Christian August (Solms-Laubach)

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Ducat with the Count's Portrait (1761)

Christian August zu Solms-Laubach (born August 1, 1714 in Wetzlar , † February 20, 1784 in Laubach ) was a ruling Imperial Count of Solms-Laubach .

Life

Christian August was the second-born son of the Count, Reichshofrat , Protestant Reich Chamber Court President and Imperial Privy Councilor Friedrich Ernst zu Solms-Laubach († 1723) and Friederike Charlotte Countess zu Stolberg-Gedern († 1739), sister of Prince Friedrich Carl zu Stolberg-Gedern . He succeeded his older brother Friedrich Magnus (born November 21, 1711 in Wetzlar, † August 17, 1738 in Laubach with gall fever) in government.

Count Christian August, knight of the royal Swedish Seraphin order , was imperial sovereign and imperial real secret council . The passionate coin collector, whose ancestor Reinhard zu Solms had received the right to mint from Emperor Charles V in 1552 , had his family celebrated with magnificent, baroque large silver coins that he minted on the occasion of various princely events (marriage, birth and death, ancestors and descendants) let.

After the death (on April 15, 1754) of his first father-in-law, Prince Wolfgang Ernst I. zu Isenburg and Büdingen in Birstein, who was director of the Wetterau Counts College , Christian August was appointed his successor in office. He held the position of director until 1767. His direct successor was Prince Wolfgang Ernst II zu Isenburg and Büdingen in Birstein, who was a nephew of Christian August's first wife and cousin of the wife of Christian August's son, the hereditary count Georg August Wilhelm, was.

After the early death of his son (1772), the Duke of Braunschweig's Guard Colonel and Adjutant General Georg August Wilhelm (* 1743), followed his grandson, Hereditary Count Friedrich zu Solms-Laubach , the grandfather in the government in 1784, initially under the tutelage of his mother Elisabeth Charlotte Ferdinande, a born princess of Isenburg (1753–1829).

family

Christian August zu Solms-Laubach with the little son of his daughter, who later became Prince Wilhelm zu Solms-Braunfels , as well as valet Bernard and wife von Dietzer, painting by Anton Wilhelm Tischbein (1762)

1. Marriage: Marriage on December 27, 1738 in Birstein with Elisabeth Amalie Princess zu Isenburg-Büdingen in Birstein (* Birstein November 20, 1714; † November 22, 1748; Laubach; buried there), daughter of Count (since 1744 Prince) Wolfgang Ernst I. zu Isenburg-Büdingen († 1754), director of the Wetterau Counts College; Children of this marriage:

  1. Friedrich Ernst Karl (born July 25, 1740 in Laubach, † May 14, 1759 in Laubach)
  2. Georg August Wilhelm (born August 9, 1743 in Laubach; † August 1, 1772 in Laubach) ∞ in Büdingen on November 2, 1767 Princess Elisabeth Charlotte in Isenburg-Büdingen in Birstein (born January 24, 1753 in Büdingen; † December 16 1829 in Utphe), daughter of Prince Friedrich Ernst of Isenburg and Büdingen (* 1709)
  3. Sophie Christine Wilhelmine (born August 29, 1741 in Laubach, † November 15, 1772 in Braunfels) ∞ zu Laubach August 24, 1756 with Prince Friedrich Wilhelm zu Solms-Braunfels († 1783)
  4. Maria Theresa, canoness in pen Gandersheim (born March 26, 1747 Laubach, † April 14, 1817)

2. Marriage: Marriage on February 11, 1751 in Langenstein with Karoline Amalie Princess of Nassau-Siegen (born November 26, 1715 in Siegen; † August 10, 1752 in Laubach in childbed ), daughter of Prince Friedrich Wilhelm I Adolf of Nassau -Win . Child of this marriage:

  1. Stillborn daughter (* / † August 9, 1752)

3rd marriage: marriage on October 28, 1753 in Laubach with Dorothea Wilhelmine (von) Bötticher, Countess von Löwensee (* February 7, 1725 - August 25, 1754 in Laubach (in childbed); buried there), daughter of the Saxon Weissenfels Court and Justice Councilor Ernst Zacharias (von) Bötticher. She was formerly governess of the young Laubach countess . Child of this marriage:

  1. Christiane Luise (born August 7, 1754 in Laubach; † March 3, 1815), buried in Würzburg; ∞ zu Laubach on December 19, 1787 with Prince Friedrich Karl Ludwig zu Hohenlohe- Kirchberg († 1791)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Solms-Laubach, Friedrich Ernst Graf zu. Hessian biography. (As of August 8, 2013). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Annual genealogical handbook (1790), p. 26
  3. ^ The house collection of the princes of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich (2012), pp. 62–70.
  4. ↑ Examination of the addendum to the history of the Count's case caught in the dispute in July 1781 , p. 38
  5. ↑ a b c family row of the houses Isenburg, Wied and Runkel , 1778, panel XIII
  6. ↑ Genealogisches Reichs- und Staats-Handbuch , 1805, p. 358.
  7. ^ Imperial nobility : letter of nobility from 1753; see. Ernst Heinrich Kneschke , New General German Adels Lexicon , Volume 1, 1829, p. 528
  8. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch , Neues Prussisches Adels-Lexicon , 1839, p. 52.
  9. ^ Michael Ranft, New genealogical-historical news from the noblest events , Volume 49, 1756, p. 348.
personal data
SURNAME Christian August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Solms-Laubach, Christian August zu; Solms-Wildenfels zu Laubach, Christian August von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ruling Imperial Count of Solms-Laubach
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1714
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzlar
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1784
Place of death Laubach