Sievers (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Sievers

Sievers is the name of several noble families who are not related to each other or in which relationships have not been properly proven.

The following article only covers the descendants of the brothers Peter Christian and Joachim Johan von Sievers, who, due to their officer ranks in the Swedish army , were counted among the Russian nobility from 1725 at the latest .

Knights, barons and counts von Sievers

Wenden Castle, ancestral seat of the Counts v. Sievers

Sievers is an aristocratic German-Baltic noble family that was mainly based in what is now Latvia , Estonia and Russia . Later, parts of the family also settled in Holstein , France and Croatia . The family originally came from Holstein and representatives of the sex came to the Baltic States through Swedish military service. In 1663 Johann von Sievers married Catharina von Husen, the daughter of the mayor of Hapsal Christian von Husen. There is more detailed information about his two sons Peter Christian (1671–1729, royal Swedish major) and Joachim Johann (1674–1752, royal Swedish captain). Joachim Johann lost his manor Satzo in the Northern War and fled to Finland. His seven sons from two marriages entered the Russian (partly also into the Holstein) service and acquired extensive goods in the Baltic States and Russia over the next few decades. Between the years 1745 and 1798 parts of the family were raised to the baron or count status. The Counts of Sievers achieved great political influence in the Russian Empire from the 18th century . Their manors were considered the cultural and scientific center of Livonia. The branch of the Russian counts had its headquarters in Wenden Castle (today Cēsis in Latvia) and the branch of the German imperial counts a. a. in St. Petersburg and Moscow . Descendants of the noble family live today in Latvia and Russia under real names.

Ranks

Coat of arms of the Counts of Sievers

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a bar in silver with three gold stars, accompanied by four (3: 1) red balls. On the helmet with right blue-gold-red-silver and left red-silver blue and gold helmet covers two red balls nebebeneinander, surmounted by a gold star between open from blue to red diagonally split flight .

Well-known namesake

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