was wealthy among others at Roggatz near Stolp and produced four Prussian generals: Friedrich Peter (1796–1863), Karl Gustav (1832–1894), Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm (1838–1906) and Hans (1866–1950).

The children of Alexander Gabriel (1783-1852) were allowed to call themselves Schmeling von Diringshofen , with a corresponding alliance coat of arms, in 1806 by the highest royal cabinet order . The ascendants that are still in bloom today are called v. Schmeling-Diringshofen . The family held the Netherlands as ancestral estate in the Uckermark district .

A Szmeling family, also Schmoeling , Smelingk or Schmeling , flourished in Livonia and Courland from the 14th to the 18th century and remained loyal to the Poles until they died out . This family, which comes from the county of Mark with ancestral home in Groß Mosthusen near Unna , only has the same name as the Pomeranians, there is neither ancestral nor coat of arms relationship.

Younger coat of arms of the von Schmeling family

coat of arms

  • The tribe arms shows in blue a golden ball, sullied with three to Schächerkreuz asked golden arrows. On the helmet with blue and gold covers a gold hemisphere from which three gold arrows emerge.
  • Later coat of arms: In blue a golden sun with eighteen rays, in between 3 golden arrows, two at an angle upwards, one pointing downwards. On the helmet with gold, blue and red covers, three growing virgins.
  • The alliance coat of arms of the von Schmeling-Diringshofen is quartered with a central shield: 1 and 4 in silver a diagonal, golden stream; 2 and 3 in blue on a green ground a crowned, golden lion holding an arrow and 4 six arrows placed side by side. Middle shield divided transversely: above in blue the sun of the v. Schmeling and below in silver a black eagle with crossed, silver keys.

Known family members

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pomeranian Document Book 4
  2. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German nobility lexicon. Leipzig 1859, Volume 1, pp. 464-465.
  3. ↑ cf. Astaf von Transehe-Roseneck : Family table of the Schmölling family (Smollingk, Szmeling) in Livonia and Courland. In: Baltic family history messages. Vol. 6, No. 3, Dorpat 1936.
  4. ↑ Maximilian Gritzner : The nobility of the Russ. Baltic provinces , (= J. Siebmachers's large Wappenbuch , Volume 3, Section 11), Part II of the non-matriculated Adel , Bauer and Raspe, Nuremberg 1901, p. 189, Tfl. 126 ( digitized in the SUB Göttingen )