Coat of arms The family motto of the Prussian branch is
"In Virtute Pertinax".
Coat of arms: An
escutcheon with the
field divided into four parts. Left half:
argent tincture, a
gules lion holding a
sinople eradicated oak tree between its paws;
azure tincture charged with three
or mullets; Right half: a
gules castle with three
towers on an
argent tincture;
sinople tincture charged with three
argent roses below it. A
Grafenkrone (
Count's
coronet) as
helmut on top of the
escutcheon,
crested with a
or fleur-de-lis. Two
or lions supporting the
escutcheon.
Motto:
"In Virtute Pertinax".
Heraldic symbolism: The
lion symbolizes courage; the eradicated oak tree symbolizes strength and endurance; the
towers are symbols of defense and of individual fortitude; the
mullets (5-star) symbolizes divine quality bestowed by god; the
rose is a symbol of hope and joy; the
fleur-de-lis is the floral emblem of
France; the
coronet is a symbol of victory, sovereignty and empire. A
count's
coronet to demonstrate
rank and because the family originally served the
counts of
Foix and
Béarn during the English Wars in the
Middle Ages.
Parents Isaac de Forcade, Seigneur de Biaix, (* September 1659, Biaix in
Pau,
Béarn; bap. 13 September 1659,
Morlaàs,
Béarn;
Kurt von Priesdorff, in his ten volume work
:de:Soldatisches Führertum, () of the
Order of Saint John from the
von Borck family in 1731 for 28,000
Reichsthaler by King
Frederick William I of Prussia with them.
Gollin was a farming village, a dependency of
Barskewitz The 1 January 1862 directory of the Pomeranian Knighthood shows that the property was jointly owned by the Countess von Itzenplitz in Berlin and her husband, a
von Meding, the retired
Oberpräsident of the
Geheimrat to the King of Prussia.
Children An entry in the evangelical parish register for St. Jacob's church in Stettin, dated only as between Advent 1760
(30 November 1760) and Advent 1761
(29 November 1761), states that an
"…unmarried noble daughter of Colonel Forcade, age 27 years…" was buried. His marriage with
Anna Elisabeth Cantenius is said to have been childless, thus extinguishing his branch of the family.
Skanderborg,
Denmark; † 10 July 1821), married a
Canon () in
Havelberg Friedrich von Itzenplitz, Erbherr auf Gross- und Klein-Behnitz, Jerchel (1740-1772).
Other Family • Uncle:
Jean de Forcade de Biaix (1663-1729), was a Royal
Prussian Lieutenant General. (1698-1765), was a Royal
Prussian Lieutenant General and one of
King Frederick the Great's most active and most treasured officers. He was
Regimentschef of the
23rd Prussian Infantry Regiment, recipient of the
Kingdom of Prussia's highest military
order of merit, the
Pour le Mérite,
Canon of
Havelberg,
Castellan of Neuenrade in the
County of Mark,
Lord Seneschal of
Zinna, President of the prestigious
Ober-Collegium Sanitatis in Berlin and
Lieutenant Governor of
Breslau. ==Notes==