Böcklin, Johann

The Pfeffel family (ennobled as von Pfeffel) is a Bavarian-German noble family originally from Neuburg an der Donau in Bavaria. Some family members were ennobled in the Kingdom of Bavaria in the 19th century. The family's history was explored in the BBC series Who Do You Think You Are?, relating to Boris Johnson. The family is descended from the watchman Johannes Pfeffel (1580–1634) of Neuburg an der Donau. His son Conrad Pfeffel (born 1605) was a tailor in Augsburg, and was the father of a pastor in Freiburg im Breisgau Johann Conrad Pfeffel (1636–1701). The latter's son Johann Conrad Pfeffel (1682–1738) moved from Freiburg to nearby Colmar in Alsace, where he served as Buergermeister (mayor) for half a year in 1727. He was the father of the historian, lawyer and diplomat Christian Friedrich Pfeffel von Kriegelstein (1726–1807) and the writer Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel (1736–1809). Christian Friedrich's son Christian Hubert Pfeffel von Kriegelstein (1765–1834) served as the Envoy of the Kingdom of Bavaria to the United Kingdom and was raised to the rank of Freiherr (Free Lord, equivalent to Baron) in his native Bavaria. He was the father of Baroness Ernestine von Pfeffel (1810–1894...