Joachim von Carpzov

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Joachim von Carpzow , also Carpezan , Carpensonius and others (* 1585 in Brandenburg an der Havel ; † 1628 in Glückstadt ) was a Mansfeld colonel who rose to the position of royal Danish general field master in the Thirty Years' War .

Life

Carpzow was the grandson of the mayor of Brandenburg Simon Carpzow († 1580), the progenitor of the learned Carpzov family .

Joachim "Carpzo" became captain of the Margrave of Baden in Pforzheim , lived at "Alt Misseloh" ( Altwiesloch ) and around 1613 married Anna Rosina von Weitershausen , daughter of Eberhard von Weitershausen (Wittershausen) called Richwein (* around 1540; † 1609) and Anna Maria von Lammersheim; the marriage property was 2109 guilders.

By 1618 at the latest, Joachim von Carpzow entered the service of the mercenary leader Ernst von Mansfeld as an officer . He took part in the siege and storming of the city of Pilsen (autumn 1618, here called Karpizon by chroniclers in Old Czech) and accompanied Mansfeld on his other campaigns (1618–1626), where he was captured several times. On the last of these campaigns, which led from Kurbrandenburg through Silesia to Moravia and Upper Hungary, Carpzow was left with Gábor Bethlen , the prince of Transylvania (autumn 1626). From there he went into the service of King Christian IV of Denmark and became Danish general field master. When the Danish-Mansfeld troops withdrew from Upper Hungary to Silesia in 1627, Carpzow was also there. However, the troops were too weak and had too little supplies to last long. On June 2, 1627 Wallenstein set out with an army of 40,000 men to drive out the Danes. City after city surrendered to the imperial and on July 5th the fortress Cosel was reached. After two days of fighting, Wallenstein's troops stood in front of the walls. The commandant Mitzlaff held a council of war since the fortress could not be held. On the night of July 8th to 9th, 4,000 horsemen fled the fortress, leaving their luggage behind. Only Carpzow was left with the demoralized infantry. The next attack surrendered after a three-hour battle. According to the surrender conditions, the prisoners were taken to Havelberg, where they arrived on August 2nd. Carpzow himself went to Glückstadt, where he died in 1628.

Joachim von Carpzov orders his wife to be beheaded on charges of infidelity (1623), copperplate engraving by Jan Luyken , 1699.

Carpzow achieved gruesome notoriety for having his wife Anna Rosina beheaded for adultery by the executioner of his regiment in Jemgum , East Frisia, during the Mansfeld occupation of the county of East Frisia (autumn 1622 to early 1624) (July 28, 1623). He had five children with her. This act led to the fact that nobody wanted to have anything to do with him anymore. When he came to Holland the mood was so irritable that he was almost stoned to death.

Works

  • Verclaeringhe, uyt wat talk end oorsaecken des Wohl noble, strict end manhafften Ioachim van Karpitzo… heeren generaels van Manszveldt etc. looflycken armée, ordered general-wachtmeister end oversten real-vrouwe, vant leevendt ten dode, dorch het swaert, been judged. o. O. 1623
  • Hint, external reason and causes, probably noble and manhafft Mr. Joachim von Karpitzo, your Prince. Grace. General von Manßfeldtl, the laudable army, appointed general sergeants and colonel wives, who were executed from life to death through Schwerdt . o. O. 1623

literature

Web links

Wikisource: The Mansfelder (Lübsche Sage)  - sources and full texts
Wikisource: Illustration next to a brief report which figure the Hertzog zu Friedland drove the Manßfeld Army from the Elbbrucken to Dessa  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Main State Archives Stuttgart (Reich Chamber of Commerce, 4718 - W 1740); According to the trial files, the tailor of the wedding dress lived in Zuzenhausen , which is neighboring Wiesloch ; see. Alexander Brunotte, Raimund J. Weber (edit.): Files of the Reich Chamber of Commerce in the main state archive in Stuttgart UZ. Inventory of holdings C 3 . (Publications of the State Archives Administration Baden-Württemberg 46/7). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2005, pp. 177-179, especially p. 179.
  2. ↑ On this Krüssmann, Ernst von Mansfeld , p. 469 with further literature.
  3. ↑ Tileman Dothias Wiarda , Ostfriesische Geschichte , Volume IV, p. 199ff digital copy (here Carpitzko)
  4. ↑ Cf. Peter Hohenemser (arrangement): "Discursus politici" pamphlet collection by Johann Maximilian zum Junge , Stadtbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main 1930 (reprint Olms, Hildesheim 1977). P. 85f. The pamphlet collection was destroyed in World War II.
personal data
SURNAME Carpzov, Joachim von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carpezan, Joachim von; Carpensonius, Joachim von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Braunschweig Colonel
DATE OF BIRTH 1585
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandenburg on the Havel
DATE OF DEATH 1628
Place of death Glückstadt