Tessen (noble family)
Tessen , historically also Tessentze , Tetzen , Tetze , is the name of an extinct Pomeranian noble family .
history
The Tessen was first mentioned in a document in 1383 with the brothers Peter and Staske von Schmolsin as owners of Kierske, Schlochow and Stohentin. The secured continuous trunk line begins with the brothers Schwantes Tessen on Schmolsin and Johann Tessen on Poblotz and Darsekow. After the family was able to appoint the chancellor three times under two dukes, the old feeble family of the Tessen with Schwantes von Tessen became extinct on April 1, 1608 in the male line. The hereditary burial of the Tessen is located in the tower hall of the Marienkirche in Stolp.
- civil line
Around 1680 Friedrich Tessen († before 1717) was Mayor of Stolp. In 1717 his widow laid a quarter of a field in the school for the poor in Stolp. In 1704 a Johann Tessen († before 1731) was mentioned in a document in Stolp and in 1731 and 1738 his heirs donated 100 Reichstaler to the school for the poor . It can be assumed that these are descendants of the second line, perhaps children of Johann Tessen and Sophia von Mitzlaff .
- Tessen-Wensierski
This noble Kashubian family was originally called Cieszyca . The nickname Wensierski or Węsierski is borrowed from its former property on Wensiory in Pomerania . From 1729 individual members appear in the spellings Tessa or Tessy in the church books of Stendsitz and Sullenschin . Research has so far not been able to provide evidence of the frequently postulated assumption that there is a tribal relationship with the Tess family , which died out in the bourgeois branch in the early 18th century . Branches of the family persist in Poland and Germany until recently.
The transition of the family name is particularly evident in the inheritance of the noble estate Gostomie P at Berent . Johann von Czapiewski owned the share P in Gostomie, which his mother Catharina von Kistowski had inherited in 1761. He in turn bequeathed the property to his widow, who later married a Jakob Cieszyca Wesierski . From her the share in the inheritance goes to Franz von Tessen Wesierski († 1791) after severance payments for his siblings. In the 19th century the Tessen-Wensierski also owned the Mischischewitz.
Originally, the family consistently carried the Cieszyca coat of arms: a crescent moon open to the top, a horseshoe above it, a star on each side. Later, individual members approached the original Tessen coat of arms and also had a jumping silver goat in red in the shield and on the helmet.
Ludwig Max Johann von Tessen-Wensierski was stripped of the nobility in Prussia in 1858 and 1861 , so there is at least the possibility of a bourgeois branch.
possession
In Vorpommern: In 1486 Lucas Tessen owned Varbelvitz on Rügen . During his chancellorship in 1510, Peter Tessen was entitled to four properties from Demmin , but it is unclear whether these actually came into his possession.
In Western Pomerania: The core of the Tessen property was formed by the so-called " Schmolsin 's property" with Bansekow , Klein Garde , Kierske , Lübzow , Lupow , Rambow , Schlochow , Stohentin , Vietkow , Virchenzin and Zietzen . They had owned these by 1383 at the latest and were enfeoffed with the entire hand in 1456, 1575, 1601 and 1605 . Major parts of the estate association fell to the Duchess Erthmuthe in 1608 .
Furthermore, the Tessen owned the later desolate villages Jawent and Chust near Stolp and until 1558 Poblotz and some of Zezenow . Poblotz and Bansekow were awarded Georg Ramel in the same year .
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows a right-turned, silver goat head with neck in red . On the helmet with red-silver covers the goat's head.
The Tessen have a common or identical coat of arms with the Kameke as well as an identical coat of arms with the Bonin , generally these sexes are regarded as related .
The Württemberg Ticino also have the same coat of arms, but with a silver-blue tinge . These do not understandably see themselves as the tribal relatives of the Stralsund originating, extinct and completely different coat of arms Swedish barons and counts of Ticino . How they got to the coat of arms of the Tessen , however, also remains in the dark.
Relatives
- Lucas Tessen († after 1516), lord of the Schmolsin'schen estates, chancellor of Duke Bogislaw X. , archd. 1458–1516, ∞ Anna Zitzewitz from Muttrin
- Peter Tessen († after 1539), Herr auf Klücken , 1505–1516 Chancellor of Duke Bogislaw X., archd. 1487–1539
- Marten Tessen († after 1552), Lord of Schmolsin and Virchenzin, Chancellor of Duke Georg I , Captain of Lauenburg, archd. 1514–1552, ∞ Anna Loitz
- Schwantes von Tessen († 1608), lord of the Schmolsin'schen estates, district administrator and captain of Lauenburg, governor of Stolp and Schlawe, archd. 1561–1608, ∞I Barbara von Lützow (* 1544; † 1599), ∞II Sophia from Below
literature
- Siegfried von Boehn : The von Tessen in Western Pomerania. In: Extinct Pomeranian noble families or extinct Pomeranian lines of other noble families. Tutzing 1980
Individual evidence
- ↑ Max Bär : The nobility and aristocratic property in Polish Prussia at the time of the Prussian occupation. Based on extracts from the vassal lists and land registers. Leipzig 1911
- ↑ Emilian von Źernicki-Szeliga : History of the Polish Nobility. Hamburg 1905, p. 39
- ^ Johann Friedrich Gauhe : The Holy Roman Empire Genealogisch-Historisches Adels-Lexikon. 2nd edition, Leipzig 1740