Christoph von Waldenfels

Christopher III. von Waldenfels zu Lichtenberg (* 1565 ; † 1633 ) was a Bavarian , Brandenburg and finally Coburg court councilor .

Life

Origin and family

Christopher III. was a member of those von Waldenfels zu Lichtenberg . His father Ernst von Waldenfels († 1564).

Career

Waldenfels undertook a trip between 1582 and 1587 that took him via Italy to Palestine and Egypt . He then entered the service of Margrave Georg Friedrich von Ansbach (1539-1603), whose Privy Councilor in Kulmbach he became. As such, he was entrusted with important diplomatic tasks. With the death of his employer, he went to the court of Elector Joachim Friedrich von Brandenburg (1546–1608), who made him a member of the Council of State and mainly entrusted matters relating to Poland . A little after 1605 he acquired the Upper Franconian manor Blankenstein from Dresden citizen Jacob Reuter . From around 1610 he became a Coburg Privy Councilor. After his family got into considerable debt, in 1618, together with his brother, Hans Rudolf von Waldenfels , the Electoral Palatinate keeper of Nabburg , he was able to manage the Lichtenberg domain , which had been in the family's possession since 1427, thanks to his relationships with Margrave Christian von Brandenburg (1581–1655), whose brother-in-law, the Lithuanian-Polish prince Janusz Radziwiłł (1579–1620) sold for 100,000 guilders. He wore them to his wife, Elisabeth Sophie (1589–1629) as personal items . Waldenfels was considered a cryptocalvinist .

Web links

The barons of Waldenfels - most important lords of the rule (Lichtenberg)

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Thomas Freller: Stations of a "cosmopolitan" education. A reconstruction of Christoph von Waldenfels' trip to Italy, Palestine and Egypt between 1582 and 1587. In: Archive for History of Upper Franconia (2007), pp. 103–121.
↑ Christian August Ludwig Klaproth, Immanuel Karl Wilhelm Cosmar: The royal Prussian and electoral Brandenburg real secret Council of State on its 200-year foundation day January 5, 1805 , Berlin 1805, p. 315, No. 4.
↑ Friedrich Gottlob Leonhardi (Ed.): Earth Description of the Prussian Monarchy , Volume 4, 2nd Department, Halle 1797, p. 1398.

personal data
SURNAME	Waldenfels, Christoph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	von Waldenfels zu Lichtenberg, Christoph III.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bavarian, Brandenburg and Coburg court councilors
DATE OF BIRTH	1565
DATE OF DEATH	1633

[TF-1] A ^b Thomas Freller: Stations of a "cosmopolitan" education. A reconstruction of Christoph von Waldenfels' trip to Italy, Palestine and Egypt between 1582 and 1587. In: Archive for History of Upper Franconia (2007), pp. 103–121.

[2] Christian August Ludwig Klaproth, Immanuel Karl Wilhelm Cosmar: The royal Prussian and electoral Brandenburg real secret Council of State on its 200-year foundation day January 5, 1805 , Berlin 1805, p. 315, No. 4.

[3] Friedrich Gottlob Leonhardi (Ed.): Earth Description of the Prussian Monarchy , Volume 4, 2nd Department, Halle 1797, p. 1398.