David von Bassewitz

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David von Bassewitz (* 1557 ; † February 6, 1624 in Dalwitz ) was a princely Mecklenburg councilor and court master .

family

He came from the old Mecklenburg family von Bassewitz and followed the tradition of political engagement that had existed for generations. His great-grandfather Henneke von Bassewitz, his grandfather Vicke von Bassewitz, his father Lütke von Bassewitz, like his older brother Cuno Wulfrath, were Mecklenburg district administrators. His mother, Anna von Quitzow , was the daughter of the district administrator and captain of Neustadt, Lütke von Quitzow. He was married to Elisabeth von Schwerin .

Life

Raised by his parents in “noble virtues” and “fear of God”, he was sent to the Güstrow Cathedral School under the director of Magister Franciscus Omichius . Here he lived with the superintendent Conrad Becker . From 1576 he attended the university in Rostock . After the death of his father in 1576, he was not allowed to take the feudal oath - still underage - and had to be represented by his brother Cuno Wulfrath. In 1592 he got into a dispute with the entire Prebberedes peasantry about services and transports to be performed, which led to a dispute up to the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer .

Having become aware of him, Duke Ulrich von Mecklenburg sent him first to the coronation celebrations of Christian IV in Denmark, then to the wedding ("supplement") of the Elector of Saxony and assigned him further ambassadorial duties. After he had proven himself here, he was appointed to the council by the duke. He kept this government role for four years until the Duke's death in 1603. After that, he was appointed by the Duke's widow to be her councilor and court master as well as captain von Grabow . Later, the “ common landscape ” elected him, with the approval of the sovereign authorities, as provisional agent for the Ribnitz monastery . He owned the Dalwitz, Prebberede and Wohrenstorf estates and had been the custodian of the Lühburg and Maslow estates as the guardian of his nephews since 1622 . Due to increasing physical decline he spent the last years of his life in Dalwitz.

He is described as a particularly godly man, which was expressed in donations , scholarships for theology students and the fact that he employed and housed his own pastor (Joachim Duncker) in Dalwitz for a while. His name and coat of arms were in the knight's hall in Rehna . He died childless. His renaissance epitaph is in the Polchow village church . On this he and his wife Elisabeth von Schwerin kneel as donor figures to the left and right of the dominant crucifixion relief, which is surrounded by ancestral coats of arms.

literature

  • Lucas Bacmeister : Christian / Leich consolation and honor sermon from the believing children of God's heavenly dwelling and embraces according to the same / from the 5th chapter the other epistle S Pauli to the Corinthians / In honor of Woledlen / Gestrengen und Ehrenworth / Mr David von Bassewitz ... etc. without pagination, 65 pages, Rostock 1624, by Joachim Fueß
  • Adolph Graf von Bassewitz: From the life of the Imperial Count Henning Friedrich von Bassewitz with some news about the Bassewitz family of the Wendish line. o. O., 1859
  • Friedrich Schlie : Art and historical monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , Volume 1: The district court districts of Rostock, Ribnitz, Sülze-Marlow, Ticino, Laage, Gnoien, Dargun, Neukalen, Schwerin 1896

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lucas Bacmeister, Christian Leich, Consolation and Honor Sermon ... etc. without pagination, title page, Rostock 1624, by Joachim Fueß
  2. ↑ a b c d e Adolph Graf von Bassewitz: From the life of Count Henning Friedrich von Bassewitz with some news about the Bassewitz family of the Wendish line. o. O., 1859, p. 36
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Lucas Bacmeister, Christian funeral, consolation and honor sermon ... etc. without pagination, part “De Persona Defuncti”, Rostock 1624, with Joachim Fueß
  4. ↑ Torsten Foelsch: Castle and Castle Stavenow in Prignitz contributions to the property and construction history of the Mark Ritter seat Digitalisat (PDF; 560 kB)
  5. ↑ Semester list Uni Rostock  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: dead link / matrikel.uni-rostock.de
  6. ^ Illustration in Friedrich Schlie : Kunstdenkmäler , Volume 1, p. 470.
personal data
SURNAME Bassewitz, David von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mecklenburg privy councilor and court master
DATE OF BIRTH 1557
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1624
Place of death Dalwitz