Troje (noble family)
Troje , also Troye von der Woldenburg ( Waldenberg ) is the name of a noble family that was resident in Pomerania , Brandenburg and East Prussia .
history
The family is part of the Pomeranian nobility. The knight Ernst von Troye is said to have participated in 938 together with a Pomeranian prince named Barnimo in the first knight tournament held in Magdeburg , which was under the patronage of the East Franconian king Heinrich the Vogler . Benno von Troye is said to have been a Saxon bishop in 996. Degener von Troye is said to have emigrated to Switzerland in the 11th century .
In Pomerania the family is recorded in Chanz around 1391 ( Ganz bei Cammin in Hinterpommern ) and in 1406 in Wartow on Usedom , in Brandenburg in 1577 in Woldenberg in the Neumark . The family later came to Denmark , where a member of the family distinguished himself as Vice Admiral in 1715, and they also settled in East Prussia. In Western Pomerania the family was still wealthy in Schönwitz near Schivelbein in 1728, in Neumark in 1644 in Hasenwerder near Reetz and in East Prussia in 1781 near Gerdauen in Daverwalde, Laggarben and Mamlack.
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows a jumping silver unicorn in blue . The unicorn growing on the helmet with the blue and silver covers .
literature
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New German Nobility Lexicon . Volume 9: Steinhaus - Zwierlein . Leipzig 1870, pp. 273-274 ( full text ).
- Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Letter T , 1745, columns 1078-1079 ( full text )
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Christian von Hellbach : Adels-Lexikon . Ilmenau 1826, p. 604.
- ↑ George Adalbert von Mülverstedt , Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt , Siebmacher's large and general book of arms, VI. Volume, 5th division. The dead nobility of the province and Mark Brandenburg, Nuremberg 1880, p. 97, plate 59