Benedict I of Ahlefeldt (Haseldorf)

Benedikt (Bendix) von Ahlefeldt (* before 1543; † 1586 ) was the heir to Haseldorf and bearer of the Dannebrog Order and the Elephant Order .

Life

Coat of arms of Benedikt von Ahlefeldt on the east wall of the St. Gabriel Church in Haseldorf

Bendix von Ahlefeldt was the eldest son of Friedrich von Ahlefeldt († 1543) and was the heir to Haseldorf. In 1559 he was the royal war commissair for the campaign against the Ditmarscher. In 1560 he accompanied Duke Adolph to England with 39 other Holstein nobles to visit Queen Elisabeth . In 1562 he and Gosche von Ahlefeldt were included in the number of students in Wittenberg.

In 1564 he returned and was counsel for Duke Adolph von Gottorp and as such worked on the new regional court order, which appeared in print in Hamburg in 1573. In 1571 he became provost of Preetz Abbey . In 1575 and 1576 he was the Duke's agent in the commission for the settlement of the border disputes between the king and Duke Hans the Elder . In this the exact boundaries between the Duchy of Schleswig and Jutland were determined. On May 3, 1580, he was awarded the Elephant Order in the name of the Duke.

On September 19, 1581, after the death of Duke Johann the Elder, he concluded the contract of inheritance between the King and Duke Adolph in Flensburg. From grief over the death of his eldest son Friedrich († 1586) he died in 1586. His wife was Emerentia von Brockdorff, the daughter of Detlev von Brockdorff, Herr auf Gaartz, Windebye, Bosenhof, Burow and Mannhagen and Margaretha von der Wisch from Ascheberg. They had seven children together.

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• Louis von Ahlefeldt, Wulf August von Rumohr Drilles: The Schleswig-Holstein knighthood. A contribution to the nobility history of Germany and Denmark. Book 1: The von Ahlefeldt family. Heiberg, Schleswig 1869, pp. 11-12 ( digitized version ).