Tettau (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Tettau

The family of the lords and barons of Tettau is a thriving noble family that has a common origin with the Counts Kinsky von Wchinitz and Tettau . It comes from Bohemia and acquired properties in Prussia and Vogtland .

Lineage

The red and silver coat of arms indicates the family's Franconian origins, which spread across Central Europe via Silesia and Bohemia. From the marriage Albrecht Tettauers Tettau and Kinsky with Eliska Wanczuriana de Rzehnicz ( Czech Eliška Vančurová for Řehnic ) the two sons Hans and Erhard emerged. While Hans von Tettau owned extensive estates in Prussia in Sandlack , Sißlack, Dublien bei Rastenburg and Schönbruch and his descendants, the descendants of his brother Erhard were resident in the Vogtland. With his wife Dorothea von Waldsen ( Waldstein ?) He fathered the two sons Apel, who bought the estates Syrau and Kauschwitz , and Anselm von Tettau on Oberlosa and Unterlosa , Planschwitz , Bösenbrunn and Mechelgrün . Wilhelm, the youngest son of Apels von Tettau, acquired the Schwarzenberg rule in the Ore Mountains in the middle of the 15th century , which remained in the family's possession until it was sold to the Saxon Elector Johann Friedrich I in 1533.

coat of arms

The crest is red and silver with three peaks divided . Since the end of the 16th century, it has shown three downwardly curved silver wolf teeth in red starting from the left edge of the shield. On the helmet with its red and silver covers there is an open flight of eagles , red on the right and silver on the left .

A family legend describes the creation of the coat of arms as follows: At the beginning of the 10th century, the young Bohemian nobleman Hynko von Tettau took part in a drive hunt for wolves in Posen and saved a princess from attacking wolves by cutting off their heads with one stroke. The princess thereupon granted him the accolade and ordered him to have three wolf teeth in the red field as his coat of arms.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abel Friedrich von Tettau (* December 20, 1688; † July 1, 1761).
  2. ^ Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 1008 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 1008 ( limited preview in Google Book search).