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Plater family

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The Plater family is a German noble family originating from Westphalia, whose members first settled in Livonia and later in Lithuania and Poland.

Plater coat of arms
Plater-Zyberk coat of arms

History

The family was first documented in 1274 with knight Hinricus de Broyle and later in 1392 with Rötger von dem Broel genannt Plater. Their original seat was Broel [de] in County of Mark, hence the family's name was von dem Broel. The part of the family that moved in 15th century to Livonia used the name Plater or the combined Broel-Plater.[1] The Plater-Zyberk branch line was founded by Michał Plater-Zyberk, who married Izabela Helena Syberg zu Wischling (1785-1849), daughter of Jan Tadeusz Syberg zu Wischling [pl], the last male representative of the Syberg family. In order to save his wife's family name, he adopted her surname and the coat of arms.[2]

The Platers returned to Catholicism in the 17th century and held high offices in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and achieved magnate status in the 18th century, with six representatives of the family achieveing a seat in the Senate. The basis of the family's importance in Polish Livonia was the uninterrupted holding of the post of starosta in Dyneburg since 1670.

The ancestor of the Plater family, which stemmed from Livonia, was Fryderyk Plater (ca. 1465- ca. 1533), who, together with his brother Jan, acquired the Weissensee and Nidritz estates.[1]

Notable members of the family

References

  1. [1]
    Zielińska 1997, p. 215.
  2. [2]
    Zielińska 1997, p. 226.

Bibliography

  • Wróbel, Łukasz (2018). "Hylzenowie, Platerowie i Tyzenhauzowie. Szlachta inflancka i jej rola w życiu politycznym osiemnastowiecznej Rzeczypospolitej" [The Hylzen family, the Plater family and the Tyzenhauz family. The Livonian nobility and its role in the political life of the eighteenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]. Res Gestae. 6.
  • Zielińska, Teresa (1997). Poczet polskich rodów arystokratycznych [Polish aristocratic families] (in Polish). Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne. ISBN 8302064297.
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