Anna von Schade

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Anna von Schade (June 1584 - February 15, 1644 ) was mistress of the Emsland after the death of her husband Dodo zu Innhausen and Knyphausen .

Life

Anna von Schade was the daughter of Margarete von Schade, b. von Melschede zu Garbeck and Adam von Schade zu Ihorst. Since her father died before she was born, her mother Margarete married the widower Bernhard Vogt von Elspe zu Borghausen and later to Bamenohl on May 24, 1588 . Bernhard Vogt von Elspe was married to Ida von Plettenberg's first marriage . When her stepbrother Adam was baptized on March 5, 1609, Anna was godmother. While visiting relatives, Anna got to know Dodo zu Innhausen and Knyphausen , son of the imperial baron Wilhelm zu Innhausen and Knyphausen(1557–1631) and the Hyma Manninga, the heiress of the noble Lütetsburg property. Dodo and Anna married on September 15, 1610 and moved to Stickhausen near Leer in East Frisia. As a morning gift, in addition to a golden chain, she received considerable property in the glory of Innelt at her free disposal.

Dodo von Inn- und Knyphausen was a military leader in the Thirty Years War. He was killed in action as a field marshal on January 11, 1636. During his military years Anna had accompanied him on several campaigns, sometimes with their children. Both were unknown to material hardship. For example, on August 2, 1633, Dodo von Inn- und Knyphausen received the Emsland from the Swedish crown as a special reward . Anna and Dodo had seven children (the funeral sermon mentions eight) children, of whom only Enno Adam and Eva Oriana survived. Anna sold the Meppen office to Karl Ludwig von der Pfalz for 30,000 thalers. However, she only received a down payment, because shortly after the contract was signed, the Emsland was taken by the imperial troops. She raised another 12,000 thalers through the sale of weapons and artillery.

Anna von Innhausen and Knyphausen died on February 15, 1644. On the occasion of her funeral, the funeral sermon was printed in book form by Peter Lucius in Rinteln on the Weser. Anna belonged to the Evangelical Reformed Church. She and her husband are buried in Jennelt Church. According to the funeral sermon, the burial should have taken place on May 28th with "popular and highly respectable" participation.

Excerpt from the funeral sermon

She was born into the world in the year 1584, in the month “June” at Haus Ihorst from the “noble noble Christian and godly parents” ... Twelve weeks after the death of her father, Mrs. General-Ferdmarschallin was born and her mother in of the "Evangelical Reformed Religion, in Christian discipline and noble virtue" not brought up without effort and valority ... She was married in 1610 to the now blessed General-Field Marshal at the House of Lützburg ... They are married to God with six sons and two daughters have been blessed, but no more than one son and one daughter are alive ... So the Mrs. General-Feldmarschallin was happily given a lot of cruelty and heartbreaking disgust in her marital status, since her husband was involved in warfare from youth followed suit ... In her marital status she was in charge of her household as a virtuous "matron" and the same in the many absences res Lord, as well as in his presence at all times well managed. She has done a lot of good not only to friends and relatives, but also to many strangers.
She loved, read, and reverently heard God's word from her heart. "The blessed woman's tears flowed from her cheeks while sermons and singing" ... She did a great deal of good to the poor "exiles". The blessed woman has clothed innumerable widows and orphans. She raised many orphaned children… “What is memorable is that when the blessed woman was nearing her departure, her lips moved. When we put our ears close to her lips, we heard these words: I am struggling and struggling, help O Lord Christ the weak. When the preacher present seemed to have stopped hearing and was different, the pious woman replied with the words: I still hear. So she died in devout prayer and true faith in good mind on the morning of February 15, 1644 between 9 and 10 o'clock ”... She was buried with Christian and ordinary“ ceremonies ”in the resting chamber of the deceased blessed Lord.

literature

  • Heike Düselder: Culture and rule of the nobility in the early modern period. In: Heike Düselder, Ronald G. Asch (Hrsg.): Aristocracy in the country: Culture and rule of the nobility between Weser and Ems 16th to 18th century. Materials and studies on everyday history and folk culture in Lower Saxony, Volume 36. Verlag Museumsdorf Cloppenburg, Cloppenburg 2004, ISBN 3923675992 , pp. 15–178, here pp. 65 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arithmetic book by Bernhard Vogt von Elspe the Younger (deposit Helmut Lehnen in the Finnentrop community archive)
  2. ↑ De Navorscher. Nederlands archief voor genealogie en heraldiek, heemkunde en divorced. Dertigste Jaargang, Amsterdam 1880, p. 426
  3. ↑ noble marriage foundations
  4. ^ Bernhard von Poten :  Knyphausen, Dodo . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, pp. 337-339.
  5. ^ Funeral sermon in book form, printed by Peter Lucius in Rinteln an der Weser (Helmut Lehnen deposit in the Finnentrop community archive)
personal data
SURNAME What a shame, Anna von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Innhausen and Knyphausen, Anna von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mistress of the Emsland after the death of her husband
DATE OF BIRTH June 1584
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1644