Groeben family

The lords von der Groeben belonged to the nobility of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg, and moved from there to the Margraviate of Brandenburg, then to East Prussia.

Members of the family held the title of Count in Prussia, granted to them on 19 September 1786 by King Frederick William II.

His son Friedrich Wilhelm (1774-1839) was a Prussian lieutenant general, and he and his descendants used the name and coat of arms of von der Groeben without objection.

The first known mention of the family is from records dated to 29 November 1140 with Luiderus de Grebene.

Gribehne (also Grubene, Grobene, Cyprene, Grebene or Gröben), the probable ancestral seat, is an abandoned village near Calbe in the Salzlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt.