Caspar Ermes

Caspar Ermes (born December 1592 ; † May 22, 1648 in Erfurt ) was a Swedish colonel during the Thirty Years' War .

Life

Origin and family

Caspar Ermes came from a Livonian aristocratic family , which appeared in a document around Ermes as feudal taker and vassal of the Teutonic Order since the 15th century . His parents were Caspar Ermes and Gertrud Schwartz from Courland .

He married Countess Anna von Loewenwolde (1609–1645). From the marriage his son and three daughters survived him:

Johann Caspar Ermes († 1681), Swedish cavalry master and judge in Riga
Barbara Gertrude Ermes (1632–1654), ∞ Gustav Magnus von der Pahlen (1617–1691), captain
Margarethe Ermes, ∞ Johann von Rosen auf Kekkau († 1658)
Anna Elisabeth Ermes

Career

Ermes entered Swedish military service and was Rittmeister of a company in 1629 . In 1631 he advanced to lieutenant colonel , successively became commander in Ochsenfurt and Windsheim and finally rose to colonel in 1633. From 1633 to 1634 Ermes was in command of the Finnish garrison of Königshofen and Schweinfurt , and in July 1634 moved to Augsburg in the same position . Here he made great merits in defending the city and arranging with the city council.

The Swedish field marshal Johan Banér appointed him in April / May 1640 as the successor to the Swedish colonel Heinrich von der Goltz as the Swedish governor of the Thuringian states and city commander of Erfurt. He worked as such until his death, which occurred prematurely as a result of a war wound at court under the command of Carl Gustav Wrangel . Ermes was ibid in the Kaufmannskirche buried.

Already in 1597 the orphaned Caspar Ermes was given by King Sigismund III. the parental farm in Kokenberg confirmed as property. King Gustav Adolph awarded him the Wiegantshof estate for this purpose. Ermes continued to donate goods near Fulda and the Kommende Griefstedt . In 1647 he acquired the Reichelhof near Schweinfurt and was given Sporck's lien in Unterpleichfeld and in Fulda Abbey after its transfer to the imperial camp.

literature

Caspar Hillebrandt: Auxilium Nostrum A Domino (...) , 1648

Web links

Bernd Warlich: The Thirty Years' War in personal reports, chronicles and reports. Volkach. ( Online version )

Painting by Ermes with his son in the south aisle of the Merchant Church in Erfurt

Alphabetical register of the people in Caspar Heinrich Marx's personal report on Central German reports from the Thirty Years' War (MDSZ) at the University of Jena

Individual evidence

^ Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods part 2, 1.2: Estland, Görlitz 1930, p. 678.
↑ Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (edit.): Genealogical manual of the Estonian knighthood , vol .: 1, Görlitz [1931], p. 608.
^ Friedrich C. Gullmann: History of the city of Augsburg. Volume 3. Geiger, Augsburg 1818, pp. 206-207.
^ Heinrich von Hagemeister : Materials for a history of the country estates of Livonia. Volume 2, Eduard Frantzen's Buchhandlung, Riga 1837, p. 291.

personal data
SURNAME	Ermes, Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish colonel during the Thirty Years War
DATE OF BIRTH	December 1592
DATE OF DEATH	May 22, 1648
Place of death	Erfurt

[1] Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods part 2, 1.2: Estland, Görlitz 1930, p. 678.

[2] Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (edit.): Genealogical manual of the Estonian knighthood , vol .: 1, Görlitz [1931], p. 608.

[3] Friedrich C. Gullmann: History of the city of Augsburg. Volume 3. Geiger, Augsburg 1818, pp. 206-207.

[4] Heinrich von Hagemeister : Materials for a history of the country estates of Livonia. Volume 2, Eduard Frantzen's Buchhandlung, Riga 1837, p. 291.