Carl August von Rex

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Carl August Rex (around 1760),
painter: George Desmarées , oil on canvas 89 × 68.5 cm

Carl August von Rex , since 1741 Count von Rex (born March 23, 1701 in Leipzig or Pobles ; † September 15, 1768 in Wackerbartsruhe ) was the Electoral Saxon cabinet minister , conference minister , real secret council and chancellor as well as the manor in Pobles .

origin

Rex was the son of Carl Rex auf Pobles (1660-1716) from the family of the Lords of Rex , electoral tax collector and vice-chief judge of Leipzig and chief steward of Christiane Eberhardine , wife of August the Strong and Electress of Saxony. His mother was Carl von Rex ′ second wife Christiana Elisabeth b. von Neitschütz (1680–1739). His younger brother was Lieutenant General Friedrich Wilhelm von Rex .

Live and act

Rex became Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Cabinet and Conference Minister. On December 9, 1741, during the Electoral Saxon imperial vicariate , Elector Friedrich August II of Saxony as imperial vicar was elevated to the rank of imperial count . His electoral Saxon notification took place on January 29, 1742.

Rex married Johanna Sophia Freiin von Meusebach (1711–1776) in 1729, who brought the manor Kayna into the marriage. Carl August von Rex liked to refer to himself as the owner of the manor of Kayna. This estate remained in his wife's possession until the end of his life and after her death fell to their only daughter, Countess Johanna Friederika Carolina (1750–1803), who in 1774 married the later Count Peter Friedrich von Hohenthal (1735–1819), Electoral Saxon privy councilor and envoy to the Reichstag in Regensburg , married. When she died, this count's branch of the Rex family died out.

Rex himself died in 1768 at Wackerbartsruhe , an immediate winery in the Lößnitz at the gates of the royal seat of Dresden , now part of Radebeul as Wackerbarth Castle .

Count's coat of arms from 1741

The tribe coat of arms shows two red roses with golden lugs in gold between three branched green trunks growing from a green three-mountain . The shield image on the helmet with red and gold helmet covers .

The imperial coat of arms from 1741 shows the trunk shield with three helmets. On the right helmet with red and silver helmet covers the growing left-looking, crowned, gold armored and gold tongued Polish eagle , in the middle the trunk helmet, on the left helmet with red and silver helmet covers a growing gold crowned and gold tongued red leopard . Two gold-armored and gold-tongued red leopards serve as a shield holder .

Fonts

  • Dissertatio iuridica de transmissione fructuum feudalium in heredes allodiales. 1747.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Across from the Dresden Lehnhof, the guardian of Carl August von Rex stated in the year of the death of his father through a certificate from Pastor Johann Friedemann Mosch dated October 9, 1716, that he and his two younger brothers Christian Gottlob and Friedrich Wilhelm were born in Pobles . In the Saxon biography , however, Leipzig is given as the place of birth.
  2. ↑ According to New General German Adels Lexicon, different year of death: 1765.
personal data
SURNAME Rex, Carl August von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rex, Carl August Graf von; Rex, Karl August Graf von; Rex, Carl A .; Rex, Carolus A .; Rex, Carolus Augustus; Rex, Karl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Electoral Saxon cabinet minister, conference minister, secret council and chancellor
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1701
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig or Pobles
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1768
Place of death on Wackerbartsruhe