The family name first appears near Uelzen, in the place and this place is Medingen on the property and home of the family. Are of great importance for the family and their benefices from the earliest times, in particular the landscape of the Director of Hodenberg issued Lüneburg Lehnregister the Dukes Wilhelm and Otto and the Dukes and Bernard Wilhelm “Seculi XIV and XV”. Almost simultaneously with the history of Duke Henry d. Lion, born anno 1129 in Ravensburg, begins the documentary history of the von Meding. On the death[...]

It is a Dietrich Strantz the first clue in a charter of Count Heinrich von Aschersleben, Guardian of the young Margrave of Brandenburg as a witness to Bernburg 1224 called. In 1257 comes a Hermann in a charter of Count Heinrich von Schwarzburg, at a hearing in Gotha Mitzeuge than before and in a deed of Landgrave of Thuringia in Albrecht 1272 (Hermannus Stranz they Tull Present) Conrad (Cuntz I.) called Stranz of Lebus appears immediately following the Hermann Castle Markgräflicher Gesessener. This Conrad and[...]

The name of the sex of Kardorff is German and means at the present dialect, the word “Kirchdorf”. So he is hardly in divergent form of early. The family is one of the oldest families in Mecklenburg. The book also influenced keep the seal of the family, and the emblem of Ratke Kerkdorp to Nikör (from the church in Dargun) The pedigree is as usual botched by Google. Famous namesakes: Siegfried of Kardorff (* 1873; † 1945), German politician and lawyer Ursula von Kardorff (* 1911; † 1988), German[...]

The gender of the von Dewitz is a very old sex, it has already been documented in the middle of 13. Century have appeared specifically in the area of ​​the Margrave of Brandenburg. Was left out of this as the land of Mecklenburg Stargard, they were immediately among the most respected families in Mecklenburg. Since 1319 did they just in Pomerania, 1338 they seem to be in the country Daber been ansessig. No doubt they are of German origin, and its name has most likely the village in Dewitz[...]

It is often told, that the German Behr family of the Italian noble family descended Ursini or Orsini, no doubt because it was the name bear a translation of Ursini. Charlemagne is a brave warrior from the Italian family of Ursini in a battle axes 783 have a good gift in the newly established Diocese of Osnabrück and called the same Bärenau.