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1. Bernard Heinrich BEÜLTING.1 The blazons of Beülting Family: Various
spellings of the name include, Bülting of Groningen, the Netherlands, Behting
of Hannover, Beülting of Muenster in Saxony and Westphalia, and Beüting
of Saxony, Germany. Arms Description: Argent, a chevron sable, between
three mullets gules. Reference - Riestap's Armorial General, Record
57167.
The Hohenzollern family ruled the state of Brandenburg in Germany, and in 1618
inherited the duchy of Prussia. They built a large, well-trained professional
army and a capable civil service. With their army, they defended their state
and expanded it. Through their civil service, they improved farming and industry,
and filled their treasury with tax money.
The Hohenzollerns' rise to power began with Frederick William, the Great Elector,
became ruler of Brandenburg in 1640. He began building up his empire after the
Thirty Years' War. In 1701 his son, Frederick I took the title of king, and
he renamed his entire state Prussia. Prussia's power continued to grow
under the next two kings, Frederick William I and Frederick II the Great. After
Frederick the Great became king in 1740, he seized Silesia from Austria. Silesia
remained under Prussian rule after the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748),
the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), and under the final peace treaty. Prussia
was then recognized as a great power in Germany.
In Bernhardt's time if you owned no property you were a serf or peasant, and
had only a first name and perhaps the surname of the property owner. So when
Bernhardt became a property owner he took the surname Beülting. He must
have been a pretty ambitious person to become a farm manager or overseer, then
to acquire enough money and cattle to buy property and take some farm animals
that he helped breed and raise from his master's stock for his own. Until you
owned property you had no real rights, and could not vote.
Bernard Heinrich BEÜLTING and Mary Catherine Beülting had the following
children:
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