The von reitz family is primarily from what german or prussian area???

Question

they married into the von brunnen family and were elevated and given a coat of arms so that they could marry a von brunnen girl as equals!!who has information on prussian calvary under a von reitz officer at waterloo against napoleon??

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This is the only thing I found, but you may have posted this yourself...

!!"REITZARNOVITCH"- KNIGHT( rieter/rider)WHO FOUGHT FOR THE TZARS(norse princes in slavic russia novgorod)!this name was reduced to reitz on reaching GERMANY and then VON REITZ BY CALVARY DISTINCTION on the fields of european warsfrom prussia,poland ,german duchies,and into the napoleonic era!!the family's motto was "into the well ,naked ,with no clothes on"because in marrying into the "VON BRUNNEN"(brunnen-well-chanting arms indicating the family name and showed a tie to a crucial "good water" well which appeared on their coat of armorial bearing) FAMILY after getting a princess "with child" ;my relative was elevated and given a coat of arms to be able to marry the girl as an "equal"!!RELATIVE FOUGHT WITH NAPOLEON GOING INTO MOSCOW and survived the dreadful and ignominious retreat when so many froze to death standing up or "in state" on horseback frozen solid until spring!!my genes survived that!,,tens of thousands didn't survive ;and so had NO  DESCENDANTS!! MY RELATIVE who survived LATER FOUGHT IN PRUSSIAN CALVARY AGAINST NAPOLEON AT THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO;and was highly instrumental in his turbulent and costly defeat!!rewarded by wellington and offered a commission to preceed to africa in british employ!!