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MODESTIA VICTRIX


According to the tradition of our family branch, Modestia Victrix is ​​the family's motto, which translated from Latin means humility in victory / success. 

The family, originated according to it´s own tradition from Russia and later from the villige of Stavenow in Germany on the border between Brandenburg and Mecklenburg. However, no Stavenow has lived there since 1349. Why did that happen? That, and countless follow-up questions have now occupied us for over 20 years.


This is an ongoing research project since 1988 and the texts are constantly evolving. The first 20 years have mostly been about collecting historical source information in the form of land books, church books, etc. It is really only in recent years that we have begun to seriously analyze the very extensive source material and begin to place it in context with contemporary phenomena. For example, we are beginning to investigate which interesting historical persons and relatives in addition to our own relatives appear in history. Therefore, the texts are processed continuously.


One goal is to compile the results of the research in book form. The path to the completion of all chapters of the book/s,  you can follow on this website.

Sometimes you will see bold words in the texts, these are due to different connections between people in the material that we especially need to remember. Most often, these names or places appear in different places in the material or have some other significance for the family's history.


The oldest named Stavenow to date is Sigfrid, who is mentioned in a legend from Lenzen in Prignitz. Different branches of the family and different family members have carried with them slightly different traditions about the family's background. None of these traditions contradict each other, or the source material, but complement the image that emerges from the source material. The website is built with love and aims for everyone in our family to have access to historical information about the family. As new knowledge is added and new source material is found, we thus adjust texts, analyze and supplement the information that has been collected and has previously only been lined up in a chronology.


We start mostly from our own family branch, something we have taken the liberty to do but have now also started to include several other family branches that are interesting historically and that are needed to put our own family branch's history in its context. We are very grateful for all the basic research work in the archives that the following competent and professional historians have assisted us with. Without your help, we could not tell this story. Special thanks to: Baron Christoffer v. Warnstedt, Mr. Karl Heinz Steinbruch M.A. Mr. Heiko Klatt, Mr. Christian Andreas Hoske. There are many others who have contributed information to the project and we would like to thank you in a special order. Including all the wonderful relatives who have contributed interesting stories and pictures. Not least, we thank all the accommodating archivists in various German and Swedish archives who assisted with copying the transmission of source material. We hope you find the content interesting! 


Updated 2022-07-31


Research is still ongoing and both new historical sources and connections between people are often discovered.


Best regards!


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BACKGROUND


HERALDRY


Russia to Germany

The early middleages



Family trees


Darsband I Pommern


Rügen 1307-1625

Pommern

Pommern - Stralsund - Mecklenburg after 1625.



Stavenow I - Woldenberg I 


Woldenberg I

From Stavenow to Woldenberg

Older Branch

From Henning v. Stavenow to Bertram (I) Stavenows Heirs.  





Stralsund 1604

From Wriezen to

Brandenburg - Stralsund - Havelberg -

and back to Wriezen

Nickel (VII) Stavenows Heirs





Woldenberg II - Ättlingar till Friedrich (IV) 


Woldenberg II

From Stavenow to Woldenberg

From Henning v. Stavenow and the Widow v. Königsmarck to Hans (II) Stavenows Heirs. Line II




Wriezen-Berlin

Från Wriezen till-

Börnicke - Christindorf - Berlin - New-York

Herr Friedrich (IV) Stavenow, Hauptmann in Sonnenburgs Heirs



Schleswig Holstein 1790

Från Wriezen till

Quitzöbel, Schleswig Holstein, Hamburg, Ungern och Kroatien

Herr Friedrich (IV) Stavenow, Hauptmann in Sonnenburgs Heirs



Woldenberg III - Ättlingar till Andreas I


Rostock-Havelberg-Brunn 

Woldenberg III - Äldre grenen

Perleberg - Rostock 1616 - Havelberg - Brunn - Berlin

Andreas I - Peter V - Peter VI - Jürgen, Georg - Georg


Picture: Andreas I Crest from 1571. This variant represents the Family Line Woldenberg III, and derives from Woldenberg II. 



 

1587 Lübeck I 

Yngre grenen

Lübeck I - Perleberg - Lübeck

 Andreas I - Anderas II - Hans back to uncle Peter V in Perleberg 1605-1618) then back to Lübeck

1656 Lübeck II 

Andreas I - Peter VNicolaus VIII

1622-1763 Wriezen-Rostock

Perleberg - Wriezen - Rostock

Andreas I - Peter V - Christoffer I - Georg III (b. 1622) - Jacobus - Lorentz (b. 1680) - Lorenz Hinrich (g. 1729) - Lorenz Hinrich (g 1746) - Lorentz Andreas Jacob - Christian Daniel Carl (g 1763)


Picture: Woldenberg III - Andreas I Crest was inherited by many Generations, this version was depicted in 1689 in Rostock.  

1656 Lübeck III 

Mecklenburg-Danmark

Andreas I - Peter V - Christoffer I - Nicolaus VIIII - Johann Nicolaus, Johann Christopher - Caspar Friedrich

Stralsund 1660

Från Wriezen till

Perleberg - Stralsund

Andreas I - Peter V - Christoffer I - Joachim III och Peter VIII - m. fl.

Sverige I 1696-1706

From Wriezen to

Lübeck III

Andreas I - Peter V - Christoffer I - Nicolaus VIIII - Johan Christopher Stavenow

Priest in Christine German Congregation in Göteborg (Woldenberg III)

 

Ostpreussen 1676

Från Wriezen till

Ostpreussen

Andreas I - Peter V - Christoffer I - Georg III - Georg IV

Reuss yngre linie

Perleberg - Klein-Lüben - Fürstenberg - Reuss - Malchin -Lübeck IV - Sverige 

Andreas I - Peter V - Christoffer I - Peter VIII - Hieronymus IJohan Friedrich - Christian Nicolaus - Ernst Gottlieb - Ludvig Herinrich, Daniel Christian Asmus


Picture: Hieronymus Stavenows Seal with the Family Crest.

Sverige II 1849

Lubeck - Sweden 

Daniel Christian Asmus Stavenows Heirs

 

Sverige III 1851

Lubeck - Sweden  

Ludvig Heinrich Matthias Stavenows ättlingar