Christian August von Friesen (General)

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Christian August Freiherr von Friesen (born March 15, 1674 in Sulzbach ; † September 24, 1737 in the military hospital of Belgrade ) was a royal Polish and electoral Saxon lieutenant general . He was one of the first 21 Saxon generals to be awarded the Military Order of St. Henry after the foundation .

Life

Christian August came from the Saxon noble family von Friesen and was the son of Christian August Freiherr von Friesen (1646–1681) and his wife Christina née von Offenberg (1650–1687). When Christian August was 13 years old, he was already an orphan.

family

He was married to Maria Charlotta, born von Mäsebuch (* February 14, 1688, † April 24, 1753). She was the daughter of Louise Henriette, the sister of Carl Hildebrand von Canstein , (* 1663) geb. Baroness von Canstein, ad. Mrs. Colonel von Mäsebuch (also: Meysebug, Meseburg, Meisebug, Meysebuch). The royal Polish real oldest secret council and chancellor as well as owner of the estates Rötha and Geschwitz, Otto Heinrich von Friesen (1654-1717) was his stepfather. His aunt was the poet Henriette Catharina von Gersdorff . Heinrich von Friesen , a diplomat and director of the Privy Council, was his great-uncle.

Since the 1704 closed marriage of his sister Hedwig Sophia, born of Mäsebuch with Friedrich von Stammern had remained, the Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Court and Judicial Council without male descendants inherited the Stammer's fief, namely the in Saxon share of the county of Mansfeld located Amt Rammelburg with the Schloss Rammelburg the two sons of Christian August von Friesen, Carl August and Johann Friedrich Ernst Freiherr von Friesen.

literature

  • Ernst Freiherr von Friesen: History of the imperial baron family von Friesen. 2 volumes, Dresden 1899.
  • Hermann Schotte: Rammelburger Chronik. History of the old Mansfeld office of Rammelburg and the spots, villages and estates belonging to it Wippra, Abberode, Biesenrode , Braunschwende, Forst Braunschwende, Friesdorf, Haida, Hermerode, Hilkenschwende, Königerode, Popperode, Rammelburg, Ritzgerode, Steinbrücken , Halle 1906, new edition 2005 .
  • Josef Matzerath : Baron Christian August von Friesen: (1674-1737). - In: Landtagskurier, Free State of Saxony, Landtag 2013, no. 1, pp. 18-19.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Louise Henriette von Canstein at geneanet.org
personal data
SURNAME Friesen, Christian August von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friesen, Christian August Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon General
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1674
PLACE OF BIRTH Sulzbach
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1737