Biographies

Life history of the Maltese prince and lord of Putbus

Schloss-Putbus

Since the 13. Century consisted of the family relationship between the Danish nobility and Putbus. Members of the family were in the Danish service, and held high offices. These included Henning II. Putbus, after the death of Valdemar IV. temporarily in the state affairs led Dämenark, and the Bishop of Odense, Waldemar I.. The family of the Lords of Putbus, The prince came to the, over the centuries has produced a whole series of important men. As the line of the Lords of Putbus Rügensche in 1702 mit dem  [...]



Life story of Baron Otto Theodor von Manteuffel

Manteuffel

The origins of the sex of those lost in the mists of Manteuffel. Older genealogists to give, It came from England and make a “Mandevel by Esser” the ancestor. Studies show a correlation with the Herford's dynastic “of Quernheim”. Early Manteuffel were the mighty and the free men in ancient Kaschubenland and nobility of Pomerania. She branched out into the marrow, to Prussia and Saxony, and to Kurland, Estonia and Livonia, where the last name “Hesitations” an den Kämpfen des Schwertritterordens  [...]



Hans Joachim von Ziethen on Wustrau

Zieten

In the area of ​​the city Ruppin, is the village Wustrau. At the end of the 17. Century included the lands of this village three landowners, one of them was from Hans Joachim Matthias Zieten. Er besaß von allen Feldern und Wiesen nur den kleinsten Teil und jährlich brachte es ihm nicht mehr als etwa 400-500 Dollars a. So there Zieten lived with his wife Catharina Ilsabe, a born Jürgas. The five children of Mr. von Ziethen had four daughters and a son. The son was on 18. More 1699 geboren  [...]



The life story of Dr. Martin Kemnitz (1522-1586)

Martin-Kemnitz

The family came from the Martin Kemnitz, belonged to the noble dynasty of Kemnitz, of old Wendish nobility descended in Pomerania. The name comes from the Polish word “Kamien” and mean stone. The name was always written Kemnitz, to Martin, came as the lateinisierte Chemnitius form in use. The coat of arms, which can still be seen in the Martini Church in Braunschweig, has the half-closed helmet two small lilies, on their stalks woven together, their heads turned downwards. In the[...]



Mistress, Jewels and The Count of Löwenstein-Wertheim

Juwelen

Truth and fiction are two areas that are sometimes not distinguish as simple as they may be interwoven almost inextricably. This applies especially to case files, dealing with child support payments. That's one thing today and was not even three hundred years ago different, than 1737-1763 Before Aulic process was discussed in Vienna, where a castoff mistress of her former lover, a Count, demanded more maintenance…