Pfuel

Pfuel
Family Coat of Arms
Motto

Muth und Hoffnung

("courage and hope")
Website jahnsfelder-chronik.de
schloss-tuessling.de
Jahnsfelde manor-house, built in 1680
Tüßling castle, Bavaria, photographed, as inhabited by the Counts Bruges-von Pfuel today

The German ancient noble family of Pfuel (also Phull) arrived in Brandenburg in the year 926 and later widened their influence to Saxony, Mecklenburg, Pomerania, Württemberg, Westphalia, Eastern Europe and Sweden.

Its members today bear the name "Grafen Bruges-von Pfuel".

Family line

Ancestors' list for direct paternal main line:[1]

Members

Notable members of the family include:

Coat of Arms as used today by the Grafen Bruges-von Pfuel
Prime Minister of Prussia Ernst von Pfuel (1779–1866)
General Curt von Pfuel (1849–1936)

Literature

References

  1. Der Mannesstamm (German)
  2. Verlustliste: 1. Brandenburgisches Dragoner- Regiment Nr. 2. (German)
  3. Fontane, Theodor (1868). Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg (in German) 2. Berlin: Hertz. p. 489. (online)

External links

Media related to Pfuel family at Wikimedia Commons

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