Maydell is the name of a

Baltic-German Baltic Germans (german: Deutsch-Balten or , later ) were Germans, ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, in what today are Estonia and Latvia. Since their coerced resettlement in 1939, Baltic Germans have markedly ...

noble family and part of the

Uradel (, German: "ancient nobility"; adjective or ) is a genealogical term introduced in late 18th-century Germany to distinguish those families whose noble rank can be traced to the 14th century or earlier. The word stands opposed to ''Briefadel'', ...

. The family lived in

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for several centuries and was one of its notable families. In documents and texts from earlier centuries, the family name is occasionally written ''Maydel'' or ''Maidel''.

People

* Gertrud Maydell, mentioned 1554–1559, abbess of St. Michael's Abbey in

Reval Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ''m ...

(now Tallinn). * Tönnies Maydell (d 1600),

admiral Admiral is one of the highest ranks in some navies. In the Commonwealth nations and the United States, a "full" admiral is equivalent to a "full" general in the army or the air force, and is above vice admiral and below admiral of the fleet, ...

of the Swedish fleet, Landrat, first knight's captain in the history of the

Estonian Knighthood The Estonian Knighthood (german: Estländische Ritterschaft, et, Eestimaa rüütelkond) was a fiefdom that operated in the northern part of modern Estonia. It was formed in 1584 by the Baltic German nobles and disbanded in 1920. Just like other ...

, 1593–1598 * Jürgen Maydell (d 22 July 1637), Landrat, Swedish

statthalter In the Low Countries, ''stadtholder'' ( nl, stadhouder ) was an office of steward, designated a medieval official and then a national leader. The ''stadtholder'' was the replacement of the duke or count of a province during the Burgundian and H ...

at Schloss Lohde in Estonia * Hermann Maydell († vor 1642), Polish Chamberlain, President of the Landrat Collegium in the

Courland Courland (; lv, Kurzeme; liv, Kurāmō; German and Scandinavian languages: ''Kurland''; la, Curonia/; russian: Курляндия; Estonian: ''Kuramaa''; lt, Kuršas; pl, Kurlandia) is one of the Historical Latvian Lands in western Latvia. ...

diocese of

Pilten Piltene (; pl, Piltyń, german: Pilten) is a town in northwestern Latvia. The population in 2020 was 909. The ruins of Piltene Castle are located in Piltene. Population Population (Year): 40,000 (1795) History *1220: King Valdemar II of Denm ...

* Otto Ernst von Maydell (1608–1670), Polish Obristleutnant,

Starost The starosta or starost (Cyrillic: ''старост/а'', Latin: ''capitaneus'', german: link=no, Starost, Hauptmann) is a term of Slavic origin denoting a community elder whose role was to administer the assets of a clan or family estates. Th ...

of Pilten, hereditary Lord of Zierau, Pundicken, Rawen and Birsen, Lord of

Punia Punia can refer to: * ''Punia'' (cicada), a genus of cicadas *Punia, Lithuania, a town in Lithuania *Puniya Poonia or Punia is a clan (or gotra) of Jats. Notable people who bear the surname and may or may not be associated with the clan include: ...

and Schloss Dondangen in Courland * Georg Johann Freiherr von Maydell (1648–1710), Swedish general of infantry, Swedish

Freiherr (; male, abbreviated as ), (; his wife, abbreviated as , literally "free lord" or "free lady") and (, his unmarried daughters and maiden aunts) are designations used as titles of nobility in the German-speaking areas of the Holy Roman Empire ...

from 26 June 1693 * Otto Wulbrand von Maydell (1680–1747), Electoral Hanoverian lieutenant general * Otto Johann Freiherr von Maydell (1682– nach 1736), Swedish and Russian major general * Carl August von Maydell (1733–1802), Electoral Hanoverian lieutenant general * Ernst von Maydell (Landrat) (1767–1843), Estonian Landrat * Reinhard Gottlieb von Maydell (1771–1846), Estonian Landrat and Consistorial President * August Baron von Maydell (1787–1869), Russian lieutenant general * Georg Gustav Baron von Maydell (1791–1876), actual Staatsrat, President of the Courland Cameral Court, Vice-Governor of Courland * Friedrich Ludwig von Maydell (1795–1846), historical painter, friend and travelling companion of Ludwig Richter in Italy. * Karl Baron von Maydell (1798–1856), Russian major general * Karl Anton Baron von Maydell (1816–1885), Russian lieutenant general of artillery * Georg Benedikt Baron von Maydell (1817–1881), Russian general, commander of

Peter and Paul Fortress The Peter and Paul Fortress is the original citadel of St. Petersburg, Russia, founded by Peter the Great in 1703 and built to Domenico Trezzini's designs from 1706 to 1740 as a star fortress. Between the first half of the 1700s and early 1920s i ...

in St. Petersburg * Peter von Maydell (1819–1884), doctor, reformer of hygiene in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

* Gregor Baron von Maydell (1821–1876), Russian rear admiral * Eduard Baron von Maydell (1830–1899), Russian chamberlain and state councillor, knight’s captain in the Estonian Knighthood 1871–1878 and 1890–1892 * Eduard Baron von Maydell (1842–1918), Russian major general * Christoph Baron von Maydell (1834– ), Russian major general * Gerhard Baron von Maydell (1835–1894), geographer and ethnologist, researcher of

East Siberia Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a part of ...

* Viktor Baron von Maydell (1838–1898), railway engineer, town councillor (''Stadtverordneter'') in Reval from 1877, ''Stadtrat'' from 1880, ''Stadthaupt'' (Bürgermeister = mayor) of Reval 1885–1893 * Reinhold (Roman) Baron von Maydell (1859–1931), Russian major general, * Ignaz Baron von Maydell (1864–1930), Russian Lieutenant general, Prof. der Chemie an der Universität Laibach * Anna von Maydell (1861–1944), Baltic-German artist and metalbeater * Wladimir Baron von Maydell (1864–1919), Russian lieutenant general, Commander of the

Persian Cossack Brigade , image = Persian Cossack Brigade.jpg , caption = Persian Cossack Brigade in Tabriz in 1909 , dates = 1879–1921 , disbanded = 6 December 1921 , count ...

from 1915 to 1917, last adjutant of

Czar Nicholas II Nicholas II or Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov; spelled in pre-revolutionary script. ( 186817 July 1918), known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer,. was the last Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Polan ...

. * Ernst von Maydell (1888–1960), German-Baltic graphic designer and artistGenealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Freiherrliche Häuser A, Vol. V, 1963, p. 259 * Eveline von Maydell (1890–1962), German silhouette artist * Hans-Jürgen Baron von Maydell (1932–2010), German forestry scientist *

Bernd Baron von Maydell Bernd Baron von Maydell (1934–2018), also ''Berend F. von Maydell'', was a German lawyer and secondary school teacher, who specialised in social law. Life Bernd Baron von Maydell, also ''Berend F. von Maydell'', was born on 19 July 1934 in Ta ...

(1934–2018), German social and employment lawyer and professor *

Sabine von Maydell Sabine von Maydell (born 9 October 1955, Baden-Baden, Germany) is a German television actress. From October 1984 to March 2014, she was married to actor Claude-Oliver Rudolph. She has a son and a daughter, Oona von Maydell, who is also an actres ...

(* 1955), German actress * Oona von Maydell (* 1985), German actress

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Weitere Darstellungen des Familienwappens im Estnischen Historischen Archiv, Tartu/Dorpat
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