Egmont by Chasôt
Isaak Franz Egmont Count of Chasôt , originally Isaac François Egmonde Vicomte de Chasôt (born February 18, 1716 in Caen , † August 24, 1797 in Lübeck ) was a Prussian officer and later city commander of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck .
Life
Egmont von Chasôt came from the French aristocratic family Chasôt, who originally lived in Burgundy , and received his training with the French army, from which he had to flee to the Germans because of a duel that ended fatally for his opponent. He made the acquaintance of Frederick the Great , who took a liking to him. A painting by Adolph Menzel from 1852 shows Frederick the Great and the dancer Barbarina with Chevalier de Chasôt, Count Algarotti and General Rothenburg . In Prussian service he took part in the Battle of Mollwitz and the Battle of Hohenfriedberg .
Subsequently, he was awarded the order Pour le Mérite by Friedrich and raised to the Prussian count status. In 1740 he was commander of the Guard Jäger battalion . After another duel in 1746 he was sentenced to imprisonment in Spandau , but this did not affect his relationship with Friedrich. After a month in detention, he was pardoned. In 1750 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel, but fell out of favor in Prussia in 1752.
First he went to Neustrelitz , where he had stayed several times since the 1740s and built a city palace for himself. Here he bought a pleasure palace on the southern outskirts of Neustrelitz, from which the Marly von Strelitz estate later developed, and became the first director of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz court chapel, which was founded around 1728 . As a favorite of Duchess Dorothea Sophie , he often stayed at the Neustrelitz court.
After the change of government in Mecklenburg-Strelitz in 1752/1753, when he possibly fell out of favor, he went to Lübeck. As early as 1754 he became a citizen of the Hanseatic city. In 1759 he was appointed as the successor to Michael Detlef von Bradke as city commander and lieutenant general of the Lübeck city military . As such, he was no longer involved in glorious battles, but was able to keep the damage from threatening situations in the Seven Years' War low for Lübeck , which also cost the Lübeck quite a bit in his claims. He created a remarkable property in front of the city walls on the Wakenitz , which he named Marli (after Marly-le-Roi Castle ) and which became the nucleus of the Lübeck district of the same name . From his marriage to Camilla (1744-1820), the daughter of the Italian painter Stefano Torelli , who was temporarily employed in Lübeck, he had two sons, Friedrich Ulrich (* June 8, 1761; † 1800) and Ludwig August Friedrich Adolf . King Friedrich became the elders' godfather, a sign of an improvement in their relationship after the rift. Both sons later became Prussian officers.
literature
- Kurd von Schlözer : Chasot. On the history of Frederick the Great and his time . Hertz, Berlin 1856 books.google Digitalisat - New edition of the edition from 1878: General Count Egmont von Chasot: on the history of Frederick the Great and his time. Edited by Karl-Friedrich von Bunsen. v. Kloeden, Berlin 2005 ISBN 3-920564-50-2
- Schlürmann, Jan : The military of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1623-1867 , in: Handbuch zur Nordelbischen military history. Armies and wars in Schleswig, Holstein, Lauenburg, Eutin and Lübeck 1623-1663 / 67 , ed. by Eva S. Fiebig and Jan Schlürmann, Husum 2010, pp. 165–204.
- Wilhelm Mantels : Chasôt, Franz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, pp. 108-110.
- Hans Saring: Chasôt, Franz de. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 194 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Otto Anthes : The Count of Chasot. 1st edition Bleckede 1948. New edition Lübeck 1980.
Web links
- Literature by and about Egmont von Chasôt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature about Egmont von Chasôt in the Landesbibliographie MV
- Description of the Battle of Hohenfriedeberg
- Correspondence with Frederick the Great (French)
- Lübeck street names tell a story: Christel Busch, Die Chasotstraße
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Chasôt, Egmont from |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chasôt, Isaak Franz Egmont Graf von (full name); Chasôt, Isaac François Egmond Vicomte de |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian officer and later city commander of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1716 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Caen |
DATE OF DEATH | August 24, 1797 |
Place of death | Lübeck |