Christian Ludwig (Waldeck)

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Christian Ludwig von Waldeck (born July 29, 1635 in Waldeck ; † December 12, 1706 in Landau ) was initially Count von Waldeck -Wildungen and from 1692 Count von Waldeck and Pyrmont .

family

He was the eldest son of Count Philip VII von Waldeck-Wildungen (1613-1645) and his wife Anna Katharina von Sayn-Wittgenstein (1610-1690). He comes from the Waldeck family and became the progenitor of all princes and counts of Waldeck living today. The main line of the Arolser Princely House comes from his first marriage, while the Waldeck-Bergheim branch, which resides in Bergheim near Wildungen and became extinct in the male line in 1938, was founded by his son Josias from his second marriage.

Life

With the early death of his father in 1645, Christian Ludwig inherited his sub-county of Waldeck-Wildungen. The reign and his upbringing, as well as the younger brother Josias and the two sisters Juliane Elisabeth (1637–1707) and Anna Sophie (1639–1646), were in the hands of his mother and his father's father, Heinrich Wolrad , until 1660 . After Josias castle and office were awarded Wildungen as Paragium in 1660 (later the offices of Wetterburg and Landau were added), Christian Ludwig had the Christiansburg Palace built in Kleinern in 1662 and moved his residence there.

As in 1672 with the French attack on the United Provinces of the Dutch War broke out, Christian Ludwig went with his regiment on horseback as a colonel in the service of the Brandenburg Elector Friedrich Wilhelm and fought on its side against France and its allies. He later entered the service of the Reich , on December 24, 1677, he was field sergeant general , on April 20, 1682, field marshal lieutenant , on January 30, 1684, field warden, and on April 25, 1689, imperial field marshal .

Hereditary control

Through his first wife, Christian Ludwig acquired a claim to the County of Rappoltstein in Alsace in 1673 , but these inheritance claims could not be enforced against the husband of her older sister Catharina Agathe, Christian II , Count Palatinate near Rhine , Duke of Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler ; however, the coat of arms of the County of Rappoltstein has been part of the Waldecker coat of arms since 1793, and from 1793 with Georg I , whose mother came from the Pfalz-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler family, the Waldeckers carried the additional title "Graf von Rappoltstein".

In 1685 Christian Ludwig decided that his branch of the Count's House would henceforth be primogeniture , albeit with the important restriction that in the event of his possible inheritance of the Eisenberg part of the County of Waldeck, his surviving second son should inherit this part, so that there are always two lines next to each other would exist. In this case, the income from the county of Pyrmont , which had belonged to the Eisenberger line since 1625, was intended to support younger siblings. On June 12, 1685 he signed an inheritance contract with his cousin, Prince Georg Friedrich von Waldeck-Eisenberg, whose four sons had all died, which confirmed this regulation. Two years later, on July 5, 1687, he changed his mind and decided that the primogeniture should apply throughout the Waldeck house and that there should only be one ruling line. Prince Georg Friedrich agreed, as in Korbach convenes parliament the county Waldeck. On the basis of this contract, Christian Ludwig inherited the county of Pyrmont after the death of his cousin in 1692 and was thus able to reunite the county of Waldeck for the first time since 1397.

On September 30, 1695 he modified the Primogenitur house law insofar as he set up a paragium for the second-born surviving son, Heinrich Georg (1683–1736) , consisting of the three villages Bergheim , Königshagen and waves . This regulation was also confirmed by Emperor Leopold I on August 22, 1697. After the childless death of Heinrich Georg, the Paragium fell to the last surviving son of Christian Ludwig, Josias (1696–1763).

After inheriting Waldeck-Eisernberg, Christian Ludwig moved his residence in 1695 to Arolsen in the former monastery of Aroldessen , which was converted into a residential palace in the 16th century and in which his cousin Georg Friedrich had previously resided, and in 1696 he moved the office of the county of Korbach , the largest city in the county, where the citizenship was too rebellious for him, to Mengeringhausen .

Witch trials

During his reign, witch trials took place in Wildungen from 1650 to 1664 , which reached their second peak in the years 1660–1662. The first high point of the Waldeck witch hunt took place in 1629–1632 under Count Christian I.

death

On his death in 1706, Christian Ludwig left his eldest surviving son Friedrich Anton Ulrich a unified county of Waldeck and Pyrmont. He was buried in Kilian's Church in Korbach . There he lies with his second wife, Johannette von Nassau-Saarbrücken, and his son Carl Christian Ludwig, who fell as sergeant-general on September 16, 1734 near Quingentole in the Duchy of Mantua .

progeny

Christian Ludwig married Countess Anna Elisabeth von Rappoltstein (* March 7, 1644 - December 6, 1676), the second daughter of Count Johann Jacob von Rappoltstein (1598–1673), on July 2, 1658 , and had the following children with her:

  • Charlotte Elisabeth (October 8, 1659 - March 22, 1660)
  • Dorothea Elisabeth (* July 6, 1661; † July 23, 1702 in Brake), until her wedding abbess at Schaaken Monastery , ⚭ December 17, 1691 Rudolf zur Lippe-Brake
  • Georg Friedrich (born June 21, 1663 - † April 28, 1686)
  • Heinrich Wolrad (April 2, 1665 - September 8, 1688 in Negroponte)
  • Charlotte Sofie (born January 18, 1667; † September 6, 1723 in Glaucha ) ⚭ 1707 Johann Junker (born June 3, 1680; † October 25, 1759 in Halle)
  • Alexandrine Henriette (July 17, 1668 - September 10, 1668)
  • Christiane Magdalene (born June 30, 1669; † March 18, 1699 in Hildburghausen ), abbess at Schaaken Monastery
  • Elenore Katharine (born August 5, 1670, † September 12, 1717 in Minden ).
  • Eberhardine Luise (August 9, 1671 - September 19, 1725)
  • Friedrich Ludwig Karl (* July 18, 1672; † March 30, 1694 in Hellevoetsluis )
  • Philipp Ernst (born August 26, 1673 - † June 27, 1695)
  • Karl († 1674)
  • Wilhelm August (September 5, 1675 - August 20, 1676)
  • Friedrich Anton Ulrich (November 27, 1676; † January 1, 1728) ⚭ 1700 Louise von Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1678–1753), daughter of Christian II.
  • Marie Henriette (November 27, 1676 - July 8, 1678)

On June 6, 1680 he married Johannette von Nassau-Idstein (1657–1733), daughter of Count Johann (Nassau-Idstein) (1603–1677), and had the following children with her:

  • Ernst August (born October 11, 1681, † November 15, 1703, killed in the Battle of Speyerbach )
  • Heinrich Georg (* May 24, 1683; † August 3, 1736 in Wildungen) ⚭ December 8, 1712 Ulrike Eleonore zu Dohna-Carimmern (* April 3, 1689 - October 6, 1760 in Bergheim), daughter of Friedrich Christoph (7 January 1664; † July 20, 1727)
  • Christine Eleonore Luise (born April 11, 1685 - † February 8, 1737 in Selbach ), abbess in Schaaken
  • Sofie Wilhelmine (born June 6, 1686 - † August 23, 1749), abbess at Schaaken Monastery
  • Karl Christian Ludwig (* December 25, 1687; † September 16, 1734 near Quingentole (Italy), killed as Sergeant General )
  • Josias (born August 29, 1689 - † November 7, 1693)
  • Johann Wolrad (* May 20, 1691 - † July 22, 1691)
  • Henriette Albertine (born January 26, 1695 - † December 7, 1699 in Arolsen)
  • Josias (* August 20, 1696; † February 2, 1763) ⚭ January 1725 Dorothea Sophie zu Solms-Rödelheim and Assenheim (1698–1774), daughter of Ludwig Heinrich.
  • Charlotte Florentine (born October 10, 1697; † May 6, 1777 in Fritzlar ), abbess of the Schaaken monastery
  • Friedrich Wilhelm (* May 24, 1699 - † January 9, 1718)

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Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Waldeck was divided into nine offices until 1816: Arolsen , Eilhausen , Eisenberg , Landau , Lichtenfels , Rhoden , Waldeck , Wetterburg and Wildungen .
  2. ↑ Werner Höhle: The Counts of Waldeck in the service of Brandenburg and the empire
  3. ↑ Emperor Leopold I confirmed this inheritance contract on August 22, 1697 ( House Laws of Waldeck-Pyrmont )
personal data
SURNAME Christian Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Christian Ludwig von Waldeck-Wildungen; Christian Ludwig von Waldeck-Pyrmont
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Waldeck-Wildungen, Count of Waldeck and Pyrmont
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1635
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldeck
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1706
Place of death Landau