common ancestry and combined their arms. The black line of the family von dem Knesebeck stems from the ancient nobility of Lower Saxony, while the white line...

Thomas von dem Knesebeck (1559–1625) was a Privy Councillor and Landeshauptmann (governor) of the Altmark. Together with his father and grandfather he...

Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg Vasili Bebutov Alexander von Benckendorff Levin August von Bennigsen Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1792–1862)...

Volkonsky of Russia, Johan Christopher Toll of Sweden and Karl Friedrich von dem Knesebeck of Prussia taking part in the planning. After the first plan was drafted...