Blumenthal family

All living members of the noble family are descended from Heinrich (V) von Blumenthal (1654–93), whose baronial status was limited to the borders of Brandenburg.

The family also produced three Prussian ministers of war, one leading statesman under King Jérome of Westphalia (a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur), Danzig's longest-serving governor and a prominent 19th-century Bavarian politician opposed to rising antisemitism.

All living members of the family are descended from Eustachius von Blumenthal and Margarethe Gans zu Puttlitz (married circa 1575).

She was a descendant, via the families of Gleichen zu Tonna and Querfurt from Henry I the Child, Landgrave of Hesse, and thus also of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, St Ludwig of Thuringia ("Ludwig the Holy"), St. Hedwig of Silesia and Charlemagne, besides St. Olga of Pleskau, St. Vladimir of Kiev, St. Ludmilla of Bohemia, St. Olaf of Norway and St. Matilda von Ringelsheim.

Crest: A virgin, dressed per pale or and sable (or in some cases undressed), between two eagles' wings, holding a wreath in her dexter hand.

Arms granted to Ludwig I von Blumenthal in 1701 and (below) to Hans and Joachim von Blumenthal in 1786, upon Hans being elevated to Count ( Graf ). Note that here the vine is planted, not couped.
Horst Castle at Blumenthal, seat of the Blumenthal family from the 13th century until 1810
Quackenburg, seat of a major branch of the Blumenthal family from the early 18th century onwards
Horst Chapel, erected after the destruction of the original chapel during the Thirty Years' War
Count Heinrich (VIII) von Blumenthal, 1765–1830, Mayor of Magdeburg, politician and courtier under King Jérome of Westphalia
Krampffer
Steinhöfel, bought by Joachim (VIII) von Blumenthal, inherited by his daughter Charlotte and then by her son Valentin von Massow, an adjutant of Wellington's at Waterloo.
Suckow
Varzin , sold by the Blumenthals to Bismarck in 1874