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Tödwen is the name of an extinct Baltic nobility .
history
The progenitor of the Tödwen family is said to have been the Dane Wogen Palnisun , knight and captain of Reval in 1266 . After the village of Tödwen , about 21 km south of Reval, the family borrowed its name. The Sack estate in the Haggers parish, about 6 km to the north-west, must also be counted as the earliest possession of the Tödwen . His grandchildren Hermann in 1333 and Wogen in 1338 already bore the name Tödwen .
The Tödwen then appear in Livonia first with Gotthard Tödwen who built Ringen Castle around 1340 . Willekinus Tödwen was a Danish vassal in Estonia in 1345 . In the period that followed, the family's fortunes were closely linked to those of the order . Heneke Tödwen was a knight judge in Harrien in 1399 . Dietrich Tödwen was beneficiary owner in Reval , presumably this is to be equated with the canon of Reval of 1413. Berthold Tödwen was in 1414 a magistrate in Harrien and 1416 owner of the commander in Reval . Hermann Tödwen was a judge of the Komtur in Reval in 1423 and a magistrate in Harrien in 1429 . Another Hermann Tödwen was assessor in the Harrischen Manngericht in 1429, as was Helmold Tödwen after him in the years 1436–1443. Finally, Dietrich Tödwen was a judge in Harrien in 1452.
In the Livonian War , Ringen, which Wilhelm Tödwen had owned in 1558 , first fell to the Russians , but was then destroyed by the order after the reconquest. The family lost their oldest fief , and the restless years that followed contributed to the decline of the sex. After the final withdrawal of the Muscovites from Livonia, Wilhelm Tödwen was awarded the Tödwenshof along with part of the Maydellshof. However, this property was lost to the family before 1600. In 1599 Heinrich Tödwen zu Kersel was taken prisoner in Sweden , from which he did not return. In 1622 Claus Tödwen sold his Jöhntacken estate.
On June 16, 1651, Queen Christine of Sweden recognized the royal Swedish lieutenant Otto Wilhelm von Tödwen the Beitz to Rujenbach, which his wife Anna Elisabeth von Holstfer had given to him. Lieutenant Johann Leonhard von Tödwen , son of the aforementioned, was still lord of Rujenbach in 1683. On April 13, 1755, however, his heiress Barbara Sophie von Schreiterfeld sold Rujenbach for 8,000 Reichstaler .
possession
The property of the family extended from Harrien mainly over the historical Estonia and the Estonian district of Livonia. The Tödwen therefore owned the estates, farms and villages of Allo, Idenorm and Rex in the parish of Rappel , Attel in the parish of Joerden , Kemmen, Nerawe, Noraff, Orgall / Orgell, Moisenküll and Maientacken in the parish of Korküll , Payack with Jotten basket, Genaw, Torris, Normis , Nichko, Hopsel and Runwar in the Nysso parish, as well as Kepküll in the Hackers parish, furthermore Badenkund, Corbes, Jöhntacken, Kaggemeke, Kattel, Kersel, Klauenstein, Kogel, Könde, Leve, Maines, Mettepä, Milstfer, Mohns, Nyenhofen, Paibst, Poffoff , Perrist with Kayfer and Kagrimoise, Odenpäh , Packer, Pahofer, Ringen, Rujenbach, Sack, Todwen, Tödwenhof, Willust and Woydefer.
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows three six-pointed golden stars (2: 1) in the blue shield. Five peacock feathers on the helmet with blue and gold covers .
In contrast, the stars also appear seven-pointed or as roses . An arm wielding a sword grows on the helmet, between two peacock feathers.
literature
- Maximilian Gritzner : Neuer Siebmacher , Volume 3 , Section 11, The nobility of the Russian Baltic provinces , T. 2, The non-enrolled Adel , Nuremberg 1901, pp. 223–224, Tfl. 156
- Heinrich von Hagemeister : Materials for a history of the country estates of Livonia. Riga 1836, Volume 1, pp. 53, 99 and 132
- Leonhard von Stryk : The Estonian District Contributions to the history of the manors Livonia. Berlin 1877, pp. 128, 129, 132, 137, 213, 253, 257 and 390
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich von Klocke : Westphalia and Northeast Europe. In: Writings of the Working Group for Eastern European Studies at the University of Münster. 1965, pp. 64-65.