Senarclens-Grancy (noble family)
Senarclens-Grancy is the name of an ancient noble family from the Canton of Vaud .
history
The Senarclens-Grancy lineage begins with Henri de Senarclens around 1300. Around 1450, Grancy near Cossonay was inherited by Guillaume de Senarclens. The gender is divided into two lines:
The older line was accepted (in the person of Onno Adolphe Willem de Senarclens de Grancy on Haanwijk) in August 1814 into the knighthood of North Brabant and received a Dutch baronate in June 1822, hereditary in primogenitur .
The younger line received the grand ducal recognition of the right to use the title of baron through a ministerial rescript in Darmstadt on October 27, 1857 (for Emil Senarclens von Grancy, lieutenant in the 54th Infantry Regiment) and Darmstadt on April 14, 1880 (for the Ludwig brothers , Grand Ducal Hessian District Court Assessor in Alzey, later Provincial Director , and Albert Freiherr von Senarclens-Grancy , later Grand Ducal Hessian Chamberlain and Royal Prussian Major General and Adjudant General of the Grand Duke of Hesse).
coat of arms
In gold, a blue diagonal bar covered with three silver (gold) tail wheels , on the helmet with blue-gold (silver) covers a growing , gold- armored , silver swan , ready to fly ; Shield holders are two silver swans (Dutch line) or golden griffins that are resisting ; Motto : Sans décliner .
Well-known representatives
- Adolf von Senarclens-Grancy (1805–1863), Hessian diplomat and major general
- Albert Freiherr von Senarclens-Grancy (1847–1901), German major general
- Alexander Freiherr von Senarclens-Grancy (1880–1964), imperial officer and diplomat
- August Ludwig von Senarclens-Grancy (1794–1871), Hessian chamberlain and major general, possibly "illegitimate" lord of the Battenberg / Mountbatten family
- Ludwig von Senarclens-Grancy (1839–1910), Hessian district lord and provincial director, president of the art association for the Grand Duchy of Hesse
- Walter Senarclens-Grancy (1907–1982), geologist and high school teacher
- Christine de Grancy (* 1942), Austrian photographer
literature
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses , 11th year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1861, p. 222f ; 41st year, 1891, pp. 850ff
Web links
- Senarclens-Grancy on Adelslexikon.com
- Marianne Stubenvoll: de Senarclens. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .