Dietrich Marshal

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Dietrich Marschall , contemporary also Marschalch or Marschalk , (* around 1530; † November 1, 1604 in Herrengosserstedt ) was Hereditary Marshal in Thuringia , councilor of the Electorate of Saxony, then governor of Merseburg, most recently councilor and manor owner in Herrengosserstedt and Obhausen .

Live and act

He came from the Thuringian noble family Marschall , which had its headquarters in Herrengosserstedt. His father was the court clerk of the Electorate of Saxony, Wolf Marschall .

After the death of his father in 1554 he and his younger brother Gerhard Marschall were enfeoffed by Elector August von Sachsen with the paternal property and interest in Herrengosserstedt. Among the fiefs also scored an abbey called wood stain, which the report of the then what has been bailiff to Eckartsberga , Wolf Koller bought, Wolf Marshall and above the monastery Oldisleben had heard Further, a part Schultheißenhof and possessions to the Elector Moritz von Sachsen her father Wolf had sold with the knowledge of the Great Landscape Committee. At the time, her two brothers Georg Rudolph and Wolf Marschall were among the tenants .

Like his father, Dietrich Marschall also embarked on a career at court and, like him, became councilor at the court of the Electors of Saxony. Since 1568 he was together with his brothers and cousins ​​(sub-) hereditary marshal of the state of Thuringia .

In 1592 he still shared his father's estates in Herrengosserstedt with his brother Gerhard, but after he died he became the sole owner.

In 1603, Dietrich Marschall was responsible for the conclusion of the inheritance distribution agreement between Duke Johann von Sachsen in Weimar and the sons of his late brother Duke Friedrich Wilhelm von Sachsen.

Due to sad circumstances, his only son died before Dietrich Marschall, so that in his will he appointed his five underage grandchildren Christian, Johann Rudolph, Dietrich Wilhelm, Hans Dietrich and Moritz Albrecht Marschall as his heirs to provide for them accordingly, because debts had arisen . After the death of Dietrich Marschall, the manor Obhausen would have to be sold to repay debt.

literature

  • Hans Appel: The sex of the marshals of Herrengosserstedt and Burgholzhausen. AMF-Altkreis Eckartsberga, Tromsdorf 1981, OCLC 164928170 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Henrichs von Falckenstein [...] Thuringisch Chronicka , 1738, p. 1353
personal data
SURNAME Marshal, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hereditary Marshal in Thuringia, court official from the Electoral Saxony and manor owner in Herrengosserstedt
DATE OF BIRTH around 1530
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1604
Place of death Herrengosserstedt