Conrad Mardefelt

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Conrad von Maesberg , from 1646 Marderfelt , from 1677 Freiherr Marderfelt (* around 1610 in Stockholm ; † May 21, 1688 in Vanselow in Western Pomerania ) was a Swedish field marshal in the 17th century .

Life

He was born as Conrad von Maesberg , son of the craftsman Johann von Maesberg († 1657) and Katharina Gese, who immigrated to Stockholm from Germany. In 1628 he joined the Swedish army, took part in the Swedish-Polish War , which lasted until 1629 , and was promoted to engineer in 1634. In 1637 he was appointed quartermaster general with the rank of captain . As a colonel , he led the expansion of the city of Demmin into a fortress during the Thirty Years War from 1641 (see Demmin city fortifications ). For his services as a fortification officer he was raised to the Swedish nobility on January 20, 1646 as a Swedish colonel of a German regiment and took the name Marderfelt . In the same year he was given command of all Swedish fortifications in Pomerania , Mecklenburg , the Mark Brandenburg , Bremen and Westphalia . During this time he was also the superior and "teacher" of the later famous Swedish fortress builder Erik Dahlberg . His “journeyman piece” under the guidance of Mardefelt as a fortification officer was the demolition of the massive tower of Demmin's house on the occasion of a visit by the Swedish heir to the throne, Karl Gustav, in 1647.

After the Thirty Years' War, Mardefelt, like many other military and civil servants in the Swedish service, received property as thanks and compensation. He received the Pritzier domain with the villages of Hohendorf , Katzow and Netzeband in Western Pomerania, which the Governor General Carl Gustav Wrangel acquired from him in 1653 . In addition, he acquired the Vanselow estate on the Tollense near Demmin, which previously belonged to the von Maltzahn family. A bell donated by him in the Vanselower Chapel bears his name.

Under Karl X. Gustav of Sweden he took part in the Second Northern War and, after being appointed major general in 1655 , became the commander of Thorn and later of Elbing . He was also governor in Bremen, vice governor in Wismar and in Pomerania from 1668 to 1672. From 1673 he was ministerial resident at the Kurbrandenburg court. In 1675 he was appointed field marshal and led the campaign against Brandenburg at the side of Carl Gustav Wrangel . Because of Wrangel's illness, his stepbrother Wolmar had the actual command. Involved in the lost battle at Fehrbellin , he was accused of the unfortunate course of the war for Sweden, but acquitted. On June 9, 1677 he was by King Charles XI. raised by Sweden to the status of Swedish baron .

family

He was married to Lucia Katarina Theophili (born November 11, 1624 in Bückeburg; † March 2, 1658 in Demmin), with whom he had the following children, in his first marriage since November 24, 1640:

  • Christina Maria (* 1641) ⚭ 1677 Andreas Dubislaff von Blixen (* August 22, 1642 - † August 30, 1688)
  • Leonhard (born November 9, 1642), Lieutenant Colonel, after the death of his father owner of the Pensin estate in Western Pomerania († after 1697)
  • Johan Carl
  • Conrad Anton († September 5, 1677), Lieutenant Colonel of the Jönköping Infantry Regiment
  • Vilhelm, killed in January 1676 while attempting to recapture Wolgast Castle
  • Philipp Christopher, Privy Council
  • Arvid Axel († May 18, 1708)
  • Johann Dietrich, Lieutenant Colonel
  • three other sons and three daughters († before the mother, i.e. before 1658)

From his second marriage to Augusta Eleonora von der Lancken came from:

  • August Philipp (* 1660; † before 1732), Colonel of the Pomeranian Dragoons, farewell with character as Major General († before 1732)
  • Conrad, Chamberlain and Rittmeister in the Electoral Saxon service in 1687
  • Sophia Hedwig (born February 26, 1662 in Demmin; † September 27, 1733 in Berlin)
⚭ Major General Heinrich Hallard called Elliot (1620–1681)
⚭ Chamberlain Moritz Friedrich von Schwerin (1652–1686)
⚭ Legation councilor Lorenz Georg von Krockow (1638–1702)
⚭ Lieutenant General Johann Georg von Tettau (1650–1713)

literature

  • Svenskt biografiskt lexikon Volume 25, p. 132 (Swedish).
  • The introducerade svenska adelns ättartavlor , utgivna av Gustaf Elgenstierna , vol. 5, Stockholm 1930, pp. 198-200 (Swedish).
  • Matrikel öfwer dem af Swea-rikes ridderskap och adel , Volume 1, p. 216, digitized
  • Biographiskt Lexicon öfver namnkunnige svenska men: M - N , Volume 9, p. 38, digitized

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Fuhrmann: The Hanseatic City of Demmin in old and new views. Page 110, GEROS Verlag, Neubrandenburg 1998
  2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VIII, page 259, Volume 113 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1997, ISBN 3-7980-0813-2
  3. ↑ Den introducerade svenska adelns ättartavlor , utgivna av Gustaf Elgenstierna, vol. 5, Stockholm 1930, p. 198 f.
  4. ^ Genealogies and / or family foundations of Pomeranian especially knightly families, The Blixen family, p.83
  5. ↑ Landesarchiv Greifswald, Rep. 6a, Vol. 50, p. 267
  6. ↑ Den introducerade svenska adelns ättartavlor , utgivna av Gustaf Elgenstierna, vol. 5, Stockholm 1930, p. 199.
personal data
SURNAME Mardefelt, Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maesberg, Conrad von; Marderfelt, Conrad Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish field marshal
DATE OF BIRTH around 1610
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1688
Place of death Vanselow