Hobe (family)
Hobe (also: ''von Hobe von Gelting'', ''Baron von Hobe-Gelting'', ''Hobe Freiherr von Gelting'' or ''Monforts von Hobe'') is the name of an old German noble family from Mecklenburg, which also became influential in Denmark. Branches of the family are still in existence today. History 19th century scholars assumed that the Hobe family came to Mecklenburg from Pomerania, but before that came from the Lower Rhine. It was there that the knight ''Hermannus dictus Hůbe scabinus in Willich'' appears in a record in 1272. In 1283 a knight named ''Hobe'' is mentioned as a witness for Kolbatz Abbey, one ''Hobo'' in 1284 in the town of Greifswald, ''Reimbertus Hobe'' is a witness for a deed of the monastery of Verchen in 1287, and his possible brother the knight ''Johannes Hobe'' was a witness for the town of Demmin 1292. The son of the latter, Johannes Hobe, owned half of Cavelsdorf in 1324–1325 in the Principality of Rügen. His descendants were still in possession of the fief of Beestl ...
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