Sell (noble family)
Sell is the name of a Mecklenburg and Prussian noble family .
history
In older literature there is speculation about an origin of the family from France or the Palatinate . In fact, the line goes back to the Westphalian rent clerk Michel Selle (documented 1573; † around 1593) in Soest .
The elevation to the imperial nobility was carried out by Emperor Leopold I on July 18, 1668 for the grandsons of Michel Selle, Burkhard Selle at Friedelhausen Castle on the Lahn , Counts of Sayn-Wittgenstein's privy councilor and bailiff , and Dr. iur. Anton Bertram Selle, landgrave of the Hessian-Darmstadt privy councilor . Several family members served as officers in the Prussian army . The Mecklenburg branch of the family carried the title of baron and received its recognition on January 11, 1882 for Adolf von Sell . The Prussian recognition of the baron title took place on January 18, 1882.
coat of arms
- According to Lehsten, the coat of arms is squared ; In the first and fourth blue fields there are two golden-crowned snakes with their heads above them and inward-facing snakes intertwined in their own color ; in the second and third silver field a golden royal crown. On the shield just above you an open aristocratic tournament helmet with blue-silver covers adorned with a royal gold-colored crown, on it a golden lion appears up to the waist with paws thrown in front of you, a twisted double tail, an open and red tongue.
Known family members
- Friedrich Christian von Sell (1718–1787), Mecklenburg colonel, commandant of the Dömitz fortress
- Christian Ludwig von Sell (1751–1832), Arrendator and Freier Krüger in Pomerania
- Friedrich Ludwig von Sell (1773–1850), Prussian major general
- Adolf von Sell (1797-1891), Mecklenburg general of the infantry and Lord Chamberlain
- Theodor von Sell (1817–1891), Prussian lieutenant general
- Wilhelm von Sell (1842–1922), Prussian major general
- Adolf von Sell (1863–1940), Prussian major general
- Sophie Charlotte von Sell (1864–1941), German writer
- Ulrich von Sell (1884–1945), German officer
- Friedrich-Wilhelm von Sell (1926–2014), German lawyer and broadcasting director
literature
- Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the constitutional hereditary comparisons (1755). Rostock 1864, p. 251f.
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Volume 4, Leipzig 1837, p. 211.
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series, pp. 287-288, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1997, ISSN 0435-2408
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1860. Tenth year, Justus Perhes, Gotha 1859, p. 809 ff.
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1910. Fourth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1909, p. 739.