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" Many Europeans of this wide-spread name have been very distin-
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guished men. In 1370, as we learn from '
Deutschland,' vol. 3, there was in attendance on King Charles the Fifth
of France a Louis de Saint Etienne, who took the name of de Loup, it
is said, from his defence of the King when he was attacked by a wolf.
In 15 1 7 Frederick Baron de Wolf, grandson of Louis de Loup, was
chosen Commissioner on the part of the Prince of the House of Saxe
to settle the boundaries of the various principalities with the Imperial
Diet. The Emperor Maximilian was so well pleased with the Baron's
wisdom and talent that he made him Baron of the Holy Roman Empire.
This celebrated statesman left several collections of state-papers, and manuscript
histories of his diplomatic and other negotiations, which are now
preserved in the muniment-office at Dresden. From him descended many
men of note whom we must pass by.
" From Baron de Wolf were also descended the Counts de Wolf and
Barons de Wolf of Prussia, through his grandson Frederick, who, in 1658,
concluded the negotiations acknowledging the independence of Prussia,
was created Count by Frederick the Great, and had the Grand Cross of
the Black Eagle conferred upon him. He died in 1670.
"There is, or was, another line, of Barons de Wolf of Belgium,
descended from a son of Frederick Baron of the Floly Roman Empire,
named Maximilian, who had lands near Ghent conferred upon him by the
Emperor Charles the Fifth, and took up his residence in Belgium in 1534.
Joseph de Wolf, grandson of Maximilian, went into the service of Charles
the Ninth of Sweden, in 161 1, and was the founder of th* families of
Counts and Barons de Wolf of that country. Charles the eldest son of
Maximilian joined the seven revolting provinces in throwing off the yoke
of Philip the Second of Spain; and in 1714 the great grandson of that
Charles went to Holland, and took up his residence at ITaarlem. His
great great grandson Joseph Baron de Wolf was an Admiral in the Dutch
service, and Captain General of the Dutch possessions in the East Indies
from 1 75 1 to 1757, and also Commander of the Batavian fleet in those seas.
"All these families carried the wolf in their coats of arms.
" Nor has the family of Wolf been distinguished only on the Continent.
A deed of transfer of property made about the year 1066, which I found in
an old English book giving the history of the house of Stanley, was signed
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