Christoph von Rappe (General)

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Christoph von Rappe († after February 8, 1716 ) was a Kurland - Polish general.

Life

Christoph von Rappe came from the Courland- Prussian noble family von Rappe . He was a son of the royal Polish lieutenant colonel Heinrich von Rappe and Veronica von Korff . His brother, Otto Ernst von Rappe († 1707), was wealthy in Courland and Prussia, also a royal Polish major general , as well as Truchseß of Polish Livonia and fortress commander in the Ukraine.

Christoph von Rappe was in command of the fortress Soroka on the Dniestr from 1691 , royal Polish major general from 1701 and in command of the Polish fortress in Kamjanez-Podilskyj from 1710 to 1714 . He was in lively correspondence with his superior, the Crown Hetman Adam Mikołaj Sieniawski .

He was the brother-in-law of Johann Dietrich von Hoverbeck and guardian of his two sons, who lived in Prussia like his own wife and children.

literature

  • Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knighthoods (New Series) , Hamburg 2012, Vol. 2, p. 234
  • Bożena Popiołek: Życie w twierdzy w czasach Augusta II na podstawie listów komendanta Rappego , In: Kamieniec Podolski. Studia z dziejów miasta i regionu, t. I, pod red. F. Kiryka, Kraków 2000, pp. 215-250
personal data
SURNAME Black, Christoph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Courland-Polish general
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
DATE OF DEATH after February 8, 1716