Stockhausen (Lower Saxon noble family)
Stockhausen is the name of several noble families. The ancestral seat of the noble family from Lower Saxony discussed here is Stockhausen , today a district of Friedland south of Göttingen an der Leine . The name changed from Stockhuson, Stachitzen, Stoc-, Stog-, Stogk-, Stoighusen to Stockhausen. Together with Stockhausen in Thuringia and Stockhausen in Westphalia they belong to on the on October 14, 1962 Trendelburg established family unit at.
history
The family of Stockhausen in Lower Saxony first appeared in a document in 1111 with the knight (miles) Reinwardus de Stokhuson .
The Knights of Stockhausen were enfeoffed with the Bramburg near Göttingen at the beginning of the 14th century . Since then, members of the family have held the office of Hereditary Marshal of Corvey Abbey . Some lines of the family still belong to the Althessian knighthood . The castle ruins are still owned by the family today.
coat of arms
The coat of arms of Stockhausen in Lower Saxony shows a black branch curved to the right with two black oak leaves, the right one hanging down, the left one standing up. On the helmet with black and silver covers an open flight , black on the right and silver on the left .
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume XIV, Volume 131 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISSN 0435-2408
- Genealogical manual of the nobility, noble houses A volume XXVII, volume 132 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003
Individual evidence
- ↑ Original in the State Archives Hanover; Edmund Freiherr von Uslar-Gleichen, History of the Counts of Winzenburg, Hanover 1895, p. 17