The House of Wallmoden is a German noble family from the

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. Their ancestral seat of

Wallmoden Wallmoden is a village and a former municipality in the district of Goslar in Lower Saxony, Germany. Since 1 November 2021, it is part of the town Langelsheim, of which it is an ''Ortschaft Ortschaft is a term in German speaking countries for a hu ...

is today a town in

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. Branches of the family still survive. As former reigning, elder line of the family belonged to

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History

The family was already in existence in the second half of the 12th century. One of its first demonstrable members was ''Thedel von Wallmoden'', named in documents from 1154 onwards. An Eschwin von Wallmoden was mentioned in 1181. The

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Aschwin von Wallmoden is mentioned in 1307, on the dissolution of the Templars by

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, at which time the Heinde herrschaft was a fiefdom of the

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. Through marriage and inheritances, the family was able to significantly extend its property and continued into the 18th century. The marriage of Henning von Wallmoden (1335–1393) with Agnes von Hallermund led to the uniting of both the lordly families in Heinde. Thedel von Wallmoden († 1529), Stadthauptmann of

, was the origin of both family lines. The elder line or upper house included Johan and his mother Amalie. In 1782 this line acquired from the princedom of Schwarzenberg the Reichsherrschaft Gimborn in Westphalia and on 17 January 1783 was raised by Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor to the name of Wallmoden-Gimborn and promoted to Reichsgraf. The family ruled over Lordship of Gimborn-Neustadt, which was mediatised by the

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in 1807. Of the first

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's descendants, the last was Graf Karl August Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn, k.u.k. geheimer Rat, who died on 26 February 1883 in Prague. The younger line or lower house has been able to retain the property of the Stammsitz, temporarily a ' Fideikommiss', right up to the present day. Also the first names Thedel has been kept up in the family to the present day.

Coat of arms

The tribe crest shows three (2 over 1) black rams on an or ground. On the helmet are two rams' horns, with black and gold stripes. The crest running off the back of the helmet is also black and gold.

''Thedel von Wallmoden''

In the 16th century Georg Thym wrote a variant of the '

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' saga under the title ''Thedel von Wallmoden'' (published by Paul Zimmermann in 1887).

Notable members

* Amalie von Wallmoden; mistress of

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Johann Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn Johann Ludwig Reichsgraf von Wallmoden-Gimborn (22 April 1736 in Hanover – 10 October 1811 in Hanover) was a German lieutenant-general and art collector. Life Wallmoden was an illegitimate son of George II of Great Britain by his mistress ...

; German lieutenant-general and art collector *

Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn Ludwig Georg Thedel Graf von Wallmoden (6 February 1769 – 22 March 1862) was an Austrian General of the Cavalry, best known for his training of light infantry and the refinement of the Tirailleur system. As a grandson of George II of Great B ...

; Austrian

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Bibliography

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: Münchener Kalender 1921. Buch u. Kunstdruckerei AG, München / Regensburg 1921. * Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Band 45, 1969, Seite 316 * Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Band 134, 2004, Adelslexikon

External links

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Meyers Konversationslexikon ' or ' was a major encyclopedia in the German language that existed in various editions, and by several titles, from 1839 to 1984, when it merged with the '. Joseph Meyer (1796–1856), who had founded the publishing house in 1826, intended ...