Ernst Albrecht von Eberstein

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Ernst Albrecht von Eberstein (1605–1676)

Ernst Albrecht von Eberstein (born June 6, 1605 in Gehofen ; † June 9, 1676 in Neuhaus ) was a military leader during the Thirty Years' War and as such fought for changing parties. He was a member of the Fruitful Society under the name “The Well-Deserved” .

Life

Origin, youth

Ernst Albrecht von Eberstein comes from the old Franconian noble family Eberstein . His parents were Wolf Dietrich von Eberstein (1575–1627) and his wife Elisabeth von Lauterbach (1583–1664). At the age of eleven he was handed over to his maternal uncle, who was in the service of the States General as Lieutenant General and who took his nephew with him to the Netherlands . In the wake of his uncle, Eberstein traveled extensively and in November 1620 was an eyewitness to the battle of the White Mountain . He then served as a page for the Counts of Mansfeld and Stolberg.

Military career in the Thirty Years War

From 1623 Eberstein took part in the Thirty Years War, first under Tilly , then from 1625 in the Swedish service. From 1630 at the latest, he was chamberlain to Duke Wilhelm of Saxony-Weimar . In 1632 he joined the army of Landgrave Wilhelm V of Hesse-Kassel with the rank of major and fought against imperial and Spanish troops. In 1635, after the Peace of Prague , he was recalled by his sovereign, Elector Wilhelm IV. However, only one year later he returned to Hessian service and from 1637 fought under the Swedish field marshal Johan Banér . In 1643 he changed to Hesse-Darmstadt services and became commandant of the Giessen fortress . In 1646 he was promoted to lieutenant general and again fought against the Swedes and Hesse-Kassel. In 1648 he was appointed imperial field marshal . From 1658 to 1665 he was Landdrost of the Pinneberg rule .

Danish field marshal, living on his property

After the Peace of Westphalia , Eberstein initially withdrew to his farms, Gehofen and Leinungen . After 1657 he fought as a royal Danish field marshal against the Swedes, which he defeated together and in competition with the other German-Danish field marshal Hans von Schack in the battle of Nyborg in November 1659. He was awarded the highest Danish award, the Elephant Order . From 1665 he retired to his estates again as field marshal and secretary and war councilor. After his death in 1676, Ernst Albrecht von Eberstein was buried in Gehofen church.

In 1657 at the latest he had acquired the iron hammer before Bennungen .

progeny

In 1633 Eberstein married Anna Maria von Calenberg in Rothwesten near Kassel , who died in 1637 in the camp near Torgau . On May 6, 1638 he married Ottilie Elisabeth von Ditfurth (born November 19, 1618, † July 25, 1675 in Neuhaus) in the fortress of Minden . He had eight sons and six daughters, including Christian Ludwig von Eberstein .

  • Johann Wolf (* July 8, 1639; † September 25, 1646)
  • Wilhelm Ernst († August 30, 1693) ⚭ 1660 Dorothea Elisabeth von Gersdorf († March 4, 1693) (sister of Sigismund von Gersdorf)
  • Kaspar Heinrich († 1643)
  • Katharina Elisabeth († after 1685)
⚭ 1654 Bernhard von der Asseburg on Wallhausen († before 1657)
⚭ Balthasar von Wulfen on Henningen and Lemgow
  • Hedwig Luise
⚭ Sigismund von Gersdorf
⚭ Thomas von Grote (1625–1668) on Nilhorn, cathedral dean of Havelberg
  • Anna Eleonora (September 16, 1645 - October 11, 1645)
  • Magdalena Ottilie († February 20, 1703)
⚭ Adam Christoph von Gehofen on Ichstedt
⚭ Johann Georg von Werthern (⚔ June 21, 1690 at Fleury)
  • Georg Ernst († 1647)
  • Anton Albrecht (born June 28, 1649; † January 31, 1703), Canon, Domhof line ⚭ 1672 Juliane von Rössing († February 28, 1720)
  • Christian Ludwig (October 15, 1650; † October 24, 1717), Neuhaus line ⚭ 1678 Eleonore Sophie von Beichlingen (February 1, 1657; † September 26, 1720)
  • Dorothea Eleonora (December 29, 1652 - November 2, 1670)
  • Maria Anna (born August 29, 1654; † 1656)
  • Wolf Dietrich († August 31, 1660)
  • Georg Sittig (born November 10, 1656; † January 21, 1687) ⚭ 1677 Philippine Agnes von Werthern (* 1658)

Works

  • War reports from the second Swedish-Danish war. Baensch, Berlin 1889. Digitized

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personal data
SURNAME Eberstein, Ernst Albrecht von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Field Marshal General and member of the Fruitful Society
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1605
PLACE OF BIRTH Homestead
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1676
Place of death Neuhaus