Dönhoff

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Coat of arms of the family (Dzik)
Friedrichstein Palace, 20 km east of Kaliningrad, burnt down by the Red Army in January 1945

Dönhoff, (Polish: Denhoff, sometimes also Doenhoff) was a German nobility family from County of Mark, Westfalia, firstly mentioned in 1282, a branch of which moved to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th century and became recognized as a Polish noble (szlachta) there, later mostly serving Prussia. The main seat since 1666 until 1945 was Friedrichstein Palace in East Prussia.

Polish branch

  • Ernst Magnus Dönhoff (1581-1642), voivode of Parnawa (1640-1642)
    • Ernst Denhoff, (died 1693), voivode of Malbork
      • Joanna Denhoffówna, daughter of Zofia Anna Oleśnicka h. Dębno, married to Hetman Stanisław Ernest Denhoff (1673–1728)
  • Kasper Denhoff (1587-1645), Voivode of Dorpat (1627-1634), brother of the above
  • Urszula Denhoff (died 1658), married to Marcin Kazimierz Kątski h. Brochwicz
  • Jan Kazimierz Denhoff (1649–1697), Cardinal and Bishop of Cesena
  • Stanisław Ernest Denhoff (1673 – 1728), Voivode of Połock (1721-1728), Field Hetman of Lithuania, 1709-1728
  • Marion Dönhoff (1909-2002), German journalist (descended from the Polish branch)

German branch


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