Wallmoden (noble family)

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Wallmoden coat of arms

Wallmoden is the name of an old noble family from Lower Saxony from the Diocese of Hildesheim . The headquarters in Alt Wallmoden are now part of the Wallmoden municipality in the Goslar district in Lower Saxony. Branches of the family still exist today.

history

The sex appeared as early as the second half of the 12th century. The first verifiable member was Tidelinus (Thedel) von Wallmoden , who appeared in a document on June 3, 1154 and with whom the family line began. An Eschwin von Wallmoden was mentioned in a document in 1181.

Knight Templar Aschwin von Wallmoden received in 1307, after the dissolution of the Templar order by Pope Clement V , the rule of Heinde as a fiefdom of the Hildesheim bishop. By marriage and inheritance, the property could be increased significantly and maintained until the 19th century. The marriage of Hennings von Wallmoden (1335–1393) with Agnes von Hallermund led to the merger of the two manors in Heinde.

Thedel von Wallmoden († 1529), governor of Goslar , was the progenitor of the two main lines of the family.

Older line

Count Johann Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn (1736–1811)

The older line on Heinde (also called Oberhaus ) belonged to Johann Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn , who was officially and nominally a son of Adam Gottlieb von Wallmoden (1704–1752) and his wife Amalie Sophie von Wendt , but was actually a natural son of theirs Lover, King George II of Great Britain , Elector of Hanover, who made his mistress Countess of Yarmouth . Johann Ludwig inherited Heinde and also acquired the imperial rule of Gimborn in Westphalia from Prince zu Schwarzenberg in 1782 . He was raised to the rank of imperial count by Emperor Joseph II on January 17, 1783 in Vienna under the name Wallmoden-Gimborn and with a corresponding improvement in the coat of arms . At the same time he gained a seat and vote in the Westphalian Imperial Counts College and thus the imperial estate . He served the House of Hanover as commander-in-chief of the Electorate of Hanover and had the Wallmoden Palace built in the Georgengarten in Hanover-Herrenhausen in 1782 . The county of Gimborn was mediatized to the Grand Duchy of Berg in 1806 . After the Count's death in 1811, the heirs sold the remote property again in 1813. The last of the Count's sons to die was Karl August Ludwig Count von Wallmoden-Gimborn , kuk secret council , on February 26, 1883 in Prague . In 1843 he had acquired the neighboring Walshausen estate. Both goods were inherited by the related Counts of Kielmannsegg , who still own them today.

Younger line

The younger line on Alt Wallmoden (also called Unterhaus ) was able to claim ownership of the headquarters, temporarily as a Fideikommiss , to this day. The main name Thedel is also common today.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows three (2 to 1) rising black ibexes in gold. On the helmet are two black ibex horns wound with a gold ribbon. The helmet cover is black and gold.

Poem Thedel by Wallmoden

In the 16th century, Georg Thym edited a variant of the legend of Henry the Lion under the title Thedel von Wallmoden (published by Paul Zimmermann in 1887).

Known family members

  • Amalie Sophie von Wallmoden

  • Johann Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn

  • Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn

literature

The Wall Street fashion in Hanover

Web links

Commons : House of Wallmoden  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Orig. Guelf III 451.