Former noble family
Coat of Arms of the Weyher family Weyher family (alternative spellings:Wejher ,Weiher ,Waier ,Weier , sometimes spelled WeigerPolish :Weyherowie ) was a family of high nobility, most prominent in the 16th and 17th centuries in thePomerania region and thePolish–Lithuanian Commonwealth . The family origins can be traced toWürzburg ,Germany .
Klaus Weiher , of the noble von Weyher family going back inPomerania toDietrich von Weiher (aka Theodericus Weyher). Claus was the founder of the Polish line of the Weyher family members of which later on held many offices in thePolish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Martin Weiher (1512–1556), son ofKlaus Weiher and Sophie von Ramel, the second Lutheranbishop of Cammin Ernest Wejher (1517–1598),voivode of Chełmno ,starost ofPuck Jan Wejher (1580–1626), son ofErnest Wejher and Anna Mortęska,[ 1] starost ofPuck Melchior Wejher (1574–1643), son ofErnest Wejher and Anna Mortęska,[ 1] Malbork ,castellan ofElbląg andvoivode of Chełmno Mikołaj Wejher (?-1647), son ofJan Wejher and Anna Szczawińska,[ 2] voivode of Malbork (since 1641) andvoivode of Chełmno (since 1643),starost ofRadzyń Chełmiński and ofKowalewo Pomorskie Ludwik Wejher (?-1656), son ofJan Wejher and Anna Szczawińska,[ 2] colonel of thePolish army (since 1647). He was the commander of the defence ofZamość in 1648 and later ofMalbork in 1656. He was alsocastellan ofElbląg ,Voivod of Pomerania andstarost ofWałcz Jakub Wejher (Jacob Weiher) (1609 – 1657), son ofJan Wejher and Anna Szczawińska. Jakub wasvoivode of Malbork and a founder of town of Weihersfrei, Weyhersfrey, Neustadt (Wejherowo )Ludwig von Weyher owner of Gut Langfuhr, received advise in 1771[ 3] Samuel Luther von Geret of Thorn[ 4] 
