Degenhard Bertram from Spee

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Ancestral coat of arms of the von Spee family

Degenhard Bertram von Spee (born July 29, 1681 in Düsseldorf ; † March 11, 1736 ibid) was a nobleman from the family of the Barons von Spee and served as an officer in the Electoral Palatinate .

Parentage and family

He came from the Rhenish noble family von Spee and was born as the son of the Electoral Palatinate Chamber President or Court Marshal Friedrich Christian von Spee (1626–1695) and his second wife (since 1678) Anna Elisabeth von Loë (1648–1704), daughter of Degenhard Bertram von Loë to knowledge .

The son of Ambrosius Franziskus von Spee

His first wife's father was married to Maria Scheid called Weschpfennig , daughter of the Duke of Berg Colonel Steward Johann Bertram called Scheid Weschpfennig , the educator of the later Elector Palatine Philip William . From this marriage there were only daughters. One of them, Maria Anna Franziska von Spee (Degenhard Betrams half-sister, † 1725), was married to Lieutenant General Johann Wilhelm von Efferen († 1724) from the Electoral Palatinate . Via his first wife, the father Friedrich Christian von Spee also inherited Heltorf Castle in 1662 , which later became the headquarters of his descendants.

Degenhard Bertram von Spee married Elisabeth Amalie von der Gracht zu Wangen (1694–1761) in 1714. The marriage resulted from the son Ambrosius Franziskus von Spee (1730–1791), who married Anna Elisabeth Augusta von Hillesheim (1725–1798), daughter of the Palatinate Minister Franz Wilhelm Caspar von Hillesheim (1673–1748).

Life

Spee entered the Palatinate military service at the age of 22. There he was a dragoons - colonel in the life guard and commanded a cavalry regiment named after him from 1707 to 1711, with which he took part in the War of the Spanish Succession . He took part in the siege of Toulon in 1707 and the battle of Almenar in 1710 , where he was taken prisoner. He later rose to become major general in the Palatinate , and finally lieutenant general .

Degenhard Bertram von Spee was also electoral Palatinate privy councilor and Lord zu Altenhof . In 1714 he leased the Düsseldorf court from Holland for 12 years . He had the inherited Heltorf Castle expanded as a future family seat. His widow lived here with their son Ambrosius Franziskus von Spee , the Emperor Karl VI. In 1739, at the age of nine, raised to the rank of imperial count . He became the great-great-grandfather of Admiral Count Maximilian von Spee , who became famous in recent German history , and who perished in 1914 with his two sons in a naval battle near the Falkland Islands .

In the diploma for the elevation of the count of Ambrosius Franziskus von Spee, the emperor wrote on May 9, 1739 about his father Degenhard Bertram:

“ How then, in the 22nd year of his age, his father so practiced in war matters that he was appointed by the Elector Palatine Liebden as the proper Colonel of the Life Guard and as the first thought Elector Liebden to preserve our rights and justice to the Spanish throne sent some helping peoples to Hispania, he, his father, left this his respectable position in the bodyguard and to serve us with his regiment, which was sent with us at that time, with an exposition of life and limb, also in all campaigns and in our highest presence, his exceptional bravery was so shown that we saw us graciously moved not only to praise him and his perceived excellent bravery in writing with the electors' lovers, but also to praise him in writing through our General Field Marshal Guido Count von Starhemberg, our defending Imperial Grace assure rn to let. How he then, through such his constant good performance and had strange qualities, emerged in such a way that he stood loving the more mentioned electors of the Palatinate, as a proper Privy Councilor and Lieutenant General with all glory to his end. "

- Johann Christian von Stramberg : Rheinischer Antiquarius , 3rd section, Volume 9, p. 41, Koblenz, 1861

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical page of the von Spee family
  2. ^ Website Schloss Wissen, with a short biography of Degenhard Bertram von Loë
  3. ↑ Arnold Robens: The knight-born rural nobles of the Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine, represented in Wapen and Descent , Volume 1, p. 178, Aachen, 1818; (Digital scan of the noble family from the canal to the cheeks)
  4. ^ Website on the von Spee cavalry regiment
  5. ^ Daniel Schneider: Theatri Europaei 1710-1712 , Frankfurt am Main, 1723, p. 280; (Digital scan)
  6. ^ Heinrich Ferber: Historical walk through the old city of Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, 1889, p. 14; (Detail scan)
  7. ^ Genealogical page
personal data
SURNAME Spee, Degenhard Bertram from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spee, Degenhard Bertram Alexander Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Electoral Palatinate Lieutenant General and Privy Councilor, Lord of the Castle
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1681
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1736
Place of death Dusseldorf