Sparrow (noble family)

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Sperling is the name of several noble families:

  • of an East Prussian noble family, first mentioned in 1442 and extinct around 1600, not related (and with different coats of arms) as well
  • a family ennobled in Electoral Saxony in 1767.

Mecklenburg nobility

Coat of arms of the Mecklenburg sparrow

Mecklenburg

The sparrows are first mentioned in a document in 1274 with Johann Sperling , with whom the secured trunk line begins. The very respected Hans Sperling sealed the union of the estates of the Mecklenburg knighthood for the family in 1523 . In 1530, Hans and Vollrath the Sparrows were in the retinue of Duke Heinrich von Mecklenburg at the Reichstag in Augsburg .

From the middle of the 18th century, the family sent six daughters to the Dobbertin monastery as conventuals . Sophia Juliana von Sperling († 1768) is known from the protocols of the state parliament of 1760 that she opposed the monastery rules, after all, according to the state parliament resolution of 1763, all levies were denied. Hedwig Ida von Sperling has left the monastery again. In May 1773 she married the Lübeck cathedral dean Count Joachim Otto Adolph von Bassewitz (1717–1791). Sophia Petronella Christophera von Sperling († 1803) was 34 years old, Ernestina Henrietta von Sperling († 1868) even 36 years in the convent. In Mecklenburg the family must have died out in the second half of the 19th century.

Sweden, Swedish Pomerania and Livonia

Manor house Nehringen in Western Pomerania
Sperlingsholm manor house near Halmstad , Sweden

In 1632 the family received the Swedish indigenous community . The royal Swedish colonel and Livonian landowner Casper Otto von Sperling (1596–1655) was introduced in 1634 to the nobility class of the Swedish knighthood (no. 146). Meanwhile major general of the infantry, general war commissioner and governor retired. D. in the province of Halland , he was endowed with the barony of Nehringen in Western Pomerania in 1653 and introduced to the baron class (no. 43) of the Swedish knighthood in 1654.

His son, Baron Göran Sperling (1630-1691), Lehnsinhaber the Barony Nehringen and gentleman on Sperlingsholm in Halland, royal Swedish Council General of Infantry and Governor General of Ingria , Karelia and Kexholm and nachmaliger Field Marshal, was in the Swedish 1687 count conditions lifted and in 1689 (No. 28) introduced to the count class of the Swedish knighthood. The Swedish line began with the latter grandson, the royal Swedish captain, Count Göran Casper Sperling (1747–1769) and his sister, Comtesse Catharina Gustaf Viana Sperling, married Leijonhufvud (1748–1819). The original baronial line has already expired with the Colonel and Commander in Wismar Baron Carl Gustaf Sperling (1660-1712).

Field Marshal Göran Sperling and his brothers had already ceded Nehringen to Baron Jacob von Pfuel in the 1660s ; the family held the fief until around 1700. The Swedish estate Sperlingsholm was sold in 1748 by the Field Marshal's widowed daughter-in-law to George Bogislaus Staël von Holstein, who then sold it to Field Marshal Carl Heinrich Wrangell .

Denmark

With Joachim Albrecht von Sperling (1700–1763), royal Danish colonel, lord of Rubow and Thurow, the family came to Denmark. From his children, the royal Danish captain of the guard and adjutant general Cai Friderich von Sperling (1736–1766), the court lady Sophie Magdalene von Sperling (1743–1814), and the royal Danish colonel of the cavalry a. D. Amtmann zu Gottorf and later privy councilor, Joachim Ulrich von Sperling (1741–1791), the latter two received in 1776 the Danish indigenous community. Joachim Ulrich's descent flourished in Denmark in the 20th century with master brewer Kurt Ditlev Vilhelm von Sperling (1904–1974), father of journalists Ruth von Sperling (* 1942) and Vibeke von Sperling (* 1945).

Brandenburg

Heinrich von Sperling († 1695) owned the Frehne estate in Brandenburg . His daughter Margaretha Dorothea von Sperling gave the estate to her second husband FD von Jeetze in 1709 .

possession

Ledebur and Hagemeister , among others, give a rough overview of the historical property ownership of the family :

Known family members

Count Göran Sperling (1630–1691), Swedish field marshal
  • Caspar Otto Sperling (1596–1655), Swedish major general
  • Göran Sperling (1630–1691), Swedish field marshal, governor general of Ingermanland and Karelia, 1687 Swedish count
  • Hartwig von Sperling (1633–1691), court master from Mecklenburg, later from Schleswig-Holstein , gentleman on Schlagstorff and Keetz
  • Joachim Ulrich von Sperling (1741–1791), Danish court official
  • Albert von Sperling, 1796–1822 Chamberlain / Chamberlain in Mecklenburg-Schwerin

coat of arms

Death shield of Count Göran Sperling († 1691) in the Saint Nikolai Church in Halmstad

The family coat of arms shows three (2.1) natural sparrows in the blue field . On the helmet with blue-silver covers over a blue-silver bead, four burning silver torches placed in a square or lattice, in the middle of which a natural sparrow is.

The coat of arms (1767) shows a quartered shield, 1 and 4 in red an inclined silver double hook ; 2 and 3 in silver a black stag growing out of a shield base divided five times by black and silver . On the crowned helmet with red and silver covers between two black buffalo horns a sitting silver sparrow.

Prussian noble family

The Prussian sparrows are not related to the Mecklenburg family, have different coats of arms, have the same name and appear for the first time in 1442 with Hans Sperling von Mohrungen.

From this family Nicolaus von Sperling († after 1451) was in 1446 lord of Glittehnen near Rastenburg . The last male relative was Albrecht von Sperling, Lord of Reichenau near Osterode , who shot his stepfather Hans von der Balz in 1584.

Saxon postal nobility

Balgstädt Castle

On March 3, 1767 Hans Ernst Sperling (1696-1769), yeoman on Gorenzen and electoral Saxon Oberforst- and game masters, by purchase in 1744 Men on Balgstädt and Größnitz charged into the realm nobility and received the coat of arms of Mecklenburg Uradelsgeschlechts. He claimed to be an agnatic descendant of the Mecklenburg von Sperling. Nevertheless, Kneschke distinguishes between the two families. Together with him, his adoptive son, the nephew of his wife Sophia Gertraude Sperling, née Gnappert, Hans Ernst Wilhelm Gnappert (1751–1809) , governor , owner of the Fideikommiss Balgstädt, became lord of Toppendorf, Rödel, Ostramondra , Großesnitz and Roldisleben in 1767 in Vienna as ennobled by Sperling , from which the other descendants descend.

With Oskar Ernst Karl von Sperling (1814–1872), Ferdinand Otto von Sperling (1821–1915) and Kurt Oskar von Sperling (1850–1914), the family produced three German generals, and with Hans Bruno von Sperling (1817–1902 ) the first German consul in Minas Gerais , Brazil .

Known family members

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dobbertiner registered book . No. 110, 220, 232, 613, 656, 837.
  2. ↑ Vibeke Sperling In: Dansk Biografisk Kvindeleksikon.
  3. ^ George Adalbert von Mülverstedt and Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt : The dead nobility of the province and Mark Brandenburg. In: Johann Siebmacher's Large Book of Arms . Volume 6, Section 5, Nuremberg 1880, pp. 88–89, Fig. 53.
  4. ↑ Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy . Volume 2, Berlin 1856, p. 462 ( reader.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  5. ^ Heinrich von Hagemeister : Materials for a history of the country estates of Livonia. Part 1, Riga 1836, p. 237 ( books.google.de ) u. P. 260 ( books.google.de ).
  6. ↑ Mecklenburg nobility in the early modern period 1500–1750
  7. ↑ In silver, a red wall with three battlements, only half of which are visible on the outside. On the helmet with red and silver blankets, a silver wing with the wall.
  8. ^ George Adalbert von Mülverstedt and Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt: The dead nobility of the province of Prussia. In: Johann Siebmacher's Large Book of Arms. Volume 6, Section 4, Nuremberg 1874, p. 88, Fig. 65.
  9. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 8, Leipzig 1868, pp. 555-556 ( books.google.de ).
  10. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Nobeligen houses . (AB), Gotha 1920, pp. 856-858.