Carol Bose
Carol Bose , modernized Karl von Bose , (* 10. August 1596 in the Bosenhof ; † 12. January 1657 in Schweinburg ) was an electoral Saxon colonel, since 1649 Amtshauptmann the offices Zwickau and Werdau and since 1653 also of Stollberg . He owned in the Zwickau catchment area Netzschkau , Mylau , Elsterberg and Crimmitschau as well as several manors in Breitungen . In his time he is said to have been the richest nobleman in Saxony.
Life
Carol Bose came from the Saxon noble family von Bose , whose representatives spelled without von until the 18th century . He was the third son of Hans Ernst Bose on Netzschkau and Großsaara and his first wife Clara von Geilsdorf .
At the age of 12, Carol Bose became a Page with Bishop Johann Philipp von Gebsattel in Bamberg . After his death in 1609 he waited several years for Wolf Dietrich von Crailsheim in Thon as a page and attended school with his son. When Carol Bose turned 18, he began his military career. He went to France with his eldest brother Julius Caesar and stayed there for 18 months in Metz ( Lorraine ) before moving on to Paris and serving in the regiment of King Louis XIII. served. When it came to the class uprising in Bohemia in 1618 , he left the French services. Under Count Ernst von Mansfeld , he was appointed captain-lieutenant when the city of Pilsen was besieged . In 1620 Bose entered the Electoral Saxon service and became captain . After returning from France, Carol met his first wife and inherited the rule of Netzschkau Castle in 1626 .
In 1622 he went into imperial services with the permission of the Saxon elector and got the position of a colonel-sergeant . When the imperial army marched into the Electorate of Saxony in 1631 , Carol Bose abdicated and went back to the Electoral Saxon service in Colonel Eustachius von Löser's 2000-strong regiment , where he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and served 13 months. In July 1632 he was entrusted with a regiment on foot of 1,900 men on the side of the Protestant Union and he was sent with this to Nuremberg . With parts of his regiment he took part in the battle of Lützen on November 16, 1632 as leader of the Bose brigade and on the side of Gustav II Adolf , King of Sweden .
In the further course of the Thirty Years' War , Bose was also entrusted in 1636 with a regiment on horseback of 1200 men.
On October 2, 1636, the Bose Regiment moved into Zwickau . The city had to pay the Colonel 600 florins a week to maintain the regiment. At the same time, however, the soldiers offered protection from the Swedes who had invaded Saxony under General Banér , who besieged Leipzig and made raids as far as the Zwickau area. Bose ordered vigorous defensive measures. In the same year he also led 7 regiments across the Saale when the Swedish troops occupied Bernburg . In 1637 he was sent to Erfurt with 5 regiments , but the city escaped occupation during negotiations. He resigned from active military service in 1638, but was appointed to the Secret War Council due to his military merits and diplomatic skills and was later sent by the Saxon Elector Johann Georg I as envoy to the Peace of Westphalia in Osnabrück and Münster . In 1649 the elector appointed him official governor over the offices of Zwickau and Werdau , and in 1653 also over Stollberg . In addition, he was appointed colonel of the defense works of the Thuringian, Erzgebirge and Vogtland districts.
After his military service he went back to the Vogtland , where he made Netzschkau the center of his ever-growing possessions. From 1636 he finally acquired almost all of the lordships and manors in the Netzschkau area, u. a. also the castle Mylau . He was accepted as a member of the Fruitful Society under the company name The Preserving . In 1642 he bought the Schweinsburg in Neukirchen an der Pleiße, where he spent his twilight years and died in 1657.
family
Carol Bose was married four times and had 13 children.
He met his first wife, Anna Maria Wambolt von Umstadt (born March 16, 1598 in Heidelberg , † September 14, 1637) after his return from France. He married her on October 13, 1624 and had three sons and five daughters with her.
His second wife, Maria Sophia née Vitzthum von Eckstädt, widowed von Asseburg from Kannawurf , whom he married on December 19, 1638 after the death of Anna Maria, gave birth to a son and a daughter.
On May 1, 1648, Carol married after the death of his second wife, Marie Magdalene nee von Starschedel , who gave birth to three children, of which the second daughter died shortly after the birth. Marie Magdalene herself died giving birth to the only son in this marriage in 1651.
Carol married a fourth time on June 13, 1652 in Netzschkau . With his fourth wife Sophie Rosina, born Stiebar von Buttenheim, he fathered three more children, a daughter and two sons. The best known of these is the youngest son of Carol Gottfried von Bose , of the Netzsckau Castle inherited from Carol, Privy Councilor , Chamberlain and Kreishauptmann to Meissen was and was elevated to the rank of count on 23 May 1715th
He died on January 12, 1657 on the way from Zwickau to his Schweinsburger manor, probably as a result of a stroke . After his death on May 5, 1657, Carol Bose was buried in his burial place, acquired in 1634 for 700 Meißnian guilders and expanded in 1637, in St. Mary's Cathedral in Zwickau. His first wife, Anna Maria née Wambolt von Umstadt , was the first to be buried there in 1637, but the family coat of arms was attached in a wrongly displayed tinge , with twisted and upside-down tips. His three other wives and several of his children are said to be buried in the hereditary funeral. The magnificent burial site is now a listed building .
In Bose's will a legacy was decreed, the interest of which was distributed to the poor every Sunday at his grave for 12 groschen of bread or rolls until the 19th century .
literature
- Bose book, family tables and articles on the history of the von Bose family (reissued on the occasion of the 750th anniversary, 1980)
- Bose, Carolus. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 4, Leipzig 1733, column 801 f.
- Bartholomäus Stepner: Three-fold identification = sign of the goods children of God […] Mr. Carol Bose , Zwickau 1658
Web links
- Short biography of Karl von Bose from the city of Zwickau
- Bose (Poser, Bosen, Boiße), Karl von on www.30jaehrigerkrieg.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to statements by the Zwickau chronicler Emil Herzog, see Karl von Bose ( memento of the original from January 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the chapter Personalities of the City of Zwickau
- ↑ a b c d Johann Heinrich Zedler: Large Complete Universal Lexicon of All Sciences and Arts , Leipzig 1731–1754, Bavarian State Library.
- ↑ a b c d Karl von Bose , website of the city of Zwickau; accessed on October 4, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bose, Carol |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bose, Carolus of; Bose, Karl von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Elector of Saxony, governor and manor owner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 10, 1596 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bosenhof, Kleinhessen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 1657 |
| Place of death | Pig castle |