Peter von Bilderling

Peter von Bilderling's family was originally from Westphalia. In 1350 Otbert Boldring owned the fiefs of Cotwik and Overdik in Raalte parish and were notable members of the Hanseatic League. One branch of the family came from the Baltic countries with Johan Buldrink, in Courland, who became the vassal of the Teutonic Order when he received a fief near Riga named Bilderlingshof from Wolter von Plettenberg, the grand master of the Order. Between the 17th century and 1940 (currently Bulduri). Hermann von Bilderling had his family entered in the Nobiliaire de Courlande in 1634 (first class) and is cited in the Baltic genealogical literature as Uradel (noblesse immémoriale). The branch of Peter von Bilderling came through Livonia with Friedrich, grandson of Johan, and the fiefs of Karrinem and Taifer, then Lithuania with Johan then Melchior and the fief of Miszany. The family's title of baron was recognized in the Russian Nobiliaire through an edict of the Imperial Senate in 1903.

The family arms are: D'argent à une aigle de sable, languée de gueules, la poitrine d'argent bearing a green poplar. Cimier un peuplier arraché de sinople entre un vol de sable à dextre et d'argent à sénestre. Sable lambrequins doublé d'argent.

The poplar is a reference to the original name, Boldring. (Bolder meant poplar in Old German. Dictionnaire de Grimm).