August to Lippe-Brake

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August to Lippe-Brake

August zu Lippe-Brake (born September 9, 1643 at Brake Castle ; † June 19, 1701 in Neuwied ) from the House of Lippe was Field Marshal and Privy Councilor of War of Hesse-Kassel and Landkomtur of the Hesse ballot of the Teutonic Order .

Life

August was the 12th and youngest child of Count Otto zu Lippe-Brake (1589–1657) and his wife Margarethe von Nassau-Dillenburg (1606–1661). He chose a career as a soldier and fought under the governor Wilhelm III. of Orange in the Franco-Dutch War against France and its allies. When Landgrave Karl von Hessen-Kassel began to create a strong and war-ready army, August zu Lippe-Brake entered his service. In 1683 he set up the eight companies (including the Leibcompanie) comprising the "Lippe zu Fuß" regiment, which was renamed "Leibregiment" in 1684 , using three existing companies .

In the same year he entered the Teutonic Order , probably at the instigation of Landgrave Karl . In 1688 he became the Landkomtur of the Ballei Hessen, the first Landkomtur of the Reformed denomination ; he held this office until his death.

1689, after the outbreak of the Nine Years' War (1688 to 1697) and then made formation of Magdeburg concert , he was Chief of previously in the year of Johann Ernst of Nassau-Weilburg established Hesse-Kassel rule Dragoon - Regiment with which he the part Imperial troops deployed by the armed imperial estates until the end of the war at various locations against the troops of Louis XVI. fought. He rose to field marshal.

Death and burial

Epitaph in the Marburg Elisabeth Church

August zu Lippe-Brake, to whom the Republic of Venice had recently offered supreme command over its land troops, died on June 19, 1701 in Neuwied, unmarried and without descendants. Since he had decreed in his will that he should be buried either in Marburg or in Brake , depending on which of the two places he was closest to when he died, he was buried on August 21, 1701 in the Elisabeth Church in Marburg . The Frankfurt sculptor Johann Bernhard Schwarzeburger created two epitaphs , one in the church in Brake , the other in Marburg.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Regiment Guard .  Hessian troops in America. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ The Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel belonged to the Reformed denomination , and after the Reformed denomination was admitted in the Empire in the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, alongside the Lutheran and Catholic, they sought to have Reformed nobles admitted to the Hesse ballroom of the order should. A treaty of 1680/81 stipulated that now, in addition to a Catholic, as many Lutheran as Reformed knights should be accepted and that a Lutheran land commander should henceforth be followed by a Reformed and then a Catholic. ( Article on the history of the Elizabeth Church: ( Memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ))
  3. ^ Zedler's Universal Lexikon wrongly names August 19th.
  4. ^ The church at Brake
  5. ↑ europeana.eu, tomb (general view)

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SURNAME Lippe-Brake, closed in August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hessen-Kassel Field Marshal, Land Commander of the Deutschordensballei Hessen
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1643
PLACE OF BIRTH Brake (Lemgo)
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1701
Place of death Neuwied