Christine von Halle
Christine von Halle (born December 11, 1533 at Rahden Castle near Minden ; † 1603 at the Breitenburg near Itzehoe ) was the wife of Heinrich Rantzau . Despite her position as a wife and thus under the tutelage of her husband, she independently concluded contracts that went far beyond the power of keys , bought and leased real estate and conducted financial transactions.
Life
Christine von Halle came from a knightly family originally resident in Halle near Bodenwerder , which was linked to the Münchhausen , von Hofes and von Holles. Her father Franz von Halle (* 1509 in Drakenburg; † 1553 in Antwerp) had earned well as a mercenary leader and lent money against mortgages to the credit-hungry petty aristocracy, which led to his fortune. Christine von Halle was his only full child. She is said to have brought her husband a fortune of 4 tons of gold, approx. 400,000 Reichstalers , into the marriage, an amount that of course consisted to a large extent of claims that Rantzau had to realize first; as a result, he got into a family feud with the Counts of Hoya , which could not be settled until 1558. Her mother, née Rommel , had died after giving birth. Christine was already an orphan when she married in Segeberg in 1554 .
On February 20, 1554, a binding marriage discussion was held between the future spouses , in which they regulated their future financial circumstances, Heinrich Rantzau took over the inheritance of his wife, but gave her a morning gift and breeding (provision for the case of widowhood ( Wittum ) ) assured under the condition "Ehligen Beilager".
Christine von Halle was personally involved in many of his financial affairs by Heinrich Rantzau and was also a businesswoman herself. She thus worked in a much broader economic framework than the women of her time, especially through Lutheranism . Her own economic weight and business acumen are likely to have played a major role here, but also the shaping of her husband , who was already more than busy with his "Embtern", his building projects and book productions, by humanism , which z. B. in Juan Luis Vives ' extremely widespread and successful work De institutione feminae christianae for intellectual education and thus equal respect for women. The important building projects of the Rantzau couple also bear the names or initials of both spouses. Christine von Halle and her husband had twelve children, of which only seven survived the parents. The agreement of the spouses is also clear through a threefold acrostic poem Rantzau, in which HENRICUS, CRISTINA and RANTSOV (I) V (S) result from reading together the first, middle and end letters.
It should be emphasized that Christine von Halle, who outlived her husband by only four years, her business acumen differently than z. B. Sophie von Mecklenburg , the wife of Rantzau's employer Friedrich II , did not develop as a widow .
literature
- Marion Bejschowetz-Iserhoht: Christine von Halle - The woman at his side. In: Heinrich Rantzau (1526–1598) governor in Schleswig and Holstein. A humanist describes his country . Exhibition catalog. Publications of the Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesarchiv 64, Schleswig 1999. ISBN 3-931292-57-6
Individual evidence
- ↑ Henrik Rantzau . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 13 : Pelli – Reravius . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1899, p. 438 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
- ↑ See Juan Luis Vives: Von underweysung ayner Christian Frauwen at CAMENA uni-mannheim.de , esp. Von der emptung der Daughters fol. Va ff
- ↑ Read up on CAMENA uni-mannheim.de page 542
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Halle, Christine von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rantzau, Christine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German nobleman and businesswoman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1533 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Raden Castle near Minden |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1603 |
| Place of death | Breitenburg Castle |