Christian August von Haxthausen

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Christian August von Haxthausen (March 1653 - June 2, 1696 ) was the court master of August the Strong .

Life

Haxthausen comes from the noble family Haxthausen and was born in March 1653 as the son of Rittmeister Arnold Ludwig von Haxthausen. He grew up in Hanover and was next to Anne Eleonore von Bülow the closest childhood friend of Liselotte von der Pfalz , who was raised there in the Leineschloss by her aunt Sophie ; she later corresponded with him for life.

Then he became court squire in Celle , where the 12-year-old duke's daughter Sophie Dorothea fell so deeply in love with him that her father had to force her to sleep in his bedroom. Then he went to the service of Christian Albrecht von Holstein-Gottorf as a thigh .

On April 29, 1680 he became court master of the Saxon Prince August, who had initially been taught together with his brother. Haxthausen taught August horse riding, fencing and shooting and accompanied him on a cavalier tour that led via Paris to Madrid and Lisbon . Then he visited Italy with August. Because of the War of the Palatinate Succession , the trip had to be broken off and they returned to Dresden via Vienna and Prague .

Haxthausen remained in the Saxon service and in 1688 became a Privy Council of War and, after August became elector , on July 1, 1694, his chief chamberlain .

Haxthausen was a landlord on Putzkau , Muntzel, Lieth and Feuerschützenburstel.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk Van der Cruysse: Being a Madame is a great craft. Liselotte of the Palatinate. A German princess at the court of the Sun King. From the French by Inge Leipold. 7th edition, Piper, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-492-22141-6 , p. 86
  2. ↑ Dirk Van der Cruysse, ibid., P. 398
  3. ↑ a b Hannelore Helfer (ed.): Liselotte von der Pfalz in her Harling letters. , Volume 1, Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung 2007. P. 102
  4. ^ Archives for Saxon History , Volume 6, Page 292, Verlag B. Touchnitz, 1879 ( excerpt )
  5. ^ Frank-Lothar Kroll: The rulers of Saxony: Margraves, Electors, Kings 1089–1918 , Munich Beck, 2007.
  6. ^ Monthly sheet of the Heraldisch-Genealogischen Verein "Adler" , Volume 4, page 192, Verlag Carl Gerold's Sohn, 1900 ( excerpt )
personal data
SURNAME Haxthausen, Christian August von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon court master
DATE OF BIRTH March 1653
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1696