Andreas Adrian Borck

Andreas Adrian Borck (* 1629 , † 1690 in Torgau ) was a Saxon Hofmeister , Chamberlain and Amtshauptmann to Schwarzenberg and Gruenhain and landowner .

Life

Andreas Adrian was a member of the Pomeranian noble family Borcke , but wrote himself Borck and, like many of his contemporaries from well-known noble families at the time, renounced the typical nobility of . It was only towards the end of the 17th century that members of the sex included this nobility predicate in their family names. His father was Ernst Friedrich Borck (e).

Andreas Adrian Borck embarked on an administrative career in the service of the Saxon electors and was appointed court master of Electress Magdalena Sibylle, née Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth , wife of Johann Georg II .

Andreas Adrian Borck had previously acquired practical experience in administration as governor of the Schwarzenberg district office and the Grünhain office in the Saxon Ore Mountains . His official seat was Schwarzenberg Castle .

At the Michaelismesse in 1676 in Leipzig , he acquired from Johanna von Gersdorff, the wife of the electoral secret and war councilor Hans Abraham von Gersdorff , their Kreischau manor in the Schweinitz office with the associated Vorwerk Görnewitz. She was his mother-in-law and left the property to him cheaply as an addition to her daughter's trousseau. With this, Andreas Adrian Brock had acquired his own manor in the Electorate of Saxony, after he had already become a resident of the castle on Regenwalde in Western Pomerania , Labes and Strahmel by inheritance . After his death there were protracted inheritance disputes between his children of the first and second marriage.

literature

• Wulf-Dietrich von Borcke: Brief history of the von Borcke family . Thomas Helms Verlag Schwerin 2008. ISBN 978-3-940207-13-5
• Georg Sello : Historical sources of the castle and castle-sitting dynasty of Borcke. 6 vols. ( Digitized version )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Genealogy