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David Alopaeus
Count Frans David Alopaeus (also ''Alopeus'') (December 19, 1769 in Vyborg – June 13, 1831 in Berlin) was an Imperial Russian diplomat. Biography Born into the Finnish noble Alopaeus family, he followed his older brother Maximilian von Alopaeus into a diplomatic career. He was enrolled at the Military Academy in Stuttgart from 1781 to 1785. He studied at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen. He was the Imperial Russian ambassador to Stockholm from 1803, and took part in the negotiations for the Peace of Fredrickshamn in 1809. He was granted a title of Count along with the coat of arms in 1820 in Congress Poland for his negotiations on Congress Poland's borders with Kingdom of Prussia The Kingdom of Prussia (german: Königreich Preußen, ) was a German kingdom that constituted the state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918. Marriott, J. A. R., and Charles Grant Robertson. ''The Evolution of Prussia, the Making of an Empire''. .... References Frans Dav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coat Of Arms
A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the latter two being outer garments). The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central element of the full heraldic achievement, which in its whole consists of a shield, supporters, a crest, and a motto. A coat of arms is traditionally unique to an individual person, family, state, organization, school or corporation. The term itself of 'coat of arms' describing in modern times just the heraldic design, originates from the description of the entire medieval chainmail 'surcoat' garment used in combat or preparation for the latter. Rolls of arms are collections of many coats of arms, and since the early Modern Age centuries, they have been a source of information for public showing and tracing the membership of a noble family, and therefore its genealogy across time. History Heraldic designs came into general use among European nobility in the 12th century. System ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counts Of Poland
Families Abbreviations explanation See also * List of szlachta * List of Polish titled nobility * Magnates of Poland and Lithuania Bibliography * Peter Frank zu Döfering, Adelslexikon des Österreichischen Kaisertums 1804-1918. Verzeichnis der Gnadenakte, Standeserhebungen, Adelsanerkennungen und -bestätigungen im Österreichischen Staatsarchiv in Wien, Wien 1989. * Der Adel von Galizien, Lodomerien und der Bukowina. J. Siebmacher's großes Wappenbuch, Band 32, Nürnberg 1905, s. 67-99. * Szymon Konarski, Armorial de la noblesse titrèe polonaise, Paris 1958, s. 131-361. * Tomasz Lenczewski, Genealogie rodów utytułowanych w Polsce, t. I, Warszawa 1997. * Spiski licam titułowannym rossijskoj imperii, St. Petersburg 1892. * SZLACHTA POLSKO-INFLANCKA WOBEC PRZEŁOMU. Dybaś Bogusław, Jeziorski Paweł A. SCIENCE IN TORUNIU PUBLISHING. * Świat polskiej szlachty. Dzieje ludzi i rodzin. Rosołowski Marcin, Bińczyk Arkadiusz. Fundacja im. XBW Ignacego Krasickiego. 2019. Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
