NICHOLAS III von PFEILSDORF- A SENATOR OF THE POLISH KINGDOM. HE WAS GREATLY TRUSTED BY KING CASIMIR OF THE HOUSE OF JAGIELLON. A VERY ABLE DIPLOMAT, STRATEGIST AND KNIGHT. HIS WHOLE CAREER AND FAMILY FORTUNE WAS DEDICATED TO THE POLISH CROWN. HE LED THE PFEILSDORF FAMILY TO SPLENDOUR. IF IT WERE NOT FOR THE POLITICAL INCOMPETENCE OF THE POLISH NOBILITY IN DEALING WITH THE TEUTONIC ORDER, THE HISTORY OF THE FAMILY, AND ALSO OF POLAND, WOULD HAVE TAKEN A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT COURSE.
THE SON OF NICHOLAS III, MATTHEW von PFEILSDORF, WAS A COURTIER OF KING CASIMIR DURING HIS FATHER LIFETIME.
AFTER HIS DEATH, MATTHEW WAS SUPPORTED BY THE KING, AS WELL AS BY HIS SUCCESSORS, ALEXANDER JAGIELLON AND
JAN OLBRACHT. THE SUPPORT WAS DUE TO THE ENORMOUS LOSSES WHICH NICHOLAS III SUFFERED IN THE 13-YEAR WAR WITH
THE TEUTONIC ORDER.
DUE TO INTER MARRIAGE, OF CATHERINE DAUGHTER OF NICHOLAS III WITH KAROL VON FELDEN,
THE PILEWSKIS DESCENDANTS ARE TO-DAY TO
BE FOUND IN ALL THE GENEALOGIES OF THE ROYAL HOUSES OF EUROPE,
AS WELL AS AN UNCOUNTED GROUP OF ARISTOCRATIC FAMILIES. THIS PROVES THAT THEY HAVE BLOOD TIES
WITH TRUE ANCIENT DESCENDANTS OF BALTS, NAMELY PRUSSIANS.
VON FELDEN, PRIVATE COAT OF ARMS FELDEN. KAROL VON FELDEN, SENATOR, IN YEAR 1483 CASTELLANOUS OF LAND CHELM
AND FROM THE YEAR 1486 VOJVODA OF CHELM.
DURING TEUTONS RULE SETTLED IN PRUSSIA AS A GERMAN FAMILY FROM BRUNSWEIG. LATER THIS FAMILY WAS POLISH ORIENTATED
AND CHANGED THE NAME TO ZAKRZEWSKI.
IN THE THIRTEEN YEARS WAR VON FELDEN ASSISTED POLISH KING AGAINST TEUTONS.
THE APPEARANCE OF THE von LEHNDORFS, THOUGH MUCH LATER, SHOULD ALSO BE NOTED. THE von LEHNDORF
FAMILY IS A BRANCH OF THE von PFEILSDORFS. THEIR COAT-OF-ARMS IS A DERIVATIVE OF THE
von PFEILSDORFS, WITH ONE DIFFERENCE THAT THEY ADDED TWO ROOTS TO THE TREE TRUNK, SO THAT
THEY HAVE FIVE.
THE von LEHNDORFS FAMILY HAS FORGOTTEN ITS ANCESTORS. THROUGH INTERMARRIAGE WITH THE RICHEST
GERMAN HOUSE OF STANGON, THEY HAD NO EQUAL IN THE KINGDOM OF GERMAN PRUSSIA. PROBABLY
IN THE INTEREST OF KEEPING THEIR FORTUNE, THEY CHOSE THE PRO-GERMANIC ORIENTATION, ALTHOUGH
IN THE TIMES OF THE SPLENDOUR OF NICHOLAS III THEY SYMPATHISED WITH THE POLISH CROWN.
THE PARTICIPATION OF HEINRICH von LEHNDORF IN THE 1944 CONSPIRACY AGAINST HITLER RESULTED
IN ONLY ONE MEMBER OF THE FAMILY SURVIVING, AND THEIR PROPERTIES BEING CONFISCATED.
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