Trenck (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of the von der Trenck called bull

The Trenck family, Trenk, von der Trenck called Stier, also barons and counts, is one of the old East Prussian local aristocratic families that has survived to the present day. Its headquarters with the same name is located in the former Samland Primorsk district (German: Fischhausen in East Prussia ).

Friedrich von der Trenck
Franz von der Trenck

history

The family is an old knight dynasty dating back to the 13th and 14th centuries, that of Duke Albrecht of Prussia on October 25, 1533 with the sharp estates in Amte Labiau, as well as of Prince Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg on April 5 1652 was enfeoffed with the good Goldbach not far from Wehlau and also acquired several other goods. Johann Albrecht vd Trenck called Stier was the President of the Court of Justice of Königsberg in 1655 and Christian vd Trenck called Stier was a cavalry master of Brandenburg. Christian vd Trenck had two sons, of whom the older, Christoph Ehrenreich († 1740), royal Prussian major general and father of several children, became the progenitor of the Prussian vd Trenck. Johann Heinrich, the second son of Christoph Ehrenreich, converted to the Catholic Church and acquired the rule of Prestorat in Slavonia and died in 1742 as an Imperial and Royal Colonel and commander of the Leuchta fortress. Johann Heinrich founded a branch line of the family in Austria, which, however, died out again with his son, Franz Freiherr vd Trenck, kk Panduren colonel (1711–1759 Spielberg near Brno).

The secured line of the family begins with Augustin von der Trenck in 1404.

The family split into three lines early on:

  • Line Kapstücke (Russian: Tulskoje, Rajon Polessk , no longer existent): Entry in the royal Saxon nobility book on April 13, 1907 under No. 255 for the pastor emeritus in Greiz Albert von der Trenck, Superintendent and Princely Russian Consistorial Councilor,
  • Line Meyken (today Russian: Maiskoje, Rajon Polessk): Prussian name and coat of arms association with those of the Freiherrn von Königsegg as Freiherrn von der Trenck called von Königsegg, Berlin, May 9th 1825 for August von der Trenck on Sporwitten near Prawdinsk ( Friedland in East Prussia ), who had been the adoptive son of Sophie Freiin von Königsegg since December 21,
  • Schakaulack line (Russian: Malaja Lipowka, Rajon Polessk, no longer existent): Erbländisch-Austrian knighthood, Vienna April 8, 1783 for Friedrich von der Trenck on Schakaulack, today Rajon Polessk (district of Labiau in East Prussia) and on Zwerbach in Lower Austria , KK Oberstwachtmeister, Prussian count class with an increased coat of arms for his brother Karl Albrecht von der Trenck, Fideikommissherr on Schakaulack. This count's line has expired in the male line.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows in red a gold horned and tongued head of a silver aurochs , facing forward , with two six-pointed gold stars at the bottom. The shield image on the helmet with red and silver helmet covers .

  • Family coat of arms of the von der Trenck called bull

  • Coat of arms of the Counts von der Trenck called Bull (1798)

Known family members

literature

  • Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume XV, Volume 134 of the complete series, pp. 5-6, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2004, ISSN  0435-2408
  • J. Siebmacher 's large and general book of arms. IV. Volume, 4th section, 2nd part: The Lower Austrian rural nobility: SZ. Author: JB Witting, HG Ströhl; Publication: Nuremberg: Bauer & Raspe, 1919, pp. 395–399.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Gothaisches Genealogical pocket book of the noble houses. 7th year 1906, p. 794.
  2. ↑ Former State Archives Königsberg, now in the Secret State Archives Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin
  3. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Nobility Lexicon. Volume XV, pp. 5-6, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg 2004.