Stone (Pomeranian noble family)

Coat of arms of those von Stein from Pomerania

Stein , also Stain, Staine, Steen and Steene , is the name of an extinct Pomeranian noble family.

history

The old Pomeranian noble family was still around 1618 in Bietegast on the island of Ruegen , in Siegelkow in the Principality of Cammin in Pomerania , and in mirror village at Greifswald in Vorpommern been resident. At the time of Bogislaw X , around 1496, Hennicke v. Stein in Pomerania. His great-grandson, Arend v. Stein auf Ziggelow (Siegelkow), suffered from a severe head injury that he suffered from a fall, from impaired consciousness, which meant that he had to wander around disoriented. He died around the middle of the 17th century in Sissow on Rügen, and with him the family line died out.

coat of arms

In silver, a red, stepped corner stone, the four corners of which are covered with green clover leaves and in which there is a boar tooth.

Name bearer

• Hennicke von Stein , lived around 1496
• Arend von Stein , died around the middle of the 17th century

literature

• Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 8: Saackhen, Wailckhl v. Saackhen - Steinhauer zu Bulgarn , Leipzig 1868 ( full text ).

See also

• List of other noble families from Stein