Tauentzien (noble family)
Tauentzien is the name of a noble family from Pomerania , which came from Bohemia and was called Svichovsky or von Schwichow.
history
In the 15th century, Anton Ferdinand Wenzel von Schwichow acquired the Tauenzin estate , Lauenburg district in eastern Pomerania , close to the border with Pomerania, and took his new name from it. The family first appeared in a document on March 7, 1575 in a ducal Pomeranian feudal letter.
The ongoing line of the family begins with Lucas the Elder von Schwichow , who was born on July 30, 1601 by Duke Barnim X. von Pommern-Rügenwalde, together with his cousins Claus-Simon and Lucas the Younger, with the good Tauentzien under the name "von Tauentzien" was enfeoffed.
In 1791 General Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien was raised to the rank of Count of Prussia . With the death of his son Heinrich Bogislav in 1854, the count's branch of the family died out again.
coat of arms
The family coat of arms , divided obliquely to the left, shows a growing natural stag in silver above, and below in black and silver. On the helmet with black and silver covers, three silver garden lilies on a green stem of leaves.
" Deer over chess " is the recurring motif of a group of coats of arms of several Pomeranian noble families.
Known family members
- Friedrich Bogislav von Tauentzien (1710–1791), Prussian general
- Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel Count Tauentzien von Wittenberg (1760–1824), Prussian general of the infantry
- Bogislav Tauentzien von Wittenberg (1789–1854), Prussian major general and last count
See also
literature
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Leipzig 1875.
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume XIV, Volume 131 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISSN 0435-2408 .
- Ulrich Dorow: Tauentzien. In: Deutsches Adelsblatt . Volume 40, No. 1, January 15, 2001.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quarterly Journal for Heraldry, Sphragistics and Genealogy 44. 1916, pp. 9-10.