Slicher (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Slicher

The von Slicher (Schleicher) family comes from Aachen and is evidently related to the Schleicher patrician family who converted to the Protestant faith . As early as 1323, a Johann von Slichen was documented as guarantor for the von Merode family when they took over Castle Rimburg, and in Aachen in 1537 a Johann Slicher was mentioned as the owner of the Klüppels . While parts of the family emigrated to Stolberg after the Reformation , other branches of the family moved to what was then the Republic of the Seven United Provinces , a certain "Anthoin Slicher" mentioned as a deportee from Aachen in The Hague .

There, at the beginning of the 19th century, a few weeks before the victory over Napoleon's troops in the Battle of Waterloo, the mayor of The Hague, Johann Slicher , was raised to the Dutch nobility on April 15, 1815, his son Jacob Slicher the title in Hanau in 1827 bestowed by the baron - according to the law of the firstborn .

The family's title of baron was confirmed in the Kingdom of Hanover in 1841.

coat of arms

Coat of arms Barons von Slicher
Slicher coat of arms, allegorical representation around 1720

The coat of arms of the von Slicher family shows a broad red crossbar on a golden background, above which three blue horseshoes show side by side, each facing downwards. There is a blue mill iron below the crossbar . On the helmet with blue and gold blankets, a bursting, red bridled silver horse . In essence, this corresponds to the ancestral Arms of sex Schleicher / Slicher .

In the baronial coat of arms, shield holders are two such horses.

Personalities

  • Ludwig Freiherr von Slicher (1809–1896), German major general, honorary citizen of the city of Hanover
  • Jeannette or Jeanette Freiin von Slicher (* 1812), sister of Ludwig Freiherr von Slicher, Lady of State of the Queen of Hanover. She married the Lord Chamberlain Ernst Ludwig Georg Adam Freiherr Knigge (1806–1880), Majorate on Harkerode , etc., son of the castle captain Wilhelm Carl Ernst Freiherr Knigge (1771–1839). Her son Ernst Georg Adam Freiherr Knigge (1843–1920) was appointed chamberlain in 1866, but could not rise further in the same year because of the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by Prussia.
    • Their daughter Anna got engaged on December 27, 1857 to Bernhard Leberecht Karl von der Schulenberg (born February 26, 1835), royal Prussian lieutenant in the 10th Hussar Regiment.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Quix : Historical Description of the Minster Church and the Heiligthums-Fahrt in Aachen , M. Uerlichs, 1825, p. 24
  2. ^ Association of the customer of the Aachen prehistory: From Aachens Vorzeit , Dalcassian Publishing 1904, p. 86 u. 88
  3. ↑ Rudolf Artur Pelzer: The history of the brass industry , in: Journal of the Aachen History Association , 1879 edition
  4. ↑ a b c Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (Hrsg :): Slicher, also Freiherren , in ders .: New general German Adels Lexicon , Leipzig: Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung, 1867, p. 511; Preview over google books
  5. ↑ a b c Wilhelm Rothert : v. Slicher, Ludw., FreiH, GMajr. , in ders .: General Hannoversche Biographie , Volume 2: In the Old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866 . Sponholtz, Hannover 1914, p. 582
  6. ↑ a b Haus Altenhausen , in: Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses for the year 1859 , 32nd year, Gotha: bei Justus Perthes, [1859], p. 751f .; Preview over google books
  7. ↑ a b Cornelia Roolfs: Der hannoversche Hof from 1814 to 1866. Hofstaat und Hofgesellschaft (= sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony , volume 124), also dissertation 2020 at the University of Hanover, 2005, ISBN 978-3-7752-5924-8 and ISBN 3-7752-5924-4 , p. 254