Carl von Friesen (1619–1686)

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Carl Freiherr von Friesen (zu Rötha) (born May 13, 1619 - † July 29, 1686 in Rötha) was the Electoral Saxon Privy Councilor , President of the Upper Consistory , Council of Churches , Chief Court Judge and owner of the manor , heir to Rötha , Kotta, Rüben and Geschwitz .

Life

Carl von Friesen studied for three years in Wittenberg and returned to Dresden in 1638 . In the following years he traveled to Italy and southern Germany, then to France and Holland and attended the universities of Paris and Leyden.

The Count Palatine von Sulzbach , Christian August , took him into his service in 1645 as a Privy Councilor and sole administrator of the Palatinate County; In this position, Friesen obtained religious freedom for the country's evangelicals at the peace assembly in Munster and Osnabrück. 1653 he became a governor of the county Henneberg in electoral Saxon services in which he was appointed a privy councilor to Dresden 1656th In 1669 he temporarily led the government for the underage Duke Friedrich Wilhelm III in Altenburg .

family

His father was Heinrich d. Ä. von Friesen zu Rötha (1578–1659), Privy Councilor, Chancellor, President of the Court of Appeal and owner of the manor, the mother Catharina, b. von Einsiedel (1585–1667). In 1645 he married Justina Sophia von Raben (1619 Eldena - 1691 Dresden), daughter of Otto von Raaben auf Stügk and Steinfeld and Eva von Wackerbarth , and lived with her in Dresden at Seestrasse 1, which he acquired in 1658. They had the following children:

  • Christian August (May 12, 1646 Sulzach - 1681 Cotta); Imperial Councilor, Saxon Councilor and Chamberlain, President of the Meissen Chapter
  • Heinrich (1651-1655);
  • Carl (1653-1698);
  • Otto Heinrich (1654-1717); to Rötha and Geschwitz, Privy Councilor and Chancellor
  • Carl Heinrich (* 1656)
  • Hedwig Auguste (1647-1648);
  • Henriette Catharina (1648–1726), wife of Bailiff Nicol von Gersdorff , pietist and grandmother of the founder of the Moravian Brethren , Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf
  • Rahel Sophie (* 1650), wife of the Electorate Colonel and later Reichspfennigmaster Johann Georg von Meusebach (1650–1695);
  • Magdalene Sibylla (1652–1693), wife of the Brandenburg Privy Councilor and Canon of Magdeburg Baron Georg Rudolf von Schweinitz (1649–1707);
  • Charlotte Justine (1658–1730), 1709 provess of the free noble Magdalenen-Stift zu Altenburg, married. with Heinrich Hildebrand von Einsiedel , her official colleague

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dresdner Geschichtsblätter , Volume 1, No. 1/5, 1892/1896, The Frisians as homeowners in Dresden, Major General EGM Freiherr von Friesen, p. 134ff. in the SLUB Dresden
  2. ↑ Jens Kunze, Friesen (zu Rötha), Carl Freiherr von, in: Sächsische Biographie, ed. from the Institute for Saxon History and Folklore eV, online edition (January 15, 2020)
  3. ^ Paul Köhler, Baroness Katharina v. Gersdorf, Zittau 1883
  4. ↑ Constantin Schöne, History of the free noble Magdalenen-Stift zu Altenburg, S 117 f., Digitized
personal data
SURNAME Friesen, Carl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friesen, Carl Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Privy councilor, president of the senior consistory, church councilor, court judge and manor owner, heir to Rötha, Kotta, Rüben and Geschwitz
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1619
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1686
Place of death Rötha