Christoph von Esleve

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Christoph von Esleve (also Elsleben , Eilsleben , Esleven , Eßleben ) (* March 12, 1580 ; † September 7, 1646 in Kemnade ) was initially provost of Obermarsberg and Kemnade as a Benedictine in Corvey . After his conversion to Protestantism, he became a colonel and temporarily governor in Eichsfeld .

Life

He was the son of Diedrich von Esleve zu Bremscheid and Margarethe (née Rumpff ).

Esleve entered the Corvey Benedictine monastery. When his father was charged with false allegations of witchcraft, he supported him with his advice. From 1610 he was provost of the Obermarsberg provost's office. There he evidently led a very worldly life. So he always had thirteen horses in the stable. The monastery’s debts rose to 8,000 thalers. Already at this time he was inclined to Lutheranism. Because he did not support the counter-reformation policy of Elector Ernst von Bayern and his successor, Jesuits were sent to Marsberg in 1617 . As early as 1615, the Landdrost Kaspar von Fürstenberg had proposed to Elector Ferdinand that Esleve should be replaced as a debt maker in Marsberg. Esleve was named in 1617 as provost of Kemnade Monastery, which had been part of Corvey again since 1593.

In 1620 the provost officially converted to Lutheranism and married Margarethe von Stockhausen. With this he had seven children. This ends the history of the Kemnade Convention. Esleve was a colonel in Brunswick at that time and called himself Ritter von Kemnade. For expenses in the Braunschweig service he demanded and received from Duke Friedrich Ulrich von Braunschweig the property to Kemnade as a pledge as compensation.

During the Thirty Years' War , as colonel of his cavalry regiment in 1632, he participated in the capture of Dingelstädt . In the same year he was appointed governor of the Eichsfeld in the name of Gustav Adolf II and Wilhelm IV by Alexander Erskein . A short time later he had to retire from the approaching Imperial General Gottfried Heinrich zu Pappenheim . In November of that year he returned to the Eichsfeld and collected contributions there. He also tried to defend Duke Wilhelm's claim to the land. The latter claimed that Gustav Adolf had given him the previous territory of the Archbishops of Mainz . Esleve had partially financed his mission with its own funds. He was compensated by withholding contributions, supplies and slopes from the Eichsfeld. However, there were further conflicts with the employer and Esleve was released in November 1633.

Corvey sued the Reich Chamber of Commerce regarding Kemnade's property . In 1627 the property was temporarily lost by the troops of the imperial general Tilly . The family later returned to Kemnade. A comparison was made between Esleve and Corvey in 1633. After that he was allowed to keep the property until his death. The property was also the subject of the negotiations for the Peace of Westphalia . After his death, it remained in his widow's lease. After her death in 1656 it reverted to Braunschweig, even if Corvey continued to claim this property. He and his family were buried in the transept of the Kemnade monastery church. The grave vault passed to the von Münchhausen family in 1724 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ K. Steinacker: The architectural and art monuments of the district of Holzminden. Wolfenbüttel, 1907 p. 374

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literature

  • Magdalena Padberg: An extraordinary witch trial. From Eslave versus Volmers / Hoberg. Arnsberg, 1987 p. 158, pp. 203-207
  • Pastor Dornseifer: Spiritual chats, In: Mescheder Zeitung from July 1904 online version (PDF; 306 kB)

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personal data
SURNAME Esleve, Christoph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Benedictine, later colonel on horseback
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1580
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1646
Place of death Kemnade