Christian Siegfried von Plessen

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Christian Siegfried von Plessen

Christian Siegfried von Plessen (* 1646 ; † January 22, 1723 in Hamburg ) was court marshal, chief chamberlain, secret councilor and president of the pension chamber at the Danish court.

family

Christian Siegfried von Plessen came from the originally noble Mecklenburg-Holstein noble family von Plessen ; he was the son of the district administrator and court master of the Mecklenburg Prince Christian Ludwig (II.) , Daniel von Plessen (* January 3, 1606 - March 8, 1672), and the Dorothea Eleonore von Plessen, born. von Blumenthal (* around 1614, † after 1685) born. Plessen was married three times. First marriage in 1673 with Sophie Agnes von Lepel , † 1684; in second marriage in 1685 with Klara Eleonore von Bülow , † April 19, 1689 and in the last marriage in 1692 with Magdalena Hedwig von Halberstadt , † February 14, 1702. A total of thirteen children were born from these marriages. Christian Siegfried von Plessen was the father of Christian Ludwig Scheel von Plessen and Karl Adolf von Plessen , who came from their first marriage and continued their father's Danish career.

A portrait of him is in Frederiksborg Castle .

Professional background

Christian Siegfried von Plessen was at the Knight Academy in Lüneburg from 1663 to 1666 . From 1670 he was employed by the state government in Schwerin , where in 1673 he became a chancellery and legal advisor. In 1678 he left Mecklenburg and entered the service of Denmark. He became the Danish lord of the chamberlain, councilor and court marshal of Prince Georg (Jørgen) , whom he accompanied to London in 1683 for his marriage to Anne Stuart, later Queen Anne . Initially administrator of the Vordingborg office he was from 1680 bailiff of the Vordingborg office; from 1683 to 1689 he was bailiff of the Fehmarn office . In 1683 he was appointed to the Danish Privy Council, and in 1685 and 1689 he was delegated to London on a diplomatic mission. In 1692 he became President of the Danish Rent Chamber with a seat and vote in a secret council. In 1695 he led Princess Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow to her wedding with Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark, who later became King Frederik of Denmark , in Copenhagen. From 1696 to 1698 he was the Danish envoy in the negotiations for the peace of Rijswijk . After a further position as bailiff of the Moen office , he was retired from the Danish civil service as president of the pension chamber in 1700. Until 1714 he was still in the service of Prince Jørgen.

Plessen owned the goods Walloe, Gonderup, Billesburg and Glorup on Funen in Denmark and Hoikendorf, Manderow, Barendorf, Harkensee, Parin, Rolofshagen, Kussow and Gutow in Mecklenburg. In 1708 he sold part of the extensive family property in Klützer Winkel ; the goods Parin , Rolofshagen (with the patronage of the St. Thomas Church (Damshagen) ), Kussow and Gutow to the head stable master Hartwig von Bülow († 1729), his neighbors. The ducal confirmation of the contract took place in 1712.

He was buried in the family grave chapel he had bought in St. Peter's Church (Copenhagen) .

Awards

literature

  • Max Naumann: The Plessen . Line from the XIII. to XX. Century. Limburg an der Lahn 1971.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . The district court districts of Wismar, Grevesmühlen, Rehna, Gadebusch and Schwerin. II. Volume. Schwerin 1898, ISBN 3-910179-06-1 , p. 358 (reprint Schwerin 1992).
  2. ^ Christian Siegfried von Plessen (1646-1723). Retrieved October 23, 2010 .
  3. ^ Christian Siegfried von Plessen (1646-1723). Retrieved October 23, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Plessen, Christian Siegfried von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish Court Marshal, Privy Councilor and President of the Pension Chamber
DATE OF BIRTH 1646
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1723
Place of death Hamburg