Wylich and Lottum

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Coat of arms of those von Wylich and Lottum

Wylich and Lottum is the name of an old noble family from the county of Kleve .

history

Burggrafenschloss in Lottum

Those von Wylich and Lottum are a lineage of the von Wylich family . This sex derives its descent from the 1158 documentary appearing von Steenhuis , who in 1317 acquired the name-giving Gut Wylack (near Wassenberg an der Rur ) through marriage . The name later changed to Wylich through diphthongization .

A line of those von Wylich, who had their seat at Castle Hueth , acquired the rule Lottum (today a district of the municipality of Horst aan de Maas in the Netherlands ) in the 16th century . Johann Christoph von Wylich married a Lottumsche heiress and was in 1608 by Duke Albrecht of Austria , the former Cardinal and Archbishop of Toledo , and since 1598, sovereign of the Spanish Netherlands , the baron charged by Lottum.

Lissa Castle near Breslau

His grandson Philipp Karl von Wylich and Lottum died in 1719 as a Prussian field marshal . It was in 1701 by Emperor Leopold I in the imperial counts charged. His great-grandson Carl Friedrich Heinrich von Wylich and Lottum (1767–1841) was a Prussian infantry general , a real secret councilor and finance minister . In 1836 he acquired the Lissa estate and castle in Silesia . His son Friedrich (1796–1841) entered the Prussian military service at a young age, took his leave as a major in 1822 and later became envoy extraordinary and authorized minister of the King of Prussia in Holland .

Count Friedrich von Wylich and Lottum († 1847) married Klothilde in 1828, daughter of the last Prince of Putbus Wilhelm Malte I. From this marriage came Moritz Graf von Wylich and Lottum, Lord of the Count's Majorate Lissa in Silesia and Wilhelm von Wylich and Lottum founded in 1837 who succeeded his grandmother as Prince von Putbus.

coat of arms

The squared coat of arms shows in fields 1 and 4 in silver a red rafter reaching to the edge , under it a floating red ring (Wylich); in fields 2 and 3 a common red cross, which is covered with nine golden pennies (Lottum). On the crowned right helmet a growing silver dragon head with an outstretched spiked tongue and a very long, inwardly curved neck, around which lies a red band with a ring just behind the head, from which the scaled down Wylich coat of arms hangs. The left helmet is covered with a red, three times tinned wall crown , behind the wall on silver tournament poles stand two obliquely swept golden flags with the Lottum coat of arms and with golden fringes with a golden cord hanging down inside and ending with a tassel. The helmet covers are silver-red on the right, golden-red on the left and the shield is held by two golden lions with their heads turned forward with double tails.

Known family members

literature

Web links

Commons : Wylich and Lottum (aristocratic family)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Diedrich von Steinen: Westphäl. History 1. Lemgo 1755, p. 2.