[family] Wedel (or Wedell) is an old German noble family, from Stormarn in what is now Schleswig-Holstein. ==History== The family is first mentioned in records through Heinricus, Hasso and Reimbernus de Wedele in 1212, and traces its familial line to the monastery Vogt Heinrich, of the monastery `Novum Monasterium`, who is mentioned on 13 S... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedel_(family)