Ernst Bogislaw von Croÿ

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Ernst Bogislaw von Croÿ
Ernst Bogislaw von Croÿ, portrait on the organ he donated to the Camminer Cathedral
Ernst Bogislaw's grave monument in the castle church in Stolp

Ernst Bogislaw von Croÿ (born August 26, 1620 in Finstingen , † February 6, 1684 in Königsberg ) was the Protestant bishop of Cammin , governor of Brandenburg, Western Pomerania and Prussia . As the nephew of Bogislaw XIV , the last Duke of Pomerania , he was the heir to the personal property of the Griffin dynasty, which died out in 1637 in the male line .

Life

Ernst Bogislaw von Croÿ was the son of the Duke of Croÿ and Aerschot , Ernst von Croÿ (1588–1620) and Anna of Pomerania (1590–1660), the daughter of Duke Bogislaw XIII. from Pomerania. Although the Croÿ family was Catholic , his mother's brothers laid down a Protestant upbringing for their offspring in their marriage contract . A few weeks after his birth, his father, who was in the service of Emperor Ferdinand II, fell ill and died on October 7, 1620 in the field camp outside Oppenheim . Since his mother wanted to evade the hostility of her husband's relatives, who also disputed her personal property, she and her son came to the Pomeranian court in Stettin in 1622 .

From 1634 Ernst Bogislaw studied at the University of Greifswald . Here he was honored with the appointment of rector for 1634/1635. His uncle Bogislaw XIV gave him the dominions Naugard and Massow. From 1637 to 1650 Ernst Bogislaw was Protestant Bishop of Cammin . In the Peace of Westphalia , the diocese of Cammin Brandenburg was awarded. With a settlement concluded in 1650, Ernst Bogislaw renounced his rights to the diocese; in return he received a large cash payment and an entitlement to his mother's Pomeranian treasure. In 1661 he received the Kucklow Dompropstei , according to an assurance made in the settlement of 1650 . He entered the Brandenburg service and was governor of Western Pomerania from 1665 to 1678 and, after the death of Bogusław Radziwiłł, governor of the Duchy of Prussia until his own death in 1684 .

In his will, drawn up shortly before his death, with the consent of the Swedish government, he bequeathed capital and some books to the University of Greifswald, the signet ring of Bogislaw XIV, the large gold chain of Duke Ernst Ludwig and the Croÿ carpet . After his death, Ernst Bogislaw was buried next to his mother in the Stolper Castle Church.

In historical studies, Ernst Bogislaw is characterized as a learned and honorable, but cautious and action-shy man.

progeny

Ernst Bogislaw von Croÿ was never married. However, with Dorothea Levin, a commoner, he had an illegitimate son named Ernst. This was legitimized by the elector Friedrich Wilhelm and on March 30, 1670 under the name Ernst von Croyengreiff (also Croyengreif or Croyen-Greif ) was raised to the Brandenburg nobility. Ernst von Croyengreiff owned several estates near Schmolsin in the Stolp area in Western Pomerania. After a rather casual visit to the pilgrimage town of Loreto , during a trip to Italy in 1678 he appeared so deeply impressed that he then in Rome spontaneously to Catholicism converted . In 1679 he joined there as a novice of the religious order of minor regular clerics (Italian Chierici Regolari Minori , Latin Clerici regulares minores , also called Marianas or Caracciolans ) in order to be trained as a Catholic priest. (Contrary to older literature to the contrary, he did not join the Society of Jesus .) He was finally ordained a priest. Because of the conversion, he was disinherited by his father in 1681. He died as the only bearer of the noble family established for him without descendants in Rome in 1700.

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rector's Chronicle 1600-1699 ( Memento of the original from August 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed August 16, 2009).  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-greifswald.de
  2. ^ Benedikt Szczeponik: Duke Ernst Bogislaw von Croy, the last bishop of Cammin . In: Baltic Studies . Volume 17 NF 1913, p. 42 fn. 95.
  3. ↑ Martin Wehrmann : Geschichte von Pommern , 2nd ed., Vol. 2. Verlag Andreas Perthes, Gotha 1921, p. 168.
  4. ^ Johann Samuelansch and Johann Gottfried Gruber (eds.): General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts , 1st section: AG , Leipzig 1848, p. 460, bottom right column, to p. 461, top left column .
  5. ↑ cf. z. B. Carl Eduard Vehse : History of the German courts since the Reformation , part 8: The Mediatized , Hamburg 1858, p. 8 .
  6. ^ Haik Thomas Porada: Finstingen an der Saar - On Pomeranian footsteps in Lorraine (Part II). In: Pomerania. Journal of Culture and History. Issue 1/2009, ISSN  0032-4167 , p. 14.
  7. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Vol. 2, Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig 1860, p. 371 ( digitized version ).
  8. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Vol. 1, Gebrüder Reichenbach, Leipzig 1836, p. 385 ( digitized version ).
predecessor Office successor
Jakob Gerschow Rector of the University of Greifswald
1634/35 		Matthias Stephani
personal data
SURNAME Croÿ, Ernst Bogislaw from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Cammin, governor in Pomerania
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1620
PLACE OF BIRTH Finstingen
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1684
Place of death Koenigsberg